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2013311 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. "Explores the engagement of psychologists with myriad deceptive practices in American mass culture, from the circulation of enormously popular optical illusions, to the dangerous allure of the con man, to the pleasurable distractions of the stage magician." - from dust jacket. Light pencil markings throughout, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Book
2000254 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "This book is about my experiences as a sexually confused teenager who became a disgruntled rock icon. It's a comment on the times, beginning in the summer of love. It drags me kicking and screaming into the 21st century." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Excellent copy. Book
1988176 pages. Author commits to paper his befuddlement at the last bit of the century. This is his first book. Contains insight into those tiny conundrums, the sum of which make a life: the steadfast and comforting solidity of a Social Insurance Number; the sordid fate of night-school dropouts; the uncomfortable consequences of a boy's prematures exposure to condoms; the role of the sinus in free trade; and more. Also includes a number of author's poems, for which he hopes to be instantly acclaimed Canada's Poet Laureate. Unmarked. Five inch crease to top corner of front cover else very light wear. Book
1990311 pages. "A book about succeeding because you are Canadian - not in spite of it. About doing all those things we're not supposed to be very good at. Things like outmaneuvering monster corporations; like standing up to the Americans; like putting regional differences aside; like blowing the whistle on polluters; like rising above linguistic differrences. The story of how we succeed in Canada when we have the courage to try it our own way." - from back cover. "This is the encyclopedia of what unions can do to help build a made-in-Canada movement for personal, social and economic independence." - Mel Hurtig. Includes many black and white archival photographs. Prior owner's name upon half-title page, else unmarked. Moderate wear. Glossy laminated covers. Book
1995402 pages including notes and index. Black and white illustrations. "Uses a colourful palette of biography, social history, and business lore to paint an unforgettable portrait of a tycoon, his family, his company, and the dramatic effects of his product - the motor car - on the landscape and social mores of Canada." - from dust jacket. Very light wear to clean and unmarked book. Attractive dust jacket is price clipped and bears light wear. Excellent copy. Book
1997280 pages including index. The issues that tourism raises are of critical and vital importance throughout the world: this book provides a much-needed geographical perspective upon them. "As a broad introductory text this book deserves to occupy a place on the bookshelves of tourism students and lecturers and is indispensable for libraries." - In Focus. Contains 30 figures and 60 tables and boxes. Moderate quantity of marginalia and underlining. Moderate wear. Book
1988207 pages. The dramatic recounting of six decades that have transformed Canada, and a visual celebration of the people who made it happen... the famous and the infamous, the successes and the spectacular failures. Business has never been presented with so much color, imagination and verve. Includes: profiles of major corporations in retailing, real estate, manufacturing, resources and finance; overviews of entire industrial sectors such as transportation, wheat farming, forest products and the 'sin' industries of brewing and distilling; as well as hundreds of images and anecdotes that capture the spirit of Canadian business, decade by decade for the past 60 years. Negligible wear. Clean, bright and unmarked. Giftable condition. Excellent copy. Book
1998336 pages. List of sources. Index. Black and white illustrations. "David Thompson records his exploration of the North West Company to establish good trade routes across the Rocky Mountains." - from back cover. Discard stamp atop half-title page else clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
2004Over 500 pages. Minimal pencil underlining else clean with light wear. A nice copy. Book
197496 pages. Glossary. Many dozens of excellent black and white marginal illustrations. "The modern blacksmith must learn to do by himself what the old-time blacksmith and his helper did as a trade. It is that that the author teaches here: how to use the basic techniques and tools available and resort to whatever can be invented, improvised, and constructed to make 'things' out of 'nothing.'" - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
1983221 pages. Illegitimus non Carborundum (don't let the b******ds wear you down.) - Bill White. Average wear. One inch tear to bottom edge of back cover. Peeled area from front cover where sticker removed. Contents square and unmarked. "White's stories of the 'bad old days' of B.C. Labour will fascinate anyone interested in the largely unwritten history of this country. For those concerned with the current state of human and labour rights in B.C., Bill White's call for a return to the kind of gloves-off fighting that marked his heyday will seem appropriate and useful." - from back cover. Book
199181 pages. Nicely illustrated. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Madrid, Ministerio Agricultura República, 1935. Numerosas ilustraciones en b/n. Página desplegable. 482p. 3h. 4º. Rústica editorial, rozada. Puntas rozadas. Resto doblez. Buen ejemplar. Libro en castellano, inglés, francés y alemán. 1ª edición. Primera edición. 1st edition. First edition.
In-8, broché, 196 p., non coupé. Bibliographie critique de 433 entrées. Tableaux dépliants. Index. Bon exemplaire.
1877200pp., 20cm., br.orig., non coupé, traduit de l'allemand, bel état, E77054
1974Collection " Relations Sociales " - Ce livre analyse à travers l'évolution du Centre des jeunes Patrons vers le CJD , le patronat français engagé dans la transformation d'une société dont il cherche à conserver la maîtrise . Economie et Commerce . - 240 p. , 450 gr.
1899viii + 404pp., 2e édition refondue mise au courant et considérablement augmentée, 19cm., br.orig., dans la série "Bibliothèque du musée social", non coupé, bon état, E81904
1916Complete in 2 volumes: ix,458 + 783pp.+ 14 folding tables, hardback (bound in blue cart.covers, spines in blue cloth), in the series "Probleme der Weltwirtschaft…" vol.22-1/2, stamp, G
1970226pp. + 53 planches hors-texte, 30cm., Thèse présentée à la Faculté des lettres de l'Université de Neuchâtel pour obtenir le grade de docteur ès lettres, br.orig. (trace d'une étiquette enlevée), petit cachet au verso de la p.d.t., le texte est frais et en bon état, X111818
1938112pp. avec illustrations dans le texte + 26 (des 29) illustrations en couleurs hors-texte, 27cm., brochure originale peu tachée, bon état, P95051
in-4° 208+lii p., nombreuses illustrations, publicites (certaines en couleurs, pleine page), broche, couv. Tres bel exemplaire. [VU-3] Contient (e.a.) : « L'Exposition Internationale de Liège 1930 », « Bruxelles aux temps jadis », « Le soldat belge », « L'Histoire autour des cimetières », etc.
1934vii + 294pp., br.orig. (dos restauré), 26cm., qqs. cachets, bon état, E41701
1974Complete in 2 volumes, Volume I: [xvi] + 458pp., volume II: 99 folding graphical tables loose in editor's slipcase + booklet of 16pp., editor's hardcovers in green cloth, dustwrappers, in editor's slipcase, in the series "Studi e ricerche di storia economica italiana nell'eta del risorgimento", text in Italian, good condition, E93100
1935vii + 402pp., illustré de tableaux et graphiques et d'une carte dépliante, signé avec dédicace (autographe) par l'auteur, 26cm., belle reliure cart., dos en cuir brun avec titre doré, brochure originale conservé/relié, avec signet, qqs. petits cachets, bon état, G94547
1939xiv + 278pp., br.orig., 25cm., qqs.cachets, bon état, E41680
