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For 59 years the Moyie served the Kootenays carrying everything from silver ore and apples to mail and farm animals.Royalty and settlers, salesmen and prospectors, school children and doctors all travelled on the Moyie. By 1957, whe she was retired, she had outlasted all other passenger-carrying, steam-powered sternwheelers in Canada, the western US and Alaska. Illustrated, 60 pages.

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Condition: clean copy:Content: This book is a complete transcript of Capt. Theophilus Conneau's 1853 handwritten manuscript, including his own title and unabashed preface.370 pages, index.

Condition: clean copy.Content: 72 pages.

Condition: clean copy.Contents: This takes readers on a tour of many natural and man-made sacred sites located throughout western North America. Comprised of locations that feature particularly interesting and mysterious qualities, it emphasizes each locale's physical characteristics and magical significance. These centers are places of power and energy, often relating to indigenous people's history and myth.176 pages, colour and black and white photographs.

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Set against the backdrop of war, revolution and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantura, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, the author's colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I's art collection. Notes, Bibliography, Index, 436 pages.

Condition< clean copy, worn.Content: A history of the 38 canneries on the northern coast of British Columbia.180 pages, photography, line drawings, endnotes, bibliography, index.

Inscribed by the author. Wear And stain to top edge. Prev owner bookplate removed. Good reading copy. Number 23/500 copies. Photos on request

Translated from the Russian by Susan Brownsberger.

Content: non-fiction, science. This book is the thrilling account of human mistory - from insignificant apes to rulers of the world. Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, 'Sapiens' challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our beliefs, our actions, our power and our future.450 pages, notes, index, illustrations

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Condition: clean copy.Content:In this work, the author describes a continent where individual Germans and collaborators were rounded up and summarily executed at the same time that violent anti-Semitism was reborn. This is the story of post WWII Europe, from the close of the war right to the establishment of an uneasy stability at the end of the 1940's. Based principally on primary sources from a dozen countries, it is the chronicle of a world gone mad.460 pages, sources, notes, index, photographs.

Condition: no marks, dust jacket in excellent condition.Contents: non-fiction. "Turner's book is illuminating.Her interrogation of the terms 'nation' and religion' are refreshing and her idea of the moral community as an alternative way to understand the emergence of a nation so defined by religion is thoroughly convincing. She shows how to write about the colonial period without turning every intellectual and cultural expression by a Burmese into a 'response' to colonial discourses.' -Justin McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania222 pages,notes, bibliography, index

This innovative consumer's guide will help you identify the best religion for you. By reviewing apples-to-apples breakdowns of 99 world religions, you'll use proven techniques of comparison shopping to base your decision on things that really matter - what you'll wear, whether you can have sex, where you'll go when you die. Spirituality is a significant aspect of the contemporary lifestyle, but if you haven't shopped around, you'll never be certain you make the right choice.

Condition: clean copy.Content: This volume contains records of Pai-chang's teachings, translated by Thomas Cleary.132 pages.

Condition: clean copy.Content: 128 pages,

Most Canadians know little, if anything at all, about the role of the Canadian Air Force in the 1999 Kosovo Air War. Yet lives were at put at stake as mission dedication and military skill were pushed to the limit.
Some of Canada's most prominent journalists attempted to report on the war, but came away virtually empty handed. Daily briefings given at the National Defence Headquarters provided so little information most Ottawa journalists simply stopped going. The decision of the military to choke Canada's news media was deliberate and based on a tactical and strategic rationale.
Scattering Chaff explores the role of the Canadian Air Force in the bombing campaigns of the Kosovo Air War while examining the military's interference with the news media attempting to report to the Canadian public. It explores the ways in which the military has come to manage the media as an element of operational security, mission focus, and of popular opinion. Drawing on in-depth interviews with the war's Canadian… Read more

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