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Bethel Historical Society, Young , Saskatchewan
A Vision Unfolding - A History of Bethel and District 1904-1981
182 pages. Includes the histories of those people who homesteaded or resided within the Favorite and Lyndhurst areas of Morris Municipality No. 312, those within or outside the municipality who had children attending these schools, and also those who were members of Bethel Church and did not reside within the municipality. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Chapters include: A History of Bethel Scandinavian Lutheran Church/List of those buried in the Cemetery/Bethel Sunday School/Bethel Ladies Aid; History of Bethel Historical Society; Fifty Years of Favorite History 1913-1963; Lyndhurst S.D. #2583; Social Events of S.W. Curling Club; General Interest Stories; Homestead Information and Maps; Family Histories. Many black and white photographs. Bright gilt lettering and illustration upon maroon front board. Excellent copy. Book
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Rahn, David: Editor
Fisherman Life - March 2001 Volume 1 Issue 2
48 pages. Features include: Outlook for the 2001 Salmon Season; North Coast Advisory Board Commercial Caucus Recommendations for the Northern 2001 Salmon Fishery; Summary of the International Pacific Halibut Commission Meeting; Joan Donley's Memories as a Nurse, Fisherman and Tail Sawyer on the Sunshine Coast; Back to School? - Changes to the Fishing Master Certification Regulations may affect you; DFO's Selective Policy - Fishermen to Buy-in and Pay for New Selectivity Standards; Upper Adams and Nadina River Updates. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
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Wilson, J. Donald
Schooling and Society in 20th Century British Columbia
191 pages including bibliography. Chapters include: The rise of mass public schooling 1900-1929; The Boys' Industrial School; The Zeitgeist of Western Settlement; G.M. Weir and H.b. King; Growing up British in British Columbia; an essential year for the child - kindergarten. Some markings. Somewhat above-average wear. Worthy reference copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Air Combat Magazine - Vol. 9, No. 3 May 1981
74 pages. Features include: School for Aces - this new leadership program helps upgrade the combat readiness of NATO pilots; Air Intelligence File - Contemporary happenings in the military aerospace world; Sea Harrier Goes Operational - the BAe Sea Harrier has become the first S/VTOL maritime combat; New Tanker for the Navy - a most unusual new aircraft has been added to the Navy's air fleet; Jaguars meet the Eagles - RAF Jaguars in joint operations with USAF F-15 Eagles; America's Top Guns - How California's 144th Fighter Interceptor Wing won top honors at the 1980 William Tell meet; RAF's New Helicopter - The Chinook will provide heavy duty helicopter service for the RAF; Lizard Fighting Falcon - Experimental paint scheme is tried out on the F-16; Bear Intercept! - How the USAF Phantoms intercept and track Soviet's Bears that prowl the North Atlantic shipping lanes; Canadair's Tutor - This rugged Canadian training aircraft has given years of faithful service and shows no sighs of slowing down. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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Jones, Harry A.
Progressive Lessons in Machine Shop Practice - Book 1
172 pages including index and line drawings. Authorized by the Department of Education of British Columbia for use in the technical schools of the province. Above-average wear. Binding intact. School markings. Useful working copy. Book
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Coody, Betty; Nelson, David
Successful Activities for Enriching the Language Arts
262 pages. With sixty-nine engaging, cognitively-oriented activities, this fully illustrated, balanced activities book is a practical aid to strengthening and improving your students' language arts skills. It is an ideal reference/resource for use with elementary school students of varying levels and capabilities in multi-lingual, mainstreaming, and accelerated teaching situations. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Shand, Alexander H.
Free Market Morality : The Political Economy of the Austrian School
228 pages including index, bibliography and notes. "Provides a perceptive account of the philosophy of the Austrian School, locating it in its historical and intellectual context. Traces the implications of the methodology of the Austrian School for concepts of freedom and equality and the moral basis for capitalist markets." - from back cover. Light wear. Clean and unmarked but for discard/withdrawn stamps upon half-title page and top edge of text. Nice copy. Book
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Stanley-Baker, Joan
Nanga - Idealist Painting of Japan: Collections of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria / No. 17
152 pages including bibliography, references, further reading and glossary of artist's names plus fold-out map of Japan. Black and white illustrations throughout. "The Art Gallery of Victoria is best known perhaps for its Asian Collection which is, to an overwhelming extent, the Fred and Isobel Pollard Collection of Japanese art. This group boasts one of the earliest collections of nanga paintings outside Japan. Nanga means Southern Painting, or Painting of the Southern School, a name later affixed to the idealist painting of scholar officials in China." - from Introduction. Contents include: Early Japanese Masters; Flowering of a National Style - Ikeno Taiga and His Followers; An Individualist in Kyoto; A Follower of Buson and Founder of the Shijo School; Eclectics in Edo and the Kanto Region; Progressives in the Kansai Region; Conservatives in Kyoto; Conservatives from Kyushu; Nineteenth-Century Progressives in Kyoto; The Last Great Flourish. Tight and square. Clean and unmarked. Attractive light-blue cloth-covered boards. Mild sunning at and near spine. Slight warp to front board. Negligible wear. Lovely copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Airforce - The Magazine of the Air Force Association of Canada: Volume 19 No 1 Spring 1995
60 pages. Features include: The Last Requiem - Lancaster KW-1; Operation Boxtop - Resupplying the Frozen Chosen; William Barker, VC and the Formation of the RCAF - the conclusion; The Final Objective - the Halifax; Comox War Games; Nobody would have known - No. 4 Bombing and Gunnery School Fingal, Ont. during WWII: Aerial Buffoonery; Cover rough. Contents sound. Book
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Johnson, Joan
Highlights of the Professional 40 Hour Course - 60 Minute VHS Video Tape in Case
60 Minute VHS Video Tape with case. From a series of step-by-step instructional tapes for pleasure and profit. Your instructor, Joan Johnson, is well respected in the floral industry with over 25 years of experience. She established her first design school in 1971. She travels constantly and experiences the newest trends in floral and interior design. You will enjoy and discover that you too can design just like the professionals. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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Hern, Matt (Editor)
Deschooling Our Lives
150 pages. Includes contributions from some of the most inspiring and challenging thinkers about education, as well as a survey of the most promising alternatives to compulsory schooling: community learning networks, homeschooling, democratic/free schools, and more. Includes works by John Holt, Ivan Illich, John Taylor Gatto, and others. Couple of markings to contents else clean and bright with minimal wear. Very nice copy. Book
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Rensch, Roslyn.
The Harp: Its History, Technique and Repertoire.: Its History, Technique and Repertoire
246 pages. Provides a selection of important material relative to the frame harp, its development in Europe during a period of several hundred years, its importation to America, and its subsequent flourishing in both parts of the world. "A full list of recordings of solo and ensemble music, and a carefully chosen list of compositions, graded for school use, are included in the appendices. There is alos a comprehensive bibliography and an index. Will be of wide interest to the professional musician, the music educator and the composer. Students of the harp will find it a vital source of information." - from dust jacket. Black and white plates. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Worthy reference copy. Book
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Burbank, Luther
The Training of the Human Plant
99 pages. Frontis illustration of author. Originally published in 1906, this simple yet profound work will be of immense interest and value to parents deciding whether or not to homeschool their children. Luther Burbank was and remains the world's champion plant breeder, having single-handedly increased the world's food supply by many percent. In this work he applies his wondrous knowledge of raising plants to the nurture of children. The best-seller "The Secret Life of Plants" refers to this book. Moderate wear. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper. Binding intact with moderate lean to spine. Black textured cloth-covered boards. A sound copy. Book
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Wurmbrand, Michael
Between Hammer and Sickle
172 pages. "With his father (Max) - and at times his mother - in prison, author grew up struggling to stay in school and later to keep jobs. His outspoken Christian faith and his father's ceaseless opposition to Communism kept Michael under surveillance of the secret police." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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Rose, Caroline
The Haunted School (Star in Your Own Adventure Series)
31 pages. Direct and star in your own thrilling, action-packed adventure! Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Please note: camera and instruction booklet not included. Book
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Ganser, Albert
Some of the More Pleasant Moments in My Life
62 pages. Dedicated to the children author taught at Rosenheim School, Home Valley School, Hughenden School, Maypole School, Provost High School (PHS) and STA during his 28 years of teaching. A delightful pictorial stroll back through the life of Albert Ganser. Supplemented with text and genealogical information on the Ganser family. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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Macdonald, A.M.
Pleasure and Progress Readers - Book Four: Rich Harvest
208 pages. Circa 1960. School markings to contents. Some writing on illustrated front board. Binding intact. A little more than average wear. Decent working copy. Book
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Schenk, Esther
Valentine Day - Happy Times With Jack and Jane
47 pages. Lovely colour illustrations. Front half of original red cloth missing from spine. Above-average wear. Some writing atop title page. Binding intact. Children will still appreciate this nostalgic copy. Book
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Kane, Franklin G.(Signed)
Parents as People: The Family as a Creative Process *SIGNED BY AUTHOR*
158 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. "Shows not only how family life can reinforce the ideals of Waldorf education, but how it also forms an essential part of the parents' own spiritual development and quest for identity and fulfillment." - Jon Metric, Green Meadow Waldorf School. Average wear. Unmarked. Solid working copy. Book
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Hayek, Friedrich A. von
Prices and Production - Second, Revised and Enlarged Edition
162 pages plus advertisements. Includes the following four lectures: Theories of the Influence of Money on Prices; The Conditions of Equilibrium Between the Production of Consumers' Goods and the Production of Producers' Goods; The Working of the Price Mechanism in the Course of the Credit Cycle; The Case for and Against an 'Elastic' Currency. Appendix: Capital and Industrial fluctuations - a reply to criticism. No. 107 in the series of Monographs by writers connected with the London School of Economics and Political Science. Average wear. Prior owner's address and his Yale University address upon front endpaper else unmarked. Cohen 183, Cody & Ostrem B-2, Hutchinson 912. Book
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Tracy, Brian; Rose, Colin
Accelerated Learning Techniques: 7 Audio Cassette Tapes and Book in Case
7 Audio Cassette Tapes and book complete with case. "Based on Nobel Prize-winning research, the cutting-edge methods revealed here can make a dramatic difference to you and your family, virtually guaranteeing success at work and school. Enables you to identify and use your own unique way of learning, unleashing the power of your whole brain. You'll gain skills that put you in the top 1% of people in our society!" - from back cover. Nice clean set. Book
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Asimov, Isaac
How Did We Find out About Blood?
For ages 10 and up. Unravels the mystery of the blood's function in the body. Usual library markings. Average wear. Solid working copy. Book
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Lamerand, Violaine
Creating with Cardboard (Craft Kits Ser.)
29 pages. "Packed with entertaining ideas. The large format, full-page photos and high quality step-by-step illustrations all encourage children to be creative." - from back board. Please note: colored cardboards NOT included. Scribble upon back endpaper else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice working copy. Book
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Marshall, James Stirrat; Marshall, Carrie
Pacific Voyages: Selections from Scots Magazine 1771-1808
100 pages. "These records of famous navigators and expeditions include the first newspaper release of the Mutiny on the Bounty story, the first account of the barbaric death of Captain Cook, and the last record of the tragic La Perouse expedition, with the strange disappearance of its 200-man contingent." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Average wear. Worthy reference copy. Book
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English, H.O.
Mastering Our Environment
414 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. Colour plates including frontis. Prepared for students 12 to 16 years of age. Units include: Man's Mastery of Plants; Man Utilizes the Materials of the Earth's Crust; The Earth's Crust Yields Substances of Great Importance; Applying Scientific Principles to Building Construction; Propagating Useful Plants and Animals. School stamps and card pocked to endpapers else unmarked. Average wear. Nice copy of this informative text. Book
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Guillet, Edwin C.
Pioneer Social Life - Book III (Early Life in Canada Series)
124 pages. Recommended by the Minister of Education for use in the schools of Ontario. Originally published in 1933. Colour frontis. Dozens of excellent illustrations. Wonderful Ontario history. Chapters include: Pioneer Co-operation - "Bees"; Amusement and Social Life in the Towns; Pioneer Sports - Curling. Former school reference copy with card pocket inside back cover and writing upon front free endpaper. Spine secured with strip of cloth tape. Back hinge open. Above-average wear. Still a useful copy of this truly delightful and now important work which presents true original Canadian rural culture. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Woodlands Junior Secondary School Student Yearbook 1981 - Nanaimo, B.C.
Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice solid copy. Book
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Glubok, Shirley: Editor
The Fall of The Aztecs
114 pages. "Tells this almost unbelievable story through two true eyewitness accounts: from the Aztec side by sixty graphic pictures drawn by artist-scribes who survived the conquest; from the Spanish side by a Conquistador, Bernal Diaz, who fought as a foot soldier through the whole conquest and lived to write it all down in simple words." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Useful working copy. Book
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Multiple Contributores
N.D.S.S. 1988-89 School Yearbook (Nanaimo District Secondary School)
144 pages. Moderate quantity of autographs/inscriptions to endpapers. Some rippling along upper fore-edge of many pages due to moisture. Includes colour feature of 1988 graduate Tony Wong, one of the top students in the province. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Diana Krall High School Yearbook / Woodlands Junior Secondary School
A treasure from the formative years of jazz diva Diana Krall. In 1980 Diana graduated from Woodlands Junior Secondary School in Nanaimo, British Columbia on Vancouver Island, Canada. Her photo first appears on page 19 where she is recognized on the 1978-79 Arts Honour Roll. On page 121 in the Band section appears a gorgeous head-shot of a young Diana playing the saxophone, beneath which appears the caption 'Diana!'. Michelle Krall, Diana's younger sister, appears on page 106. Finally, Diana's graduation photo and write-up appear on page 58. Beside her photo we read "Diana Piano resembles her Dad. In her spare time she eats and sleeps. Her life ambition is to replace Oscar Peterson. 'Way to go, Diana!'". Diana's current global superstardom is clearly no accident! The book itself is clean, tight and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy of this truly wonderful and inspiring item. Book
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Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw
Fire: Friend or Foe
80 pages. Index. Discusses what science knows about the awesome power of fire. Coupled with spectacular colour photographs taken before, during and after forest fires. Documents the remarkable role of fire in the overall health of our planet. Minimal wear. Clean, bright and unmarked. Small closed tear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Lovely copy. Book
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Sawyer, Don
Donna Meets Coyote
95 pages. An illustrated childrens' story developed by a First Nations Educational organization in British Columbia. Very light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy in glossy illustrated covers. Book
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Zielinski, Joan M.; Gold, LauraMaery
Homeschool Your Child for Free : More Than 1,200 Smart, Effective and Practical Resources for Home Education on the Internet and Beyond (Prima Home Learning Library)
477 pages. "This invaluable guide to all the best in free educational material categorizes, reviews, and rates more than 1,200 of the most useful educational resources on the internet and beyond." - from back cover. Index. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
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McTaggart, K.C.; White, W.H.; Ney, C.S.
Prospecting and Mining School - Notes for Prospectors: 1978
74 pages. Sections include: Geology for Prospectors; Geology; Mining and Prospecting Notes. Line drawings. Average wear. Price blacked out else unmarked. Sound working copy. Book
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Watters, Garnette; Courtis S.A.
Picture Word Book
478 pages. A first guide to the meanings, spellings and use of words and a fascinating introduction to the adventure of building a vocabulary. Truly a wonderful reference! Unmarked. Front free endpaper removed. Moderate yellowing to contents. Block of text from page 201to 294 loose but present. Hinges open. Moderate wear to attractively colour illustrated boards. Still a worthy copy. Book
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Gadd, K.M.
White Hawk
153 pages. Undated. Decorated endpapers. Numerous black and white illustrations. "This book is one of three designed for boys and girls who find no incentive to effort in the conventional 'literary' reader. Used with its companion volumes, it offers a year's alternative reading to these children, for whom concrete things and sustained action often provide the necessary stimulus to imagination." - from Preface. Includes Glossary and Exercises. Decorated front board. Prior owner's details atop title page else unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. ean to spine. Binding intact. Sound working copy. Circa 1945. Book
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Multiple Contributors
World War Investigator: Volume 1, No. 12, 1989
64 pages. Features: Massacre on Prebichl; Nakano School for Spies; Commandos in the Aegean; My Story - Mrs. Turner. Average wear. Unmarked. Good working copy. Book
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Allen, E.J.
The Georgian 1969-1970: Yearbook of St. George's School, Vancouver B.C.
164 pages. Average wear. Unmarked. A respectable copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Klipsun: 1921 Yearbook of the Washington State Normal School, Bellingham, Washington
190 pages. Above-average wear. Moderate evidence of moisture exposure. Dozens of autographs. Still a nice heirloom. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Kaldron: 1923 High School Yearbook of Ferndale, Washington High School
110 pages. Numerous authographs. Above-average wear externally. Contents good. Book
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McIntire, Alta
Billy Goes to School
128 pages. Prior owner's small ink stamp upon each endpaper. Bit of writing upon front endpaper else unmarked. Only moderate wear. Binding sound. Minor waviness to top of back pages due to past moisture exposure. Wonderful colour illustrations throughout. Overall a very nice copy in orange decorated boards. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Raider 1997 - Highland Secondary School Yearbook
207 pages. Numerous autographs. Moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
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Dunn, Patricia; Collins, Jerry; Bannerman, Gary
Collingwood School - The First Ten Years
128 pages. From an enthusiastic start in 1984, this West Vancouver institution has developed to march in step with the best independent schools anywhere. Starting with nothing, a determined group of parents have created a valuable capital plant. There are more than 600 students from kindergarten to Grade 12, and the first five graduating classes are beginning to bring great honour to the school as they pursue scholarship and professional standing far afield. Collingwood students have earned provincial and national recognition in academics, the arts, athletics and increasingly, service and citizenship pursuits. For faculty members, Collingwood on the personal resume has become increasingly respected... This is a celebration, the story of dedication, volunteerism and committment. We hope it will serve as an inspiration to groups of parents everywhere that education can be just as good as they make it." - from the Preface. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Lovely copy. Book
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Cornish, George A.
A Canadian School Geography - with Supplementary Chapter in British Columbia
498 pages. Numerous sketch maps, diagrams and illustrations. Includes supplementary chapter on British Columbia. Authorized for use in the schools of British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Saskatchewan. Boards covered by dark green leatherette. Hinges going. Above-average but not excessive wear. Book
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Angus, H.F.
Citizenship in British Columbia - Authorized for Use in the Schools of British Columbia
278 pages plus index. Includes multiple iterations of the British North America Act and other important law. "Explains existing Canadian institutions and their workings. These institutions are complicated and our triple citizenship in Province, Dominion, and Empire is not easy to understand." - from Preface. The twenty chapters include such topics as: Nation, Government and Law; Our Civil Law - Common Law and Statute Law; Trading Corporations; Courts of Law; Criminal Law; Nationality, External Affairs, Defence; The Aims of Government; etc. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Contents yellowed with age. Read this book and weep for what has become of our society. As witnessed by this text, schools used to be places of learning. Read it and discover how much you never knew about the workings and history of your own society. An exquisite and cherished reminder of more civilized times. Book
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Multiple Contributors; Krall, Diana
Diana Krall Junior High Yearbook - Woodlands Junior Secondary School Yearbook, Nanaimo, B.C. 1978-79
168 pages. Head shot of Diana Krall appears on page 76. Few autographs else clean and bright with light wear. Wonderful collectible for true fans of the jazz diva from Vancouver Island! Book
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Multiple Contributors
Woodlands Junior Secondary School Yearbook 1981-1982
212 pages. Includes photo and write-up for Michelle Krall, younger sister of jazz diva Diana Krall. Few autographs. Average wear. Binding a little loose but remains intact. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Woodlands Jr. High School Yearbook 1984-1985
Plenty of autographs. Light to moderate wear. Nice solid copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Woodlands Junior High School 1983-1984 Yearbook
Light wear. Some autographs. Nice bright copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Cedar Secondary School 1996 Yearbook
64 pages. Many autographs. Light wear. Nice solid copy. Book
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