Search Results: Authors starting with W from Sorensen Books : Your Vancouver Island Bookshop

Condition: clean copy.Content: Facsimile edition of the 1909 edition.396 pages.

Condition: clean copyContent: local history, 410 pages, index, photographs

Condition: clean copy.Content: This book describes the successive formulations of quantum theory and shows how closely they have been linked with the experimental study of the hydrogen spectrum.88 pages, references and author index.

Condition: clean copy.Content: exploration of this river system, with a map in a pocket at the back of the book.178 pages.

Condition: clean copy.Content: In 1985 the Jesus Seminar, a group of biblical scholars led by Robert W. Funk and John Dominic Crossan, co-chairs, embarked on a new assessment of the gospels, including the recently discovered Gospel of Thomas. In pursuit of the historical Jesus, they used their collective expertise to determine the authenticity of the more than 1,500 sayings attributed to him. Each saying attributed to Jesus is colour-coded and presented in a completely new translation of the Greek and Coptic texts. 554 pages, Roster of the Fellows of the Jesus Seminar, suggestions for further study, dictionary of terms and sources, index of red and pink letter sayings.

Filamena Ziani is the much younger sister of the most famous courtesan in 16th century Venice, Tullia Ziani. This moving tale of forbidden love is a feminist epic told in multiple layers. Through a novel combination of Filamena's narrative, famous allegorical love stories from history and mythology, and letters to and from Filamena that must be opened to be read, Filamena's path is beautifully described and finally stunningly revealed.

Condition: clean copy.Content: 250 pages, with Appendices and photographs.

Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and equally memorable characters. The author explores the conflicts between the Crown and powerful Barons, between the Norman overlords and the conquered Saxons, and between Richard and his scheming brother, Prince John.

Condition: clean copy.Content: The history of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism in Canada, 1905 to 1995.426 pages, notes, bibliography, glossary.

Light edge wear. Sound clean copy.

This is the story of four Londoners - 3 women and a young man with a past - drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching...Helen, clever, sweet, much loved, harbours a painful secret...Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal to her soldier lover...Duncan, an apparent innocent, has had his own demons to fight during the war.

Condition: clean copy.Content: This abridged edition of Burton Watson's acclaimed translation contains the sutra's essential chapters, derived from the most authoritative and felicitous version of the sutra, translated from Sanskrit into Chinese in 406 by the great Central Asian scholar-monk Kumarajiva.164 pages, glossary, index.

Condition: clean copy.Content: Since its appearance in China in the third century, this book has been regarded as one of the most illustrious scriptures in the Mahayana Buddhist canon.364 pages, glossary, index.

Condition: clean copy.Content: A chronicle of events in the feudal states of China between 722 and 468 BC, this work has long been considered both a major historical document and an influential literary model.232 pages, index.

Condition: clean copy.Content: Sima Qian [115?-90? BC]was the first major Chinese historian. His 'Records of the Grand Historian,' documents the history of China and it neighboring countries from the ancient past to his own time.506 pages, index.

Condition: clean copy.Content: This volume begins in 209 BC and traces the fall of the Qin dynasty and the rise of the Han. The author records the revolt of Chen She, the bitter struggle between Xiang Yu, King of Chu, and Liu Bang, the first Han Emperor, and the acts of the outstanding ministers and generals in both camps. He then goes on to the reign of Empress Lu [Liu Bang's widow], Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing, and gives an account of the nobles and ministers as well as the empresses and imperial concubines. Major figures in the author's vast drama are allowed to display the most noble qualities as well as the baser aspects of their character.500 pages, maps.

Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the Partisans, he finally becomes aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honour.

Waugh's great English novel explores themes of love, loss, religion and reinvention against the backdrop of a changing world. Set in the inter-war years, it sells the story of Charles Ryder, a young man infatuated with the aristocratic Marchman family. When Charles encounters Lord Sebastian Flyte at Oxford he is dazzled by his glamorous country estate, known as Brideshead. But Charles also discovers complex family relationships, and a fragile state of privilege corroded by Sebastian's alcoholism and the dark inevitability of war.

Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invaded to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants, gradually becoming infatuated with them and the life of privilege they inhabit - in particular, with Sebastian's remote sister, Julia. But he gradually comes to recognize his spiritual and social distance from them, eventually discovering a world where duty and desire, faith and happiness are in conflict.

This is the story of Dr Bach's life and work, of his discoveries, of the storm of controversy they aroused, and the still-continuing success of his healing misson. 144 pages.