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Woo, a Javanese maccaque adopted by legendary Canadian artist Emily-Carr, has become inextricably linked with Car in the popular imagination. Bt more than that, in her short lifetime, Woo became equally connected to Carr's life and art.

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'This unique study offers fresh insight into the many reasons peopledecide to walk the trail....' sound clean copy. Illustrated with photos in centre.

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This is the most comprehensive volume of Whitman ever published; it includes all of his poetry and what he consider his complete prose. This is also the only collection that includes, in exactly the form in which it appeared in 1855, the first edition of 'Leaves of Grass.'1380 pages.

A collection of eight humorous short stories.

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Herman Work's sweeping epic of WW2, which begins with 'The Winds of War' and continue in 'War and Remembrance' stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events' and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of WW2 - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very centre of the war's maelstrom .

In the remote Brazilian backlands was Canudos - home to all the damned of the earth, to prostitutes, freaks, bandits, beggars, and the most wretched of the poor. And it was a paradise, a Utopian state led by an apocalyptic prophet, a place without hunger, money, property, taxes, or marriage. And so in 1997, the Brazilian government decreed it must be destroyed.

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Deep within the remote backlands of 19th century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. Itis a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with all the potential for a true, libertarian paradise - and one the Brzailian government is determined to crush at any cost.

A local history of the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, BC. 112 pages.

Volume 2 How does a woman take on the reins of military and political power? Having obtained power, how does she hang on to it? And how do the male contemporaries of a remarkable "warrior queen"feel about her? Starting with Boadicea, the Celtic queen who led a bloody uprising against the Romans, and ending with India Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, and Golda Meir, the "iron ladies"of recent times, Antonia Fraser tells the story of how remarkable women wield power

How does a woman take on the reins of military and political power? Having obtained power, how does she hang on to it? And how do the male contemporaries of a remarkable "warrior queen"feel about her? Starting with Boadicea, the Celtic queen who led a bloody uprising against the Romans, and ending with India Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, and Golda Meir, the "iron ladies"of recent times, Antonia Fraser tells the story of how remarkable women wield power

'A stunning, compelling tale that tackles the biggest theme of all: the existence of evil, and how ordinary, fallible mortals come to terms with Man's astonishing capacity for brutality and venality...It is diccicult to remember a recent book that is at once so beautiful and yet so thought-provoking.' -The Times

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