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London, UK: Simon & Schuster. Very Good. 1993. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Paperback. First Edition (1993) ; First Printing unstated. Very Good in Wraps: shows mild rubbing to the white background field of the self-wrapper covers; light wear along the outside edge of the front panel and front corner tips; the expected tanning to the text pages due to aging; the binding leans ever so slightly but remains secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, carefully-used copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the mildest wear and minor, unobtrusive imperfections. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9.15 x 6.15 x 1.5 inches). Language: English. Weight: 26.2 ounces. Trade Paperback. The three treasures of the title are the essence (physical body) , energy and spirit which are the basic components of human life. The book is about the dangers to these treasures and how to protect them and involves changes to lifestyle, diet, exercise, habits and the type of medicines we seek when ill. Daniel P. Reid is the author of Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; x, 484 pages ., Simon & Schuster, 1993, 3, Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; *The International Bestseller and Reese Witherspoonâ¤s Book Club pick!* â¤Santopolo is a true master of matters of the heart.⤠Taylor Jenkins Reid â¤This book kept me up at night, turning the pag, 6, Fleetway, UK, 1960. Softcover. Good. Softcover. 64 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Fleetway, UK, 1960. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are reasonably tanned. Tear at base of spine. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; Inventory No: 17060090.., Fleetway, 1960, 2.5, Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The latest poetry collection from the Costa Book Award-winner offers a lifetime's lessons in 'light and being alive' - now in paperback., 6, London, United Kingdom: Usborne Publishing Ltd, 2012. Book. Illus. by Ian McKee, Giovanni Paul, John Fox. Near Fine. Hardcover. Unknown Edition. A set of flash cards. Basically un used, loosely packed in box do have some light rubbing wear. Facts and figures from WWI, collection of 50 cards. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY., Usborne Publishing Ltd, 2012, 4.5, New York, NY: Doubleday & Company. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. 1st Edition USA; First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition USA (1988) , so stated. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: The book shows very slight spine lean; else flawless; the binding is secure; the text is clean. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a minor, unobtrusive imperfection. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Very close to "As New". The DJ is flawless; the price is intact; mylar-protected. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo (8.5 x 5.85 x 0.65 inches) . Illustrated byTerry Riley. Language: English. Weight: 11.5 ounces. First published in Great Britain in 1978. Hardback with DJ. Lynne Reid Banks (born 31 July 1929) is a British author of books for children and adults. She has written forty-eight books, including the best-selling children's novel 'The Indian in the Cupboard', which has sold over 15 million copies and has been successfully adapted to film. Her first novel, The L-Shaped Room, published in 1960, was an instant and continuing best seller. It was later made into a movie of the same name and led to two sequels, The Backward Shadow and Two is Lonely. In 1962, Banks emigrated to Israel, where she taught for eight years on a kibbutz, Yas'ur. In 1965, she married Chaim Stephenson (1926–2016) , a sculptor, with whom she had three sons. She lives in Shepperton, Surrey, UK. Although the family returned to England in 1971, the influence of her time in Israel can be seen in many of her books. In October 2013, Banks won the J. M. Barrie award for outstanding contribution to children's arts. In 'I, Houdini' The title tells it all: Houdini is slightly pompous, no slouch when it comes to vocabulary, and has a gift for dry humor. He relates the story of his acquisition by a family and the trial runs and trouble spots that turn him into a great escapologist. The author seems to have slipped into the hide of the hamster and seems to understand these small creatures completely and creates a tantalizing journey. This is pure fun and full of slapstick exaggeration: for example, the father is a clownish bellower, especially when Houdini chews through pipes. There are dramatic moments and cliffhangers, but since this hamster's name is Houdini, readers can count on a grand finale. ; Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 127 pages ., Doubleday & Company, 1988, 4.5, Richmond, United Kingdom: Mills & Boon, 2004. Large print! RELIABLE library withdrawal in the reinforced cover. Stamped at the page edge with a card pocket and light scuff to the protected cover. The last blank cover page has been ripped out by the library leaving a jagged edge. This will not affect your enjoyment. This edition is PRESENTABLE. Paperback. Good., Mills & Boon, 2004, 2.5, Harmondsworth Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd, 1975. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. a Pelican Original. CONTENTS: 1. The Land and its Resources 2. The Imperial Dream of New France 3. The Struggle for the Continent 4. Default or Decision? 5. The Age of the French Revolution 6. Oligarchs and Democrats 7. Aristocrats of Reform 8. Problems of Destiny 9. "One Dominion under the name of Canada" 10. Pragmatism and Diplomacy 11. The Politics of Purity 12. The Iron Spike and the Regina Scaffold 13. The Wheat Boom and Laurier Nationalism 14. Empire, Race and War 15. Whose Empire, Whose Nation? 16. Prosperity and Depression 17. "Parliament will decide" 18. Postwar Patterns 19. The Canadian Question; Maps; Further reading; Index. SYNOPSIS: Canadian history, for non-Canadians, all too often means two events: Wolfe's dramatic seizure of Quebec in 1759, and the 1867 Canada Act. Yet Canada has had as rich a history as her North American neighbour. This original study traces Canadian history from the earliest European expeditions in search of fish and fur right up to the brink of the 1970s and the premiership of Pierre Trudeau. Although both countries have been shaped by immigration and by the frontier, Canada and the United States have developed in markedly different directions. One of Professor McNaught's achievements in this book is to isolate those characteristics which are distinctively Canadian and to show how they have evolved historically. This involves a study of Canadian geography and an analysis of the stresses on Canadian federalism: notably the continental pull of the U.S., and the religious and regional divisions between the French-speaking minority and the British. The effects of these stresses, in political conflict, constitutional experiment and economic expansion, are the main subjects of this book. Kenneth McNaught, M.A., Ph.D., was born in Toronto in 1918, was educated at Upper Canada College, and graduated at the University of Toronto in 1941. He has taught at various universities in Canada and is currently in the history department at the University of Toronto. He has been editor of Canadian Studies in History and Government (for the Social Science Research Council of Canada and the University of Toronto Press; 1959-66) and contributing editor of Saturday Night (1959-68), to which he contributed about 100 articles. Once on the editorial board of Christian Outlook (Montreal; 1961-5) and Canadian Welfare (1961-5), he has also been chairman for the C.B.C. Roundtable TV panel (Winnipeg, 1953-7), and chairman for the University League for Social Reform (1964-5). Kenneth McNaught, who has done some public affairs broadcasting on C.B.C. radio and TV, has contributed to various journals and reviews and is the author of the following books: A Prophet in Politics (1959), A Source-Book of Canadian History (1959; with J. H. S. Reid and H. S. Crowe), Canada and the United States (1963; with R. Cook), Manifest Destiny: A Short History of the United States (1965), The Winnipeg General Strike (1969). In preparation at the moment are The Nature of Progressivism, and The Left in Britain and America.. Second Edition 3rd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Illus. by Nelson Christmas. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall., Penguin Books Ltd, 1975, 2.5, Disco Fever - 16 Disco Hits including Tragedypublished by Chappell & Co., Inc. 1979Theodore Presser CompanyGeneral Note: music & lyrics for voice and piano, with guitar chord diagramsPaperback9 x 12 inches, 71 pagessee Table of ContentsContents: Stayin' alive.--Shadow dancing.--Dancin'.--Native New Yorker.--Me and the gang.--Emotion.--5.7.0.5.--How deep is your love.--Heaven on the seventh floor.--If I can't have you.--More than a woman.--You stepped into my life.--Night fever.--Back in love again.--Weekend lover.--TragedyDisco is a musical style originating in the early 1970s. It began to emerge from America's urban nightlife scene, where it had been curtailed to house parties and makeshift discotheques from the middle of the decade onwards, after which, it began making regular mainstream appearances, gaining popularity and increasing airplay on radio. Its popularity was achieved sometime during the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Its initial audiences in the U.S. were club-goers, both male and female, from the African American, Italian American, Latino, and psychedelic communities in Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Disco can be seen as a reaction against both the domination of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music by the counterculture during this period. Several dances styles were also developed during this time including the Bump and the Hustle.The disco sound often has several components, a "four-on-the-floor" beat, an eighth note (quaver) or 16th note (semi-quaver) hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and a prominent, syncopated electric bass line. In most disco tracks, string sections, horns, electric piano, and electric rhythm guitars create a lush background sound. Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and lead guitar is less frequently used in disco than in rock. Many disco songs use electronic synthesizers, particularly in the late 1970s.Well-known 1970s and 1980s disco performers included: Vicki Sue Robinson, Yvonne Elliman, Grace Jones, Divine, Lime, Thelma Houston, Diana Ross, Cher, Cheryl Lynn, Donna Summer, the Bee Gees, Boney M., Claudja Barry, Billy Ocean, Cerrone, Dan Hartman, Madonna, Miquel Brown, Chaka Khan, KC and the Sunshine Band, the Trammps, Marlena Shaw, Sylvester, Village People, Gloria Gaynor, Amii Stewart, and Chic. While performers and singers garnered much public attention, record producers working behind the scenes played an important role in developing the "disco sound". Many non-disco artists recorded disco songs at the height of disco's popularity, and films such as Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Thank God It's Friday (1978) contributed to disco's rise in mainstream popularity.By the late 1970s, most major U.S. cities had thriving disco club scenes, where DJs would mix a seamless sequence of dance records. Studio 54, a venue popular among celebrities, was a well-known disco club of that time. Discotheque-goers often wore expensive, extravagant and sexy fashions. There was also a thriving drug subculture in the disco scene, particularly for drugs that would enhance the experience of dancing to the loud music and the flashing lights, such as cocaine and Quaaludes, a drug that was so common in disco subculture that it was nicknamed "disco biscuits". Disco clubs were also sometimes associated with promiscuity.Disco was the last mass popular music movement that was driven by the baby boom generation. Disco was a worldwide phenomenon, but its popularity drastically declined in the United States in 1980, and by 1982 it had lost most of its mainstream popularity in the states. Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco protest held in Chicago on July 12, 1979, remains the most well-known of several "backlash" incidents across the country that symbolized disco's declining fortune.Disco was a key influence in the later development of electronic dance music and house music. Disco has had several revivals, including in 2005 with Madonna's highly successful album Confessions on a Dance Floor, and again in 2013 and 2014, as disco-styled songs by artists like Daft Punk (with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers), Justin Timberlake, Breakbot, and Bruno Marsnotably Mars' "Uptown Funk"filled the pop charts in the UK and the US.From 1974 to 1977, disco music continued to increase in popularity as many disco songs topped the charts. In 1974, "Love's Theme" by Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra became the second disco song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100, after "Love Train". MFSB also released "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)", featuring vocals by the Three Degrees, and this was the third disco song to hit number one; "TSOP" was written as the theme song for Soul Train.The Hues Corporation's 1974 "Rock the Boat", a U.S. number 1 single and million-seller, was one of the early disco songs to hit number 1. The same year saw the release of "Kung Fu Fighting", performed by Carl Douglas and produced by Biddu, which reached number 1 in both the U.K. and U.S., and became the best-selling single of the year and one of the best-selling singles of all time with eleven million records sold worldwide, helping to popularize disco music to a great extent. Another notable chart-topping disco hit that year was George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby".In the northwestern sections of the United Kingdom, the Northern Soul explosion, which started in the late 1960s and peaked in 1974, made the region receptive to Disco, which the region's Disc Jockeys were bringing back from New York City. George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby" became the United Kingdom's first number one disco single.Also in 1974, Gloria Gaynor released the first side-long disco mix vinyl album, which included a remake of the Jackson 5's "Never Can Say Goodbye" and two other songs, "Honey Bee" and his disco version of "Reach Out (I'll Be There)". Gaynor's number one disco hit was "I Will Survive", released in 1978, which was seen as a symbol of female strength and a gay anthem.Formed by Harry Wayne Casey ("KC") and Richard Finch, Miami's KC and the Sunshine Band had a string of disco-definitive top-five hits between 1975 and 1977, including "Get Down Tonight", "That's the Way (I Like It)", "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty", "I'm Your Boogie Man" and "Keep It Comin' Love". Electric Light Orchestra's 1975 hit "Evil Woman", although described as Orchestral Rock, featured a violin sound that became a staple of disco. In 1979, however, ELO did release two "true" disco songs: "Last Train To London" and "Shine A Little Love".In 1975, American singer and songwriter Donna Summer recorded a song which she brought to her producer Giorgio Moroder entitled "Love to Love You Baby" which contained a series of simulated orgasms. The song was never intended for release but when Moroder played it in the clubs it caused a sensation. Moroder released it and it went to number 2. It has been described as the arrival of the expression of raw female sexual desire in pop music. A 17-minute 12 inch single was released. The 12" single became and remains a standard in discos today.In 1977 Summer released "I Feel Love", which combined disco with its subgenre Hi-NRG and electronic music, while in 1978, her multi-million selling vinyl single disco version of "MacArthur Park" was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for three weeks and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Summer's recording, which was included as part of the "MacArthur Park Suite" on her double album Live and More, was eight minutes and forty seconds long on the album. The shorter seven-inch vinyl single version of the MacArthur Park was Summer's first single to reach number one on the Hot 100; it does not include the balladic second movement of the song, however. A 2013 remix of "Mac Arthur Park" by Summer hit number 1 on the Billboard Dance Charts marking five consecutive decades with a number 1 hit on the charts. From 1978 to 1979, Summer continued to release hits such as "Last Dance", "Bad Girls", "Heaven Knows", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", "Hot Stuff" and "On the Radio", all very successful disco songs.The Bee Gees used Barry Gibb's falsetto to garner hits such as "You Should Be Dancing", "Stayin' Alive", "Night Fever", "More Than A Woman" and "Love You Inside Out". Andy Gibb, a younger brother to the Bee Gees, followed with similarly-styled solo hits such as "I Just Want to Be Your Everything", "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" and "Shadow Dancing". In 1975, hits such as Van McCoy's "The Hustle" and Summer's version of "Could It Be Magic" brought disco further into the mainstream. Other notable early disco hits include the Jackson 5's "Dancing Machine" (1974), Barry White's "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" (1974), Labelle's "Lady Marmalade" (1974) and Silver Convention's "Fly Robin Fly" (1975).In December 1977, the film Saturday Night Fever was released. It was a huge success and its soundtrack became one of the best-selling albums of all time. The idea for the film was sparked by a 1976 New York magazine article titled "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night" which supposedly chronicled the disco culture in mid-1970s New York City, but was later revealed to have been fabricated. Some critics said the film "mainstreamed" disco, making it more acceptable to heterosexual white males.Chic was formed mainly by guitarist Nile Rodgers a self described "street hippie" from late 1960s New York and bassist Bernard Edwards. "Le Freak" was a popular 1978 single of theirs that is regarded as an iconic song of the genre. Other hits by Chic include the often-sampled "Good Times" (1979) and "Everybody Dance" (1979). The group regarded themselves as the disco movement's rock band that made good on the hippie movement's ideals of peace, love, and freedom. Every song they wrote was written with an eye toward giving it "deep hidden meaning" or D.H.M.Sylvester, a flamboyant and openly gay singer famous for his soaring falsetto voice, scored his biggest disco hits in 1978 "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)", and "Dance (Disco Heat)", followed by "Body Strong" in 1979. Known as the Queen of Disco, his singing style was said to have influenced the singer Prince. At that time, disco was one of the forms of music most open to gay performers.The Village People were a singing/dancing group created by Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo to target disco's gay audience. They were known for their onstage costumes of typically male-considered jobs and ethnic minorities and achieved mainstream success with their 1978 hit song, "Y.M.C.A."; other hits included "Macho Man" (1978) and "In the Navy" (1979).The Jacksons (previously "the Jackson 5") did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)" (1978), "Blame it on the Boogie" (1978), "Lovely One" (1980), and "Can You Feel It" (1980)all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, "Rock with You", "Workin' Day and Night", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough".Disco's popularity led many non-disco pop and some rock artists to record disco songs at the height of its popularity. Many of their songs were not "pure" disco, but were instead rock or pop songs with (sometimes inescapable) disco influence or overtones. Notable examples include Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" (1978) and "Boogie Wonderland" with the Emotions (1979), Blondie's "Heart of Glass" (1978) and "Rapture" (1980), Cher's "Take Me Home" and "Hell on Wheels" (both 1979), Barry Manilow's "Copacabana" (1978), David Bowie's "John I'm Only Dancing (Again)" (1979), Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" (1979), Frankie Valli's "Swearin' to God" (1975), George Benson's "Give Me the Night" (1980), Elton John and Kiki Dee's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" (1976), M's "Pop Muzik" (1979), Barbra Streisand's "The Main Event" (1979), Heart's "Straight On" (1978), The biggest hit by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, best known as a new wave band, was "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" (1978), featuring a strong disco sound.Even hard-core mainstream rockers mixed elements of disco with their typical rock 'n roll style in songs. Progressive rock group Pink Floyd, when creating their rock opera The Wall, used disco-style components in their song, "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" (1979)which became the group's only number 1 hit single (in both the US and UK). The Eagles gave nods to disco with "One of These Nights" (1975) and "Disco Strangler" (1979), Paul McCartney & Wings did "Goodnight Tonight" (1979), Queen did "Another One Bites the Dust" (1980), the Rolling Stones did "Miss You" (1978) and "Emotional Rescue" (1980), Electric Light Orchestra's "Shine a Little Love" and "Last Train to London" (both 1979), Chicago did "Street Player" (1979), the Kinks did "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" (1979), Bryan Adams did "Let Me Take You Dancing" (1978), and the J. Geils Band did "Come Back" (1980). Even hard rock group KISS jumped in with "I Was Made For Lovin' You" (1979). Ringo Starr's album Ringo the 4th (1978) features a strong disco influence.The disco sound was also adopted by "non-pop" artists, including the 1979 U.S. number one hit "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" by Easy listening singer Barbra Streisand in a duet with Donna Summer. Country music artist Connie Smith covered Andy Gibb's "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" in 1977, Bill Anderson did "Double S" in 1978, and Ronnie Milsap recorded "Get It Up" and covered Tommy Tucker's "Hi-Heel Sneakers" in 1979.Also noteworthy are John Paul Young's "Love Is in the Air" (1977), Patrick Hernandez's "Born to Be Alive" (1978), Cheryl Lynn's "Got to Be Real" (1978), Evelyn "Champagne" King's "Shame" (1978), Sister Sledge's "We Are Family" (1979), Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell" (1979), Lipps Inc.'s "Funkytown" (1979), Geraldine Hunt's "Can't Fake the Feeling" (1980), Alicia Bridges' "I Love the Nightlife" (1978) and Walter Murphy's various attempts to bring classical music to the mainstream, most notably his disco hit "A Fifth of Beethoven" (1976), which was inspired by Beethoven's fifth symphony.Pre-existing non-disco songs and standards would frequently be "disco-ized" in the 1970s. The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band erawhich brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, "Temptation", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.Myron Floren, second-in-command on The Lawrence Welk Show, released a recording of the "Clarinet Polka" entitled "Disco Accordion." Similar, Chappell & Co., Inc., 1979, 3, Montréal: Le Cercle du Livre de France, 1980. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiv, 402pp., index, references, ill. Pictorial hardcover, very light wear.., Le Cercle du Livre de France, 1980, 3, London, United Kingdom: Aldine Book Co.. London, United Kingdom: 1930's. Red Cloth. 8vo Hard Cover A boy's adventure story. CONDITION: Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Edge wear, light dust soiling to page edges, slight separation at the 3rd and 6th signatures, in Dust Jacket with a one inch by two inch chip to the lower edge of the rear panel and rubbing and soiling to the rear panel. Tiny chips to the spine ends bx 291 E, Aldine Book Co., 1931, 3, Harmondsworth Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd, 1969. Previous Owner Markings (Including Underlining); Moderate Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. a Pelican Original. CONTENTS: 1. The Land and its Resources 2. The Imperial Dream of New France 3. The Struggle for the Continent 4. Default or Decision? 5. The Age of the French Revolution 6. Oligarchs and Democrats 7. Aristocrats of Reform 8. Problems of Destiny 9. "One Dominion under the name of Canada" 10. Pragmatism and Diplomacy 11. The Politics of Purity 12. The Iron Spike and the Regina Scaffold 13. The Wheat Boom and Laurier Nationalism 14. Empire, Race and War 15. Whose Empire, Whose Nation? 16. Prosperity and Depression 17. "Parliament will decide" 18. Postwar Patterns 19. The Canadian Question; Maps; Further reading; Index. SYNOPSIS: Canadian history, for non-Canadians, all too often means two events: Wolfe's dramatic seizure of Quebec in 1759, and the 1867 Canada Act. Yet Canada has had as rich a history as her North American neighbour. This original study traces Canadian history from the earliest European expeditions in search of fish and fur right up to the brink of the 1970s and the premiership of Pierre Trudeau. Although both countries have been shaped by immigration and by the frontier, Canada and the United States have developed in markedly different directions. One of Professor McNaught's achievements in this book is to isolate those characteristics which are distinctively Canadian and to show how they have evolved historically. This involves a study of Canadian geography and an analysis of the stresses on Canadian federalism: notably the continental pull of the U.S., and the religious and regional divisions between the French-speaking minority and the British. The effects of these stresses, in political conflict, constitutional experiment and economic expansion, are the main subjects of this book. Kenneth McNaught, M.A., Ph.D., was born in Toronto in 1918, was educated at Upper Canada College, and graduated at the University of Toronto in 1941. He has taught at various universities in Canada and is currently in the history department at the University of Toronto. He has been editor of Canadian Studies in History and Government (for the Social Science Research Council of Canada and the University of Toronto Press; 1959-66) and contributing editor of Saturday Night (1959-68), to which he contributed about 100 articles. Once on the editorial board of Christian Outlook (Montreal; 1961-5) and Canadian Welfare (1961-5), he has also been chairman for the C.B.C. Roundtable TV panel (Winnipeg, 1953-7), and chairman for the University League for Social Reform (1964-5). Kenneth McNaught, who has done some public affairs broadcasting on C.B.C. radio and TV, has contributed to various journals and reviews and is the author of the following books: A Prophet in Politics (1959), A Source-Book of Canadian History (1959; with J. H. S. Reid and H. S. Crowe), Canada and the United States (1963; with R. Cook), Manifest Destiny: A Short History of the United States (1965), The Winnipeg General Strike (1969). In preparation at the moment are The Nature of Progressivism, and The Left in Britain and America.. First Edition 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Illus. by Nelson Christmas. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall., Penguin Books Ltd, 1969, 2.5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,subject colour,portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - due in part to slightly oversized dw/dj.This has caused inevitable creasing to both top+bottom edges,the top particularly.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip similarly affected with a tiny,tiny closed nick to head of same.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned - as usual/normal - but clean,contents bright,tight and clean also.Bright,clean,unmarked,publisher's original,plain dark blue cloth boards with crisp,bright,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,a b/w headband,minimally bumped corners and clean, plain red endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,9-286pp [paginated] includes 10 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w+colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp96/7 and pp192/3 respectively,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and acknowledgements. 'T'rific' is the autobiography of one of the most colourful and well- loved characters in the world of entertainment.Actor and comedian Mike Reid is a household name.Now approaching his sixtieth year, and having become firmly entrenched in the heart of the public as Frank Butcher of EastEnders fame,he looks back over his life with an endearing,uncensored honesty.Born in Hackney,East London,in 1940,Mike began a life of 'ducking and diving' to earn money almost as soon as he could walk.For years he managed to avoid a police record until,finally,he was caught red-handed robbing a country mansion and was given a custodial sentence at an approved school.At the age of seventeen he signed up as a steward on a cruise liner and set off to see the world.His subsequent adventures are worthy of fiction. On returning home,Mike became involved in the London drinking- club scene.His acquaintances included the notorious Krays, amongst other infamous figures in the underworld.He fought off the approaches of gangsters seeking protection money,and wielded a shotgun with effect when putting the 'frighteners' on.Around this time he met his present wife,Shirley,the girl he still calls 'Princess'. After a spell in Brixton prison Mike vowed to turn his back on the criminal world for the sake of his family.Landing himself work as a film extra soon led to his becoming a stunt driver,and he went on to feature in many major films and TV productions,including The Saint,The Avengers and The Dirty Dozen.His big break finally came when he landed a spot in the national TV show The Comedians.The rest is history. Mike's life has been filled with comedy.But there have been darker moments too. He has weathered personal tragedies that might have broken a lesser man,wearing a clown's face to hide a broken heart.' T'rific' is Mike's own story,told with his signature wit and wisdom.As he says:'I'm leaving nothing out.I'm not ashamed of anything I've done in my life and I've no regrets.' Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.PARTRIDGE/TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS,1999., 4, London, UK: Croom Helm, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 238pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Top text block edge dusty and starting to fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, price unclipped. 8vo. Examines some of the particular problems and tensions experienced in health work., Croom Helm, 1977, 3, London, UK: Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1896. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Tomlinsom, Walter. xx, 384pp, black and white engraved portrait frontispiece. Thirty-one in-text black and white illustrations by Walter Tomlinson. Burgundy cloth-covered boards, titles in black on spine. 12mo. sun-faded spine. Bumping, rounding, scuffing and fraying to spine ends and corners, very small closed tears at spine head. Shelf-wear. Discolouration and heavy wear to rear board. Top text block edge dusty, slight tanning to remaining text block edges. Pastedowns and endpapers tanned and foxed; pencil markings. Cracked front hinge at pastedown. Gutter lightly stretched throughout. Otherwise, neat, clean and bright. Fourth and revised edition with additional letters and anecdotes., Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1896, 2.5, Poyser, 1993. xiv, 520, numerous maps + line drawings. . HB. 4to, orig. bds. Light spotting to top edge. Vg in d/w. From the library of Trevor James (1947-2020), Hertfordshire naturalist and coleopterist, with his bookplate.. 208 full species accounts and 13 brief accounts of rare breeders.. [9780856610752], Poyser, 1993, 0<

1993, ISBN: 0856610755

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[EAN: 9780856610752], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: T & D Poyser Ltd., UK], ORNITHOLOGY, BRITISH BIRDS, BIRD WATCHING, BREEDING BIRDS., Jacket, This book is a monumental work in the… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780856610752], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: T & D Poyser Ltd., UK], ORNITHOLOGY, BRITISH BIRDS, BIRD WATCHING, BREEDING BIRDS., Jacket, This book is a monumental work in the long tradition of the contribution made by amateur observers to the vital understanding of bird populations in Britain. The DW as small damage to the back panel and the f.e.p as a piece cut out of approx 10.5 cm x 2cm. The book shows light shelf ware., Books<

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Academic Press, 1994-03-29. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This book is a monumental work in the long and fine tradition of the contribution made by amateur observers to the vital unde… Mehr…

Academic Press, 1994-03-29. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This book is a monumental work in the long and fine tradition of the contribution made by amateur observers to the vital understanding of bird populations in Britain. All who study this book will be led to a deeper understanding of the rich and varied avifauna of these islands., Academic Press, 1994-03-29, 3<