Search Results: Titles starting with E from Sorensen Books : Your Vancouver Island Bookshop

'Wonderfully readable and perceptive...Dunn's well-established gifts are a biographer are used here with remarkable sensitivity as she examines the upbringing of her twin subjects and shows how they were influenced by strikingly different experiences and mentors.' Miranda Seymour, The Sunday times.454 pages.Notes, select bibliography, and index

Condition: clean copy.Content: 16 essays divided among three themes: the human predicament, the divine reality, the challenge to man.186 pages.

Content: Local history of Sicamous and area, illustrated with photographs, 388 pages.

Condition: clean copy.Content: self published local history. 176 pages, index, black and white photographs.

Contents; Introduction; Correspondence of Richard Hicks from October, 1858 to June, 1859; Correspondence of Judge Begbie from Januar, 1850 to March, 1859; Miscellaneous documents relating to origin of 'Ned McGowan War'; Correspondence of Charles Brew from November, 1858 to April, 1859; Miscellaneous documnets; Index; 126 pages. Worn cover, cracking to mull, plates complete.

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Condition: clean copy.Content: From analysis of questionnaire material and from literary and religious texts the author draws criteria for the range of experiences she is counting as ecstatic. Having stated her reasons for treating experience from the groups as significantly similar, she proceeds to examine them in the light of the general information they can provide, the circumstances tending to induce them and the results they may have. She has also made a special study of the language in which such experiences are described.544 pages, index.

This is about the battle of the Imjin River in April 1951, during the Korean War, where, virtually unsupported, the 1st Battalion of Gloucestershire Regiment beat off successie Chinese attach for three days and nights until, overwhelmed by numbers and with their ammunition exhausted, the Glosters were given the order to fight their way out. 276 pages.

Condition: clean copy.Content: Learn how to mix and match more than 60 vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers using the thriller, filler, spiller formula to create a pleasing plant-style patchwork. When you combine thrillers [dramatic, focal-point plants], fillers [spreading, bushy plants], and spillers [vines and twining plants], you create stunning and botanically sound gardens that take into account soil and space requirements and showcase the variety of heights, textures, and colours of your favorite vegetables. You'll discover 16 do-it-yourself projects that help you personalize and accent your new garden spaces.308 pages, index.

the first stories of the patient Eliza and her exasperating husband appeared in 1900, and proved so popular that over the next 12 years their author produced 5 volumes of their daily adventures, all of which are collected in this book. They chronicle the everyday life of a suburban couple, narrated by Eliza's pompous, gullible and infuriating husband (who is never name rd). These storied give a compelling and entertaining glimpse of life at the beginning of the 20th century and are as fresh and funny as the day they were written. Introduction by Terry Jones.

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Condition: clean copy, inscription by author to previous owner, first page, lower right.Content: The author offers the first comprehensive account of the life and teachings of one of the greatest of Japan's Zen masters - Daito [1282-1337].270 pages, notes, bibliography, glossary index.

In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto, in the Polish city of Lodz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a 63 year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director who would become the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto's very existence.

Condition: clean copy.Content: The author draws on a wide range of Japanese and Western sources in his study of Emperor Hirohito's political role. This analysis focuses on key controversies surrounding Hirohito's career, such as the extent to which Hirohito was responsible for Japanese aggression and war, and why he remains a much contested symbol in Japanese post-war politics.250 pages, notes, bibliography, index.

Without the extraordinary exploits of Allied code breakers, the outcome of WWII might have been very different. Moving across the world from Bletchley Park to Pearl Harbor and from Mombasa to Melbourne, this book reveals - for the first time - how Japan's military codes were broken in a whirlwind race between America and British code breakers, explaining step-by-step how they accomplished their daunting task. Drawing on recently declassified files, privileged access to secret official histories , and interviews with many of the men involved.

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Content: In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes, This would prove to be the opening shot in an epic clash between rival empires and faiths for control of the Mediterranean and the centre of the world.336 pages, sources notes, bibliography, index.

Condition: clean copy.Content: Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire. Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the 20th and most cherished wife of the Emperor Jahangir. Nur ruled the vast Mughal Empire alongside her husband, leading troops into battle, signing imperial orders, and astutely handing matters of the state.308 pages, notes, index

Condition: clean copyContent: This engaging, deeply personal book offers a rare insider's look at Soka Gakkai Buddhism, one of Japan's most influential and controversial religious movements and one that is experiencing explosive growth around the world. Unique for their multiethnic makeup, Gakkai Buddhist can be found in more than 100 countries, from Japan to Brazil to the USA and Germany. This book tells of the author's journey towards understanding in a compelling narrative woven out of his observations, reflections, and interviews, including several rare one-on-one meetings with Soka Gakkai president Daisaku Ikeda.246 pages, notes, bibliography, index.

Condition: clean copy, heavy.Content: More than 5,000 entries, including the longitude and latitude of each location.660 pages, photographs, large format.