Search Results: Titles starting with M from JKL Books

Cape Town: IDASA Publishers, 1995. Soft cover. Very Good. Clean, unmarked pages. Minor wear to cover. Former owner's name on half-title page. A rare copy.

Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Navy cloth with faded gilt lettering. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Cover shows wear to edges, corners, and spine tips as well as bumping at lower end of spine. Library stamp on title page and verso. Back free endpaper has remnants of library due date slip and pocket. No library markings on cover. No dust jacket.

Delta, BC: Sono Nis, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Dust jacket shows minor wear to edges; 1/2" closed tear at top front edge. "It would be a sweet simplification to say mankind can be gathered into two groups: men civilized and men savage. But, looking around, it's clear enough there are only savages, with a few exceptions who prove the rule. Certainly one of the greatest ironies ever to confront historiographers is the prospect of so-called 'civilized man' sending out gaggles of missionaries to minister unto the so-called 'savage' . . . " (dust jacket). R. Gordon Hepworth was a Vancouver urologist who lived for a year on a prairie Indian Reservation which is where he completed the research for this novel. BAY 30.

Ottawa: Novalis, 2006. Soft cover. As New.

Canberra, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2006. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Inscribed by one of the authors (Broome) to the previous owners. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Cover shows slight wear to edges and small, unobtrusive crease mark across right front corner. "No account of race relations in Victoria [Australia] could be reliable or complete, without a focus on Alick Jackomos. Ethnically Greek, he devoted his life to Aboriginal advancement, bring sense to what were often pretty senseless situations" -- Colin Tatz (back cover).

Ullstein, 1952, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Red cloth with gilt lettering and design. Bright, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Dust jacket shows wear, particularly to edges, and has a repaired closed tear in lower corner. German language text. BAY 16-1

New York: Other Press, 2008. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Like new, with slight wear to dust jacket. "Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), and her family's last flight to Texas" -- dust jacket. BAY 36.

Canada: McElhanney Group, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Like new, with very slight wear to dust jacket.

Toronto: Prospero Books, 2004. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows minor wear only.

University of Chicago Press, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Brown cover with black lettering on spine. Clean, unmarked pages. Ex-library.

London: J. & C. Mozley, 1856. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Brown cloth with blind-stamped design. Cover has faded; spine has been replaced with red tape and original spine pasted onto it. Corners are worn and cover is scuffed. Internal hinges cracked. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Ex-library (seminary). A rare volume. "Medieval ritual and medieval architecture have, in some degree, received their meed of attention. Medieval sermons, have not yet found a historian. It will be my endeavour, in the following pages . . . simply to offer a few remarks on the practical bearing which the topic may assume as regards ourselves" -- Introduction. LC-017.

Victoria, BC, 1991. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Clean, unmarked pages, spiral bound. Cover shows minor wear: corners bumped. Title on cover: "Memoirs: Women in War (1942-1947) (1952-1955)". Nine leaves of black and white photographs.

New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1850. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. First American Edition." Brown cloth, the spine and corners of which have been replaced with black cloth tape. Title from original spine has been pasted onto spine. Ex-library (seminary) with all the markings. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, with the exception of around 10 pages which have large dark brown stains (text still legible). A good reading copy and a rare volume. "The history of the last fifty years, filed up as that period has been with memorable and momentous events, will 'in ages to come,' be chiefly regarded as the era of modern missions . . . " -- Chapter 1. LC-016.

Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Dust jacket shows minor wear to upper edges. "Stanley Robe, himself Polish, gives us a fine translation of Seweryn Korzelinski's account of his life in Australia in the 1850s. This was drawn from his diaries kept at the time, and although there have been a number of stories written about the goldfields and life on them, it is fascinating to read a first-and account with such a wealth of detail" -- dust jacket.

Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004. Soft cover. Very Good. Clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows minor wear. This is a special issue of Torquere, the journal of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association. Volume 6, 2004. Contents: Guest Editor's Introduction: Memorializing Queers I Queering Remembrances: Encounters with Loss and the Problematics of Identity / Sharon Rosenberg -- Scholarly Articles -- Brothers' Keepers, or, The Performance of Mourning: Queer Rituals of Remembrance / Peter Dickinson -- "Remembering Well": Sexual Practice as a Practice of Remembering / Kate Bride -- Tangled Memories of a Wounded Storyteller: Notes on Bear History and Cultural Memory / Les Wright -- Crossing the Border to Memory: In Search of Clive Michael Boutilier (1933-2003) / Marc Stein -- Remembering Tom: The Gay Games' Ego Ideal and Ideal Ego / Judy Davidson -- "What We Do Well": Writing the Pussy Palace into a Queer Collective Memory / Jennifer Blair --… Read More

College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Dust jacket shows minor wear and has 4" scratch at back. Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology. "Hands are our creative contact point with the world. To Jungian analyst Sonoko Toyoda, they represent feminine spirituality and offer a way to achieve wholeness, in women and men alike. But in the contemporary world, many women have lost the wisdom their hands represent and now must recover the memory of them. Through a traditional story told by the Grimm brothers and similar folk tales from around the world, Toyoda explores the ancient meaning of a woman's hands and the wound of losing them" -- dust jacket. BAY 37.

Halifax, NS: Fernwood Publishing , 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows minor wear only. 199 pages. "Ten men examine how masculinity in contemporary society is connected to power." -- back cover. Contents: Introduction-The Paradox of Men's Power (Joseph A. Kuypers) -- How Power Makes Men: The Grammar of Gender Identity (John Stoltenberg) -- Integrating Love and Power: Reflections on Helplessness, Nurture and Male Identity (Walter Isaac) -- Men, Feminism, and Men's Contradictory Experiences of Power (Michael Kaufman) -- Masculinity as Homophobia (Michael S. Kimmel) -- Erogenous Zones and Ambiguity: Sexuality and the Bodies of Women and Men (Laurence Thomas) -- Power, Equality and Intimacy (Clark Wolf) Men's Movement Politics and Feminism (Bert Young) -- Gay Male Pornography-Gay Male Community: Power without Consent, Mimicry without Subversion (Chris Kendall) -- Growing Up Male: Everyday-Everynight Masculinities (Blye Frank) -- Postscript. Read More

Warsaw: Med Tour Press International - Wydaw. Medyczne, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows minor wear. 143 pages. Wo?jcikiewicz describes the Silva Method developed by American parapsychologist Jose Silva, that sought to help individuals develope psychic skills, increase their IQ, and heal others using paranormal means. ISBN on the book is 8390160234. BAY 18.

Canada: Evergreen, 1958. Soft cover. Very Good. Clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows minor wear. 314 pages, including black and white photographs, illustrations. "Vancouver Island presents an unusual problem when one attempts to bring its earliest and most exciting history into relation with places the visitor will see as he travels. For thirty years the exploits of pioneer navigators, fur-traders, and adventurers centred around Nootka and equally obscure places along the West Coast. . . ." -- preface.

British Columbia, Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2013. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. As new with slight wear to dust jacket.