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

Condition: clean copy, sentiment and signature on title page by authorContent: The book acquainted the reader with the background of the days before open conflict, and all proceeds with the day-to-day happenings of what is known militarily as the Northwest Campaign. It contains, as appendices, the names of those killed - on both sides. In its footnotes and appendices is a wealth of personal information on Indian and White. The book has many photographs and drawings plus nominal rolls, rank and the file members of the North West Mounted Police.636 pages, index.

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 copyContent: local history, 410 pages, index, photographs

Condition: clean copy.Content: 16 essays which address a number of interrelated themes over 200 years and more in the political, religious, cultural, and social history of a broad but often neglected swathe of the European continent. It seeks - against the grain of conventional presentations - to apprehend the era from the later 17th century to the later 19th century as a whole, and to demonstrate continuities, as well as casting light on key aspects of the evolution towards modern statehood and national awareness in Central Europe and the crises of ancien-regime structures there in the face of new challenges at home and abroad.338 pages, select bibliography, index.

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: This work focuses upon an explicit notion of unconscious mind formulated by the Yogacara school of Indian Buddhism in a series of texts from the third to the fifth centuries CE.270 pages, notes, bibliography, index.

A fascinating look into the Ireland of history and Legend, Celtic Saints present the tales of twenty-one extraordinary men and women.

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.

As far as Alexandria Hyatt is concerned, being rich and glamorous is simply what she was born to be. When she arrested for shoplifting, having to drag herself into court to face a judge seems like a major inconvenience. But Alexandria has been in trouble before - and this time she can't scheme her way out of the consequences. Before she knows it, she is on a plane headed to Kenya, where she has been order to work for an international charity. Over the course of her month in Africa,she will face a reality she could never have imagined, and will have to look inside herself to see if she has what it takes to confront it.

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

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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.