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Condition: wear on the dust jacket, clean copy.Content: This book provides the beginner in formal logic with a short introduction that is thorough enough on important points to offer a basis for the study of more advanced texts.176 pages, bibliography, index.

Condition: clean copy, wear on the dust jacket, which is protected by a plastic cover.Content: This monograph is a comprehensive survey of traditional Malekulan ethnography, based on the authors own field work during 1925-27, and the memories of his native informants dealing with earlier historical periods. Copious notes were taken by the author during field work, but he died of blackwater fever in 1927. After his death the task of publication was left to Camilla H Wedgewood who edited the notes, put them into the final form of the publications as this volume represents.790 pages, glossary, index.

Condition: clean copy.Content: 126 pages.

Condition: clean copy.Content: The history of the Canadian West has been greatly influenced and enriched by the achievements of outstanding indigenous leaders. Among them was Maskepetoon - Broken Arm - chief of the Rocky Mountain Cree during the turbulent mid-1800's. Injured and abandoned in a buffalo wallow as a boby, Maskepetoon overcame adversity to become a strong and respected chief who took his people from the woodlands out to the open plains to seek the declining herds of buffalo. Although he aided Methodist missionaries and guided settlers through the mountain wilderness, he followed his own path, always acting in the best interests of his people. Warrior and diplomat, he fought like a lion in times of war, but sought peace whenever possible, risking and ultimately losing his life in the pursuit. 256 pages, notes, bibliography, index.

Condition: clean copyContent: The indigenous people of Canada have been here since the Ice Age and were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers, and marine hunters when Europeans first reached their shores. Contact between these peoples and European explorers and settlers initially presented an unprecedented period of growth and opportunity. But soon, the two vastly different world clashed. From first contact to current land claims, the author charts the history of Canada's indigenous peoples.422 pages, bibliography, index, illustrations.

A collection of 13 short stories. 248 pages.

Nathan Staples is consumed by loathing and love in roughly equal measures. He is sustained only by his passionate devotion for his estranged wife, Maura, and their teenage daughter, Mary - whom he hasn't seen in 15 years, and who thinks he's dead. When Nathan contrives to have Mary invited to the island where he lives in retreat, he sets in motion the possibility of telling her he is her father, and becoming complete again. The path to grace, however, is strewn with obstacles. The obsessive island-dwellers are truy to cure themselves through trial by extremity, while in London, Nathan's editor, only friend and one link with literary career, is drinking himself into the ground. And Mary herself is torn between familial love for the two uncles who brought her up in loco parentis, and the beginnings of a romantic, sexual life beyond.

'This beautiful novel is the story of Margaret and the two men in her life: her father, who brought her up and Colin, lover...A tender, moving story, punctuated by flashes of comedy and one climatic moment of appalling violence.' -Literary Review

Five years after the end of WWII, former RAF airman and tailgunner Alfie Day finds himself working as an extra on a POW film. What he will discover on the set about himself, his loves, and the world around him will make the war itself look simple.

Five years after the end of WWII, former RAF airman and tail gunner Alfie Day finds himself working as an extra on a POW film. What he will discover on the set about himself, his loves, and the world around him will make the war itself look simple.

Condition: clean copy.Content: Local history of the Corporation of the District of Coldstream, BC.146 pages, index.

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'Noble Savages is Napoleon Chagnon's equal-time response to the libels that were piled upon him by reckless journalists and irresponsible colleagues. For those who followed the debate it is a welcome summary and for those who did not it is a brilliant introduction to the innocent nobility of the fierce Yanomamo and the pettry savagery of the mean-minded savants who saw their outworn ideologies under attack. Chagnon has always himself a fighter, and this book is his final knockout punch in a fight he didn't pick but has most assuredly won.' -Robin Fox, University Professor of Social Theory, Rutgers University

Condition: clean copy.Content: 170 pages, notes, glossary, index.

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The author provides a biography of Steiner and an overview of his work. 222 pages.

Sound new copy. Still sealed in publisher's wrapping price includes extra post needed for shipping as this book is oversized. More photos details on request.

Condition: clean copy.Content: Here is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, the man from Mars who taught humankind grokking and water-sharing, and love.438 pages

Peppered with lively stories, literary references, and pithy observations on the emerging culture and future development of the Dominion of Canada, this 19th century travelogue is a remarkable and authentic slice of history. 256 pages.

Condition: clean copy.Content: Features over 200 photographs; easy-to-read map; where to stay, shop, eat and explore; points of interest; how to get around; list of major island events and activities; where to se plants and wildlife.112 pages, index, notes.