Search Results: Authors starting with O from JKL Books

Vancouver: Systech , 1999. Soft cover. Very Good/Good. INSCRIBED by author to former owner. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Paperback with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows wear to edges. Front internal hinge beginning to crack. "The plot of The Omani link develops over the autumn and spans from Oman to Old Europe (Italy, Switzerland, Spain) to Vancouver, Tokyo, San Francisco and Santiago de Chile" (dust jacket). "As an international risk manager, Franco Oboni spent the last two decades in the worldwide business arena. In parallel, during the last five years, he completed a trilogy detailing action packed adventures in a fiction world that beats only a click away from our daily reality" (dust jacket). A rare volume. BAY 30

Duncan, BC: WISE Society, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows minor wear only: 1.5" crease across back corner. 181 pages. "With rare courage and unrelenting honesty , 21 women tell their stories of living below Canada's poverty line. . . Because the stories begin in childhood, they give a more complete account of how and why poverty happens" -- back cover. BAY 27.

SPCK, 1955, 1955. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-library. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Clean, unmarked text. Minor tanning of end papers.

Fuchu: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2016. Soft cover. Very Good. Green cover with photograph and white and black lettering. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Cover shows some wear: two creases run along right edge of front cover. Contains black and white photographs, illustrations, and charts. This book is the product of two workshops held in Nairobi., Kenya: "Approaches and methodologies of field research in Africa" (2011) and "Mobility, hybridity and the way to co-existence: re-structuring daily life in rural and urban African societies" (2013).

Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows minor wear only. 330 pages, including b&w and color photographs, illustrations, maps. Contents: Introduction : local acts of placing and remembering / James Opp and John C. Walsh -- Performing public memory and re-placing home in the Ottowa Valley, 1900-58 / John C. Walsh -- History and the Six Nations : the dynamics of commemoration, colonial space, and colonial knowledge / Cecilia Morgan -- Edmonton's Jasper Avenue : public ritual, heritage, and memory on Main Street / Frances Swyripa -- The highland heart in Nova Scotia : place and memory at the Highland Village Museum / Alan Gordon -- "That big statue of whoever" : material commemoration and narrative in the Niagara Region / Russell Johnston and Micheal Ripmeester -- Placing the displaced worker : narrating place in deindustrializing Sturgeon Falls, Ontario / Steven High -- Capital queers :… Read More

Marshall Brothers, 1920. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Good. Ex-Library, published in 1920. Clean text, firmly bound. Head and tail of spine softening, small stain on front cover. This is a heavier volume - extra shipping will be charged to customers beyond the U.S.

London: Frederick Muller, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Dust jacket shows minor wear only and 1/2" closed tear at back lower edge. 224 pages including many colour photographs. "This is the first general history of Stained Glass in England to be published for over seventy years. It takes into account the span from the earliest known glass at Jarrow, c760, to the Chagall window installed at Chichester in 1979. Besides 88 colour illustrations the book also contains a guide, listing by county over one thousand five hundred churches and other places where glass may be seen" -- dust jacket. BAY 32.

Victoria, B.C. : Heritage House Publishing, 2014. Soft cover. Fine. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Cover shows slight wear only. Signed by author. BAY 24.

Mosaic, 2001. Soft cover. Very Good. Occasional markings in margins (no more than 5 pages).