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McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1978. Previous Owner Markings (Including Highlighting); Lower Corner Missing From Rear Cover (6.8 cm x 7 cm); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. CONTENTS: Editor's Introduction; Acknowledgements; Prologue: Studying the Disreputable Pleasures in Canada; I. Defining Deviance: The Thin Line; II. Counting Deviance: The Measures of Disrepute; III. Explaining Deviance: The Consensus Theories; IV. Explaining Disrepute: The Conflict Theories; V. Responding to Deviance: The Reaction of Disrepute; VI. Living with Deviance: The Lessons of Treatment and Prevention; Epilogue: Putting the Pieces Together; Bibliography; Index.. First Edition 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, Limited, 1980. Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. COAUTHORS: Reginald W. Bibby, University of Lethbridge; Carl. J. Cuneo, McMaster University; James Curtis, University of Waterloo; Leo Driedger, University of Manitoba; Ellen Gee, Simon Fraser University; A. R. Gillis, Erindale College, University of Toronto; J. Paul Grayson, Atkinson College, York University; L. M. Grayson, Mount Allison University; John Hagan, Erindale College, University of Toronto; Robert Hagedorn, University of Victoria; R. Alan Hedley, University of Victoria; Kathryn M. Kopinak, King's College, University of Western Ontario; Ronald D. Lambert, University of Waterloo; Jos. L. Lennards, Glendon College, York University; Marlene Mackie, University of Calgary; Emily M. Nett, University of Manitoba; Terrence H. White, University of Alberta. CONTENTS: THE FIELD OF SOCIOLOGY; Chapter 1 What Is Sociology? - Robert Hagedorn; Chapter 2 Social… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Heavily Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A novel by the author of The Moneychangers, Wheels & Airport. SYNOPSIS: Electric power. Imagine the lack of it, not for short periods but far longer . . . Darkness! Deprivation! Chaos! This dramatic, timely novel is the story of people and events leading to such a crisis. Although fiction, it is uncannily real, superbly exciting. And it could happen . . . may happen . . . soon. This is a tale of power and people - their lives, ambitions, loves, deceits, consciences, greed, terror . . . Angry critics of Golden State Power & Light accuse the giant public utility of being a heartless monster, piling up profits at the expense of its hapless customers - the users of electricity and gas. True or false? False!… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A novel by the author of The Moneychangers, Wheels & Airport. SYNOPSIS: Electric power. Imagine the lack of it, not for short periods but far longer . . . Darkness! Deprivation! Chaos! This dramatic, timely novel is the story of people and events leading to such a crisis. Although fiction, it is uncannily real, superbly exciting. And it could happen . . . may happen . . . soon. This is a tale of power and people - their lives, ambitions, loves, deceits, consciences, greed, terror . . . Angry critics of Golden State Power & Light accuse the giant public utility of being a heartless monster, piling up profits at the expense of its hapless customers - the users of electricity and gas. True or false? False! - argues… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Light Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked. If only I hadn't kidnapped the dog... but the ransom paid the mortgage... Now I seem to be a private eye... II shouldn't have listened to that ghost... A Mystery from the Mississippi Delta. SYNOPSIS: Meet Sarah Booth Delaney... An unconventional southern belle whose knack for uncovering the truth is about to make her the hottest detective in Zinnia, Mississippi...if it doesn't make her the deadest. No self-respecting lady would allow herself to end up in Sarah Booth's situation. Unwed, unemployed, and over thirty, she's flat broke and about to lose the family plantation. Not to mention being haunted by the ghost of her great-great-grandmother's nanny, who never misses an opportunity to remind her of her sorry state--or to suggest a plan of action, like ransoming her friends' prize pooch to raise some cash. But soon… Read More

Markham: A Signet Book New American Library Published in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1989. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. COVER DESIGN: Vince Desai. CONTENTS: Fun on the Farm; To Newfoundland with Love; The Doctor Prescribed Death; Pieces of a Puzzle; Vito and the Mafia; Tony Planted Bodies; Australia's Dingo Murder; Rachel and Jimmy; Chicken Feed Clue; Great Canadian Crook; A Hot Summer Night; Killer in Manila; Ottawa Tragedy; Murder for Money; Twenty Years Later; The Cardiff Giant; Brotherly Love; Missing from Forest Hill; A Passion for Poison; The Zebra Killers; Slain Priest; Rare Defence; A Family Affair; The Murdering Merry Widow; An Eve of Destruction; Innocent or Guilty?; Martha Reached Her Boiling Point; Just for the Dough; Lady Killer; Unidentified Bones; I Want to Live; Bloody Tina; Artie's Luck Ran Out; The Yorkshire Ripper;… Read More

Markham: A Signet Book New American Library Published in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1990. Light Creasing on Front Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. COVER DESIGN: Vince Desai. CONTENTS: The Beauty and the Missionary; Three's a Crowd; Slaughter in New Orleans; Sam the Ladies' Man; The Hitch-hiker; Murder by Prescription; Pretty but Deadly; The Monkey Trial; 181 Days of Hell; A Question of Law; Death in the Cards; Murder of a Cop; Faith in Murder; The Perfect Family; Who Killed Dottie?; Desire to Kill; Forbidden Love; Discreet but Deadly; Unlucky Win; The Last Duel; Scheming Female; Deadlocked Jury; The Breaking Point; The Oregon Trail; Mystery Boy; The Butcher of Hamburg; Love Triangle; Haystack Hanky Panky; Dirty Money; Dungeons and Dragons; In the Wrong Place; A Case of Kidnapping; Bad Medicine; The Death of John Knight III; An Innocent Man; The Heat of Passion; To Russia with Murder; Attic Joys; They Killed Their Father; A Moment… Read More

J. B. Lippincott Company BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front Free Endpaper Missing (Note: When this was removed by the library to discard the book, it was sliced out with a knife, which sliced through both the Half-Title Page and Title Page for a section; both of these pages are included, with this slice in them.); Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled from Removal of Jacket Cover; Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Spine Pulled from Removal of Sticker; Lightly Creased; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The personal story of a heart attack by the doctor who treated it...Michael Halberstam, M.D....and the man who had it...Stephan Lesher. ALSO KNOWN AS: A portion of this book appeared in somewhat different form in the article "After a Heart Attack" in the January 27, 1974, New York Times Magazine, copyright 1974 by The New York Times Company.… Read More

New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1985. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: Stories. BOOK NUMBER: 02873. JACKET DESIGN BY: Neil Stuart. DESIGNED BY: Robin Hessel. CONTENTS: Seasons; A !Tangled Web; Manifest Destiny; Blood Sisters; Blood Brothers; You Can Never Go Back; More Than the Sum of His Parts; Seven and the Stars; Lindsay and the Red City Blues; No Future in It; The Pilot; The Big Bang Theory Explained; The Gift; Saul's Death. SYNOPSIS: Author of such popular and widely acclaimed novels as The Forever War, Mindbridge, Worlds, and Worlds Apart, Joe Haldeman has long been lauded as a master builder of imagined futures. Now, in this dazzling collection of short fiction, Haldeman displays the full range of his gifts as a storyteller. Dealing in Futures is anchored by two major novellas: Seasons, a tautly terrifying adventure tale about a… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Jacket Clipped); Lightly Creased; Moderately Scuffed; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 3141. SYNOPSIS: In the space of a few years, Joe Haldeman has come to be recognized as one of the best writers of science fiction of our time. Mindbridge, a novel at once traditional in its plot and a daring new departure in its structure, is certain to add to this reputation. Jacque Lefavre lives in the formidable world of the future. A pioneer in inter-stellar colonization, he is the co-discoverer of a creature that acts as a psychic link...allowing one person to sense directly the thoughts and emotions of another. But he learns the terrible price of this power when his partner suddenly dies. Older, disillusioned, he is one of a team that confronts the L'vrai, a race of angelic beauty but with a callous disregard for life. They are… Read More

New York: Avon Books A division of The Hearst Corporation, 1978. Previous Dealer Markings; Lightly Scratched; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; 2 Black Marker Lines on Upper Edge. INTIMACY...BEYOND ECSTASY...BEYOND TIME...WHAT MUST HUMANITY LEARN ABOUT ITSELF TO SURVIVE? SYNOPSIS: A RACE OF ANGELIC BEAUTY... cosmically seductive, utterly ferocious, moves as one mind through the infinite reaches of space - threatening the destiny of human life. ONE MAN... Jacque Lefavre, the most sensitive of the star Tamer mindlinks, reaches across the universe to confront the ruthless savagery of an incomprehensible enemy - and the secret of all mankind. MINDBRIDGE Exploring the ultimate possibilities of ecstatic union between being and being, Mindbridge is a dazzling, superbly crafted epic of the far future.. First Thus 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: St. Martin's Press BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Scratched; Lightly Scuffed; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTION. BOOK NUMBER: 3367. CONTENTS: Counterpoint; Anniversary Project; The Mazel Tov Revolution; To Howard Hughes: A Modest Proposal; A Mind of His Own; All the Universe in a Mason Jar; The Private War of Private Jacob; A Time to Live; Juryrigged; Summer's Lease (called Truth to Tell in Analog); 26 Days, On Earth; Armaja Das; Tricentennial. SYNOPSIS: An ancient gypsy crone puts a curse on all mankind. A Mason jar of home-made booze changes the course of history. A cranky Martian Jew takes on the largest corporation in the Galaxy. A mediocre artist is dragged off to serve jury duty - inside a berserk computer. A shriveled-up child, two hundred years old, singing praises of W. C. Handy as he fishes through time. Plain people and strange people and non-people:… Read More

New York: Crescent Books a division of Crown Publishers Inc BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Blue Bleed to Reverse Side from Boards); In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 189755. ALSO KNOWN AS: This material first appeared in Crimes and Punishment copyright 1973/76 Phoebus Publishing Company. CONTENTS: The Acid Bath Blood-drinker; The Happy Poisoner; The Triangle Fire; The Fraternity of Torture; The Beast in the Bedroom; The Bedroom Killer; Doctor Death; Doctor Crippen; The Black Dahlia; A Poisoner in the Family; "She's Been Used!"; The Blazing Car Murder; Nightmare at the YWCA; The Fatal Fantasies of Ronald True; The Spanish Fly Murders; The Honeymoon Murder; On the Trail of a Rapist; The Vampire of Dusseldorf; Murder Most Foul; The Maids of Horror; An Expert Slaughterman; L'Ogresse; The Beast of the… Read More

John Wiley & Sons Previous Owner Markings (Including Highlighting); Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. CONTENTS: 1. The Nature of Personality Theory; 2. Freud's Classical Psychoanalytical Theory; 3. Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory; 4. Jung's Analytic Theory; 5. Social Psychological Theories: Adler, Fromm, Horney, and Sullivan; 6. Murray's Personology; 7. Organismic Theory; 8. Rogers' Person-Centered Theory; 9. Existential Psychology; 10. Eastern Psychology; 11. Lewin's Field Theory; 12. Allport's Psychology of the Individual; 13. Sheldon's Constitutional Psychology; 14. Cattell's Factor Theory; 15. Stimulus-Response Theory; 16. Skinner's Operant Reinforcement Theory; 17. Personality Theory in Perspective; Photo Credits; Name Index; Subject Index.. Third Edition 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket (As Issued). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London/Sevenoaks Kent: Salamander Books Ltd - Hodder and Stoughton Services Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. AUTHORS: Introduction by Angela Vokalek; step-by-step instructions by Coral Walker. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Jilly Glassborow. PHOTOGRAPHER: Steve Tanner. CONTENTS: Buying Flowers; Equipment; Conditioning; Floral Design; Flower Arrangements; Index. SYNOPSIS: Packed with over 450 stunning colour photographs, this delightful book will show you how to create 120 imaginative floral displays using a wide range of unconventional containers, from goldfish bowls and gumboots to toy trucks and pineapples! Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions explain how each of the designs is made, and there is also essential information on buying and conditioning flowers, the basic equipment and mechanics required, and the importance of colour and balance within a display.. Paperback. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Toronto: Dundurn Press Limited, 1988. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. A collection of historical articles published on the occasion of the centenary of the Ontario Historical Society. SUB-TITLE: Interpreting Ontario's History. CONTENTS: Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; The Mystery of the Neutral Indians - by Abraham Rotstein; Rural Credit and Rural Development in Upper Canada, 1790 to 1850 - by Douglas McCalla; Population Change on an Agricultural Frontier: Upper Canada 1796 to 1841 - by J. David Wood; Re-inventing Upper Canada: American Immigrants, Upper Canadian History, English Law, and the Alien Question - by Paul Romney; The Meaning of Misadventure: The Baptiste Creek Railway Disaster of 1854 and its aftermath - by Paul Craven; Beyond Superior: Ontario's New-Found Land - by Elizabeth Arthur; Finding the Right Size: Markets and Competition in Mid- and… Read More

London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1977. BOOK: Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. ISBN: 0 233 96879 2 (Copyright Page)/233 96879 2 (Dust Jacket). SUB-TITLE: a biography. FRONT OF JACKET: Marie Stopes, photographed in 1915. CONTENTS: Illustrations; Author's Note; 1 Birth of a Superior Brain 2 False Starts 3 A Northern Experiment 4 East and West 5 A Fate Worse than Death 6 Gates v. Gates 7 Alone in the Wilderness 8 "Married Love" 9 Married Love? 10 Bell, Book and Candle 11 Improving God's Handiwork 12 God Fights Back 13 The Great Trial 14 A Son is Born 15 Unenduring Passion 16 "Remember My Sweet Youth" 17 Intimations of Mortality 18 Surprised by Death; References; Select Bibliography; Index. SYNOPSIS: Jeanie, Jeanie, full of hopes, Read a… Read More

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Repaired; Previous Owner Markings (School Stamp Faintly Visible on Front Cover); Lightly Scuffed on Front, Rear Covers; Light Creasing on Front Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Front Cover Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: (b) 524 L.W. (2-70). ALSO KNOWN AS: This story of the life of Marie Curie is an adaptation by Grace T. Hallock from the book Madame Curie, written by her daughter, Eve Curie, translated by Vincent Sheean, and copyright 1937 by Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York. CONTENTS: Marie Curie 1867-1934; Little Manya; Dark Years; School Days in Poland; One Carefree Year; The Sisters; The Governess; Off to Paris; The University; A Spartan Existence; Pierre Curie; The Young Couple; Becquerel's Rays; Radioactivity; A New Element; The Discovery of Radium; A Hard Life; An Important Decision; Fame; Alone; The War; America; The End of the Journey; The Sequel: A New Science; Suggested Reading. COPYRIGHT:… Read More

London: Simon & Schuster, 1995. BOOK: Remainder Mark; Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. FRONT COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Press Association, Harris/Hanson. CONTENTS: Preface 1 The Search for Eldorado 2 Setting up Shop 3 Racing Days 4 Batting for Thatcher 5 Exile in the USA 6 Arms and the Man 7 Far-Eastern Promise 8 Black Gold 9 A Family Business 10 A True Thatcherite; Notes and References; Bibliography; Index. SYNOPSIS: Passionate, doctrinaire and untouched by doubt, Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady of international affairs, was the dominant voice of the 1980s. Credited with rolling back the frontiers of the 'nanny' state, nobody was more fierce in her rhetoric about high standards in public life and the honest rewards of self-sufficiency--except when it came to her only son, Mark. The Boy Thatcher, as he became… Read More

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press in association with the UBC Museum of Anthropology Lightly Scuffed on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped. CONTENTS: Foreword; Introduction; In Search of Freedom; From Primitivism to Place; Jack Shadbolt's journal, 24 February 1985; "Act of Art"; Cultural Transformations; Jack Shadbolt's journal, 9 July 1985; Lenders to the Exhibition; List of Paintings and Artifacts; Bibliography; Acknowledgements. SERIES: 18th in series. Museum Note Design: W. McLennan. Museum Notes are produced with the assistance of the Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation and the Anthropology Shop Volunteers. SYNOPSIS: Jack Shadbolt was inspired in his formative years by his contact with Emily Carr and with her brooding woks portraying the remnants of Indian villages against the overwhelming wilderness. He made sketches of Indian artifacts and the Cowichan Reserve in the 1930s, but it was only after World War II that elements of… Read More