Search Results: Titles starting with W from JKL Books

Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia, 2015. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. Like new. No dust jacket (as issued). Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science & Technology's study of gender diversity in science, technology, engineering and math. Answers the questions: "Why are women in STEM? Why does it matter? Aren't we past bias in the workplace? What if engineering just isn't interesting to girls? What can I do" -- back cover.

Canada: Catalyst Publications, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good. Crisp, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Cover shows minor wear to corners.

San Bernadino, CA: Caminoguide.net, 2013. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Published April 2013. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows slight wear only. 91 pages, including maps. BAY 28.

Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 1976. Soft cover. Fair. Clean pages with occasional underlining/marginal notes on 14 pages. Binding is firm. Significant wear to edges and along spine of cover. Cover also shows rubbing and has a price sticker on the front. Former owner's name on title page. 72 pages, including b&w photographs, maps, and tables. "This book is about rural development in South China. It is based on a visit to the Pearl River delta region of China's southernmost province, Kwangtung, and is supplemented with information from a few academic sources. It describes the general character and organization of a number of rural people's communes, sets out the increase in production and other changes that have occurred in this part of rural South China, and examines some technical and nontechnical explanations for these changes" -- Preface. BAY 34.

Krakow: Inter Esse, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows minor wear and a little grubbiness. No dust jacket. 223 pages, including b&w photographs. Polish language text. Deals with Lviv (Ukraine) during World War 2. BAY 31.

New York: Fairchild, 1972. Hardcover. Good/Poor. Very good book in poor dust jacket. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, 5 of which are dog-eared. Binding is firm. Cover shows minor wear only: softening of tips of spine. Dust jacket has four large open tears along edges (see images). "This is the story of a family from Lebanon, Pennsylvania and the business it build. . . [it] is also a story written from the inside out. Wight Martindale, Jr., the author, actually went through the Levitz sales training program with eight other salesmen, and he then helped to open one of the Levitz warehouse-showrooms in Washington D.C." -- dust jacket.

Toronto: ITP Nelson, 1997. Soft cover. Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, with the exception of the first two chapters which have intermittent highlighting. Cover has minor wear only. "Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching experience in both elementary schools and universities, Marilyn Chapman presents her carefully developed version of process writing" -- back cover.

U.S.A.: Waveland Pr Inc, 1983. Soft cover. As New.

Canada: Harry A Knight and Rose Krasniuk-Knight, 1989. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Cover shows wear to spine and edges. 126 pages, including black and white photographs,. "The life of Harry Knight in the Western Canadian oil fields and the true story of the The Well That Couldn't be Tamed, Atlantic #3, Leduc, Alberta, Canada" -- back cover.

Longman Caribbean, 1971. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Cover shows moderate shelf-wear - to edges primarily. A rare volume. BAY 16-7

Ottawa: Buschekbooks, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good. Clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows minor wear to corners. Long inscription from translator to previous owners on title page. 239 pages, dual English/French text. "John Barton documents the last seventeen years of Carr's life in an 'autobiographical' verse-memoir. While deftly recasting her creative engagement with the Northwest Coast rainforest and aboriginal peoples that shaped her vision, he captures her desire to come to terms with the sacrifices and achievements that the whole of her life presented her as an iconoclast and women" -- back cover.

Arthur H. Stockwell. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ex-library. Published c1928. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Clean, unmarked text. Inside hinges cracked. Inscribed and signed by author: "To the Union College with the compliments of the Author, A. O MacRae, 1929

Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2008. Soft cover. Good. Paperback. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Cover shows minor wear. Ex-library.

New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. Soft cover. Fine. Like new, but with slight wear to cover. 166 pages. Contents: Introduction : where have all the homeless gone? -- 1. Who are the homeless, really? -- 2. good, the bad, and the ugly : the performance of homelessness -- 3. New York City and the historiography of homelessness -- 4. poverty of poverty studies -- 5. Shelterization : in the land of the homeless -- 6. Doin' it in the system -- 7. black family and homelessness -- 8. Housing panic and urban physiocrats -- 9. American Thatcherism : the making and unmaking of a crisis. BAY 27.

Victoria, B.C. : John R. Paterson, 2014. Soft cover. Very Good. Inscribed by author to former owners. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Cover shows slight wear only. "Sitting in the back seat of the White Limousine in Las Vegas, Fred Davidson, the last subject in Lisa Edler's time travel experiment, has nothing left to lose . . ." (back cover).

New York: Routledge, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Cover shows some wear, including to corners, and a tiny abrasion at back. Hall "explores the roots of middle-class English identities by examining the concepts of power, gender, and race as well as England's imperialistic past" -- back cover.

Mississauga, ON: Wiley, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Cover shows minor wear. No dust jacket. Inscribed by author to previous owner on front free endpaper. 203 pages. Contents: A great English ship moored near the Grand Banks -- The cod : a short history -- Botched science and a rebel named Ransom -- Foreign devils -- Draggers and cod death -- Federal fisheries : a sad and ignoble sputter into inconsequentiality -- Death in the outports : a town called Fortune -- Requiem for the Beothuk -- Pacific salmon : going the way of the Grand Banks cod? -- Offshore oil is the new cod -- Peter Pearse, rational man, and the Prophet Daniel -- A tale of two Newfoundlands -- Appendix : The two-hundred-mile fishing limit. BAY 26.

Vancouver, B.C.: Palmer Press, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dust jacket shows only slight wear. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. " Dr. Miles Waring, McGill '71, is a psychoanalyst. Though he has yet to appreciate the fact, his Freudian faith is wavering . . . " (dust jacket). BAY 40.

Toronto: Viking, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dust jacket shows minor wear only. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. "A firsthand collection of stories about the coveted Stanley Cup trophy and the champions who battle for it" -- dust jacket

London: Mitchell Beazley, 2005. Hardcover. As New/As New. Like new, but inscribed by author, "For all lovers of wine," on half-title page. Schreiner "provides indepth reference to the key wine regions of east and west Canada and explores the different grape varieties and wine styles, and in particular the Ice Wines. He provides a full description of the terroirs, climate, grape varieties, and winemaking techniques, as well as including useful information about the top vintages. The core of the book includes comprehensive details of the top wine estates, the producers and their wines" -- back cover.