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Condition: clean copy.Content: All deaths are listed, whatever the cause, be it in an operational sortie, a training flight, a loss during an air raid, or by illness, especially from the world-wide influence epidemic which swept Europe in 1918-19. In addition,, the date and place of birth of each airman is given, together with is place of death, first name[s] and rank. There is also a supplementary list of known losses [e.g. POW or wounded] which were not fatal. Zeppelin casualties are noted separately.384 pages.

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Condition: clean copy, some wear on dust jacket.Contents:A physician and spokesperson for the French Ideologues, Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis (1757-1808) stands at the crossroads of several influential developments in modern culture - Enlightenment optimism about human perfectibility, the clinical method in medicine, and the formation and adaptations of liberal social ideals in the French Revolution. This is a major study of Cabanis which traces the influences of these developments on his thought and career.430 pages, notes, bibliography, index.

Condition: clean copy, dustjacket in excellent condition, protected by plastic cover.Content: 26 scholarly articles covering the period 525-479 B.C.928 pages, chronology, bibliography, index.

Condition: clean copy, dust jacket in excellent condition, protected by plastic cover.Content: The fifth century bc was not only the first classic age of European civilization, it was the first and last period before the Romans in which great political and military power was located in the same place as cultural importance. This volume is more narrowly focused geographically than its predecessors and successors, and hardly strays beyond Greece.18 scholarly articles, 604 pages, chronological notes, chronology table, bibliography, index, maps.

Discovery Gold Town. The Cliff Dweller. Forgotten Expressman winter 1972 other issues available please ask.

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.

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.

Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. By the end of her journey she has ignited one soldier with and oxy-acetylene torch, stabbed another through the chest with the spike of her cello, clobbered a guard with the butt of a rifle and raked terrorists with machine-gun fire before frazzling the survivors in an oil-covered sea.

Includes an Appendix: Afterword by Vladimir Petrov; Letter of Pavel Antokolski; Session of Soviet Writers' Secretariat; letter to newspapers and writers, April 18, 1968; Letter to the Literaturnaya Gazeta, April 21, 1968.

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Condition: clean copy.Content:Anguished, lusty, trajic, brutal, are the stories and setting of this collection from one of Japan's great postwar literary masters. Collection of 3 stories. Translation, Preface, and Afterword by Eve Zimmerman.192 kpages.

Fraud, adventurer, robber and thief, the Captain has as many tall stories to tell as Jim has had boarding-school dinners. Now aged 22, a hack journalist and unwitting Judas, Jim attempts to piece together the Captain's story.

Condition: clean copy, sentiment and author's signature on the title page.Content: The historical account of the life and times of Captain McNeill, a long-stranding captain in the pioneering days of the fur trade in coastal BC. He was the captain of the Honourable Hudson's Bay steamer ship the S S Beaver. Born in Boston in 1803, by the time he joined the HBC, he was a competent and experienced master mariner and fur trader. Followhis historical immigration to Canada, to become one of the most feared and serviceable trading captains of the HBC.256 pages, bibliography, index.

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Heavy book. Conventional wisdom has long claimed that economic change is the prime mover of political change, whether in the age of industry or Internet. But is it? Ferguson thinks it is high time we re-examined the link-the nexus, in Thomas Carlyle's phrase-between economics and politics. His central argument is that the conflicting impulses of sex, violence, and power are together more powerful than money. Among Ferguson's startling claims are: * Nothing has done more to transform the world economy than war, yet wars themselves do not have primarily economic causes. * The present age of economic globalization is coinciding-paradoxically-with political and military fragmentation. * Financial crises are frequently caused by unforeseen political events rather than economic fluctuations. * The relationship between prosperity and government popularity is largely illusory. * Since political and economic liberalization are not self-perpetuating, the so-called triumph of democracy worldwide may be… Read more

In Alexandre Chenevert, the Montreal bank teller traped by his narrow environment and acutely aware of his loneliness, the author has created a vivid and poignant portrait of an ordinary man and his attempts to transcend his circumstances and his fate. Set in 1947 amid the crumbled dreams of the post-war world, and drawing on modern themes of personal alienation and of the restorative force of nature, The Cashier is a tour de force of characterization and empathy by a literary virtuoso.

A companion to 'Rough but honest miner,' a CD of reclaimed music of the 1860's.

Condition: clean copy.Content: 23 short stories previously published as "you Know You Want This.'238 pages, with reader's guide.

Coming of age novel.