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Condition: pervious owner's name on first page; tear on upper front to dust jacket.Content: They were found young men bent on a life of crime. They want more than money, they want the kind of fame once enjoyed by their heroes Fran and Jesse James. In their wild and wooly spree of bank robberies across the American West, they are careful to save all their press clippings. But their real chance for immortality comes when they decide to escape - to make 'jackrabbit parole' from one of Canada's toughest maximum security prisons.260 pages.

'I've seen some bat-witted wheezes in my time but this one takes the certificate of merit,' Darbishire said to Jennings when he heard the plan to rescue the Hibernating Hedgehog. But when Venables told Jennings that foxes ate hedgehogs, there was nothing else for it. All seemed to be going well until Miss Thorpe's puppy got into the changing room, ran over the ants' cattle grid and upset the bottle of Ants' Anti-Escaping Fluid. Would the hedgehog survive? As always Jennings and Darbishire do their very best - and the results are as funny as ever.

Condition: clean copy.Content: This is the story of Jack Mould who spent years looking for the legendary and cursed Lost Creek gold mine. This is the a tale of one man's search and discovery of one of BC's most infamous mysteries, Slumach's Lost Creek gold mine.174 pages.

An overview of the role of an athletic association in the development of a community. 215 pages.

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The author has ordered the quotations under themes, dipping into all of Jane Austen's novels for apt comments on particular subject, among them the battle of the sexes, sorrow and joy, town and country, the gaining of wisdom, and our moral duty.

Condition: clean copy.Content: April 1817: Property developers are erecting sea side apartments in Sandition, for ladies and gentlemen who may prove winners or losers as lovers or money-makers. That is the situation in Jane Austen's unfinished novel. Forced by illness to set it aside she dies three months later. This book is about those three months.224 pages, notes.

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The delicate social balances of Jane and Prudence make classic territory for Py. She writes with all her usual wit and poignancy to produce a searching comedy of marvellous richness and style.

This book analyzes the variety of ways through which Japanese religions (Buddhism, Shintō, and new religious movements) contribute to the dynamics of accelerated globalization in recent decades. It looks at how Japanese religions provide material to cultural global flows, thus acting as carriers of globalization, and how they respond to these flows by shaping new glocal identities.
The book highlights how, paradoxically, these processes of religious hybridization may be closely intertwined with the promotion of cultural chauvinism. It shows how on the one hand religion in Japan is engaged in border negotiation with global subsystems such as politics, secular education, and science, and how on the other hand, it tries to find new legitimation by addressing pressing global problems such as war, the environmental crisis, and economic disparities left unsolved by the dominant subsystems.
A significant contribution to advancing an understanding of modern Japanese religious life, this book is of interest… Read More

Condition: clean copy.Content: Writing in the allusive and freely associative style characteristic of the popular Japanese essay form, the author compares and contrasts the Japanese and the Jews with keen critical insight tempered by affection. He records their attitudes and responses to such basic human matters as food, water, spiritual freedom, physical security, government, and man's relationship to natural forces.194 pages.

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Condition: clean copy.Content: The author traces the history of how Jews, Christians, and Muslims have all laid claim to Jerusalem as their holy place, and how three radically different concepts of holiness have shaped and scarred the city for thousands of years.474 pages, notes, bibliography, index, maps.

Condition: clean copy.Content: The author captures the untold story of Jesus in this inspiring novel. 274 pages.

Condition: clean copy.Content: 'The author provides clear and judicious summaries of recent North American constructions of the historical Jesus. Sensitive to both recent shifts in academic interests and contemporary cultural trends, he mediates critical Jesus scholarship for Christian faith. In contrast to the eschatological prophet of early 20th century scholarship, the Jesus who emerges in the author's synthesis of elements from Crossan, Horsley, Mack, and Schussler Fiorenze is again an understandable figure with whom most North American [Christians]s will be comfortable.' -Richard A. Horsley, University of Massachusetts, Boston.210 pages, Index of Ancient Literature, General index.

Condition: clean coy, light wear.Content: The author has written not only a learned and fundamental bookbut one that is of theological importance as well. He offers much essential information on the sapiential background of ancient Jewish wisdom and the Jesus tradition that was influential in the shaping of earliest Christology, He corrects misguided opinions and leads us into the heart of Jesus teaching. He there contributes to our knowledge of earliest Christian thought, its Jewish background as well as its creative and innovative identity.436 pages, bibliography, scripture index.

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Condition: clean copy, some wear, label of Battleford National Historic Park on inside cover, previous owner's label on title page.Content: A later 19 century biography of a clergy man who was involved in the early settlement of Manitoba. Original edition, not a reprint.158 pages.

217pp. In 1980, John Bonham, considered one of the greatest drummers of all time, died under tragic circumstances. Two months later, a simple letter signed by fellow band members Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones stated that Bonham could not be replaced. After nine multi-million-selling albums and record-breaking world tours, Led Zeppelin came to an abrupt and premature end. This personal account of John Bonham's life was written by the person who knew him best—his brother, Mick. Beginning with his childhood, the book follows Bonham's rise as the internationally acclaimed drummer of one of the most successful rock bands of all time. Featuring interviews and previously unpublished photos, this is a tribute not only to John Bonham, but also to Mick Bonham, who died after completing this book.