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1955408 pages including index. Stress has been placed on the principles underlying a permanent system of agriculture, and it is hoped that the student will find many suggestions of practical value to him/her. The student who is familiar, even to a slight degree, with the problems and difficulties confronting the farmer will be better equipped to take his place in whativer sphere of activity he/she may in the future find him/herself, particularly in Western Canada, an essentially agricultural community. Printed on glossy paper. Copiously illustrated in black and white. Average wear. Binding intact. Small numbered ink stamps upon each endpaper else unmarked. Nice solid copy. Book
1990197 pages. Father Pat's own story of blindness: a journey from "handicap" to "gift". Examines questions such as: Why am I blind? Why can't I go to school? Why am I different? I can't be a priest? What can I do with my life? Is there anything in life for me? Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1972228 pages including numerous black and white photographs. Published to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the settlement of the community and the sixtieth anniversary of the Kars Branch of the Women's Institute. Chapters include: The Land Settlement and Roger Stevens; Richard Garlick and the Lumbermen; The Pioneer Settlers 1820-1830; The Wharfinger and the Rideau 1830-1850; Migration and Immigration; A Rural Community; The Village of Wellington 1850-1860; Communication and Concern 1850-1860; School Days; Rafts and River Boats; Keeping the Farm. Average wear to covers. Contents clean and unmarked but for gift inscription atop decorated front flyleaf. Solid copy of this excellent and rare slice of Ontario history. Book
1983316 pages including black and white illustrations and an extensive index. Records the first half-century of settlement in Metchosin on southern Vancouver Island. Frontis illustration by Sue Coleman. Minimal wear to book which remains clean and bright in blue boards. Prior owner's ink stamp upon half-title page and endpapers, both of which are decorated with an ornate old-time map of the area. Dust jacket, now preserved in archival-grade Brodart, shows average wear and sticker removal patch atop front panel. A quality copy of this important genealogical reference. HALE & BARMAN 399. Book
1980182 pages. Includes the histories of those people who homesteaded or resided within the Favorite and Lyndhurst areas of Morris Municipality No. 312, those within or outside the municipality who had children attending these schools, and also those who were members of Bethel Church and did not reside within the municipality. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Chapters include: A History of Bethel Scandinavian Lutheran Church/List of those buried in the Cemetery/Bethel Sunday School/Bethel Ladies Aid; History of Bethel Historical Society; Fifty Years of Favorite History 1913-1963; Lyndhurst S.D. #2583; Social Events of S.W. Curling Club; General Interest Stories; Homestead Information and Maps; Family Histories. Many black and white photographs. Bright gilt lettering and illustration upon maroon front board. Excellent copy. Book
200148 pages. Features include: Outlook for the 2001 Salmon Season; North Coast Advisory Board Commercial Caucus Recommendations for the Northern 2001 Salmon Fishery; Summary of the International Pacific Halibut Commission Meeting; Joan Donley's Memories as a Nurse, Fisherman and Tail Sawyer on the Sunshine Coast; Back to School? - Changes to the Fishing Master Certification Regulations may affect you; DFO's Selective Policy - Fishermen to Buy-in and Pay for New Selectivity Standards; Upper Adams and Nadina River Updates. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
1980191 pages including bibliography. Chapters include: The rise of mass public schooling 1900-1929; The Boys' Industrial School; The Zeitgeist of Western Settlement; G.M. Weir and H.b. King; Growing up British in British Columbia; an essential year for the child - kindergarten. Some markings. Somewhat above-average wear. Worthy reference copy. Book
198174 pages. Features include: School for Aces - this new leadership program helps upgrade the combat readiness of NATO pilots; Air Intelligence File - Contemporary happenings in the military aerospace world; Sea Harrier Goes Operational - the BAe Sea Harrier has become the first S/VTOL maritime combat; New Tanker for the Navy - a most unusual new aircraft has been added to the Navy's air fleet; Jaguars meet the Eagles - RAF Jaguars in joint operations with USAF F-15 Eagles; America's Top Guns - How California's 144th Fighter Interceptor Wing won top honors at the 1980 William Tell meet; RAF's New Helicopter - The Chinook will provide heavy duty helicopter service for the RAF; Lizard Fighting Falcon - Experimental paint scheme is tried out on the F-16; Bear Intercept! - How the USAF Phantoms intercept and track Soviet's Bears that prowl the North Atlantic shipping lanes; Canadair's Tutor - This rugged Canadian training aircraft has given years of faithful service and shows no sighs of slowing down. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1949172 pages including index and line drawings. Authorized by the Department of Education of British Columbia for use in the technical schools of the province. Above-average wear. Binding intact. School markings. Useful working copy. Book
1982262 pages. With sixty-nine engaging, cognitively-oriented activities, this fully illustrated, balanced activities book is a practical aid to strengthening and improving your students' language arts skills. It is an ideal reference/resource for use with elementary school students of varying levels and capabilities in multi-lingual, mainstreaming, and accelerated teaching situations. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1990228 pages including index, bibliography and notes. "Provides a perceptive account of the philosophy of the Austrian School, locating it in its historical and intellectual context. Traces the implications of the methodology of the Austrian School for concepts of freedom and equality and the moral basis for capitalist markets." - from back cover. Light wear. Clean and unmarked but for discard/withdrawn stamps upon half-title page and top edge of text. Nice copy. Book
1980152 pages including bibliography, references, further reading and glossary of artist's names plus fold-out map of Japan. Black and white illustrations throughout. "The Art Gallery of Victoria is best known perhaps for its Asian Collection which is, to an overwhelming extent, the Fred and Isobel Pollard Collection of Japanese art. This group boasts one of the earliest collections of nanga paintings outside Japan. Nanga means Southern Painting, or Painting of the Southern School, a name later affixed to the idealist painting of scholar officials in China." - from Introduction. Contents include: Early Japanese Masters; Flowering of a National Style - Ikeno Taiga and His Followers; An Individualist in Kyoto; A Follower of Buson and Founder of the Shijo School; Eclectics in Edo and the Kanto Region; Progressives in the Kansai Region; Conservatives in Kyoto; Conservatives from Kyushu; Nineteenth-Century Progressives in Kyoto; The Last Great Flourish. Tight and square. Clean and unmarked. Attractive light-blue cloth-covered boards. Mild sunning at and near spine. Slight warp to front board. Negligible wear. Lovely copy. Book
199560 pages. Features include: The Last Requiem - Lancaster KW-1; Operation Boxtop - Resupplying the Frozen Chosen; William Barker, VC and the Formation of the RCAF - the conclusion; The Final Objective - the Halifax; Comox War Games; Nobody would have known - No. 4 Bombing and Gunnery School Fingal, Ont. during WWII: Aerial Buffoonery; Cover rough. Contents sound. Book
199060 Minute VHS Video Tape with case. From a series of step-by-step instructional tapes for pleasure and profit. Your instructor, Joan Johnson, is well respected in the floral industry with over 25 years of experience. She established her first design school in 1971. She travels constantly and experiences the newest trends in floral and interior design. You will enjoy and discover that you too can design just like the professionals. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1996150 pages. Includes contributions from some of the most inspiring and challenging thinkers about education, as well as a survey of the most promising alternatives to compulsory schooling: community learning networks, homeschooling, democratic/free schools, and more. Includes works by John Holt, Ivan Illich, John Taylor Gatto, and others. Couple of markings to contents else clean and bright with minimal wear. Very nice copy. Book
1969246 pages. Provides a selection of important material relative to the frame harp, its development in Europe during a period of several hundred years, its importation to America, and its subsequent flourishing in both parts of the world. "A full list of recordings of solo and ensemble music, and a carefully chosen list of compositions, graded for school use, are included in the appendices. There is alos a comprehensive bibliography and an index. Will be of wide interest to the professional musician, the music educator and the composer. Students of the harp will find it a vital source of information." - from dust jacket. Black and white plates. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Worthy reference copy. Book
190799 pages. Frontis illustration of author. Originally published in 1906, this simple yet profound work will be of immense interest and value to parents deciding whether or not to homeschool their children. Luther Burbank was and remains the world's champion plant breeder, having single-handedly increased the world's food supply by many percent. In this work he applies his wondrous knowledge of raising plants to the nurture of children. The best-seller "The Secret Life of Plants" refers to this book. Moderate wear. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper. Binding intact with moderate lean to spine. Black textured cloth-covered boards. A sound copy. Book
1973172 pages. "With his father (Max) - and at times his mother - in prison, author grew up struggling to stay in school and later to keep jobs. His outspoken Christian faith and his father's ceaseless opposition to Communism kept Michael under surveillance of the secret police." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Excellent copy. Book
199431 pages. Direct and star in your own thrilling, action-packed adventure! Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Please note: camera and instruction booklet not included. Book
197262 pages. Dedicated to the children author taught at Rosenheim School, Home Valley School, Hughenden School, Maypole School, Provost High School (PHS) and STA during his 28 years of teaching. A delightful pictorial stroll back through the life of Albert Ganser. Supplemented with text and genealogical information on the Ganser family. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1960208 pages. Circa 1960. School markings to contents. Some writing on illustrated front board. Binding intact. A little more than average wear. Decent working copy. Book
193947 pages. Lovely colour illustrations. Front half of original red cloth missing from spine. Above-average wear. Some writing atop title page. Binding intact. Children will still appreciate this nostalgic copy. Book
1987158 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. "Shows not only how family life can reinforce the ideals of Waldorf education, but how it also forms an essential part of the parents' own spiritual development and quest for identity and fulfillment." - Jon Metric, Green Meadow Waldorf School. Average wear. Unmarked. Solid working copy. Book
1935162 pages plus advertisements. Includes the following four lectures: Theories of the Influence of Money on Prices; The Conditions of Equilibrium Between the Production of Consumers' Goods and the Production of Producers' Goods; The Working of the Price Mechanism in the Course of the Credit Cycle; The Case for and Against an 'Elastic' Currency. Appendix: Capital and Industrial fluctuations - a reply to criticism. No. 107 in the series of Monographs by writers connected with the London School of Economics and Political Science. Average wear. Prior owner's address and his Yale University address upon front endpaper else unmarked. Cohen 183, Cody & Ostrem B-2, Hutchinson 912. Book
19957 Audio Cassette Tapes and book complete with case. "Based on Nobel Prize-winning research, the cutting-edge methods revealed here can make a dramatic difference to you and your family, virtually guaranteeing success at work and school. Enables you to identify and use your own unique way of learning, unleashing the power of your whole brain. You'll gain skills that put you in the top 1% of people in our society!" - from back cover. Nice clean set. Book