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1973184 pages including index. Save time, trouble, and money. Move yourself and your household around the corner, across town, or across the country. Illustrated in black and white. Average wear. Unmarked. Good working copy. Book
1991209 pages. An intimate chronicle of the people and events that have shaped the university for some 150 years. Ten prominent Canadian writers, many of them graduates or teachers from McGill, capture the spirit of the university in delightful anecdote and insightful overview, recreating the exploits and accoumplishments of its historic figures and revealing its role in the modern world. More than one hundred beautiful colour photographs, commissioned from four noted Montreal photographers, portray the McGill campus, its students, and the treasures of its libraries and museums. Historic pictures from the McGill Archives, splendid Notman photographs from the original class negatives, and charming vignettes from Old McGill create a pictorial history of the university. Gift greetings upon title page else clean, bright and unmarked. Negligible wear overall. Lovely copy. Book
1985298 pages. "Toronto is the home of a superb opera company, and the place where a number of the world's greatest singers have received their training: this much we more or less know. What we have forgotten is that lyric theartre has always been a central part of our culture, as the archivist of the Canadian Opera Company shows us in the hundreds of fascinating bits of evidence she has assembled in this album. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Fascinating decorated endpapers show a very detailed drawing of the city of Toronto when Queen's Park was near the outskirts of town! Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear to black boards. Moderate wear to dust jacket with one inch tear to bottom edge of back panel. Very good copy. Book
1994188 pages including bibliography. Whether you are an artist, poet, or entrepreneur, this entertaining resource is designed to help you profit from creativity at work or play. Prior owner's details clipped from front flyleaf else clean, bright and unmarked. Faintest wear. Excellent copy. Book
1989277 pages including extensive notes, bibliography and index. Author's signature and inscription to her cousin, dated 1990, upon dedication page. Throughout his career of nearly seventy years in public education, whether as a teacher, a professor, Director of Rural Education in Nova Scotia, or as promoter of the Home and School movement in Canada, subject's main desire was to improve the quality of public education for children in the schools of Nova Scotia. Undated. Book is clean, tight, unmarked and shows lightest wear. Some wrinkling to bottom edge of dust jacket which is otherwise in excellent condition. Excellent copy. Book
1977124 pages. Rural Canada in this and the last century is wittingly and entertainingly presented to us in two of Robertson Davies' most popular plays. An author's epilogue on the two plays adds scholarship to pleasure in its examination of the relation between the two plays and of their individual dramatic character. A little above average wear. Sticker scar and bit of writing atop front cover. Bookplate or pocket has been removed from inside front cover. Contents unmarked. Does not appear to be a former library copy. Good reading copy. Book
1975Unpaginated. Sally's walk with Great-Uncle Magnus brings pleasure to both, but horrifies fastidious Aunt Anne. Lovely colour illustrations. Above average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Book
1935104 pages including an abundance of nostalgic black and white photographs. Circa 1930s or 40s? A delightful trip down memory lane. Points out to the farmer the way to make concrete and examples of the may uses to which it can be put on the farm. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
1977166 pages. Includes numerous wonderful black and white photographic plates. The delightful and very funny history of Canada's biggest and best-known radio station, CFRB. Will delight an audience far wider than radio buffs or listeners to CFRB. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1997528 pages including index. Exposes the myths and the realities of the global economy in terms of human struggle. Contends that the global economy is sowing 'creative destruction' everywhere: while making possible great accumulations of wealth, it is also reviving forms of human exploitation that characterized industry 100 years ago. Warms that without reform, social peace and middle-class lifestyles will be threatened. Bright, clean and unmarked but for remainder dot upon bottom edge. Excellent copy. Book
1994267 pages. Reveals the secret to powerful business writing. Demonstrates how anyone can create professional, compelling written communications. Whether you wish to refine your writing skills, overcome chronic writer's block, or simply make your written correspondence more effective and professional, this book will help you. Author is the Director of the Institute of Writing at the University of Connecticut. Book and dust jacket clean, bright and unmarked. Faintest wear. Excellent copy. Book
1999234 pages including index. Provides 26 effective strategies for retaining valuable employees. "This charming, clever, practical, and user-friendly book isa great desk-side coach for anyone who manages people." - Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School. Glossy, clean and unmarked. Negligible wear. Superb copy. Book
1969505 pages. "We can no longer recapture Webster's voice, or the excitement of his presence. But we can at least catch the words by which contemporaries knew him, and in so doing come closer to the realization of his charm." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding solid. Good working copy. Book
1983214 pages including index. "In sum, what is offered here is not a theory but a series of explorations, not an analysis of a literary, psychiatric, political or religious problem but clarifications of dramatic fictions within real and imagined situations." - from Preface. Bookplate upon half-title page. Contents unmarked. Moderate wear. Solid copy. Book
1985220 pages including notes, bibliography and index. For students who are, or intend to be teachers. Openly and clearly addresses the relevance of philosophy of education. Pencil underlining. Prior owner's name atop half-title page. Average wear. Good working copy. Book
1997393 pages including index. Intended for use in an introductory instructional computing course for preservice or in-service teachers. Clean, bright and unmarked but for rubber stamp upon top edge. Excellent copy. Book
1987345 pages including index and notes. A case study of how absolute power corrupts. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Solid copy. Book
1968Unpaginated. "A Study in Liberal Lovemaking" - from front cover. Wall-to-wall black and white photos of Trudeaumania with humourous captions added. Original price neatly blacked out upon front cover else unmarked with average wear. Book
2000497 pages including index. Accessible, comprehensive, and entertaining, this is The book for anyone gardening in a greenhouse or sunspace. Light wear. Unmarked. Binding solid. Excellent copy. Book
1996128 pages. "You don't need loads of experience, expensive lumber, or fancy tools to make attractive furniture for your home - just a few 2x4 boards and stock lumber will do to make furniture as good as anything custom-made." - from dust jacket. For each finished project, there are complete material lists, numbered illustrations, full-color photos, and easy directions any beginner can follow. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Excellent copy. Book
1997127 pages. An accessible, often humorous, and entirely practical resource for pastoral caregivers and healthcare professionals. A timely book for anyone with a friend or relative in continuing care. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
195530 pages. Illustrated. "A British possession in West Africa made history last year as the first African dependency to achieve virtual self-government. The story of the Gold Coast and its progress from a British colony to an autonomous territory is graphically related." - from page 5. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
197966 pages. Features: Find the Chinaman's cache; Found - trash dump valuables; thousands show for international hunt; learn to scuba dive; how to build a gold harvester; Zagonyi battlefield uncovered. Average wear. Book
197966 pages. Features: Find the embezzler's lost money; Huge silver coin cache found; George Petsu's amazing finds; search for Utah's priceless gold hoard; the lost trove of tensas parish; THer's guide to scuba gear. Book
197966 pages. Features: Find gold ingots; a profile of Allan Darby; found! Ancient Inca relics; Tokens - underrated valuables; New evidence confirms lost site. Average wear. Book