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New York: Continuum Publishing, 1994. (xii) 340 pp. Wear on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This collection of essays contains: Part One: Revisioning Religion: Ecofeminism - Symbolic and Social Connections of the Oppression of Women and the Domination of Nature by Rosemary Radford Ruether; Sin Nature and Black Women's Bodies by Delores S. Williams; Talk About the Weather - The Greening of Eschatology by Catherine Keller; Acting with Compassion - Buddhism Feminism and the Environmental Crisis by Stephanie Kaza; Feminist Judaism and Repair of the World by Judith Plaskow; An Earthly Theological Agenda by Sallie McFague; Ganga - Purity Pollution and Hinduism by Lina Gupta. Part Two: Envisioning Ecofeminism: A Feminist Philosophical Perspective on Ecofeminist Spiritualities by Karen J. Warren; Ecofeminist Consciousness and the Transforming Power of Symbols by L. Teal Willoughby; The Good Mother - From Gaia to Gilead by Ellen Cronan Rose; For All Those Who Were Indian in a Former Life by Andy Smith; Toward an Ecofeminist Ethic of Shamanism and the Sacred by Gloria Feman Orenstein; Ecology Is a Sistah's Issue Too - The Politics of Emergent Afrocentric Ecowomanism by Shamara Shantu Riley. Part Three: Embodying Ecofeminist Spiritualities: Animal Vegetable Mineral - The Sacred Connection by Carol Lee Sanchez; Nuclear Power and the Sacred - or Why a Beautiful Woman is Like a Nuclear Power Plant by Jane Caputi; New Moon Over Roxbury - Reflections on Urban Life and the Land by Rebecca Johnson; Earthbody and Personal Body as Sacred by Charlene Spretnak; Natural Resources - A Conversation Between Byllye Avery and Mary E. Hunt; Taking Life or Taking on Life - Table Talk and Animals by Carol J. Adams and Marjorie Procter-Smith; and Ecofeminist Education - Adolescence Activism and Spirituality by Zoe Weil. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 082640667X. First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. theology; environment; philosophy; spirituality; women's issues;. more information

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Hamilton, Ontario: Image Publishing, 1984. 252 pp. Beige boards decorated in gilt on the spine. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Illustrated with fold-out charts featuring: Divisions of Geological Time; Distance-Velocity-Redshift-time Scale; Efficiency of Gravitation with Relative Motion; Expansion of Universe and Aberration of Light; Observable Quasars in Terms of Z Redshift; Northern Hemisphere Quasars; Southern Hemisphere Quasars; Quasar Age-Luminosity Relationship; and Pyramid Structure of Universe. The Chapters are: PART ONE: SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY: Our Physical Universe; Evolution and Reincarnation; Cosmological Theories; and The New Cosmology; followed by: Addendum: The Microwave Background Anomaly; Gravitational Repulsion; Multiple Radio Sources and Jets; Appendix One: List of Quasars - up to magnitude 17; Appendix Two: Theoretical Quasar Redshift Separations; Appendix Three: Quasar Age in Terms of Luminosity; Appendix Four: Evolution of M Stages; Appendix Five: Efficiency of Gravitation vs Light Propagation. PART TWO: RELIGION AND THE SOCIAL ORDER: The Old Testament; The New Testament; and The Social Order. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0919357016. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. solar system; milky way; galaxy; gravity; gravitation; radiation propagation; big bang; steady-state cosmology; z redshift; microwave; old testament; new testament; bible; christianity; christ; satan; adam and eve; noah ark; moses; crucifixion; revelations;. more information

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Toronto: Viking, 1999. (xiv) 266 pp. Blue boards lettered in light blue on the spine; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Dear Old Gear: Sliding Home; Oh the Pedalo; For Every Season There Was a Turntable; Delivered from Evil; Garbage and Ageage. Odd Jobs and Old Money: Pay Now Live Later; The Work Will Wait; Working the Room; Premium Roulette. Bodily Harmony: Bound and Clogged; Beat the Clock; Replacement Parts; Welcome to the Pleasure Dome. Leisure and Pleasure Leisure and Seizure: Round Dance; Look Out Below; Farch; Playing Catch with Memory; Still Too Young to Get Dressed. Clothes and the Man: Banker's Friday Blues; Yarns of Former Glory; Both Sides Now; Ties; Toe Rubbers. Milestones and Headstones: Here We Go; The Big Awake; Go Back It's a Trap; Is That It; and Dearly Departed; followed by A Short Footnote. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 1671878979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo. canadian author; cbc radio;. more information

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Moscow, Russia: Progress Publishers, 1977. 311 pp. followed by two portfolios of line drawings. Gray cloth lettered in black on the front panel and spine; headband. Wear on the corners of the dustjacket with some rubbing on the panels; no interior markings. This collections of essays contains: A Critical Decade for America by Alexander Fursenko; From Washington to Washington by Vassili Peskov and Boris Streinikov; Meeting on the Elbe by Boris Polevoi; The Spochel Family - Two Generations by Grigori Baklanov; The Thirty-Fifth President by Nikolai Yakovlev; The Death of a King by Stanislav Kondrashov; The American Tragedy by Oleg Prudkov; On the Other Side of the Ocean; and Thining of Hemingway by Konstantin Simonov; Confession by Heinrich Borovik; Pharmacist Pemberton's Mixture by Brois Streinikov and Ilya Shatunovsky; A Walk in New York by Melor Sturua; How I Failed to Find the Average American by Albertas Laurinciukas; The Orange Lion by Ariadna Zhukova; Men and Computers; and The Apollo-Soyux Link-up by Yaroslav Golovanov; How They Catch Crabs in San Francisco by Alexander Krivitsky; Hollywood Meetings by Yuri Zhukov; Dreiser by Yasen Zasursky; The Mysteriour Billionaire by Valentin Zorin; Abraham Lincoln and the Present Day by Ernest Henry; What Next? Reflections After Reading Harrison Salisbury's New Book by Alexander Chakovsky; America 1975 by Georgi Ratiani; and Soviet US Relations in the 70s by Georgi Arbatov. Scans are available for all books. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo. russian literature; writing;. more information

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New York: Harper and Row, 1969. (xvi) 176 pp. Gray cloth decorated with white and orange on the front panel and spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a short closed tear on the upper left of the front panel; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: First Dialogue: After the Liberation - Before the Rupture: Sartre and the Marxist-Leninists. Second Dialogue: After Stalin - Before the Twentieth Congress: The Adventures and Misadventures of Dialectics - Fanaticism Prudence and Faith. Third Dialogue: La Critique de la raison dialectics a Century After the Founding of the First International: The Impact of Marxism in the Twentieth Century - Sartre's Marxism.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. social history; jean paul sartre; maurice merleau-ponty; communism; socialism; industrial society;. more information

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New York: Anchor Books - Doubleday, 1973. (vii) 468 pp. First Thus - Abridged Edition. Quarter-bound in gray cloth on black cloth; lettered in red on the spine; headband. Wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks around the edges; price intact; somewhat darkened in both gutters; no names or underlining; lavender spray on the lower edge of the text block. The Chapters are: Introduction: Conceptual Levels of Comprehension. Theory: Concepts and Systems: Strategy and Diplomacy, or On the Unity of Foreign Policy; Power and Force, or On the Means of Foreign Policy; Power Glory and Idea, or On the Goals of Foreign Policy; On International Systems; On Multipolar Systems and Bipolar System; Dialectics of Peace and War. History: The Global System in the Thermonuclear Age: On the Strategy of Deterrence; Les grands Freres, or Diplomacy Within the Blocs; The Enemy Partners. Praxeology: The Antinomies of Diplomatic-Strategic Conduct: In Search of Morality; and Beyond Power Politics; followed by a Final Note: Rational Strategy and Reasonable Policy; and an index.. ISBN: 0385013260. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. politics;. more information

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San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2000. (xiv) 205 pp. Edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; previous owner's name on the front endpaper; no other interior markings. The Chapters are: Four Views of Science and Religion: Conflict; Independence; Dialogue; Integration; Astronomy and Creation: Conflict; Independence; Dialogue; Integration; The Implications of Quantum Physics: Conflict; Independence; Dialogue; Integration; Evolution and Continuing Creation: Conflict; Independence; Dialogue; Integration; Neuroscience and Human Nature: Conflict; Independence; Dialogue; Integration; and God and Nature: Conflict; Independence; Dialogue; Integration; followed by notes, an index of names and an index of selected topics. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 006060381X. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. big bang; darwin; genesis; genes genetics; god; science; theology; nuclear physics; templeton prize; collectible;. more information

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Los Angeles: R & R Books, 1989. 167 pp. Trade paperback with French flaps. Light wear on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Hiring and Recruiting Salespeople; Training; Sales Meeting Strategies; Management Skills; Avoiding the Sales Manager's Common Mistakes; Budgeting; Prospecting; Retail and Manufacturer Glossary; Maximizing Alternate Budgets; Telephone Techniques; Overcoming Objections; Closing; Avoiding Cancellations; and Personal Development. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0931183022. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. selling; business;. more information

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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1967. 180 pp. Proof copy. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine and some darkening around the edges; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Conversation for the Twenty-First Century. The Tyranny of a Dying Ethic: Is Gordon Sinclair a Puritan; The Thing We Think Is Standing Still Is Moving; The Contemporary Standards of Lord Thomson; A Subtreasury of Great Canadian Myths; The Contempt for Adult Values; Charles E. Wilson's Version of Freedom. The Mythology of Toil: The Dirtiest Job in the World; The Second Coming of Aristotle; Liquor Vendors Lying in the Sun; Did the Greeks Engage in Moonlighting; Allan Lamport Meets the Hippies; The Fallacy of Free Time. Interlude: Clips from an Unpublished Newspaper. The Shackles of Poverty: The Gospel According to George McCullagh; What Price Chamber of Commerce Freedom; A Profile of the Canadian Poor; The Vicious Cycle of Want; The Folklore of Motherhood; Must Planning be a Dirty Word. The Illusion of Education: Down with Free Education; Universities: Pastures for the Privileged; An Under-Investment in Human Beings; The Poor Can't Go to College; Why Can't Learning be Fun; Dialogue with Myself; and The Parade of Progress. Scans are available for all books.. First Softcover Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. canadian author; sociology; philosophy; economics; society;. more information

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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968. 160 pp. Proof copy. Light wear on the corners with some minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Conversation for the Twenty-first Century; ONE: THE TYRANNY OF A DYING ETHIC: Is Gordon Sinclair a Puritan; The Thing We Think Is Standing Still Is Moving; The Contemporary Standards of Lord Thomson; A Subtreasury of Great Canadian Myths; The Contempt for Adult Values; Charles E. Wilson's Version of Freedom. TWO: THE MYTHOLOGY OF TOIL: The Dirtiest Job in the World; The Second Coming of Aristotle; Liquor Vendors Lying in the Sun; Did the Greeks Engage in Moonlighting; Allan Lamport Meets the Hippies; The Fallacy of Free Time. INTERLUDE: Clips from an Unpublished Newspaper. THREE: THE SHACKLES OF POVERTY: The Gospel According to George McCullagh; What Price Chamber of Commerce Freedom; A Profile of the Canadian Poor; The Vicious Cycle of Want; The Folklore of Motherhood; Must Planning Be a Dirty Word. FOUR: THE ILLUSION OF EDUCATION: Down with Free Education; Universities: Pastures for the Privileged; An Under-investment in Human Beings; The Poor Can't Go to College; Why Can't Learning Be Fun; and Dialogue with Myself; The Parade of Progress. Scans are available for all books. . First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. canadian author; canada; freedom; poverty; free education; motherhood; welfare; socialism; collectible; philosophy;. more information

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Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1989. 256 pp. Signed by Arthur Black on the half-title page. Black boards with silver lettering on the spine; purple endpapers; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a short tear at the bottom edge of the front panel and bottom edge of the rear panel; price intact. Dj art by Marion Stuck. The Chapters are: PART ONE - Gadgets, Gizmos, Fads and Fanatics: No Sales in the Sunset; Armchair Paradise; Does Anybody Know What Time It Is; Mouthy Mobiles; Say Geez; Can't Lose If You Don't Buy a Ticket; Is That a Six-Shooter That I See Before Me; Spare That Tire; To Compute or Not to Compute - That Is the Input; Eat Rignt Eat Lite; That's Not Fat Just Cristmas Calories; Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Lungs and; Confessions of a Baseball Hater; It's Never Replace the Ballpoint; Games People Play; I'm in the Mood for Video; Going Off the Deep End; Smoking Can Be Dangerous to Your Health; A Hair-Raising Tale; Where Was I; Paint and Powder; Body Repairs; Yard Sales. PART TWO - Saints and Sinner, Champs and Chumps: Famous Last Words; Felons Wanted - No Intelligence Necessary; Pardon Me But Your Ego's Showing; Be Kind to Dumb Crook; Meet Mike Mercredi; A Prince of a Ghy; Step Right Up Folks; Annie and Abby; I Dub This Dominion Mesopelagia; A Little Hurtin' Music; A Perfectly Good Explanation; Two Cheers for Lawyers; Does Anybody Care about the Farmer Anymore; Nutty Names; Chairman of the Bored; Taking Leisure Seriously; Hair Today and Con Tomorrow; Open Wide and Say Bah; The Wolf Was Railroaded; Privies of Privilege. PART THREE - Some of My Best Friends Are Furred, Finned, or Feathered (And I Don't Mean Madonna): Our Symbol The Rat; Boys and Dogs; Dairy Diary; Old Prickly; A Kind World for Sturnis Vulgaris; A Living Fossil Here Gunnar Nice Goose; The One That Got Away; Porkers; Harvesting Canadas; Whatever Happened to Peter Cottontail; Our Feathered Janitors; Toad Alert; Freez-Drying The Ultimate Senate Reform. PART FOUR - Terra Not-So-Firma: You're from Where; Your Fantasy Room is Ready; The Rock; Reincarnating a Town; Spud Island; Hogtown Real Estate; Japan - Land of the Rising Yen; My Maple: In Memoriam; Monuments to Vanity; The Not-So-Grand River; Smells Fine to Me; A Tree Grows in Haiti; Let's Dispose of Disposables; henry Merlau's Maple; Stop Me Before I Garden Again; The Misery Index. PART FIVE - Canada Armageddon and Kinky Sects: The Hal Who Came in from the Cold; CanMed; Annexation Will Be a Little Late This Year; Let's Make a Deal; The Fine Art of Flannelmouthing; Slow Down, Fast Food; Kinky Sects; Silver Threads Beneath the Headband; Navel-gazing with Cher; Is There Life After Sex; For a Good Time Call MCX VLIV; We've Got Our Laughs to Keep Us Warm; We Live in Testing Time; The Lawsuit Blues Go That Ol' Swimmin' Hole of Mine; Advice to Amateur Editors: Go Directly to Hell; Meet Uou at the Corner of Klondike and Yukon; And When We Call it a Tanktop, We Mean a Tanktop; Deciphering Postal Codes; Racism It's Really Black and White; The End Is Nigh: Details at Eleven; Advertising Condoms: Is It Safe. . ISBN: 0773723536. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Marion Stuck;. 8vo. canadian author; underwear salesman; cattle prodder; canadian broadcast corporation; cbc;. more information

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London: Constable and Company, 1963. 127 pp. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a short tear on the upper left of the front panel; price clipped; previous owner's name inside. This collection contains: Humanism: The Subject of the Objections by H. J. Blackham; A Critique of Humanist Theology by Ronald Hepburn; Is Humanism Utopian by Kingsley Martin; Is Rationalism Sterile by Kathleen Nott; and The Pointlessness of It All by H. J. Blackham.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo. humanism; self analysis;. more information

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Toronto: Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1988. (x) 419 pp. Burgundy boards lettered in gilt on the spine; gray endpapers; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Chapters are: The Freedom of Each versus the Welfare of All - The Recurring Fallacies; The Extent of Dissent - The Right Express Difference versus the Need to Maintain Harmony; National Security Intelligence - Prudent Precautions versus Chilling Surveillance; The Ambit of Police Powers - Safety for the Public versus Safeguards for the Suspects; Discretionary Law Enforcement - The Interests of Leniency versus the Standards of Equity; Public Inquiries and Pre-trial Publicity - Knowledge for the Public versus Fairness for the Parties; The Regulation of the Economy - The Quest for Communal Equity versus the Right to Commercial Liberty; The Administration of Public Welfare - The Integrity of the Purse versus the Autonomy of the Person; Involuntary Civil Commitment - The Demands of Therapy versus the Desire for Liberty; The Constitutional Entrenchment of our Fundamental Freedoms - Minority Rights versus Majority Rule; Racial Inequity and Legal Redress - Free Choice versus a Fair Chance; Some Fundamental Misconceptions about our Fundamental Freedoms; Of Doves Hawks and the Morality of Force; and Towards a Sense of Perspective; followed by notes and an index. Scans are available for all books. . ISBN: 0886191890. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. civil liberties; charter rights; democracy; politics;. more information

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New York: Delta Books - Dell Publishing, 1975. 266 pp. First Thus. Light edge and corner wear with very minor creasing on an otherwise flat spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Psychoanalysis and Modernity; Philip Rieff: Psychological Man and the Penultimate Ethic of Abundant Life: A Theory of Culture; The Sources of Psychological Man; The Cultural and Social Forces of Modernity; Freud: The Exemplary Character; The Rieffian Uses of Freud; Psychological Man; Norman Brown: Dionysian Man and the Resurrection of the True Christian Body; The Disease Called Man; Character and Modernity: Apollo and Homo Economicus; The Dionysian Christian; The Ego Play and Individuation; The Ego and the Principle Constancy in Freud; The Ego in the Writings of Heinz Hartmann: The Fuller Vision; Play and Individuation in the Thought of Robert White; Erich Fromm: The Productive Personality and the Coming of the Messianic Time: The Human Situation; Character and History: The Social Psychology of Modernity; Psychology and the Science of Ethics; The Anthropology of Productive Man; Hope and the Messianic Time; Productive Man: A Summary; Erik Erikson: Generative Man and the Household of God: Psychoanalysis and the Ethics of Human Ecology; The Ego: Its Epigenesis Virtues and Necessary Rituals; Care and the Anthropology of Generative Man; Identity and Modernity; The Empirics of Generative Man: The Dialectics of Receiving and Acting; Generative Man and the Meaning of Time; Generative Man and the Social World: Life as Creative Ritualization; Generative Man and the Other; and Generativity and Advance: Postscript on Generative Man and Religion; followed by a bibliography and an index. Scans are available for all books.. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. divinity; religion; psychological studies;. more information

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London: Hutchinson University Library, 1959. 128 pp. Black boards decorated in red and gilt on the spine. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: The Nature of the Subject; The Deductive Approach; The Descriptive Approach; The Quantitative Approach; The Sociological and Psychological Approach; The Practical Approach; and Possibilities and Limits; followed by a bibliography and an index. Scans are available for all books.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo. political study; election surveys; social psychologists;. more information

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New York: Fawcett Crest Books, 1983. Unpaginated. All five books have light rubbing on the corners; four of them have uncreased spines and Book Four has minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. To be clear, there are five books here: The 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said; The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said; The Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said; The Fourth and By Far the Most Recent 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said; and The Fifth and Far Finer than the First Four 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said.. First Paperback Printings. Soft Cover. Very Good. quotes quips quotations;. more information

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Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1964. 112 pp. Penguin Book 2133. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. This collection contains: The First Years; Vicissitudes of Adolescence; The Changing Role of Women; Living and Partly Living; The Changing British Character; and This Island Now. Scans are available for all books.. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. reith lectures; bbc; radio; collectible; child rearing; vintage paperback;. more information

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Middlesex, England: Penguin Classics, 1988. 264 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; store stamped. The Chapters are: Matter and Space; Movements and Shapes of Atoms; Life and Mind; Sensation and Sex; Cosmology and Sociology; Meteorology and Geology; followed by and Index and Bibliography. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0140440186. Later Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. matter; space; shapes of atoms; sensation; sex; life; mind; cosmology; sociology; meteorology; geology;. more information

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Toronto: Collins, 1977. 216 pp. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a short tear on the lower left of the front panel; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper; no other interior markings. When they both worked for the Toronto Star, Ernest Hemingway said about Greg Clark, "He loves hunting and fishing and fishing tackle... He also loves to think. He thinks very well but he never strains himself. He writes the best of anyone on the paper." Wraparound dustjacket art and interior drawings by Jimmie Frise. This collection contains: Weasels; Nutting; Good Samaritans; Unaccustomed As I Am; Mushrooms; Miracles; Souvenir; Down the Chimbley; Yellow Sally; Sales Resistance; Saga of Lost Lake; The Evening's Fishing; Insulation; Skunked Again; Up Where the North Begins; Scalped in the Rush; Weak Enders; Some Other Time; Gangway; Iced Duck; Second Best Turkey; Only Twenty Days; Cigars All Round; and Mrs I Walton. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0002166836. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Frise, Jimmie. 8vo. canadian author; journalist; columnist; humourist; outdoors; canadiana;. more information

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Montreal: Optimum Publishing , 1979. 176 pp. Brown boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Dj art and interior drawings by Jack Tremblay; also illustrated with sepia photographs. When they both worked for the Toronto Star, Ernest Hemingway said about Greg Clark, "He loves hunting and fishing and fishing tackle... He also loves to think. He thinks very well but he never strains himself. He writes the best of anyone on the paper." This collection contains: Ten Cents Off Per Dozen; Thanks; Elevator Man; The Shoplifter; The Tree; Fellow Passenger; The Visit; An Indignity; Surprise; The Spectacles; Tangled Web; Retribution; How Christmas Came to Parliament Street; The Dust; Dog Gone; Signs; Moose Meat; The Boost; The Lesson; The Wrench; The Bequest; Godsend; The Matched Pair; The Maitre D'; The Champion; The Trap; The Faux Pas; The Wrong Bus; The Push; The Rescue; Loud Speaker; The Switch; The Laughing Lady; Demonstration; Dogs; The Blue Box; The Model; The Rug; The Rough Neck; The Elusive Blue; Ploomoot; and The Tough Men. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 088890116X. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Jack Tremblay;. 8vo. canadian author; journalist; columnist; humourist; outdoors; canadiana;. more information

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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1980. 159 pp. Quarter-bound in yellow cloth on yellow boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; yellow endpapers. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Dj art by Jack Tremblay. When they both worked for the Toronto Star, Ernest Hemingway said about Greg Clark, "He loves hunting and fishing and fishing tackle... He also loves to think. He thinks very well but he never strains himself. He writes the best of anyone on the paper." This collection contains: A Supersonic Day; The Handicapper; Difficult Days in March; Discrimination Against Prejudice; A Cheer for Last; Knots; Slowdown; Canoe: The Exacting Servant; Discovery; Who's Next; Weather: The Redeeming Spoiler; Fish Stories Attested; A Vew from Seventy; When the Beauty Shop Sign was a Shaving Mug; Barnyard Language; The Toss-up; Reconstruction; Campsite Manners; Card Trick; Culture Is Where We're At; Veal; The Rustlers; Who Looks; Fiction; Midnight Onions; Blanked Out; The Vaccination; Winter Bounty; What's New; Corrected; Telephone Trouble; Cities; Derailed; Tea; Uptown Art; Blawther; The Age of Pallor; Spurious Itch; The Pickle; Camouflage; South'n Frahed and Saccharine; Back Home in Algiers; The Explanation; Man's Monstrous Voice; The Purists; Stotenbottle; Domestic Despot in the Dark; What Was Said; Shrunk; Broiled Bones; Learning; Shatterproof; Leap Year - 1960; The Stick; The Damper; The Shake-out; This Town Is Full of Strangers; Shifty; The Upsetter; Collie; The Big Think; Pest Control; Turn in Your Old Name; Fire in August; Uncle Pete's Affliction; Water; A Use Word - Intuitably; The Guest; Unfiltered; The Meddler; Apples; Health Hazard; Hepatica; Mr Foosh; Stumped; June Bug; Everything Gets Fragile; The Phrenologist; Teresa; Middle Age: The Spaced Out Season; A Word for the Wolf; Acquaintance; Old Sad Thrills; Disjointed; Reserves; Downside of the Year; Mad; Ghostly Disillusion; The Tree Planters; Turnabout; Logjam in the Cookhouse; Prime Time Dropout; The Block; Unlonely Silence; Monsieur Murphy; Mitigating Circumstance; Bright Memories of Bad Moments; The Voice of Noon; Long-distance Chirp; Stop Horsing Around; Principles; Out in Front; Power - with no sugar - to the People; A Dog of Character; Our Mother Tongues as They Are Spoke; Response to a Timeless Urge; Garlic; The Trinket; Defects; Butterfly; Thrift; Pie-lid Lifter; Mood Music; Cured; Grandma's Cookbook; and The Pattern of Christmas. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0771021127. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Jack Tremblay;. 8vo. canadian author; journalist; columnist; humourist; outdoors; canadiana;. more information

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Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1968. 171 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Wear on the corners of the dustjacket with some nicks and chips around the edges; previous owner's name on the front pastedown; no other interior markings. When they both worked for the Toronto Star, Ernest Hemingway said about Greg Clark, "He loves hunting and fishing and fishing tackle... He also loves to think. He thinks very well but he never strains himself. He writes the best of anyone on the paper." This collection contains: The Quarter Deck; Premonition; Fear; The Knight; Adam's Apples; Luck; The Witch; A Necktie; Enchantment; The Spoons; The Watchers; The Nightingale; Where's Solodovik Now; The Kit; It's a Problem; Comforts; The Ghost; The Coincidence; Beechey; Bob; The Bully; Pilgrims; Aiuto Aiuto; The Disclosure; The Pants Button; Roulette; The Hiss; The Salute; The Debt; The Truck Driver; The Gourmet; The Baby; Vanier; Sneaky; La Mer; Remembrance; Stilly Night; and None Else of Name. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0770000789. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo. canadian author; journalist; columnist; humourist; outdoors; canadiana;. more information

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London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1984. 236 pp. followed by an index. Black boards lettered in red on the spine. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: The Great Default; The Anglo-American Plan; Southern Strategy; Operation Holdfast; The End of the Freeze; US Disintegration; Britain Divides; Inconvenience Terror; The Wall Street Crash; Confrontation with Israel; South Africa at Bay; China Stirs; Australia's Initiative; Meltdown in Israel; Nuclear Terrorism in South Africa; The TV Summit; and The Conference Table; followed by an epilogue. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0283990406. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo. terrorism; global catastrophe; social national revolution; world bank; imf; new zealand; asia; soviet union; muslim fundamentalist; moslem; islam; latin america; industry; subversion; sabotage;. more information

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Toronto: Harper Collins, 1991. 21 pp. Staple-bound in card covers. Light wear on the corners; no interior markings. . ISBN: 0006379079. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. point of view; canadian author canadiana; racism;. more information

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New York: Washington Square Press, 1962. 196 pp. Washing Square Press Book W826. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: In Place of Folly; Think of a Man; Primer of Nuclear War; Shelters Survival and Common Sense; Nuclear Testing; Special-delivery Systems for War; CBR and MAN; The Case for the Military; Power Without Control; The Fallacy of Deterrent; Two Kinds of Sovereignty; En Route to a True Civilization; Peace Through the U.N.; What About Russia; The Habit of Violence; Don't Resign from the Human Race; An Exciting Time to be Alive; and Checklist of Enemies; followed by a glossary and an index. Scans are available for all books.. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. war; military; nuclear warfare; atomic bomb;. more information

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Toronto: Harper Collins, 1991. 23 pp. Staple-bound in card covers. Light wear on the corners; previous owner's name inside. . ISBN: 0006377505. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. point of view; canadian author canadiana; reform politics;. more information

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. 190 pp. Circa 1930 - actually undated. Blue boards with black lettering on the spine. Chipping at the head of the spine on the dj with a few nicks and chips around the edges of the dustjacket; light foxing on the endpapers with some mottling on the boards. Dj art by Frank Reynolds.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Very Good-. Illus. by Frank Reynolds;. 12mo. pleasure; leisure;. more information

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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980. 217 pp. Dark teal boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. Illustrated with 36 line drawings from Punch Magazine. This collection contains: Animals by Gerald Durrell; Art by Bevis Hillier; Business by Robert Heller; Communications by David Taylor; Drink by Cyril Ray; Films by Alexander Walker; Food by Clement Freud; Law and Crime by Fenton Bresler; Literature by Anthony Burgess; Medicine by Richard Gordon; Men's Fashion by John Taylor; The Military by Alun Chalfont; Music by Alan Blyth; Playtime by Nigel Dempster; Politics by Paul Johnson; Pop Culture by Kenneth Robinson; Sport by Ian Wooldridge; Theatre by Sheridan Morley; Travel by Alan Whicker; Women's Fashion by Ann Ryan; and Young World by Benny Green. . ISBN: 0297778005. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. more information

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New York: Philosophical Library, 1974. 136 pp. First Thus. Both titles in a single volume. Green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; headband; green upper edge. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with some minor rubbing on the front panel; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: PART ONE: RATIONALISM AGAINST REASON: The Encyclopedic Forms of Rationalistic Belief: Borrowing from anterior forms of experience; Extension of the sovereignty of reason; The Kantian Forms of the Rationalistic Belief: Extension of the sovereignty of reason; The illegitimate character of this extension; The Pedagogical Forms of the Rationalistic Belief: How one makes up a rational genealogy for reason; A description of reason with a view to distinguishing it from the other activities of the mind produced in its name; The Metamorphoses of Reason in the Teaching of Morality: The Lecons de Philosophie of M. Malapert; A case of brusque mutation; M Leclere and ontological reason; The persistence of reason as a token organ in the sociological thesis of morality of M Durkheim; M Belot and reason in the sense of technique. PART TWO: SPIRITUALISM AGAINST THE SPIRIT: A Counterfeit of the Doctrines of Reason and of the Mind: The postulates of official philosophy; The doctrine of liberty; The realism of the adaequation rei et intellectus; The Characteristic Features of the Official Doctrine in M. Parodi: According to the author's personal enunciation; According to his estimations of philosophical systems; A Philosophy of Pure Knowledge: The inadequate as the norm of existence and of knowledge; The power of synthesis peculiar to this conception; Critique of the philosophies of intuition. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0802221335. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. rationalism; reason; spiritualism; spirit;. more information

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Toronto: Harper Collins, 1991. 34 pp. Staple-bound in card covers. Light wear on the corners; no interior markings. . ISBN: 0006377505. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. point of view; canadian author canadiana; reform politics;. more information

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New York: Harper Collins, 1994. (xi) 371 pp. Signed on the title page by Michael Dorris. Quarter-bound in burgundy cloth on burgundy boards; decorated in gilt on the front panel; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; missing the front free endpaper; slight discolouration on the upper right corners of the first few pages. This collection of essays contains: FAMILY OCCASIONS: Packing Up; Sundays; The Contest; Father's Day; The New York Hat; The Train Cake; A Second Adoption; Growing Up; Mice. RITES OF PASSAGE: On the Road; The Quest for Pie; The Sentry. EVERYBODY'S CHILDREN: Thankfulness; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A National Perspective; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Parent's Perspective; Crossing the Line; Crazy Horse Malt Liquor; The Power of Love. INDIANS: I Isn't for Indian; Indians on the Shelf; Rewriting History; Discoveries; The Grass Still Grows the Rivers Still Flow: Contemporary Native Americans; The Hundred Year War for White Earth. LEARNING FROM MISTAKES: For Indians No Thanksgiving; Native American Literature in an Ethnohistorical Context; Mr Reagan and the Indians; Dances with Indians. OPENED DOORS: Beating the System; Trusting the Words; Summer Reading; Word from the Front; House of Stone; Little Fears. GOING PLACES: Americans All; Martyrs; Pen Pals; The Forgotten Algebra Test Nightmare; Life Stories. HOME: The Cherry Tree; Three Yards; Real and True Estate; Maintaining a Home; and Cutting Grass. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0060169710. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Only/Very Good. Illus. by Ken Robbins;. 8vo. anthropology; activist; travel writing;. more information

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Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1978. (xi) 265 pp. First translated edition. Green boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. In 1974, Etkind was forced to leave Russia; this book is an exploration, sometimes moving, sometimes grimly comic, of some of the realities of Soviet intellectual life. The Chapters are: On the Eve - 23 April 1974: Digression concerning Cyclists and Modern Barons; Digression concerning Stage Management. Drama in Four Acts: The Civic Execution - 25 April 1974: Act One: Digression concerning Publicity; Act Two: Digression concerning an Old Professor; Act Three: Digression concerning the Year 1949. Justice 1963 - 1964: Digression concerning Unbridled Form. The Sentence Affair 1968 - 1974: A Bitter Digression; Linguistic Digression: Prorabotka: Digression on How not to Live by Lies; Digression concering Gulliver and the Lilliputians. Talking about Poetry 1973 - 1974: Digression concerning Dignity and Freedom of Choice; Digression concerning Cannibals. The Noose Tightens - 10 April and 25 June 1974: Digression on the Theme: For Whose Benefit. Struggle for Life June - October 1974: At Home: Digression concerning Revolutionary Sense of Justice; Lyrical Digression: Mayakovsky Writers' House; Digression concerning State Security; Abroad: Digression concerning Emigration; and Coda; followed by Appendix One: Second hearing of the Case against I. Brodsky; and Appendix Two: Letter to the Executive of the Leningrad Writers' Organization and Executive of the Writers' Union of the RSFSR.. ISBN: 0192117394. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. russia; intellectual; herzen pedagogical institute; leningrad;. more information

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Toronto: Viking - Penguin Books, 2001. 277 pp. Blue boards lettered in silver on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: It's the End of Politics As We Know It - and I Feel Fine; When the Going Gets Tough Activists Turn Pro; Walter Robinson and the Rise of Conservative Activism; Education: Activists Will Happen; Globalization: The Young and the Idealistic; Environment: Tools for Radicals; Health: The Demonization of Cranks Zealots and Left-Wing Nuts; Poverty: Fighting Frustration with Small Victories; Justice: The Secrets of Success; Duff Conacher and the Drive for Democratic Reform; and Reveille for Citizens; followed by an index. Scans are available for all books. . ISBN: 0670894176. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo. revolution; rebellion; politics;. more information

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New York: Harper Torch - Harper Collins, 1968. (viii) 290 pp. Edge and corner wear with a crease on the spine; previous owner's name on the leading edge; not store stamped. The Chapters are: The Nature and Function of Philosophy; Philosophy and the Methods of Inquiry; Experience and the Problems of Philosophy; Questions and Methods in Philosophy; Experience and Knowledge; Monism and Pluralism; Existence and Its Interpretation; Human Existence and Its Interpretation; Approaches to a Philosophy of Values; Problems of the Philosophy of Religion.. First Trade Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. The Nature and Function of Philosophy; Philosophy and the Methods of Inquiry; Experience and the Problems of Philosophy; Questions and Methods in Philosophy; Experience and Knowledge; Monism and Pluralism; Existence and Its Interpretation; Human Existence and Its Interpretation; Approaches to a Philosophy of Values; Problems of the Philosophy of Religion; hedonism; objective ethical knowledge; ludwig feuerbach; god; j. dewey; aristotle; g. berkeley; charles darwin; m. dewulf; f. engels; hegel; hitler; thom. more information

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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Fifth House Publishers, 1989. 278 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This collection contains: The Porn Patrol by Margaret Atwood; The Soul of an Old Machine by Robert Fulford; Return of the Battle of the Monster Trucks by Tom Hawthorn; Roar from the Sea by Harry Bruce; About Home by Carolyn Smart; Hamilton As It Should Be by Elliott Halpern; Trotsky in Amherst by Silver Donald Cameron; Suppressing Rebellion in Lower Canada: British Military Policy and Practice 1837 - 1838 by Elionor Kyte Senior; On Being Motionless - On Refusing the Story by Rudy Wiebe; The Spirit Weeps by Stephen Hume; The Moral Status of Pity by Eamonn Callan; Faith and Public Service by David MacDonald; The Case of Ordination by Mary Malone; At A Loss for Words by Rose Borris and Paulette Jiles; I Moved by Elaine Johnston; What's the Matter with Claude by Ann Charney; In Defence of Simone Weil by George Grant; The Future of Our Past by Rick Salutin; Off the Road: Journeys in the Past Present and Future of Canadian Literature by Robert Bringhurst; Fashions in Feminist Film Theory by Kay Armatage; The Creative Approach by Robert Stewart; Time Space and Light: Discovering the Saskatchewan Soul by Sharon Butala; The Punjab in Turmoil by Catherine Pigott; Sundial Renaissance by Michael Webster; Why I Love Opera and Find It Irresistibly Funny by George Jonas; Where the Hell is Ebeye by Kim Echlin; and If Kennedy Had Lived by Ray Argyle. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0920079431. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. 8vo. canadian author; canadiana;. more information

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Toronto: Harper Collins, 1991. 24 pp. Staple-bound in card covers. Light wear on the corners; previous owner's name inside. . ISBN: 0006377513. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. point of view; canadian author canadiana; racism;. more information

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New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993. (xvi) 127 pp. Beige cloth lettered in black on the spine; headband; black and white illustrations. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Literary and Historical Context: Humanism and Reform; The Importance of the Work; Critical Reception. A Reading: Approaching Eutopia; O Sacred Society - The Eutopia within Book 2; Incursions of Doubt - Irony and Satire in Book 2; Confidence Restored - Religious Faith in Utopia; More's Dilemma - The Context and Argument of Book 1; Si quid sit in ambiguo - The Inconclusiveness of Utopia; and More's Equivocal Masterpiece; followed by a bibliography and an index. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0805794190. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. thomas more; utopia;. more information

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New York: Pocket Books, 1970. 245 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the spine; previous owner's name on the front endpaper; no other interior markings. The Chapters are: Revolution for the Hell of It; The Rising of the Pentagon; The New Niggers; Yippie - The Media Myth; On to Chicago; Free is the Revolution; Free Advice to the Brothers; Some Props Used; Extra Quotes - Bits and Pieces; Ego Tripping; Epilogue: Life Among the Dinosaurs; and This Part Is Absolutely Free. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0671780328. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. revolution; yippie; amerika; spiro agnew; richard nixon; jerry rubin; abbie hoffman; festival of life; planet earth; chicago seven conspiracy trial;. more information

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New York: Pocket Books, 1970. 245 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Revolution for the Hell of It; The Rising of the Pentagon; The New Niggers; Yippie - The Media Myth; On to Chicago; Free is the Revolution; Free Advice to the Brothers; Some Props Used; Extra Quotes - Bits and Pieces; Ego Tripping; Epilogue: Life Among the Dinosaurs; and This Part Is Absolutely Free. . ISBN: 0671780328. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. revolution; yippie; amerika; spiro agnew; richard nixon; jerry rubin; abbie hoffman; festival of life; planet earth; chicago seven conspiracy trial;. more information

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London: The Hogarth Press, 1979. (xiii) 94 pp. The International Psycho-Analytical Library 17. Red boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; sticker ghost on the lower right corner of the front panel; price clipped; no interior markings. This contains: Editorial Note by M. Masud R. Khan; Editor's Introduction; Civilization and its Discontents; List of Abbreviations; Bibliography and Author Index; and General Index. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 070120110X. Sixth Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. freud; freudian analysis;. more information

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Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1959. 23 pp. Gray boards decorated in dark gray pinstripes; the title is a pasted-on label in yellow, gray and white. This is still in its original glassine wrapper. Light edge and corner wear; no interior markings. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. canadian author;. more information

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Kingston, Ontario: Quarry Press, 1991. 256 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside; ink marks on the copyright page and the contents page. This collection of essays contains: August in My Father's House by Michael Ignatieff; If You Can't Say Something Nice Don't Say Anything At All by Margaret Atwood; Refugee Dreams by Peter Behrens; The Border as Fiction by Clark Blaise; At a Loss for Words by Rose Borris and Paulette Jiles; Field of Broken Dreams by Sharon Butala; The Plot to Kill Canada by Dalton Camp; The Concubine's Children by Denise Chong; Zen in America by Ann Diamond; Women and Wanderlust by Moira Farr; Clues by Don Gillmor; Life and Death in Ontario County by Hugh Graham; Back on Java by Ernest Hillen; Gals and Dolls: The Moral Value of Bad Toys by Marni Jackson; The Land Before Time by M. T. Kelly; Pens of Many Colours by Myrna Kotash; Love and Death by David Macfarlane; Remembering Gabrielle Roy by Joyce Marshall; The Saga of Space Dorks: Technophilic Flying Boys from Planet Earth by Joyce Nelson; Conrad Black Writ Large by David Olive; Be Still My Teeny Bopper Heart by Stephen Phelps; Deception in the Search for Truth by Jane Rule; Brian and the Boys by Rick Salutin; Peril by the Lake by Audrey Thomas; and Let Us Compare Mythologies by William Thorsell.. ISBN: 1550820338. First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. canadian author canadiana;. more information

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Cincinnati, Ohio: Survive Institute, 1982. 102 pp. Signed on the first blank page by Debbie Gardner. Edge and corner wear with a faint crease on the spine; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. Illustrated with line drawings and photographs by Fred Thoman. The Chapters are: Fighting Back Mentally; Fighting Back Verbally; Fighting Back Physically; and Who Really Wins.. Signed by Author. First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Fred Thoman;. 8vo. martial arts; women's issues;. more information

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Ottawa, Ontario: Creative Bound, 2006. 205 pp. Signed on the title page by Lowell Green. Dark blue boards lettered in silver on the spine; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. This collection of essays contains: Why; The Age of Wisdom; The Call; It's Not My Fault; The Thug Huggers; The Miracle of New York; The California Miracle; The Squeegee Cult; The Self-Chosen Ones; Ice Cubes in Your Glass; Are These People Nuts; How Hot Is It; The Green Zealots; Custodian of the Planet; It's in the Stars; Oh My Gosh... Global Cooling; The Real Poop on Polar Bears; A Climate of Fear; Ottawa - a Great Place for a Dump; Some Solutions; The Attack on Families; Six Singhs; The Amazing Mr Mohammad; The Man with a Bucket; Double Cheese Please Hold the Olives; The Failure-Is-Really-Success Gang; The Ghettoization of Canada; Are We a Country That Hates Itself; What Was Trudeau Thinking; It's in the Charter; Who Benefits; The View from Down Under; The View from Britain; The Homeless Industry; Voices; and The Last Word.. ISBN: 1894439309. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Author's Second Book. canadian author; canadiana; talk radio show;. more information

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New York: Bantam Books, 1968. 158 pp. Bantam Book N24292. Edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates. The Chapters are: Why I Want to be President; How I Want to be President; This nation Is Insane; Moral Fallout; The Gregory Report on Civil Disorders; The Gregory Accords; Life in These United States; Crisis in Town and Country; The Gregorian Court Calendar; and Pencil Power. . First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. black studies; african american americans; comedy; comedian; greenwich village; vintage paperback; racism; collectible;. more information

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New York: Avon Books, 1965. 125 pp. Avon Book S129. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the spine; no interior markings. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs by Jerry Yulsman. . Sixth Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Jerry Yulsman;. black studies; african american americans; comedy; comedian; greenwich village; vintage paperback; collectible;. more information

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New York: Cardinal Editions - Pocket Books, 1965. 209 pp. Pocket Book 75091. Edge and corner wear with creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates. The Chapters are: Not Poor, Just Broke; ...and they didn't even have what I wanted; and One Less Door. . First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. black studies; african american; comedy; comedian; greenwich village; vintage paperback;. more information

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New York: Cardinal Editions - Pocket Books, 1965. 209 pp. Pocket Book 75091. Edge and corner wear with creasing on the spine; store stamped. Illustrated with black and white plates. The Chapters are: Not Poor, Just Broke; ...and they didn't even have what I wanted; and One Less Door. . First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. black studies; african american americans; comedy; comedian; greenwich village; vintage paperback; collectible;. more information

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Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1991. (xxiii) 680 pp. Light wear on the corners with some minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. This collection contains: Of Truth; Of Revenge; Of Boldness; Of Innovations; and Of Masques and Triumphs by Sir Francis Bacon; A Chambermaid; and A Fair and Happy Milkmaid by SirThomas Overbury; An Antiquary; A Good Old Man; and A Pot Poet by John Earle; How the Distempers of these Times Should Affect Wise Men by Owen Felltham; On Dreams by Sir Thomas Browne; Of Anger by Thomas Fuller; A Degenerate Noble by Samuel Butler; Of Charity, or the Love of God by Jeremy Taylor; Of Avarice by Abraham Cowley; Chaucer - from Preface to the Fables by John Dryden; Good Manners and Good Breeding; and A Meditation Upon a Broom Stick by Jonathan Swift; Thoughts in Westminster Abbey; The Royal Exchange; Sir Roger in Westminster Abbey; and Sir Roger in Vauxhall by Joseph Addison; On Recollections of Childhood by Sir Richard Steele; Upon Affectation by Lord Chesterfield; The Levee by Benjamin Franklin; The Poor and their Betters by Henry Fielding; Dignity and Uses of Biography; Conversation; and Debtors' Prisons by Samuel Johnson; Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature by David Hume; On Dress; A Little Great Man; and On National Prejudices by Oliver Goldsmith; On War by James Boswell; Dream Children - from On Some Old Actors by Charles Lamb; On the Pleasure of Hating; and Brummelliana by William Hazlitt; Getting Up on Cold Mornings by Leigh Hunt; The Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth by Thomas de Quincey; Signs of the Times - excerpt by Thomas Carlyle; Lord Clive - excerpt by Lord Macaulay; On Secrecy by Sir Henry Taylor; Secular Knowledge not a Principle of Action by John Henry Newman; The Conservative by Ralph Waldo Emerson; The Haunted Mind by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Bentham and Coleridge - excerpt from Coleridge by John Stuart Mill; City of London Churches by Charles Dickens; Autour de mon Chapear by William Makepeace Thackeray; The Plumber by Anthony Trollope; Night and Moonlight by Henry David Thoreau; The Philosophy of Christianity by James Antony Froude; Thomas Carlye by George Eliot; Heine and the Philistines - excerpt from Heinrich Heine by Matthew Arnold; Evolution and Ethics - excerpt by T. H. Huxley; Dull Government by Walter Bagehot; Talking About Our Troubles by Mark Rutherford; Autobiography - excerpt by Sir Leslie Stephen; On Knowing what Gives Us Pleasure by Samuel Butler; Thoughts of God by Mark Twain; Sandro Botticelli by Walter Pater; Wasps by W. H. Hudson; Disintroductions by Ambrose Bierce; The Ph.D. Octopus by William James; London - excerpt by Henry James; Under the Early Stars by Alice Meynell; The Acorn Gatherer by Richard Jefferies; Aes Triplex by Robert Louis Stevenson; The True Critic - excerpt from The Critic as Artist by Oscar Wilde; Sir George Grove by George Bernard Shaw; The Censor of Plays by Joseph Conrad; A Visit to Walt Whitman by James G. Huneker; William James by John Jay Chapman; Intellectual Ambition; and Intuitive Morality by George Santayana; Cordova by Arthur Symons; On the Departure of a Guest by Hilaire Belloc; On Being Modern Minded by Bertrand Russell; A Clergyman by Sir Max Beerbohm; The Dream by Sir Winston Churchill; A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls; and On Sandals and Simplicity by G. K. Chesterton; Invective by Sir Desmond McCarthy; My Own Centenary by E. M. Forster; Creighton by Lytton Strachey; The Libido for the Ugly; and Funeral March by H. L. Mencken; Evening Parties by Rose Macaulay; Harriette Wilson; and The Death of a Moth by Virginia Woolf; Finnegans Wake by James Stephens; The Greatest Victorian by G. M. Young; Insouciance by D. H. Lawrence; What There Is to See at the Zoo by Marianne Moore; Marie Lloyd by T. S. Eliot; Symmetry and Repetition by Sir Lewis Namier; The Necessary Enemy by Katherine Anne Porter; The Sterner Sex by Rebecca West; The Colloid and the Crystal by Joseph Wood Krutch; On Being the Right Size by J. B. S. Haldane; Meditation on the Moon by Aldous Huxley; My Own Ten Rules for a Happy Marriage by James Thurber; The Toy Farm by J. B. Priestley; The Case fo Xanthippe by Robert Graves; A Preface to Persius by Edmund Wilson; About Myself by E. B. White; Our Half Hogarth by V. S. Pritchett; The Ant Lion by Cyril Connolly; Reflections on Gandhi by George Orwell; Well-Informed Critics... and How to Move in Them by Evelyn Waugh; The Lost Childhood by Graham Greene; Adams at Ease by Lionel Trilling; A New Westminster by Sir John Betjeman; The Faces of Buddha by Sir William Empson; The Snout by Loren Eiseley; What If...? English versus German and French by Jacques Barzun; In Search of Nib-Joy by Maruice Richardson; Young Hunger by M. F. K. Fisher; Churchill and Roosevelt - excerpt from Winston Churchill in 1940 by Sir Isaiah Berlin; To Err is Human by Lewis Thomas; Bad Poets by Randall Jarrell; Thomas Hobbes by H. R. Trevor-Roper; The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King by Elizabeth Hardwick; The Gangster as a Tragic Hero by Robert Warshow; The Homberg Hat by Richard Cobb; The People's Victor by Conor Cruise O'Brien; Movies on Television by Pauline Kael; The Marquis and the Madame by D. J. Enright; The Savage Seventh by Philip Larkin; The Crisp at the Crossroads by Reyner Banham; Stranger in the Village by James Baldwin; Robert Graves and the Twelve Caesars by Gore Vidal; La Paz by Jan Morris; A Visit from Royalty by Dan Jacobson; Is it Atlas, Yorick by P. J. Kavanagh; Columbus and Crusoe by V. S. Naipaul; The Bankrupt Man by John Updike; At the Dam by Joan Didion; About Face by Joseph Epstein; and A Blizzard of Tiny Kisses by Clive James. Scans are available for all books.. Second Printing. Trade Paperback. 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St. John's, Newfoundland: Breakwater Books, 1976. (x) 149 pp. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; small scuffed patch on the front endpaper; no other interior markings. Wraparound cover art and interior illustrations by Gerry Squires. This collection contains: A Spirit of Wisdom and Grace; It Takes All Kinds; As the Twig Is Bent; A Sock Wrapped Around the Clapper; Smells Now and Then; The Card Carrying Liberal; Fuddle Duddle; Would You Want Your Sister to Marry One; The Art of Doing Nothing; On Bringing Joy to the Culturally Deprived; Touche; Everything to Catch the Pennies; Under Shot and Shell in the Cradle; Down the Drain; Lines Upon the Viking Relics at L'Anse Aux Meadows; An Example to Us All; We Shall Undercome; In the Rats; In Praise of Picnics; Outharbor Menus; Variety is the Spice of Life; Making the Best Fist of It; Requiem; Reflections from the Convalescent's Couch; March 31 1969; Turning the Juvenile's Blood; Breasting a Raging Tide of Madness; Randying; Off to King's Bloody Cross; A Changed Person; Christmas Truant; A Christmas Story; Bringing the New Year in; Was There Once a Better Time; Catching Conners; Not So Stunned as Fast; A Pressing Problem; 'Twas a Rough Night; Arr B'y We Had It Hard in Them Days; October Crisis 1970; Uncle John; From Thy Nest Every Rafter Shall Rot; Darwin Two; Water and Green Peas; A Light to Lighten the Gentiles; When I Was Small; Down Come the Old Church; and Naked to Laughter When Leaves Fall. Scans are available for all books. . ISBN: 0919948154. First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Gerry Squires;. 12mo. canadian author; newfoundland; labrador;. more information

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