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200964 pages. Features: Harper must act now to protect free speech - Section 13 of the Human Rights Act is an assault on basic Charter freedoms and an affront to democratic society; The trouble with no impact planet - Andrew Potter on the environment; Richard Dawkins - in conversation; Will Stephen Harper's majority or bust strategy pay off?; Canadian democracy is broken - Paul Wells; Mike Danton's unlikely story; The Dirtiest War - the Pakistani Taliban is broken, but a deadly new menace is rising; Cindy Gomez's Cinderella Story; Local merchants take on panhandlers in Vancouver with private security forces; The Fluoride Debate - whether or not it is wise to add poison to our drinking water... duh; Dancing with the Stars; Another facelift for the CBC; Dislike Obama? You must be racist; Memoriam - Ernie Duff. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
2002219 pages. Black and white photographic plates. "The inspiring true story of a 73-year-old grandmother turned ecological warrior." Signed and inscribed by author upon title page, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
2003266 pages. Features: Hotels Around the World - The Roxburghe in Scotland, The Ritz-Carlton in Sarasota, Hotel Royal in Evian-les-Bains, France, Kersefontein Guest Farm in South Africa, Maison Place Royal in Montreal, Udaivilas in India; Penthouse in Key Biscayne; Charles Gwathmey - complex volumes in Bel Air; Faith Popcorn's weekend cabin on Georgica Pond, Long Island; Complex environment in a Chicago high-rise; English country style in the midwest; Chilly minimalist rooms thaw out by the East River; Japanese Fusion - east and west meet in an Okayama compound; Photographer Ellen Graham goes Anglo-Indian in Palm Beach. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
1991330 pages. Describes terrestrial ecosystems of British Columbia within the framework of the British Columbia Ministry of Forests' biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification. Introduces the philosophy, principles, and methods of biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification, and provides some appreciation of the diversity of terrestrial ecosystems in British Columbia. Chapter titles include: resource values; coastal douglas-fir zone; coastal western-hemlock zone; mountain hemlock zone; bunchgrass zone; ponderosa pine zone; interior douglas-fir zone; interior cedar - hemlock zone; mountain spruce zone; sub-boreal pine - spruce zone; Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir zone; boreal white and black spruce zone; spruce - willow - birch zone; alpine tundra zone. Average wear. Contents unmarked. Minor mark to bottom edge of text. Faint name atop front cover. A sound copy. Book
2007118 pages. Colour illustrations. "The purpose of this report has been to synthesize and outline legislation in hopes of stimulating further public discussion and community action to ensure that adequate water resources are protected for present and future generations... While aimed at the Comox Valley, hopefully audiences across British Columbia and Canada will find it a useful reference guide or point of comparison to their own communities' water challenges." - from Executive Summary. Contents include: Introduction; Glossary; Water History and Regulation; Water Supply Systems in the Comox Valley; Suggestions and Sites; References. White label remnants upon clear front cover. Contents clean, bright and unmarked. Light wear. A quality copy. Book
1995238 pages. "Documents the administrative aspects of discovery and treatment, describes the sequence of treatment events in 1990 and 1991, summarizes the results of uplands and intertidal archaeological investigations conducted in response to planned treatment and presents environmental, historial, and archaeological data relevant to understanding SEL-188 in relation to other nearby coastal sites. The report is essentially a case study in protecting cultural resources from potential impacts resulting from a marine oil spill and subsequent treatment." - from page iii. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy. Undated. Circa 1995? Book
1944128 pages including index. 16 pages of color plate illustrations. "My Book of Insects, Seashore Animals and Fish describes the habits and characteristics of sixty-seven insects, twenty-one common seashore animals and nineteen fish. With its beautiful paintings and lively text, the book is an encouraging and instructive reading book, and children will be eager to verify and increase the knowledge gained from picture-study and reading, by actual observation." - from preface. Bright and unmarked with minimal wear and sound binding. Book
2003469 pages. Index. Footnotes. "Reveals the fatal weakness of the patchwork quilt of legislation that results because laws are invariably cobbled together when environmental crises are encountered, rather than attempting to avoid such crises in advance." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A nice copy. Book
1989160 pages. Features: Connectedness with nature; The ecological imperative; Waste land; Landscape and abstraction - continuities and connections; Ambiguity as continuity and connectedness in art; Seeing nature whole; Art in search of an environment; The search for continuity in art and connectedness with nature; Truth and continuity in the nature of things; Continuity in modern architecture; The Bauhaus- Avant-Garde or tradition?; The Avant-garde in Yugoslavia 1921-1927; Symposium on systematic and constructive art; The social significance of constructive, concrete art today; Differences between European and North American constructivism; Naum Gabo - some reminiscences and an unpublished interview; book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
199556 pages. Black and white illustrations. Bibliography. A book of alternative forestry practices, demonstrating that logging is possible without the destruction of the forest. Signed and inscribed by Merv Wilkinson upon title page. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A lovely copy. Book
199048 pages. Colour and black and white photography. Printed upon glossy stock. Oblong 11" x 8.5". Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
1984274 pages. Index. Extensive footnotes. "Kiple's detailed examination of diet, disease, and demography in the Caribbean and West Africa raises significant issues for all concerned with the history of medicine, slavery, and European overseas expansion." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Minimal markings to contents. Book would be graded as Good if not for moisture damage affecting upper portion of back half of book. All text legible. No odour detected. Not pretty but a worthy reference copy of this informative work. Book
1995Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Possibly signed by author upon title page - name illegible. Printed on glossy stock. Colour photos. "The allowable annual cut is being frittered away with unofficial but real reservations against logging, and by unnecessary restrictions on forest practices. As a result, we are collectively going to be poorer by billions of dollars each year." - from dust jacjet. "One of the two best books on forestry - Well written - fascinating anecdotes." - from dust jacket. Light wear and soiling. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A quality copy. Book
199256 pages. Features: One-page colour-photo ad for the Fairwinds Golf Course development north of Nanaimo, B.C.; The heat is on Joe Clark as national unity talks enter critical phase; The agony of Martesnville, Saskatchewan - multiple charges of physical and sexual abuse against children; Two-page VW ad features embroidered images of their vehicles; Serbia becomes pariah - U.N. responds with sanctions; Danish voters reject Maastricht Treaty; Feature Article - Diana's Story - and the embattled British Crown; Australian weigh republicanism; Paul Reichmann of collapsed developer Olympia & York (O&Y) - a patriarch at bay; Westray tragedy raises troubling issues; Peter C. Newman writes on the volatile real estate scene in New York; Rio Earth Summit; Christine Lamont and David Spencer held in Sao Paulo prison; Interesting one-page B.C. Tel ad promotes their calling card; Northern Telecom ad on back cover for their Meridian 1 PBX.; Great cover photo of Lady Diana. Danish vote article on page 24 extensively marked in light pencil. Moderate wear. A sound copy of this interesting issue. Book
197280 pages. Features: Illustrated Wall St./Money Game front cover';; What Code of Values Can We Teach our Children Now? - American children today are suffering from widespread parent failure; The Great Money Game - investing challenge winners include Lawrence Zicklin of Neuberger & Berman, and Frank Bliss Lane of Spencer Trask & Co.; An M.D. Reviews Dr. Welby of TV; After Tito - Who Can Keep Together The Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians, Bosnian Moslems, Albanians, Hungarians and Montenegrins?; Pave the Wetlands or Let Them Be? - The fight to develop the great salt meadow in Stratford, Connecticutt; Fantastic color-photo centerfold ad for trissi features fashion model reclining on pillows; Uncommon one-page color ad for Kellogg's new 'Danish Go-Rounds" pastry product; 'Simple by Sleek' fashion photos; Park Avenue duplex apartment is designed by Gabriel Sedlis; Lovely color-photo fashion ads; and more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1971132 pages. Features: Many great color-photo fashion ads; The Mad Diary of a Manhattan Ecologist - Anne Richardson Roiphe; Nice color ad for Omega watches; Photo of John T. Morgan in Bogen Boutiques ad; Interesting Dreyfuss Fund ad features large photo of lion's head; Great photo ad for Ben Khan features Knick' basketball player Walt (Clyde) Frazier; Living Through the Allende Revolution - A Chilean Familiy Chronicle - major photo-illustrated article; Jean-Paul Sartre Accuses the Intellectuals of Bad Faith; It's Not How You Play The Game, But What Pill You Take - the genie of the pill bottle threatens both athletes and athletics; The Natives May Win One - The Great Alaskan Real-Estate Deal - land claims of the Kotzebue people; Rene Dubos views mankind's future with confidence; Pearl S. Buck ad features photos of darling children who are prisoners of war - Amerasian children left in Asian countries by American GI's; Great funky color ad for Supergraphics highlights their 70's adhesive plastics interior finishings; Great "Polish Screwdriver" ad for Wodka Wyborowa - The Polish Vodka; Nice one-page Dewar's Whisky ad features photo of playwright Terrence McNally; and more. Please Note: Pages 43-46 loose but present. Centerfold and pages 95-98 missing. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1971120 pages. Features: Beautiful color fashion ads; Bad Day at Cairo, Illinois - Rev. Charles Koen of St. Columbia's and the Black United Front; Is the Mediterranean Dying? - photo illustrated article on abuses to this Sea; The Taos Indians Have a Small Generation Gap; James Taylor - a New Troubadour - article with photo of J.T. with Joni Mitchell; A Short Course in the Three Types of Radical Professors - article with photos of Neil Postman, Edgar Friedenberg, Charles Weingartner, Douglas Dowd, Louis Kampf, John Froines, Charles Reich and Theodore Roszak; Chips ad features photo of young Andy Patterson; Drug abuse phone hotline; Nice one-page color ad for the Rainbow Bay real estate development at Fort Lauderdale; Photos of high-rise apartment decorated by Ruben de Saavedra; Ad for Fantastik cleaner offers free Zodiac posters; Photo of James Taylor's brother Livingston Taylor singing and playing guitar. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
197180 pages. Features: Beautiful color fashion ads; Nice ad for Sony Cassette-Corder inside front cover; Great one-page ad for Harness House features photo of gent with belts slung over his bare shoulder; The 'Black Mayonnaise' at the Bottom of Jamaica Bay - photo-illustrated article; Yale Faculty Makes the Scene - article with photos of Charles Reich, Kenneth Keniston, Erich Segal, Robert Lifton, Robert Penn Warren and Robert Brustein; Was Eisenhower a Political Genius? A Brilliant Man?; The Four Big Fears About Nuclear Power; Save the Children Federation ad features photo of young Glen Conway; 'Valentino' fashion photos; Interior design photos of Harrison Cultra's small city duplex. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
197164 pages. Features: Fantastic 2-page colour-photo ad for CP Rail features winter coal train; Canada's North - Articulating the Native Voice; Quackser (movie); Canadian English; Man of the Year - Willy Brandt - major article with photos; Four Pages of Famous photos from 1970; Issue of the Year - The Environment; Angela Davis Trial; Integrated by Unequal in Coosa County, Alabana; Welfare Hotels in New York; Seattle Under Siege - the troubles of a company town; D.P. Moynihan; Poland's New Regime - Gierek; Israel's new border after the 1967 war; Cambodia - battle in a forgotten war; Map illustrating Russian bases in the Indian Ocean; Dewi Sukarno; Constance (Connie) Cornell Stuart; Methadone programs; Passing of Mimi Benzell, Arnold Heeney, Max Lincoln Schuster and Charles Ruggles; Controversial Glenn Seaborg; Chile Starts Chasing the Capitalists - article with photo of Salvadore Allende; Bank Security; The Athlete as Peacock - article with one-page color photo of Jockey Eddie Belmonte, plus nice color photos of Derek Sanderson (with Judy Martin), Walt Frazier, Ken Harrelson, and Kick Gordon with Kitty Jones; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
198056 pages. Features: Nice two-page ad for the Audi 5000 Turbo; The Burden of Billy Carter (Brother of President Jimmy Carter) - article with color photos - his Libyan connection; Teddy Kennedy seeks Democratic nomination; U.S. Vice Consul Richard Queen; Michael Polovchak; Death of violinist Helen Hagnes; Coverage of the Moscow Olympics - with color photos; Arab/Israeli conflict at the U.N.; Leonard Fein and other prominent American Jews criticize Israeli Prime Minister Begin; The Shah of Iran - The Emperor Who Died in Exile; Mostafa Mirsalim; Ali Tabatabai; Somoza's foes show moderation in Nicaragua; Terror in Turkey; Strikes in Poland; Moscow expels trio of underground feminists; War of the Roses in the New Hebrides - Jimmy Stevens; Color cowboy fashion photos; The Long Dry Summer - photo-illustrated article on damage to agriculture; Passenger Airlines in heated competition; Merrill Lynch's Marauding Herd - with photo of Donald Regan; Bethlehem Steel caught bribing; Bad news for GM; More Programs for Cable TV; The Paris Bourse is the hottest stock exchange in Europe; Cacophany at Copenhagen U.N. Women's Conference; Passing of Peter Sellers, Salah Eddin al-Bitar, HAns J. Morgenthau and Maria Montoya Martinez; Horrific predictions for the environment in the 21st century; Color celebrity photos of Joe Namath with "Daisy Mae" Rowe, Rose Kennedy, David Bowie,Bjorn Borg and his bride Mariana Simionescu; Article on deceased Peter Sellers, "The Prime Minister of Mirth"; and more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
197764 pages. Features: Jimmy Carter's Report Card; Rosalynn - Jimmy Carter's closest emissary; Color-photo ad for the Chrysler LeBaron; Robert McCarney - king of the referendum in North Dakota; Anita Bryant and gay rights showdown in Miami; Ian Smith's dangerous new gamble in Rhodesia; Decade of occupation in the West Bank - article with color photos; Spanish campaign between Suarez and Gonzalez; Japanese venerate their WWII war dead; The the best and brightest of the class of '77 see ahead for themselves - with photos of Judy King, David Bryan, Catherine Burke, Ron Ridgeway, Cady Perkins, and more; New Cardinal Giovanni Benelli; Bill Moyers and Fidel Castro; Environment - Prescription for World Survival; Employment - court strikes blow for seniority; Illegal TV set rebates; Cracking down on the payoffs for amateur athletes; Diagnosing Lyme's Malady; Sumptuous Robes from Japan; Passing of Paul Desmond, Goddard Lieberson, Ben Grauer, Roberto Rossellini and Bruce Bliven; The Hot New Rich - cover story article with color photos of Famous Amos, Peter Frampton, Marc Howard, Alan Silverstone, Steve Cauthen, Joe Morgan, Colleen McCullough, Robin Cook, Nolan Bushnell, Fred Furth, and Rick Byers; Nice one-page photo-illustrated article on ELP (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) - with the photo showing their entire crew assembled at Cobo Hall; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
197092 pages. Features: Renault 16TS ad; In Search of a Community - Blacks in Canada; Labor turmoil in U.S.; Black America 1970 - major article with great photos; Mounting uneasiness in Southeast Asia; Color Cadillac ad features a grey 1970 hardtop Sedan deVille; Mideast conflict news; Lieut. General Haim Bar-Lev - how to cope with the Arab armies; Notes from a Soviet Asylum - former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko; Groovy men's color fashion ad for "The Blazer Suit" by Michaels Stern; Education - Young Blacks getting it together - with content on Laura Calhoun, Jennye Guy, Bruce Dalton, Michael Johnson, Chezzie Jordan, and others; Show Business - article with photos of Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, Redd Foxx and Flip Wilson; Nice color-photo ad for a blue 1970 Olds Cutlass Supreme; What America Would Be Like Without Blacks; Excellent one-page color photo of Dana Chandler Jr. standing beside his painting honouring Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton; Two pages of colour photos of amazing black graffitti art on buildings; Color photos of Malcolm Bailey, Melvin Edwards, Richard Hunt, David Hammons, Sam Gilliam, Daniel Johnson and Joe Overstreet; Environment - Ecology of a Ghetto; Behavior - Black Hangups; Interracial Relationships; Dallas Cowboy running back Calvin Hill; Working in the white man's world; The beginnings of black capitalism; Passing of Joe Pyne, Martin Tananbaum, Major General James Earl Rudder, Oscar Johnson, Vice Admiral Ralph E. Jennings and Jesse M. Donadson; The Black Church - Joseph H. Jackson, Samuel W. Williams; Music - with photos of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman; Blacks in the Press; and more. Provides a marvelous snapshot of how blacks fit into America in 1970. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1980156 pages. List of References. Prepared for the Saskatchewan Department of the Environment to provide: baseline data on the landforms, ecology, resources and land use of the Great Sand Hills in southwestern Saskatchewan; information on the relationship of the landforms to the ecology, resources and land use; and recommendations on ecologically sound land use practices and resource management for the Great Sand Hills. Two large maps stored in pocket inside back cover. Bookplate upon title page. Unmarked. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
1946254 pages. Reproductions of black and white photos. Fold-out map. Two maps stored in back pocket include i The Ganaraska Watershed (1942), showing proposed Ganaraska Forest, the river, its tributaries, and ii Soil Map of Ganaraska. Printed upon glossy stock. Prior owner's name and date stamp, and small address label atop first blank leaf. Average wear. Binding intact. Fascinating not only for the terrible environmental damage it documents, but also for the substantial relevant local history included. A sound vintage copy. Book
199096 pages. Features: The Female Gaze; The Triumph of TV and Testosterone Over Truth; What You See Isn't Necessarily What You Get; Cross-Canada Checkup of People in Canadian Art; Fastwurms and the Great Canadian Outdoors; Bruce Mau - Canada's hottest young graphic designer; Jeff Wall and Dan Graham work together; Carol Wainio's painterly narratives; Don Jean-Louis on art and the environment; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
