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'Trigger has been deliberately traditional and accessible in his approach yet revolutionary in some of his conclusions and ideas about the study of history. Natives and Newcomers is essential for anyone interested in Canadian history - our place her, what it was and what it is today.' -The Globe and Mail

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Dressed in old-fashion rags and fiending for a cigarette, Yolanda wakes up in an empty room with no memory of how she got there, Verla, a young woman who seems familiar, sits nearby. Down a hallway echoing loudly with voices, on a stark compound deep in the Australian outback, other captive women are just coming to. Sedated and disoriented, the girls can't be sure of anything - except the salacious episodes in their pasts that link them. For each woman is marked by her own public sex scandal and, as a result, is now the ward of a bizarre system of corporate control...Drawing strength from the animal instincts they're forced to rely on, the girls go from hunted to hunters, along the way becoming unforgettable and boldly original literary heroines that readers will both relate to and root for.

Condition: clean copy.Content: Gilbert White's 'The Natural History of Selborne [1789] reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years, White describes in minute detail the behavior of animals through the changing seasons in the rural Hampshire parish of Selhorne. He notes everything from the habits of an eccentric tortoise to the mysteries of bird migration and animal reproduction, with the purpose of inspiring other to observe their own surroundings with the same pleasure and attention.316 pages, introduction, textual note, bibliography, chronology, appendices, explanatory notes, index.

Condition: clean copy.Content: 'Naturalness' is a profound introduction to the essence of Shin Buddhism. It is beautifully written, at times seeming more like poetry or perhaps a 'koan' than a normal text.Much can be gained from deep reflection on this work' -Living Traditions.132 pages.

Condition: clean copy.Content: For four hundred years, explorers, traders, and settlers plundered North American wildlife in an escalating rampage, but in the 20th century an incredible turnaround took place. Conservationists created wildlife sanctuaries, restored habitats, and imposed regulations on hunters and trappers. Over decades, they nursed many wild populations back to health. Then, after WWII, something happened that conservationists hadn't foreseen: sprawl. People moved into suburbs, and then kept moving outward. All the while, well-meaning efforts to protect animals allowed wild populations to burgeon out of control, causing damage costing billions, degrading ecosystems, and touching off disputes that polarized communities. The result is a mix of people and wildlife that should be an animal lover's dream, but often turns into a sprawl dweller's nightmare.344 pages, notes, bibliography, index.

Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature. Introduction by John Elder.

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Native Power, a concept central to most Native cultures, is based on the understanding that a form of spiritual energy animates all things in the natural world.Human survival depends on a strong alliance with, and reverence towards, the natural beings that manifest and share this power. 250 pages.

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Condition: clean copy.Content: 13 scholarly essays which show the Kyoto School of Buddhist philosophy included several other members besides the inner circle of three, and these members were concerned with a wide range of philosophical issues beyond the philosophy of nothingness.262 pages, list of contributors, index of personal names.

The British middle class of the early nineteenth century was defined by its nervous complaints—hysteria, hypochondria, vapours, melancholia, and other maladies. Peter Melville Logan explores the link between medical theories of nervous physiology and narrative issues central to the literary writing of the period. He examines the assumption, implicit in medical thinking at the time, that the nervous body—unlike its non-nervous counterpart—has a narrative inscribed on its nerve fibers. It becomes "the body with a story to tell."Logan takes up several literary works whose nervous narrators connect their present disorder with an unnatural, unhealthy social order. Concentrating on novels by Godwin, Hays, and Edgeworth, and on De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Logan weaves cultural phenomena such as crowd psychology and attitudes toward opium addiction into the basic paradigm of the nervous narrative. He explains why these social critiques always tended to promote the same… Read more

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Condition: clean copy.Content: This is the completely unexpected natural history of the great indoors. The author introduces us to our houses' tiny tenants,showing how they make our lives better, and why trying to eradicate the bad ones actually makes our lives worse.324 pages, notes, index.

This is a page-by-page guide to Ulysses designed to help the student and the general reader to find their way quickly bout Joyce's formidable novel. The guide will enable someone approaching Joyce for the first time to reach an understanding of Ulysses hwich, without help, it might have taken several readings to arrive at. 244 pages.

Condition: clean copy.Content: With the cessation of hostilities in the Cold War the assumptions underpinning military intelligence have evaporated and the whole nature of espionage has bee thrown into question. At the same time sophiscated electronic technology has transformed its practice. Against this background of change and innovation, this book provides a comprehensive picture of the intelligence machine in Britain.338 pages, references, index.

Osman, a young university student, becomes obsessed with a magical book that delves into the dangerous nature of love and self. He turns his back on home and family, abandons his studies and goes on a search for the meaning of the book's darker secrets.

Condition: clean copy.Content: reprint of the 1891 Emin Pasha Expedition, its journeyings and adventures among the native tribes of eastern equatorial Africa, the Gallas, Massais, Wasukuma, etc., etc., on the Lake Baringo and the Victoria Nyanza. pages.

Condition: clean copy.Content: Field guide to mushrooms of the American pacific northwest. Colour photographs of each species of wild mushrooms, measurements in inches, each mushroom's edible or poisonous qualities clearly described, both common and Latin name given for each species.250 pages, selected bibliography, index.