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Condition: clean copy, dust jacket in excellent condition and protected by plastic cover. This book is the first comprehensive survey to examine Britain's motives for expeditions to this distant frontiers of British maritime development. It is also the first to draw the history of the coast into the general realm of pacific history, relating its development to events in Europe, the American eastern seaboard, Australia, the Falkland Islands, and China.190 pages, notes, select bibliography, index

Condition: clean copy, dust jacket in excellent condition protected by plastic cover.Content: This book documents Britain's rise to pre-eminence in the northwest coast of North America. It shows how the relentless activities of its commercial interests, the adroit use of its naval plower, and the resolve of its diplomats secured British claims to dominion and rights to trade along the Northwest Coast.266 pages, notes, bibliography, index.

The White Hotel is an extraordinary, daring colossus of a work in which is seen a startling poetry of violence and redemption. Fuge and threnody, it interlaces history, lush sexuality, psychological truth, fantasy and the craving for brutality, in the case-history of Lisa Erdman, a patient of Freud's. And travelling through the intricate patterns of her being, the reader is sent on an odyssey that seeks refuge beyond the nightmare of the 20th century.

The Chinese Educational Mission was one of the earliest efforts at educational modernization in China. As part of the Self-Strengthening Movement, the Qing government sent 120 students to New England to live and study for a decade, before they were abruptly summoned home to China in 1881. This book, based upon extensive research in local archives and newspapers, focuses on the experiences of the students during their nine-year stay in the United States.Historians of modern China will find this book highly relevant because of its detailed account of one of the major projects of the Self-Strengthening Movement. To date, there are at most two credible studies in English and Chinese on the Chinese Educational Mission; both are deficient in source citation and tend to dwell on the students' experiences after their return to China rather than during their stay in America.
This volume will also appeal to specialists in Asian-American studies, for its comparing and contrasting the experiences of the Chinese… Read More

Condition: clean copy, weathering and ware on dust jacket.Content: This satire on University politics was first published in 1908 and has been republished in four editions in England and America. Despite its age, and the intervention of two world wars, the book retains relevance to the present day.24 pages.

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Condition: clean copy, name of previous owner on first page.Content: In seizing the inspiration that came to the author through Rembrandt's depiction of the 'The Return of the Prodigal Son', He probes the several movements of the parable: the younger son's return, the father's compassion. The themes of homecoming, affirmation, and reconciliation will be newly discovered who have known loneliness, dejection, jealousy, or anger. The challenge to love as the father and be loved as the son will be seen as the ultimate revelation of the parable known to Christians and here represented with a vigor and power fresh for out time.152 pages.

Condition: clean copy, name of previous owner on first page.Content: The author tells us that the challenge to Christians is to become a living reminder of God. The way to meet this challenge is to seek a life in which personal prayer and service to other sustain and enrich one another.80 pages, notes.

Condition: clean copy, name of previous owner on first page.Content: In separate sections on each of the five areas which the author considers the primary responsibilities of the priest and minister - teaching, preaching, counseling, organizing, and celebrating - the author show how these professional duties are inextricably tied to the minister's own spiritual life, and explains why they must be directed towards a creative dialog between minister and parishioner if they are to be rewarding. For each of these functions become true ministry only when the priest moves beyond his professional role and leaves himself open, takes risks, and in the words of the Gospel 'lays down his life for his friends' in order to give new life.120 pages.

Condition: clean copy, gift inscription on first page, some wear on dust jacket.Content: Noting that modern man is above all a suffering man, psychologically wounded by lack of hope, by loneliness, by the predicament of rootlessness, the author explains why the minister of today can only help others deal with these problems if he willing to go beyond his professional role and leave himself open as a fellow human being with his own wounds and suffering. The author then suggests concrete method by which the minister can use this creative human dialogue to bring freedom and literation to those afflicted by the major anxieties of our times, such as those who withdraw into the self and flee from meaningful living in a kind of convulsive behavior, and those who respond to the threat of nuclear catastrophe by seeking various new sensations to make life more livable without regard to the consequences.104 pages.

After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorces, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guild , but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhyms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Luch become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the fautlines in their relationship.

Content: non-fiction, history. The Battle of the Somme was one of the most horrific battles of a horrific war. It lasted from July to November of 1916 and sucked in hundreds of thousands of soldiers from France, Germany, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Newfoundland. The Canadians fought there between September and November, battling their way across the fields north of the small farming village of Coucelette. For a gain of two kilometers of undulating farland, more than 8,000 Canadians died.91 pages, illustrated, maps, references.

Content: non-fiction, history. The second battle of Ypres in April 1915 represents Canada's horrific introduction to modern warfare. Two thousand Canadians would die in four days. This book uniquely chronicles that battle and brings to life those grimmest of times. The Canadians at Ypres revives this First World War battle, an event important to Canadian Heritage. It is the reference needed to visit those forgotten battlefields of today.88 pages, illustrated, maps, references.

Condition: new.Content: This comprehensive compilation of the author's experience will serve both as a manual for beginning beekeeping and a reference guide for advanced beekeepers who wish to practice ecologically responsible beekeeping, using a holistic approach rather than chemical treatments. With over 70 illustrations and an extensive index, this book transforms a complex subject into an easy to understand undertaking. Topics covered are the use of natural remedies, Integrated Pest Management, Sustainable Mite Control, breeding, hive construction, was recycling, foundation building, coast analysis, and more.144 pages, index.

Condition: new.Content: index; most complete tables for companion planting; table to cross reference beneficial insects; fruits and berries, pruning, pollination; vegetable gardening; irrigation; polyculture; mulching and crop rotation techniques' applying a holistic approach to growing food, planetary influence; ecologically sustainable practices; cost analyses; root cellars, pens, fences, and other structures; natural pointers for timing to adapt to geographical regions; collecting seeds; animal husbandry.208 pages, index.

Condition: clean copy.Content: This is the record of a spiritual journey - an unflinching honest account of the author's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. At the same time, it's a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T. H. White. Tt's a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love.300 pages, notes.

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Condition: clean copy, previous owner's name on first page, upper right corner.Content: This contains a series of essays on water, as the author draws from his broad knowledge as an agriculturalist and his vast life experience to tell us 'what every Canadian should know about water.' Introducting by Hugh Dempsey, 192 pages, photographs.

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Condition: clean copy, previous owner's name on first page.Content: This tells the story of the mass migration that brought a million Irish to Canada and of their struggle to prosper. After the horrors of the voyage, thousands died at the quarantine stations on Grosse Isle and Partridge Island, where the facilities erected by the Canadian authorities were inadequate to cope with the flood of starving and disease-ridden immigrants. Once safely ashore, the Catholics among the newcomers faced the hostility of earlier Protestant settlers, and riots broke out. Worse the Irish were blamed for bringing cholera to Canada and many died of the disease in the countryside, unable to find help or shelter. The newcomers persevered and by the time of Confederation, the Irish were the second largest ethnic group after the French.368 pages, select bibliography, source notes, index.