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

In Fables, which 'stands on a higher level of literary achievement...that almost attains to poetry,' the author demonstrated his mastery of a form of social criticism and satire that dates back to Aesop.

Condition: clean copy.Content:This book plunges the reader into the forefront of the debate on consciousness in humans and primates. From animals who share our ability for self-recognition, to the development of self-awareness in children, to case studies of patients who no longer recognize who they are. The author examines some of the latest evidence in the fields of neurology, psychology, and anthropology and suggests remarkable and surprising result about the function of self-awareness in humans and other primates.278 pages, notes, index.

A collection of four stories: The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios; The Time I Heard The Private Donald J Rainkin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American Composer John Morton; Manners of Dying; The Mirror Machine. 232 pages.

Sound clean paperback with french flaps

Condition: clean copy.Content: The author uncovers the biographies of 21 of the world's most fascinating lost and ruined buildings, from the dawn of civilization to the cyber era. The lives of these iconic structures are packed with drama and intrigue on the grandest scale, featuring war and religion, politics and art, love and betrayal, catastrophe and hope,. Frequently, their afterlives have bee no less dramatic - their memories used and abused down the millennia for purposes both sacred and profane. They provide the stage fo a startling array of characters, including Gilgamesh, the Cretan Minotaur, Agamemnon, Nefertiti, Genghis Khan, Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Adolf Hitler, and Bruce Springsteen.634 pages, end notes, further reading.

Condition: clean copy.Content: The author asks us to consider whether the entire human game has begun to play itself out. Even as climate change shrinks the space where civilization can exists, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. The author offers possible ways out of the trap,292 pages, notes, index.

'Far from home offers an intimate glimpse into lives of three families on the Oregon,Colorado, New Mexico, and North Dakota frontiers. That intimacy shatters any lingering nostalgia for the frontier as a landscape of assured economic success or family stability. This is a stunning contribution both to family history and to the history of the United States frontiers.'\ - Annette Kolodny, author of The Lay of the land and The Land Before Her, and dean of humanities, University of Arizona

A magnificent and tender tale of love and war on the Italian front in WWI, this novel is among the most enduring works of fiction produced in this century.

A magnificent and tender tale of love and war on the Italian front in WWI, this novel is among the most enduring works of fiction produced in this century.

Vintage penguin. Jannat Houston cover

This book is like having one-on-one lessons with an experienced chef in your own kitchen. Step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions will guide you through each recipe, from organizing the ingredients to the final flourish of the finished dish. Index, 224 pages.

Sound hc in DJ. Prev owner bookplate otherwise clean copy.

Price includes extra needed for postage. Sound clean copy in Unclipped DJ.

First published anonymously in 1907, this book was an immediately acclaimed for its courage in flouting the conventions of Victorian autobiography and is still a moving account of self-discovery. Edited with an introduction by Peter Abbs.270 pages.

Condition: clean copy.Content:This book offers a provocative rereading of the early history of Chan Buddhism (zen). Working from a history-of-religions point of view that asks how nd why certain literary tropes were chosen to depi9c the essence of the Buddhist tradition to Chinese readers, this analysis focuses on the narrative logics of the early Chan genealogies: the seventh- and eighth-century lineage texts that claimed that certain high-profile Chinese men were descendants of Bodhidharma and the Buddha. Reversing the standard 'religious experience first, texts second' approach, this book argues that early Chan's image of the perfect-master-who-owns-tradition was in fact constructed for reasons that have little to do with Buddhist practices, new styles of enlightened wisdom, or 'orthodoxy' and much more to do with politics, property, geography and new forms of writing.342 pages, Chinese glossary, references, index.

Narrated by four children from different generations of the same family, this is a tale of a present haunted by the past. From California to New York, from Haifa to Toronto and Munich, its stories unwind back through the years until, reaching WWII, the devastating secret at the heart of the family's history is finally revealed.

Condition: clean copy.Content: Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine year old Grania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of 1961 when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depressed ailing dictator who Dominicans call the Goat controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail.In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of it own.404 pages.

In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's night storm. All 84 men aboard died. February is the story of Helen O'Mara, one of those left behind when her husband, Cl, drowns.

Content: non fiction, history. As a resource-based economy with unusually large and varied immigrant population and exceptionally high recruitment levels, Fernie BC was profoundly affected by conflicting impulses of labour, loyalty and ethnicity. The internment of enemy aliens, controversies surrounding prohibition and moral reform, the consequences of natural and man-made disasters, the unprecedented banning of recruitment and the turmoil of the western labour revolt all contributed to a war-time experience far more dramatic and revealing of underlying tensions than that experienced by any other community in Canada.224 pages, bibliography, endnotes, index

The author set out across Turkey, in the extremes of winter, to 'trace the astonishing history of a cone-shaped hat. He soon saw the fez as the key by which Turkey, beset by contradictions, might be understood. 296 pages.