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in-12, 253 pp., nombreuses illustrations, broche, couv. Bel exemplaire. [P-16]
fort volume in-16, 729 pp., broché. Très bel exemplaire [PM-LP4]
in-8, 426 pp., illustrations h.t. n., index, broché, couv. ill. Très bel exemplaire. [NV-21]
1900559pp, 560-1229pp + maps + errata VG/none First edition, in French. Editorial red cloth with gilt author and title on front board and spine, slightly worn with small stains, minute dent on the spine of vol.I, Royal Statistical Society sticker on the rear boards, one leaf in vol.I torn (no loss, repairable), unobstrusive stamps of the RSS throughout incl. Title page, Author's signed presentation on preliminary leaf detached in vol.I, small loss on margins in frontespice of vol.II, paper slightly browned on margins. Despite the defects observed it remains a nice set, tight and clean. Comprehensive work dedicated to the British coal trade, profusely illustrated by tables, large attractive folding charts and maps, some in colour. Two large coloured folding maps are included in a back pocket in vol.II. "Researches on the power of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. With charts, maps and graphs. Production and consumption of coal, lignites and petrol in the world and in the British Colonies, Navy and Army.". Heavy volumes (almost 3kg) attracting extra postage charges. Prima edizione, in francese. Due volumi tutta tela rossa con autore e titolo dorati al piatto e al dorso, leggeri segni di usura e qualche lieve macchia, piccola tacca al dorso del vol. I, etichetta della Royal Statistical Society al piatto posteriore, una pagina constrappo (senza mancanze, riparabile), discreti timbri della RSS all'interno. Presentazione autografa dall'autore sul foglio preliminare, staccato, nel vol.I, piccole mancanze al bordo del frontespizio del vol.II e carta lievemente brunita ai margini. Nonostante i difetti indicati i due volumi sono in condizioni piu' che buone. Completa ed esauriente opera dedicata al carbone delle Isole Britanniche con molte mappe e diagrammi. Due cartine di grande formato piegate sono presenti in una tasca nel vol.II.
1907No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A clean tight booklet with dusty unmarked boards, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 19pp. A discussion paper put forward by the author telling the history of trade unions and of the Independent Labour Party (the I.L.P.) and advocating a strong link between the two to move socialism forward. Undated ca 1907. Extremely scarce.
1971Paperback with shelfwear. Pages are tanned and sound throughout. TPW Used
1983186pp Binding has cracked at page 96 otherwise only moderate wear and soiling. "Slash your meat costs by 20 to 50%. Professional butcher reveals tricks of the trade that show you how. Book
1992193 pages. Some pencil underlining/marking. Even if a trade mark agent is handling the registration for you, this book will allow you to follow the procedures involved as well as understanding the Canadian trade-mark system as a whole and you and your agent's roles in working through the bureaucracy. Contains over three dozen sample documents illustrating each stage of the registration process. Author is a lawyer with extensive trade mark experience. Book
1958224 pages. Undated. Appears to be circa 1950s. Blue boards with silver lettering. Appears to be a text for bankers-in-training as all topics are related back the the banking industry. Thus, the book provides a unique and perhaps more practical perspective upon the more staidly high school and college level approaches to geography. Includes several fold-out maps on such topics as canals in Ontario and Quebec. Some chapter titles include: Geographical Divisions - Exports, Imports; Transportation; Ontario; Quebec; New Brunswick; Nova Scotia; Newfoundland; Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta; British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories; Facilities afforded by Canadian Bank Branches and Agencies outside of Canada. Includes examination questions for each question. Given this book's age, it now provides a historical function as it contains a broad range of related Canadian statistics of the day. An unique volume. Former owners name and information atop front flyleaf. Book
1987245 pages with index and black and white photographs. A story of forty exciting years in a changing world. Over 300 names in index. Prospectors, miners, entrepreneurs, scam operators, con men and murderers, successful businessmen, and heroes, even the Queen of England: places, companies, countries: all move the reader down from the mountains, into the cities and across the seas. And it all happened because of Spud's Dream! Some curling to front cover. Unmarked inside. Moderate to average wear overall. Book
1990188 pages including index and suggested reading list. Recounts the story of labour from the mid-19th century to the present day. A masterful overview that encoumpasses all regions of the country, the book paints a vivid portrait of labour's varied past, covering the birth of craft unionism before the turn of the century, the growth of industrial unionism prior to World War I, the setbacks of the interwar years, and the post-World War II breakthrough that gave unions a permanent, if still constrained, place in the nation's economy. Significant ink underlining and highlighting. Average wear overall and moderate yellowing to pages. Binding intact. Book
1992254 pages. With article entitled "A New Trade Order" by Peter Cowhey and Jonathan Aronson. Book
1977150 pages including bibliography. A collection of essays by mass communications researchers and trade unionists who are concerned about communicating their viewpoint through the news media. Contends that much of what passes for neutral factual reporting is highly contentious and produced from within a partial viewpoint. Book
196336 pages. This analysis was undertaken at the behest of the first National Conference on Apprenticeship in Trades and Industries held in Ottawa in 1952. It lists the operations and their requisite knowledge required in the Painting and Decorating Trade. Contents divided into: Miscellaneous Procedures; Painting; Wood Finishing; Interior Decorating. Unmarked. Fading along spine. Three sticker removal marks on front cover. Light to moderate wear. Book
1932Former owner's name faintly in pencil atop front cover, else unmarked. Stapled contents separated from cover. Covers well-worn but contents good or better. Back cover graced with black and white advertisement from the Committee on Mobilization of Relief Resources featuring image of a man tightening his belt. Features: Seeing with invisible light - use of ultr-violet light makes possible the 9000 power microscope; A new dam-reconditioning method - concrete facing is of novel construction; Editorials - synthetic rubber - studies in sex - we build ships; Is space expanding? - evidence points to the fact that the universe is exploding; Mechanical stevedores aboard ship - ship is converted into a "self-unloader"; Gorilla - greatest of all apes - thrills of a scientific expedition's hunt for gorillas; Safety rules for the airways - Department of Commerce regulations are all-inclusive; Eugenics for cows but not for humans - much of so-called eugenics is based upon fallacies; Marking the nations's boundaries - Questions of state's boundaries are complex and interesting; New York's newest subway cars - cars for new line are greatly improved; What science really is - why had the Greeks or the Chinese no Industrial Revolution?; Erosion Dares the west - a menace and the measures that must be taken to defeat it; From the archeologist's note book; Curious lead tablet, Luristan bronzes, a benevolent hippopotamus, a road of the ages; Analyzing "Archies" shots - Theodolite records shell-bursts in movies for close study; New and exotic delights for our table - many delicious fruit and vegetable immigrants in American markets. Book
1930Features: Aluminum and its hard-boiled alloys; Super magnetic fields; Influence of the coconut on Philippine industrial life; Birds of a bleak arctic island; Fragmentary molecules of the sun; Beautiful bridges on new rail line - exceptional engineering problems on European railway; Sinanthropus - the Peking man; Coney Island's museum - the first institution designed to show play-reaction; Six great institutions now have naval R.O.T.C.; Linemen of the sea - with the men who splice broken transatlantic cables; Features of speed queen The Europa - faster than the Bremen; Is there an ether?; Better days for aviation; Tangled commerce abides where children smoke and swim - Manus are the pack peddlers of the pacific; Moving a substation underground; Power from the earth's hot interior?; Athens Broadway; an ancient bakery; Light furnishes Ballroom decorations. Camel cigarette ad on back cover features several suave temptors and a temptress. Top inch of spine missing. Cracks to spine. One inch tear to fore-edge of front cover. Significant overall wear. Book
1996504 pages including index. An attempt to capture some of the elements of leadership which are specific to the breadth of the field of leisure services, and to provide a starting (or continuation point) from which developing leaders may learn. Section I: The Foundation - Developing the Underlying Construct; Section II: Working With People: Essential Skills of Leadership. Section III: Synergy - Pulling it all together. Contents unmarked. Light wear to laminated boards with small opening at base of spine. Book
1983102 pages. A sumptuously presented selection of the art collection displayed in The Regent in Hong Kong. This is a collection carefully acquired not only for its aesthetic beauty but also for the elements of oriental symbolism that are represented. Includes fine examples of skilfully executed screens, lacquerware and embroidery. There are specimens of Chinese export wallpaper, and several nineteenth-century China Trade oil paintings. These became popular as artistic records of the cultural and trading contacts of their period and are now collector's items. The selection of maps traces the pattern of adventure and romantic trade and travel over the centuries. Finally, a group of contemporary works pleasantly relate the collection to modern artistic trends. All illustrations in vivid colour photography. Attractive maroon cloth boards bear imprint of Chinese characters upon front board and gilt roman lettering upon spine. Illustrated slipcase shows light edgewear and several nicks. Book and slipcase bear the aroma of moth balls. Book
1989135 pages including index. In this tribute to a city he loves, author provides both a history and a character study, describing Glasgow at different moments in time: the medieval city; the eighteenth-century expansion; the mid-Victorian heyday; the Edwardian sunset; the Depression of the 1930s; post-war decline; the renaissance of the 1980s. Examines the economic function of the city at each of these periods, drawing attention to characteristic architecture and to representative individuals, posing questions about the relation of Glasgow to the rest of Scotland, and exploring the paradox that Europe's City of Culture should have owed its wealth to its trade with the New World, and should be arguably the easternmost American city. Illustrated with black and white colour plates. Gift inscription upon half-title page else unmarked. Minimal 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
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
1997445 pages including index. The twin focus on conflict and uncertainty is a reminder that there are rarely perfect solutions to complex problems, but rather a mix of imperfect responses from which we must choose. In this second edition, all twelve chapters have been revised, some quite significantly. Also, there are five new chapters that deal with First Nations, gender relationships, free trade, fisheries management on the East Coast, and tensions between hinterland and heartland areas. Average wear. Some high-lighting and underlining. 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
1991168 pages. Provides the first comprehensive and objective look at this critical issue, considering all important aspects including fiscal flows, trade relations, migration, division of the public debt, and monetary arrangements. Light pencil underlining and marginalia throughout. Light wear. Book
1975101 pages including references and select bibliography. An objective appraisal of the position and role of the Black worker in South Africa. Discusses employment and earning patterns, details educational and training facilities available to the Black worker as well as the health, safety and security provided him, as well as industrial relations as they affect the Black worker, including the question of Black trade unions in South Africa. Provides a better understanding of the roots and symptoms of the problems concerning the Black worker by two academicians who have many years of research into labour and other economic problems of South Africa in particular and Africa in general. Book unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket with average wear and rubbing. Number '50' written upon front panel of dust jacket. Book