BRECHT, Albert.
Je parle tu parles il parle nous parlons vous parlez ils parlent BELGICAIN.
in-12, 105 pages, broché. Très bel exemplaire. [MA-1]
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WALTER, Henriette.
L'Aventure des langues en Occident.
in-16°, 595 pp., cartes, 4 index, broche, couverture illustree. Couverture un peu défraichie. [LP-10]
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[PLEIADE] - MARTINET, André (dir.).
LE LANGAGE. Encyclopédie de la Pléiade, N° 25.
Un volume in-16, xii-1525 pages, reliure pleine décorée, impression de luxe sur papier Bible, dos lisse orné d'étoiles dorées + jaquette illustrée et rhodoid. Bel exemplaire. [BU-12]
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HANSE, J. - DOPPAGNE, A. - BOURGEOIS-GIELEN, H
Nouvelle Chasse aux belgicismes.
in-12, 170 pp., broche, couv. Bel exemplaire. [SO-7]
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-DOPPAGNE, Albert.
Belgicismes de bon aloi.
in-12, 189 pp., broche, couv. Bon état. [SO-7]
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PINKER Steven
THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT. The new science of language and mind.
In-8 (cm. 25.40), cartonato editoriale, custodia editoriale, pp. XIII, (1), 447, (1), con alcune illustrazioni a colori nel testo. Text in English. Allo stato di nuovo (brand new copy).
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Segal
The Everyday Writer - a Brief Reference: CANADIAN EDITION
CANADIAN EDITION. Weaves the everyday texts and textures of Canada into every page, speaking with the voices of Canadian author's and students of issues that concern Canadians. Book
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Heald-Taylor, Gail
The Administrator's Guide to Whole Language
189 pages with index. Clean and square. Crease to top right corner of front cover. Book
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Hirshfield, Stuart; Decker, Rick
The Object Concept : An Introduction to Computer Programming Using C++
454 pages including index. Includes 3.5" IBM compatible floppy disk, which is said to contain complete program code for all sample programs in the book. Book is normally worn and soiled. Presents a complete, lab-based introduction to computer programming based on the object-oriented paradigm and the C++ programming language. Provides full-blown and interesting examples throughout. Book
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Schonherr, Joachim
Es Weihnachtet - Ein Bilder- Und Bastelbuch Fur Die Advents- Und Weihnachtszeit Verse Von Edith Grunert, Grafische Gestaltung Von Ursula Beyer
20 Pages. Text in German. Shows young children how to build their own beautiful Christmas ornaments and decorations. Childrens markings and soiling inside. Well worn. Binding intact. Some yellowing to contents. Circa 1962? Book
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Fischer, Gisela
Benjamin Blumchen, Wo Steckt Mein Pandababy?
A children's board book. Text in German. The story of a mother panda who has lost her baby. Each page/board has a window giving a clue to the next page. Book
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Greene, Karen
Twelve Steps : Illustrated
Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Unpaginated. A very colorful and attractive volume. "Offered in a language of color and imagination, this is a special edition of the simple concepts that have served as a canvas on which countless millions have created a life closer to their heart's desires." - from the back cover. Book
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McKeough, Patrick
Riding the Bull : How You Can Profit from the 1990's Stock Market Boom
248 pages including index. Tells how to take advantage of the 1990s' stock market boom. In plain language, he outlines a strategy for making money in stocks with a level of risk that any investor can be comfortable with. If you have never invested in the stock market, have been burned by bad advice, or have simply done less well than you feel you should have done, you can profit by this book. Author is editor of 'The Investment Reporter', a stock market newsletter that has been named "world's best investment advisory" by the Washington-based Newsletter Publishers Foundation. Forbes magazine has compared him to Benjamin Graham, the father of modern investment analysis. Book
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Daniels, E.G.; Hall, T.R.; Matthews, A.F.; MacKenzie, B.A.
Dominion Language Series - Book Three: For Grades Seven and Eight
378 pages including index. Colour frontis of a young Prince of Wales. Well used, soiled and worn but still holding together. A few bits of writing inside and on front flyleaf. Still usable. Text is separated into no less than 226 sections i.e. too many topics to list. A random sampling includes poem study, singular and plural of verbs, beginning a story, business letters, pronunciation, the semicolon, using your imagination, some common uses for italics, reduncancy, selecting the correct word. Book
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Boyles, Sadie M
Salut Les Copains!
136 pages. A supplementary reader written in curent French. The sketches, written in contemporary vocabulary, and describing events in the life of Gaston and his friends, are designed to bring teenage life into the French course. Gaston is pictured in his Canadian milieu in Western Canada, as well as on visits to Quebec and France. The sketches can be used for extensive or intensive reading, and questions on each are provided. The dialogues lend themselves to memorization and dramatization. Spine intact. No writing inside. Pages yellowed at edges. Significant soiling and bumping to boards. Book
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Read, Herbert
Geschichte Der Modernen Malerei
368 pages. 100 Farbtafeln, 385 einfarbige Abbildungen, Gesamtauflage 55 000. Contents clean and bright. Boards with average wear and soiling with some staining. Text in German. Book
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Fuller, Graham E.
How to Learn a Foreign Language
102 pages. "It's astonishing no one has ever thought of a book like this before - designed to prepare students for beginning the study of any language... indispensable to anyone learning a first foreign language." - Dr. L.M. Ball, Professor of English and Foreign Languages, University of Colorado. Book
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Le Dorze, Philippe; Morin, Nicole
Portes Ouvertes sur Notre Pays - Fiches D'Activites 3B (Collection Horizon Pancanadien)
178 pages. Glossy illustrated covers. French language workbook for children. Book
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Nicolet, Lise Roy; Jean-Cote, Monique
Portes Ouvertes sur Notre Pays - Fiches D'activites 1B (Collection Horizon Pancanadien)
200 pages. Glossy illustrated covers. French language workbook for children. Book
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Northey, Margot; Knight, David B.
Making Sense in Geography and Environmental Studies - a Student's Guide to research, Writing, and Style
221 pages including index. Outlines basic principles of grammar, punctuation, usage, style, and documentation. Offers detailed guidance on writing lecture notes, reading notes, field notes, book reports, lab reports, presentations for discussion groups and much more. Book is wavy suggesting moisture exposure but we can find no water stains. Perhaps book was impoperly stored. Regardless, contents unmarked and only moderate wear overall. In glossy colour covers. Book
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Akasofu, S. I.
Aurora Borealis : The Amazing Northern Lights (Alaska Geographic Ser. Vol. 6 No. 2)
95 pages. Profusely illustrated in both colour and black and white. Written by one of the world's authorities on auroras, a professor of geophysics at the University of Alaska. "In these pages you will be introduced to the history of auroral science and the development of our understanding of the phenomenon, and we'll explain, in layman's language, what we now know about how the aurora works. Finally, the reasons for auroral study today will be outlined, with particular emphasis on its great relevance to our technological future." - from the introduction. Unmarked. Average wear. Six inch crease to lower corner of illustrated front cover. Book
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Mitchell, George W.
Latin Composition - Based on Caesar: Macmillan's Canadian School Series
190 pages including index. The only grammatical forms which the student need know before beginning this book are the terminations of the first, second, and third declensions of the regular noun; the regular adjective of the first and second declension; the regular verb, active, passive and deponent, together with the irregular verbs esse, ire, and ferre. School stamp upon each endpaper. Lots of writing upon back endpaper. Average quantity of marginalia and underlining. Boards and pages well but not excessively worn. Book
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Otto, Emil; Revised By Lange, Franz
German Conversation Grammar: a Practical Method of Learning the German Language: Gaspey-Otto-Sauer's Method - American Original Edition
453 pages including index. "The method adopted in this grammar, and the improvements effected in each succeeding edition of the work have so commended themselves to the public as to ensure its popular use both in schools and private families. The Publisher has spared no pains to make this new edition as perfect as possible. In compliance with the request of many teachers, a vocabulary has been added to the English-German exercises." - from the preface. Hinges brittle. Blue boards in good condition. Some yellowing to pages. Few if any marks. Book
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Forster, Victor W. Sr.
Conning the Canadians
178 pages. Analyses Quebec's drive to be a sovereign state with Canadians paying the bill. Exposes the dangers of the Meech Lake Accord to the Canadian nation. Author was born in Rhodesia in 1905, emigrated to Canada in 1929, and has lived and worked in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. Glossy blue covers. Unmarked. Light wear. Small nitch to fore-edge of back cover. (ISBN 1969179014) Book
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Daniels, E.G. Et al
Dominion Language Series - Book Two
310 pages including index. Illustrated with black and white drawings plus three colour plates. Authorized by the Minister of Education for British Columbia for use in Grades 5 and 6. Covers 251 separate topics. While boards are well-worn, contents are in surprisingly nice condition. A good solid copy of this excellent English language text. Book
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Knapp, Gerhard P.; Von Schmidt, Wolff A.; Knapp, Mona
Impression-Expression Deutsch : Wiederholung und Erweiterung
322 pages including index. An integrated, three-component German program aimed at students at the second-year college level. Seeks to develop all four language skills - reading, writing, comprehension and speaking - in a concrete cultural context. Focuses primarily on themes that stimulate conversation. Clean and unmarked. Very light wear. Bright glossy covers. Book
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Ayiman, Namoya
Let's Learn Cree - Oral
105 pages. "The Cree language never was a written language. Therefore, we are endeavoring to make these words as simple as possible. The Plains Cree is very simple and sounds are like English... We are doing our utmost to revive this language..." - from the introduction. Teaches the words for numbers, animals, verbs, people, and much more. Book has some minor bends due to improper storage but is clean and unmarked with only moderate wear. Light sunning near spine which is covered by publisher's black tape. Small erasure atop page one. A solid copy of this practical work. Book
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Brown, Jim; Phillips, David: Editors
West Coast Seen (formerly Titled West Coast 68)
212 pages. "This magazine first made public the tremendous energy possible by a new wave of writers whose response to life in language is not provincial or limited by borders. This wave has not fallen back into the Pacific but moves across the land now. Hear 28 responses (writers)." - from the introduction. Includes works by: Belford, Brown, Carlson, Coupey, Frith, Jungic, Lawrence, McKinnon, Robinson, Schroeder, Siebum, Tan Trey, Martina and Mayne, to name a few. Unmarked but for handwritten correction to publisher's address. Moderate wear. Glossy illustrated covers. Book
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Gray, Tony
The Irish Answer - an Anatomy of Modern Ireland
411 pages including index. Taking various facets of Irish life - censorship, the Irish language, the church, tourism, crime, sex, food and drink, the Irish abroad - the author treats each subject in a separate chapter and finishes with an examination of the Republic's relations with the partitioned six counties of Northern Ireland. Well-worn. Usual library markings. Half of front endpaper removed. Book
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Brandt, Lewis W.
Psychologists Caught : A Psycho-Logic of Psychology
298 pages including index and bibliography. A psychology that cannot explain how human beings develop psychological systems, theories, research methods, techniques, and treatments falls short of its goal. Author expains how close to the goal various systems come. Demonstrates how each school of psychology is bound by a number of frameworks in which the psychologist is caught. Discusses the role played by different language backgrounds, interests and value systems, concpetualizations of the natural sciences, tastes, and religious systems, in determining the kind of psychology any given psychologists follow and try to promote. Very light wear. Unmarked. Book
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Osborne, Albert E.
The Stereograph and the Stereoscope: With Special Maps and Books Forming a Travel System - What They Mean for Individual development, What They Promise for the Spread of Civilization
288 pages including index. Illustrated with line drawings. Chapters include: Introductory; Different Ends for Which Pictures Have Been Used; The Different Kinds of Pictures; Stereographs and the Stereoscope; Experiences of Travel with Stereographs; The Importance of Environment; The Limitations of Language; The Wide Environment The Stereograph Travel System Gives. Part II includes the following chapters: What are the Necessities of Life; Life is the Purpose of Our Existence; What is the Life We Are Here to Develop?; Happiness vs. Pleasure; The Different Needs of Our Life; The Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Intellect; The Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Aesthetic Nature; Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Moral Nature; Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Religious Life; Summary and Conclusion. Small dab of liquid paper upon front endpaper. Minimal markings to text. Some pencil markings have been erased. Lettering worn from spine. Above average wear to boards. Hinges intact. Minor lean to spine. Average soiling. Moderate yellowing to contents. Book
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Wuolle, Aino
Finnish-English, English-Finnish Pocket Dictionary
Almost one inch thick. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked except for light pencil erasure upon front flyleaf. Book
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Quinn, Jim
American Tongue and Cheek - A Populist Guide to Our Language
219 pages including index. "Mr. Quinn cultivates the garden of controversy with great glee: He is deliberately and delightfully outrageous." - William Safire. Proves that the English language is not dying - it's thriving. "A good-natured, wonderfully witty, and well-informed little tirade" - Detroit News. Well-worn. Spine sunned. Contents unmarked and yellowed. Book
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Saul, John Ralston
The Doubter's Companion - A Dictionary of Common Sense
342 pages including index. "A remarkably thoroughgoing critique of folly. The spectacle of Saul blasting away at the conventional wisdom of left and right alike has the intellectual kick of Akira Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo'." - Newsweek. Very light wear. Prior owner's address label atop half-title page. Excellent copy. Book
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Jackins, Harvey
A New Kind of Communicator - The Re-evaluation Counselling Teacher
136 pages. "This, the fifth edition, is several times as long as the first edition. It reflects our progress. We have a much greater variety of experience - from teachers in many kinds of situations, in many parts of the world, communicating to a much greater variety of students." - Author. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Solid copy. Book
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Apollon, Willy (editor); Feldstein, Richard (editor)
Lacan, Politics, Aesthetics (Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture)
341 pages including index. "Demonstrates the importance and breadth of Lacan's thought. These papers take up Lacan's invitation to engage his texts as he did Freud's, not out of passive discipleship but out of a shared conviction of the consequences of the work of psychoanalysis, that after Freud nothing is quite the same." - Michael Payne. Clean and unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Hill's Swedish-English, English-Swedish Pocket Dictionary
244 pages. Clean and unmarked. Light wear. Minor curl to front cover. Excellent pocket-sized reference. Book
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Drobot, Vladimir
Formal Languages and Automa Theory
321 pages including index. Covers concepts of formal language, finite automa, and theoretical computing, without an overwhelming presentation of more technical and specialized material. Covers grammatical descriptions of languages and their classification, finite state machines, push-down automata, regular languages, Turing machines, elements of parsing techniques, and an introduction to the theory of computation. Assumes only a minimal background in "set theoretic etiquette" and includes two appendices for additional help with sets and Pascal. Light wear. Faint erasure to front endpaper. Moderate quantities of markings and underlining. Glossy white boards. Solid copy. Book
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Everhart, Jim
The Illustrated Texas Dictionary of the English Language - Volume One
49 pages. A short but hilarious compilation of translations. The humor comes not as much from the written descriptions as from the side-splitting photos! Book is partially warped. Soiling to back cover. Binding solid. Moderate wear. Contents unmarked. Guaranteed to make you smile :-) Book
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Healey, Louis A.; Wilske, Kenneth R.; Hansen, Bob H.
Beyond the Copper Bracelet - What You Should Know About Arthritis
85 pages. "All of us find it easier to deal with a problem when we know its nature and dimensions. The imaginative format brings the reader to the heart of current concepts of rheumatoid arthritis in readiloy understood language. The actual meaning of the disease to the patient is made clear - there is no attempt to obscure by excape into desiccated scientific jargon." - Foreward. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Nice copy. Book
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Author Not Stated
Elementary Japanese Grammatical Notes
231 pages. Above average wear. Coffee stain to bottom corner. Average quantity of markings to contents. Book
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Berthon, H.E.
Grammaire Francaise - A L'usage Des Eleves Anglais
168 pages including index. Above average wear. Average quantity of markings. Someone with a red marker has embellished the ornate black design upon front board. Book
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Kilian, Crawford
Writing for the Web (Self-Counsel Ser.)
139 pages. Hook surfer's attention. Write informative persuasive web text. Create dynamic personal and corporate web pages. Several light pencil markings. Very light wear. Clean. Excellent copy in attractive glossy covers. Book
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Cutter, Rebecca
When Opposites Attract : Right Brain - Left Brain Relationships and How to Make Them Work
285 pages including index. "A wonderful right-brain/left-brain take on gender relationships that will help couples improve their communication and enrich their lives." - Leonard Shlain, M.D., Author of "Art and Physics - Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light" Minimal wear. Clean and bright. Excellent copy. Book
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Moore, Robert; Buckley, Jamie
Behold the Front Page!
Unpaginated. What would the bible be like if it was written today? What if the task of gathering and spreading the Good News was left to the journalists of the late twentieth century? Lovely clean, unmarked copy with very light wear. Book
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Cramer, Patricia
Grammar for Business Professionals: Six-Audio Cassette Program
Take the fear and embarssment out of speaking and writing. Provides must-know guidelines for mistake-free communication. Discusses: Sentence Structure; Plurals and Possessives; Active vs. Passive Voice; Flawless Punctuation; and more. Very clean. Very light wear. Excellent tape set in handsome case. Book
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Author Unknown
L'Histoire De L'Automobile - 5E
60 pages. Texte in French language. Pictorially presents the history of the automobile for younger readers. Very informative. Contents clean and unmarked. Moderate wear to illustrated boards. Book
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Lynn, Marion
Voices: Essays on Canadian Families
452 pages. Provides a forum in which the voices of families that are often excluded from sociological discussion can be heard. From Newfoundland to British Columbia, these insightful essays explore the rich diversity found in contemporary Canadian family life. Light wear. Highlighting, underlining and markings throughout. Binding sound. Black marks upon each edge of text. Good working copy. Book
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Schmidt, J. J.; Geist, Stephen
Arabic with Ease - Volume I - Day By Day Method
293 pages. Makes accessible to English-speaking readers with no special linguistic training, in as simple and pleasant a way as possible, and in the shortest possible time, a language that is spoken by some hundred million people in all parts of the world. Primarily intended for people who want (or who are obliged) to learn the language without help from a teacher. Book
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Sellin, Birger; Bell, Anthea (translator)
I Don't Want To Be Inside Me Anymore : Messages from an Autistic Mind
227 pages including bibliography. A firsthand account of rare eloquence and immediacy, a remarkable story of raw human courage and - ultimately - indominable hope. "Birger Sellin has broken through a wall between unbearable worlds, and what he has written is nothing other than the poetry of the human soul." - Carolyn Forche, author of The Angel of History. Remainder mark upon bottom edge. Unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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