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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.

Here are stories of men and women caught up in the drama of a big war. It is the story of the young marine who falls madly in love with a beautiful Tonkinese girls. It is the story of Nurse Mellie and her French planter, Emile De Becque. But mostly it is the story of soldiers, sailors, and nurses playing at war and waiting for love in a tropic paradise.

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.

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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

Collection of Passages on the Nembutsu is the principle work by Honen. It ranks along with Dogen Zenji's The Treasured Eye of the True Dharma and with Honen's disciple Shinran's major writings as one of the three most influential bodies of Buddhist teachings of the Kamakura period. Together, the doctrinally revolutionary ideas contained in these works radically and permanently changed the face of Japanese Buddhism. And among them Honen's Senchakushu was, in terms of its originative and transformative effects on Japanese Buddhism, the most powerful of them all. As new.

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

As new. Tannisho sets out to refute deviations from the True Pure Land school teachings. Written by Yuienbo, a follower of Shinran, the Tannisho has continued to exert a profound influence on Japanese life and thought since it was composed. It falls into two parts. The first part of the book consists of Yuienbo's personal recollections of the words of Shinran himself, as received directly from the Master. The second part gives Yuienbo's own refutation of those deviations of Faith that had arisen after Shinran's death, quoting in support of his argument further sayings of the master. There is also an Appendix giving details of the wrongful punishment and exile of Honen, Shinran, and other followers. Rennyo Shonin Ofumi is a collection of eighty pastoral letters written to True Pure Land school followers. They focus on clarifying the process of entrusting oneself single-heartedly to the Other Power of Amida Buddha.

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

Edited by William R LaFleur. Light edge wear sound clean copy.

Condition: clean copy.Contents: Richly illustrated field guide including: size, identifying features, habitat, flight seasons, caterpillar food, similar species and notes on name origins and butterfly trivia; illustration of butterflies in their most natural poses, plus full-colour photo; engaging text to simplify the overwhelming complexity of butterfly names; tips on studying butterflies and the ethics of collecting.360 pages,glossary, information resources, index of common names.

Condition: clean copy, slight bend on front cover.Content: on a dark night in 1242, travelers gather at a small French inn. It is the perfect night for a story, and everyone in the kingdom is consumed by the tale of three children: Jeanne, a peasant girl who has visions of the future; William, a young monk with supernatural strength; and Jacob, a Jewish boy who can heal any wound. Together, their kpowers will be tested by demons and dragons, cruel knights and cunning monks. From small villages to grand banquet halls, these threee un llikely friends - and their faithful greyhound - are chased through France to a final showdown in the waves at the foot of the abbey-fortress of Mont-Saint-Michel.364 pages, illustrated.