1992223 pages. How often and where do people die, and from what causes? These and related questions are central to the study of population health geography and epidemiology. As one contribution to answering such important questions, and hopefully as a catalyst to the generation of other inquiries, this atlas illustrates spatial variations of all major causes of death in British Columbia for the period 1985 to 1989. Overhead transparencies in pocket inside back board. Clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear to top edge of dust jacket else an As New copy. Book

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von Volborth, Carl-AlexanderMareMagnum

Heraldry - Customs, Rules and Styles

1981229 pages including bibliography and index. "Any friend of heraldry will eventually run into difficulties when trying to become acquainted with the customary heraldic practice of foreign countries. There is the problem of discovering which books to study and where to find them, and there is the frustrating experience of seeing one's efforts handicapped by language barriers. I have been collecting information about international heraldry for many years, with emphasis on its pictorial peculiarities and the peculiarities of customs, rules and styles, excepting those regions in the Balkans which underwent different trends of development during their occupation by the Turks... This book is the result. It is far from being encyclopaedic but should be of value to anyone wishing to gain a more international view of the subject. It should also serve as an introduction to heraldry for a newcomer to the field. Chapters include: Introduction; The Sheild; Charges; The Helm, Crest and Mantling; Blazon; Supporters; Augmentations; Differencing and Cadency; Marshalling of Arms; Burgher-Arms; Gentry, Untitled Continental Mobility, Knights and Baronets; Titled Nobility; Princes, Kings, Dukes and Emperors; Corporate Arms; Religious Orders of Chivalry; Heraldry in the Roman Catholic Church; Heraldry in the Church of England; Badges. Glossy colour illustrations throughout. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book

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VariousMareMagnum

The Wide World Magazine - February 1955 Vol.114, No.680

1955Features: Unknown New Zealand - Two young men set out to explore unmapped territory between Lake Te Anau and the coast, only to meet with disaster - A lake (Bloxham) and waterfall (Dorizac) discovered by these plucky young climbers are officially named after them; Saharan Adventure - includes encounters with the blue-eyed Tuaregs, the veiled nomads of the desert, who wear chain-mail armour of the Crusades and carry swords and lances; Six Wild Sheep - Describes author's experience trying to capture Alaskan wild sheep for a California zoo; The Pirates of the Ethel - First published in 1929, this is an authoritative account of one of the most remarkable cases of piracy on the high seas in Australian annals; Oakhill's "Souvenir" - the adventure of a crocodile hunter; The Tame Bandit - An amusing story arising out of the troubles in Malaya - Dragged away from farm and family by the terrorists, and forced to serve with them under the threat of death, an inoffensive little Chinese secretly vowed vengeance, and at long last achieved it; "Cockeye" - Phases of Life From All Over the World - Vivid little close-ups of manners and customs around the world; Guardians of the Mountains - The Wardens of Canada's National Parks. Colour 'Butlin's Holiday Camp' brochure laid-in. Staining to page i of advertisements. Front cover detached. Heavy wear externally. Contents in decent condition. Magazine

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VariousMareMagnum

The Wide World Magazine - December 1952

1952Features: Dead Man's Double - the strange story of a landsman who, anxious to get home to Australia, shipped aboard a foreign tramp to work his passage; Baptism of Fire - the story of a young Forest Ranger employed by the British Columbia Forest Service in 1927, and how a fire trapped over 100 people in a logging camp; A Case of Contraband - An amusing story of how, between revolutions, men had ways of their own of getting around difficulties; The Golden Ingot - the diverting story of an ingenious Gold Coast version of the time-honoured "confidence trick"; Down Mexico Way - The exciting adventure of two young seafarers who light-heartedly set out to explore the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker; Pioneer Pilot - Mr. Peter Strong flew over the Drakensberg Mountains between Basutoland and Natal; One Thing After Another - Recalls the narator's fall and subsequent rise in the depression days of Australia; The Burma Road - will recall poignant memories to many ex-Servicemen; South Sea Burial Customs - Visiting the outlying islands of the remote Cook Group, in the South-East Pacific, the authoress came upon many curious death-customs; Olsen's Secret - A grim story from the American coalfields; Front cover was attached with tape but is now detached. Back cover missing. Contents unmarked and in decent condition. Magazine

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Green, ValerieMareMagnum

Above Stairs : Social Life in Upper Class Victoria, 1843-1918

1995205 pages including bibliography and index. Abundant black and white illustrations. "Eight elite Victoria founding families and their monumental efforts to achieve refinement in a rugged corner of Vancouver Island. Their ample homes, their public displays, their private hopes and disappointments - the food they ate, the clothes they wore, the games they played: these are the ingredients from which Ms. Green concocts a social history of solid research, amusing detail and elegant style." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excllent copy. Book

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Graham, W. H.MareMagnum

Greenbank : Country Matters in 19th Century Ontario

1988326 pages including bibliography and index. Black and white illustrations. "A miracle of a book." - Saturday Night. Explores and captures with extraordinary vividness life as a whole in early Canada. Light wear. Moderate quantity of light pencil marginalia and underlining. Nice copy. Book

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Harper, Kenn: EditorMareMagnum

Christmas in the Big Igloo - True Tales from the Canadian Arctic

198355 pages. Sees the Arctic world as one, united by the extremeties of climate, where people are able to create for themselves the warmest Christmases of all. Usual library markings. Moderate wear. Solid clean copy. Book

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West, Elliott (editor); Petrik, Paula (editor)MareMagnum

Small Worlds : Children and Adolescents in America, 1850-1950

1992403 pages including notes, index and black and white illustrations. Portrays the children of America's past as historical actors in their own right. Clean and bright with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book

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Vicinus, Martha (editor)MareMagnum

A Widening Sphere : Changing Roles of Victorian Women

1977326 pages including index. Debunks some of the myths surrounding the Victorian woman and alters stereotypes on which many of today's oppressive social customs are based. Average wear. Usual library markings. Solid working copy. Book

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Munsen, SylviaMareMagnum

Cooking the Norwegian Way (From the Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks Series)

198247 pages including index and colour photography. "Presents favourite Norwegian recipes including easy, step-by-step recipes from Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. Author's suggestions for setting the table and serving the meal will acquant you with Norwegian customs, and you can share what you've learned with your guests as you eat the delicious dishes found in this book." - from back board. Usual library markings. Binding sound. Average wear. Solid working copy. Book

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Richie, DonaldMareMagnum

A Taste of Japan: Food Fact and Fable/Customs and Etiquette/What the People Eat

1985112 pages including index. "The best thing I've read on Japanese food." - Calvin Trillin, in Travel and Leisure. "Takes a spirited look at the popular foods of Japan including sushi, sukiyaki, tofu, and fugu (blowfish). These are the foods that are served in the large number of restaurants specializing in some aspect of Japanese cuisine." - from dust jacket. Lovely illustrations, many in colour. Average wear. Binding intact. Usual library markings. Solid copy. Book

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Dalby, Liza CrihfieldMareMagnum

Geisha

1983347 pages including index. Combines ethnology with a view from the inside. Author is the only non-Japanese ever accepted by geisha into their special world, and spent a year as a geisha in Kyoto. This account of her unique experience provides an intimate look into a feminine community that has been the subject of rumor and fantasy for centuries in the West. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Still a worthy reference copy. Book

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A French Army Surgeon; Introduction By Norman LockridgeMareMagnum

The Erogenous Zones of the World: Two Volumes in One

1964448 pages including bibliography. Subtitled as follows: Descriptions of the Intra-Sexual Manners and Customs of the semi-civilized Peoples of Africa, Asia, America and Oceania, the whole Paraphernalia of their love as taken from Untrodden Fields of Anthropology. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Dark blue boards. Gilt lettering upon spine. Handsome copy. Book

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Auchincloss, LouisMareMagnum

The Vanderbilt Era : Profiles of a Gilded Age

1989214 pages. "Portrays the Vanderbilts in the witty engaging manner of his (author's) best fiction." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Average wear. Solid copy. Book

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Hostetler, John A. (editor)MareMagnum

Amish Roots : A Treasury of History, Wisdom, and Lore (Center Books in Anabaptist Studies)

1989319 pages. Index. Color plates. An intimate view of life in the Amish world. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Worthy reference copy. Book

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Lowry, Thomas P.MareMagnum

The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell : Sex in the Civil War

1994209 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Illuminates the underside of the Civil War." - James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Book

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Multiple ContributorsMareMagnum

Canada in the Fifties : Canada's Golden Decade from the Archives of MacLean's

1999382 pages. "A remarkable portrait of the people, politics and places that jade the era irresistibly memorable." - from dust jacket. Beautiful clean unmarked copy with slightest signs of handling to dust jacket. Gift quality. Book

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Howell, Colin D. (Signed)MareMagnum

Northern Sandlots: A Social History of Maritime Baseball

1995285 pages. Index. Reference notes. Author's signature and inscription upon dedication page. "The story of the rise and fall of regional baseball on the north-east coast of North America." - from opening page. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book

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Craig, DavidMareMagnum

On the Crofter's Trail: In Search of the Clearance Highlanders

1997358 pages. Reference notes. Black and white illustrations. "A Boswellian journal... gathering force, reaping new perceptions and building into a work of extraordinary power." - from back cover. Usual library markings. Somewhat above-average wear with partial lean to spine. Worthy reference copy. Book

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Multiple ContributorsMareMagnum

The Wide World Magazine, August 1955 - Australian Edition - Amateur Ontario Lumberjacks

1955Features: "The Eye of Allah" - a curious story by veteran mining engineer Cassiter Wright; The Masab Kunta Mystery - A weird story from India; Amateur Lumber jacks - A glimpse of life in an Ontario timber-camp where two ex-Servicemen earn money for another year of University; Seeking Pirate Treasure - a shrewed businessman invests in a scheme to locate hidden millions; A South Sea Hair-Cut - close-ups descriptive of manners and customs and prevailing conditions in various parts of the globe - Mangaia, Cook Islands, South Pacific; Gold Galore - New Guinea (near Bulolo Airport); Money in Shell - a trophy fishing trip to the Great Barrier Reef; The Inca's Emerald - alleged to be one of the crown jewels of Peru; The Sea Gypsies of Mergui off the coast of Burma; A lump of rust - seeking a silver deposit in northern Quebec; Canadian Curiosities - some interesting relics of the Gold Rush days of the Canadian Yukon; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book

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Omotani, Les (Signed)MareMagnum

Two Roads to Japan

1988112 pages. A pleasantly illustrated introduction to Japan for younger readers. Introduces Japan's language, lifestyles, foods, transportation, alphabets, history, and more. A worthwhile book for young students of the Japanese language, or those who will be visiting that wondeful country. Author's signature and inscription upon decorated front free endpaper. Gift greetings inside front board, else clean and unmarked with light wear. Book

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Garner, JoeMareMagnum

Never Forget the Good Times : A Story of Life in British Columbia

1995317 pages including index. Author's fifth book. Recalls his pioneer life on Saltspring Island through his challenging life during the depression of the 1930s, supervising tough wartime construction jobs, operating as many as 20 logging camps and breeding show-winning cattle on his ranch south of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Clean, bright, unmarked and unread. Beautiful copy. Rare in hard cover. Book

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Multiple ContributorsMareMagnum

True West Magazine, February, 1973

1973Features: Fastest Ox Train on the Santa Fe Trail!; Fringe Benefits of a Prospector; They Called Him Elza - Elza Lay of the Wild Bunch; Navidad en la Villita - little known Christmas customs practiced in the Southwest; Rolling Stone - running away from home; The Hall Murders; Joseph (Joe) McCoy Scouts Texas; Greatest public library - the cemetary; The Trap - it opened up the west; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book

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Diran, Richard K.MareMagnum

The Vanishing Tribes of Burma

1997240 pages. Index. Glossary. Bibliograpy. Sumptuous colour photography throughout. "Richard Diran's task of recording the tribes, many of them suspicious and frightened of foreigners, was arduous and also dangerous, in the face of almost constant guerilla warfare, and it took many years. The resulting photographs are a testimony not only to his skill and determination but to the survival of the tribes themselves in the face of an alien and politically unstable world." - from dust jacket. Heavily worn former library copy with usual markings. Four inch opening at bottom of back hinge. Reading copy only. Book

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Gibbons, John; Charnley, W.; Bodley, R.V.C.; Halliday, Dick; "Swazi"; Thomas, T.J.; "Billy See"; Taylor, Carl N.; Hichens, Captain W.; Stuart, Murray; Ives, M.E.M.; "The Captain"; Melville, Fred J.MareMagnum

The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Men, October 1929

192984 pages plus 36 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part I; The Pirates of the "Ethel" - a tale of Australian piracy from 1899; The White Wanderer - my life among the Nomad Arabs - article with nice photos; The Queer Side of Things - My "Hunch" - a cowboy's plain tale of an odd adventure in Nevada; The Mystery of the "Flying Stones" - a weird story related by a South African policeman; The Judge's Joke - Judge Sawicki of Cleveland was anxious to be rid of three drunks; "Slippery Wiley" Scores Again - an illicit gold buyer in Australia; Photo and caption of a 1.5 ton monster sea turtle caught off Lowestoft, on the east coast of England!; Children of the Desert - a first-hand study of the manners and customs of the Navajo Indians - article with nice photos; Hunter's Luck on the Lion Trail - a lion-hunting story from East Africa - with nice photos; Over the Victoria Falls in a Canoe - Trooper Ramsay survived the 420' fall!; The Haunted Cabin - a queer little tale from Maroon Mountain, British Columbia; Man and his Needs; Stamps of the World. Nice full-page ad for Barney's Tobacco inside front cover. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book