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200348 pages. Features: The Meaning of the Sexual Labour of Slaves in the Nuu-chah-nulth-European Sex Trade at Nootka Sound in the Eighteenth Century; A Little Known Account of "Charles Haick's" Missionary; The Station Agent's Wife; Early Prince George - Through the eyes of a young boy; and more. Average wear. Few markings. Sound copy. Book
198720 pages. Features: Pin Cushions - Part II; Grandmother's Flower Garden - Quilts of Yesteryear - April 17, 1987 to January 10, 1988 McCord Museum of Canadian History; The Art of the Needle; Seminar '87 - Photos; The Leonida Leatherdale Award; Armchair Shopping; Nineteenth Century Needleworkers - Part 2 - Needlework Trade, by Bunty Severs; and more. Clean with light wear. Magazine
1995Features: Who's Fit? Who's Fat? - Canadian researchers are at the forefront of exploring how and why we put on fat; Animal Family Values - bringing up baby is a universal behaviour that reveals critical clues to how species survive; The Meaning of Markets - Communities of Commerce that connect us to our earthly roots; Art and Soul - a roaring fire destroyed their home, but not their dreams - a story of the steel spirit and true heart of arctic art. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
1983Features: The Expedition Chronicle - Blood and Honour in the shadow of Europe's highest peak; The Basque Connection - Red Bay Yields New Answers about Canada's earliest known European settlements; Shadowy Mammals - Nocturnal Encounters in Tasmania, Haunt of the World's least understood marsupials; Inside the Royal Mint - Bullish Days in Canada's Bullion Trade; Threading the Cerebral Maze - Canadian Neuroscientist Brenda Milner explores the workings of the human brain. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1990Features: Emperors of North America - Superbly adapted to the coldest, most desolate place on Earth, the Emperor penguin reveals its startling secrets to scientists; A Daybreak Diary - Learning Life, learning love - Seven days in Canadian Jean Vanier's federation of miracles; Romantic Revival - A team of Canadian horticulturalists hopes to restore one of the botanical wonders of the world; Courting Commerce - The brainchild of marketing geniuses, shopping malls have radically altered Canadians' lives, but they are more machines than traditional retail districts. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1992254 pages. With article entitled "A New Trade Order" by Peter Cowhey and Jonathan Aronson. Book
196547 pages. Songs include: Amor, Autumn Leaves, Michelle, Never on Sunday, A Taste of Honey, Yesterday, and dozens more. Average wear. Few markings. A worthy working copy of this nice compilation of organ sheet music. Book
1986Features: How Polar Bears Keep Their Cool; The Great Bird that Beat the Odds - the Great Blue Heron; Out of Kiusta - young people discover inner resources they didn't know they had; Classroom in a Virgin Rainforest; Free Trade - The Environmental Dilemmas; Cross-Country Caravan to save South Moresby Island from logging. Minimal library markings. Moderate wear. Sound reference copy. Book
1983Features: The Class of '82 - Tools of the Trade; Historic Preservation in Miniature; The Tiniest Doll Maker - Joyce Lynch; Making Minis Your Business - Janna Joseph; The Geometry of Marble Flooring; Stitch a Stewart Chair Seat; Cross Stitch Candlewicking workshop; Joann's Glass Tinsel Painting; Room of the Month - Sundaes 'n Sugar Cones, Part II; Bob Porter teaches Trimming; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
199956 pages. Features: In the spirit of the Voyageurs - Two moderns paddle an old fur-trade route; The great gopher war - building a prairie tradition on pest control; The architect and the lady - The Rattenbury affair; Portraits of a first family of New France; Volunteers on guard for thee in the 18th century; Steamboat follies - the pleasures and perils of crossing Lake Simcoe. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
199456 pages. Features: Annals of the fur trade - the making of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives; The story of the HBC Museum Collection; On the Cariboo Gold Rush Road; 1919 - the Winnipeg General Strike reconsidered; George Back's sketchbooks come to Canada. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
1967Contents: Porsche ad; Murder and rape of Philippine nurses in Peoria; Punta Del Este; Riot scene in Aden; Nice color photo ad for the Plymouth Sport Fury; *Beautiful* full-page color photo ad for Reynolds Packaging - Pepsi in a can held by beautiful blonde; Duke Ellington; Photo of Johnny Carson smoking in bathing suit; Article on Woody Allen - photo of him with wife Louise; Photo of David Rockefeller at New York Chamber of Commerce; Lake Havasu Real Estate; China Airlines; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
1980144 pages. Features: Alaska Limit Seiners; Bill Grunwald - 26 different boats to order; Caring for deserving tools; The History of Small Yacht Design - Part I - SCHEMER and the skimming dishes; How to build PICCOLO, Part II; How to build a double paddle; LADY JEANNE - a liveaboard Maine lobsterboat; The Biloxi Schooners - the 'white queens' of the early oystering and shrimping trade; Liberated Caulking - burn the mallet; The Backbone - Part IV - the marriage of ballast and keel; Herringbone - a quick and reliable repair stitch; Milling Your Own - using a chainsaw mill to get the lumber you want. Short opening at top of coverfold. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1981160 pages. Features: Mast Protection; Welcome to Hard Times - a conversation with Dean Stephens; The Elements of Seamanship, Part III; A Classic in Plywood, Part II - Planking up the Bolger rowing dory; Building the House - cabin fever in the boat yard; Knock on Wood - Part III; Zahniser's; Wooden Yachts Earning Their Keep - Chartering as one solution; Keeping Up With LINDO - maintenance on a Baltic trader in the tropics; The International Boatbuilding Training Center - Britain's industry-sponsored school for the trade; Learning to Build in Wood - a survey of American boatbuilding programs. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1956Single Santa-shaped piece of cardstock measuring approx. 7" x 3.5". Features color Santa illustration on front and enticements to join "Our 1956 Christmas (Savings) Club" on back. Average wear and soiling. A nice memento of this Oakland Bank. Book
1996184 pages. Recognize rip offs! Thwart thieves! Fight fraud! Stop shrinkage! Protect profits! Uses real-life scenarios to demonstrate the many ways your store can lose money. Includes practical worksheets and exercises. Clean and unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
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
