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Search Books Please visit the How to Order page to place an order. To search for a book, you can fill in as many or as few of the fields below as you wish. If you are not getting any results, try leaving some of the fields blank. Order Now! BookId: D6-0037 Title: The Tragedy of Coriolanus - The New Huudson Shakespeare Author: Shakespeare / Henry Norman Hudson Publisher: Ginn % Cy Price: 30.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D6-004105 Title: The terror of St Trinian's or Angela's prince charming Author: Timothy Shy , Ronald Searle Publisher: Max Parrish Price: 45.00 Description: Max Parrish, London, 1954. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: none. Ronald Searle (illustrator). Eight Impression. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The book is tightly bound with good, unworn and unbumped edges. Bright,. 128 clean and crisp pages. Great illustrations by Ronald Searle... Order Now! BookId: D6-010393 ISBN: 0586033815 Title: Sexus The rosy crucifixion Author: Henry Miller Publisher: Grafton Price: 15.00 Description: Panther, 1970. Paperback. Condition: Used: Good. 462 pages. Published by Panther Books. Henry Miller's work is one long autobiographical wrestle with the world ,flesh,devil and angel .... One of the best of the Miller's saga. Order Now! BookId: D6-01197 Title: Portrait in Sepia Author: Isabel Allende Publisher: Harper Collins Price: 35.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D6-0121 Title: Force of Circumstance The third volume of her autobiography Author: Simone de Beauvoir Publisher: Penguin Price: 30.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D6-1 Title: Unless Author: Carol Shields Publisher: Random Price: 37.00 Description: While on the surface not much happens, Shields drives the reader forward through her exploration of the plight and powerlessness of her central character. The book is, at times, largely about the inner life of a writer, and the practice and the process of writing a novel. For all of her life, 44 year old Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light 'summertime' fiction. But this placid existence is cracked wide open when her beloved eldest daughter, Norah, drops out to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads 'GOODNESS.' Reta's search for what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement turns into an unflinching and surprisingly funny meditation on where we find meaning and hope. Warmth, passion and wisdom come together in Shields' remarkably supple prose. Unless, a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing, proves her mastery of extraordinary fictions about ordinary life. Carol Ann Shields, CC OM FRSC (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries (also available in our store), which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada. The book is as new , very good dust jacket , price cut but excellent otherwise. , mark form a sticker of some king on the jacket. the inside pinkish cloth hard cover with name of author and title in gold on the spine, no past owner name, , book is almost in perfect condition, some pencil marks and in the last end papers some notes from an English teacher .... interesting .321 pages Order Now! BookId: D6-10 Title: Aging in Canada Social Perspectives Author: Victor W Marshall Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Price: 24.00 Description: This volume combines ten papers on various aspects of aging in Canada (which together have been published in a special issue of the Journal of Canadian Studies) with several of the most important and interesting relevant essays from other sources. The result is a wide-ranging overview of the subject. ... Victor Marshall's research has focused on structural changes in the nature of work and their consequences for workers over the life course; work and retirement of Canadian Forces veterans; international comparisons of workforce aging in the Information Technology sector, and the global impact of workforce aging on a variety of social and health outcomes. Born in Calgary, and with a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University, Victor Marshall had a rich academic career extending over 40 years, from his first academic appointment in the Department of Sociology at McMaster University in 1970.... The book is a clean soft cover paperback, with blue cover, in good condition . It has been read before but is clean of writings or markings.... 285 pages plus a large bibliography. Order Now! BookId: D6-11 Title: An Economic History of Canada Author: Mary Quayle Innis Publisher: Ryerson Press Price: 30.00 Description: "This is the first economic history of Canada to be published. This volume covers the period of occupation and expansion in the northern half of the continent to 1914. In it an attempt has been made to advance from the geographic and technological approach toward work done in the constitutional field and to stake out a broad field for the study of Canadian cultural growth" Mary Emma Quayle Innis (April 13, 1899 – January 10, 1972) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and author of historical works including An Economic History of Canada; three illustrated books for children about the country's founding; a history of the Canadian YMCA; and, Travellers West, an account of three 19th century expeditions across western Canada. In addition, she researched and edited several books about women and Canadian history including a scholarly edition of Mrs. Simcoe's Diary, kept from 1791 to 1796, by Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, the wife of John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. This book is a Hard cover in very good condition , but it doesn't have the dust jacket , gone with the time. The cover is black cloth, name of author and title in gold on the spine. . Condition very good, clean inside, no writing and marking but fir the past owner name on end paper. 292 pages plus biography and index . Good presentation , easy to read. Order Now! BookId: D6-12 Title: The Vertical Mosaic an analyis of Social Class and Power in Canada. Author: John Porter Publisher: University of Toronto Press Price: 60.00 Description: The Vertical Mosaic: An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada, Porter's most important work, was published in 1965 by University of Toronto Press. It was the study of equality of opportunity and the exercise of power by bureaucratic, economic and political elites in Canada. John Arthur Porter (November 12, 1921 – June 15, 1979) was a Canadian sociologist from 1950 to the late 1970s. His work in the field of social stratification opened up new areas of inquiry for many sociologists in Canada. Porter was born in Vancouver and completed his education at the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom. There, he became interested in studies of social class. On returning to Canada he joined the faculty of Carleton University. He remained at Carleton as a professor, and later, as department chairman, dean and academic vice-president. He was also visiting professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto. The Vertical Mosaic: An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada, Porter's most important work, was published in 1965 by University of Toronto Press. It was the study of equality of opportunity and the exercise of power by bureaucratic, economic and political elites in Canada. Porter was concerned with challenging the image that Canada was a classless society with "no barriers to opportunity." Porter concludes The Vertical Mosaic with the following observations: Canada is probably not unlike other western industrial nations in relying heavily on its elite groups to make major decisions and to determine the shape and direction of its development. The nineteenth-century notion of a liberal citizen-participating democracy is obviously not a satisfactory model by which to examine the processes of decision-making in either the economic or the political contexts... If power and decision-making must always rest with elite groups, there can at least be open recruitment from all classes into the elite. (p. 558). Porter argues that Marxist class analysis, based on ownership of the means of production is a "questionable criterion of class in modern industrial society" (p. 25). Porter rejects power as the basis for social class, with the observation that conflict between those with power and the powerless is nonexistent. Porter constructs a new model based on the study of elites. Elites are those who make decisions in the hierarchical institutional systems of modern society. The Book is a soft cover, no dust jacket, in very good condition. Name of past owner on end paper, but no other writing or marking through the book which is clean . 626 pages including index , a great book in Sociology. Order Now! BookId: D6-13 Title: Canada at the Crossroads A Liberal agenda for the 90s and beyond Author: Paul Hellyer Publisher: Chimo media Price: 4.95 Description: Paul Theodore Hellyer PC (August 6, 1923 – August 8, 2021) was a Canadian engineer, politician, writer, and commentator. He was the longest serving member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada at the time of his death. A small booklet presenting the Agenda of the Liberal party for the 90s and the future.... new , in great condition, 97 pages . Order Now! BookId: D6-14 Title: An Option for Quebec Author: Rene Levesque Publisher: McClelland Price: 12.00 Description: An Option for Quebec (French: Option Québec) is an essay by former Premier of Quebec René Lévesque published in 1968. The essay presents the constitutional proposal of a group of progressive liberals who, after leaving the Liberal Party of Quebec, formed the Sovereignty-Association Movement. René Lévesque GOQ ; August 24, 1922 – November 1, 1987) was a Québécois politician and journalist who served as the 23rd premier of Quebec from 1976 to 1985. He was the first Québécois political leader since Confederation to attempt, through a referendum, to negotiate the political independence of Quebec. Starting his career as a reporter, and radio and television host, he later became known for his eminent role in Quebec's nationalization of hydro, and as an ardent defender of Quebec sovereignty. He was the founder of the Parti Québécois, and before that, a Liberal minister in the Lesage government from 1960 to 1966. The small book is a soft cover in good condition, no dust jacket , portrait of quebec leader Rene levesque , on the cover . 128 pages , clean no writing or marking . Order Now! BookId: D6-15 Title: The Unjust Society ... The tragedy of Canada's Indians Author: Harold Cardinal Publisher: M G Hurtig Price: 12.00 Description: Possessed of a wicked gift for satire, Cardinal summed up the government's approach as “The only good Indian is a non-Indian.” He coined the term “buckskin curtain” to describe the barriers that indifference, ignorance and bigotry had placed in the way of his people. Published in 1969, The Unjust Society was Cardinal’s response to Trudeau’s “just society” government system – in which Indian rights would be abolished. It is said that “The Unjust Society was instrumental in causing the Canadian government to abandon the policy of the White Paper” (source). Obviously a powerful book that connected a lot of Indigenous people across Turtle Island, as well as confronted the internal an patriarchal hate and bigotry that is, still, being bred into Canadian identity today. Reading the book, it’s language is reminiscent of the time “Indian” and “Eskimo” being used by the author reflects the times, but also the political atmosphere. It’s somewhat ironic that we are currently under yet another Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada. Key points discussed is the idea that as Indigenous people, we need to be at the tables when Acts and policies are in in discussion that would directly affect us. Cardinal directly addresses the idea that we – Indigenous and non-Indig, have different viewpoints of the world, and that’s alright. What matters is respecting each others opinion, but that simply isn’t the case right now/or then, where the Canadian Gov’t talks and decides whats best for us. Cardinal warns that the youth will organize and organize well, as when we gave no faith in a Canadian Government, we will seek to destroy it in changing it, and it’s better to work with Indigenous people now, before we get to that point. I think the most startling thing in the whole book is how little things have changed. the book is a paperback in good/fair condition , np dust jacket . the inside is clean no name of past owner , no writing or marking, 171 pages . Order Now! BookId: D6-16 Title: A new and Better Canada ... Principles and Policies of a new Canadian Political Party Author: Mel Hurtig Publisher: Stoddart Price: 12.00 Description: The book argues that Canada's social reality often fails to resemble Canadians' perceived identity, and encourages Canadians to become more politically engaged. Melvin Hurtig, OC, publisher, political activist, author (born 24 June 1932 in Edmonton, AB; died 3 August 2016 in Vancouver, BC). Melvin Hurtig, OC, publisher, political activist, author (born 24 June 1932 in Edmonton, AB; died 3 August 2016 in Vancouver, BC). In 1956, Hurtig opened a bookstore, Hurtig Books, in Edmonton. The store soon became a centre for the literary community and grew into one of the largest retail book operations in Canada. Hurtig sold his stores in 1972 and concentrated on publishing Canadian books under the imprint Hurtig Publishers; he was twice named Canadian Book Publisher of the Year (1975, 1981). Most notably, Hurtig conceived of and published two editions of the highly acclaimed Canadian Encyclopedia (1985 and 1988) and Junior Encyclopedia of Canada (1990). He sold Hurtig Publishers to Toronto-based McClelland & Stewart in 1991. The book is new , a small paperback in perfect condition, no dust jacket. the inside is perfect , no writing or marking , 91 pages, clean and easy to read. Order Now! BookId: D6-17 Title: Sex in the Snow Canadian Social Values at the end of the Millennium Author: Michael Adams Publisher: Penguin Price: 30.00 Description: Using data from his extensive, innovative polls, Adams argued that the changing postures of Canadians had been shaped by three major quests: for personal autonomy, for pleasure, and for spiritual fulfillment. A decade later, Adams finds that, remarkably, Canadians still pursue those same values in ever-greater numbers. In this 1997 bestseller, Michael Adams describes the trajectory of social change in Canada, illuminating the society's movement over the latter half of the 20th century from values of religiosity and deference to authority to those of secularism and autonomy. Dividing the population into twelve distinct social values "tribes," Adams argues that for Canadians demography is no longer destiny. In contemporary Canada, individuals' identities are increasingly defined not by traditional demographic markers such as age, race, gender, and class, but by their personal values and worldviews aspect of their existence The book is as new , soft cover , no dust jacket , name of past owner on first page .Inside is perfect , no writing or marking , 220 pages , clean , easy to read. Order Now! BookId: D6-18 Title: The warrior's honour Author: Michael Ignatieff Publisher: Viking Price: 28.00 Description: New. First edition. The Warrior's Honor is a report and a reflection on what he has seen in the places where ethnic war has become a way of life. Ignatieff charts the rise of the new moral interventionists--the relief workers, reporters, delegates, and diplomats who believe that other people's misery is of concern to us all. Michael Grant Ignatieff PC CM born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian author, academic and former politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a historian, Ignatieff has held senior academic posts at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, and Toronto. Most recently, he was rector and President of Central European University; he held this position from 2016 until July 2021. The Warrior's Honour, published in 1998, deals with ethnically motivated conflicts, including the conflicts in Afghanistan and Rwanda. The book is new , with dust jacket, price uncut in excellent condition. the book itself has a black and Red cloth cover in perfect condition , name of author and title in gold letters on the black spine . inside of the book is perfect , no marking, no writing , no name ... 207 pages including index. Order Now! BookId: D6-19 Title: Canadian Short Stories ... Second series Author: Robert Weaver Publisher: Oxford University Press Price: 30.00 Description: This groundbreaking book remains one of the finest anthologies of Canadian short fiction ever published, its selections as readable and relevant as they were back in 1960 when first chosen by editor Robert Weaver. Among the 27 stories included here are enduring classics by such early giants of Canadian literature as Frederick Philip Grove, Morley Callaghan, and Sinclair Ross; works by writers like Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, and Mavis Gallant, then viewed as relative newcomers, now firmly ensconced in the pantheon of Canadian letters; and stories by Ethel Wilson, Hugh Garner, Joyce Marshall, and others less well-known to twenty-first century readers but whose stories still grip the imagination and tell us something about our country and ourselves. Robert Weaver: Introduction E.W. Thompson (1849-1924): The Privilege of the Limits Sir Charles G.D.Roberts (1860-1943): Strayed Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947): Paul Farlotte Stephen Leacock (1869-1944): The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias Frederick Philip Gove (1871-1948): Snow Ethel Wilson (b. 1890): Mrs. Golightly and the First Convention Ringuet (b. 1895): The Heritage Raymond Knister (1900-32): Mist-Green Oats Thomas H. Raddall (b. 1903): Blind MacNair Morley Callaghan (b. 1903): Last Spring They Came Over Morley Callaghan (b. 1903): A Sick Call Leo Kennedy (b. 1907): A Priest in the Family Sinclair Ross (b. 1908): The Painted Door Ralph Gustafson (b. 1909): The Pigeon Malcolm Lowry (1909-57): The Bravest Boat Irving Layton (b. 1912): Vacation in La Voiselle Hugh Garner (b. 1913): One, Two, Three Little Indians Joyce Marshall (b. 1913): The Old Woman W.O. Mitchell (b. 1914): The Owl and the Bens P.K. Page (b. 1916): The Green Bird Anne Hébert (b. 1916): The House on the Esplanade Roger Lemelin (b. 1919): The Stations of the Cross Mavis Gallant (b. 1922): The Legacy James Reaney (b. 1926): The Bully Douglas Spettigue (b. 1930): The Haying Alice Munro (b. 1931): The Time of Death Mordecai Richler (b. 1931): Benny, the War in Europe, and Myerson's Daughter Bella 378 pages, Paperback, soft cover , no dust jacket . Used condition but good, with a long past owner named as a gift giver for a wedding anniversary ! Nice present, a very good book to read. Order Now! BookId: D6-19A1076 Title: The Pillow book of Sei Shonagon Author: Sei Shonagon Publisher: Penguin Price: 25.00 Description: The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observations, and subtle impressions. The Pillow Book is a book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Sh?nagon during her time as court lady to Empress Consort Teishi during the 990s and early 1000s in Heian-period Japan. The book was completed in the year 1002. The work is a collection of essays, anecdotes, poems, and descriptive passages that have little connection to one another except for the fact that they are ideas and whims of Sh?nagon's spurred by moments in her daily life. In it she included lists of all kinds, personal thoughts, interesting events in court, poetry, and some opinions on her contemporaries. While it is mostly a personal work, Sh?nagon's writing and poetic skill makes it interesting as a work of literature, and it is valuable as a historical document. Sh?nagon meant her writing in The Pillow Book for her eyes only, but part of it was accidentally revealed to the Court during her life: "she inadvertently left it [her writing] on a cushion she put out for a visiting guest, who eagerly carried it off despite her pleas." She wrote The Pillow Book as a private endeavor of enjoyment for herself; it seemed to be a way for her to express her inner thoughts and feelings that she was not allowed to state publicly due to her lower standing position in the court. Though Sh?nagon never intended her work for eyes other than her own, through the centuries it has become a famous work of literature. Six passages from the book were first translated into English in 1889 by T. A. Purcell and W. G. Aston. Other notable English translations have been the partial translation by Arthur Waley in 1928, the first complete translation by Ivan Morris in 1967, and Meredith McKinney's complete translation in 2006. Sei Sh?nagon (????, c.?966–1017 or 1025) was a Japanese author, poet, and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period. She is the author of The Pillow Book (???, makura no s?shi). This is a great little book which I enjoy a lot .... Penguin soft cover from 1979 in very good condition. , solid spine, no writing, marking or spoiling , 410 pages . Order Now! BookId: D6-19B1289 ISBN: 0312194404 Title: Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast Pillow Book Author: Bill Richardson Publisher: St Martin Griffins Price: 20.00 Description: St. Martin's Griffin, 1998. Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Great condition with minimal wear, aging, or shelf wear. 194 pages. Order Now! BookId: D6-19B1320 Title: West with the Night Author: Beryl Markham Publisher: North Point Press Price: 16.00 Description: Beryl Markham (born Clutterbuck; 26 October 1902 – 3 August 1986) was a Kenyan aviator born in England (one of the first bush pilots), adventurer, racehorse trainer and author. She was the first person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic from Britain to North America. She wrote about her adventures in her memoir, West with the Night. West with the Night is a 1942 memoir by Beryl Markham, chronicling her experiences growing up in Kenya (then British East Africa) in the early 1900s, leading to celebrated careers as a racehorse trainer and bush pilot there. It is considered a classic of outdoor literature and was included in the United States' Armed Services Editions shortly after its publication. In 2004, National Geographic Adventure ranked it number 8 in its list of the 100 best adventure books. Ernest Hemingway was deeply impressed with Markham's writing. Markham was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west in a non-stop solo flight (a westbound flight requires more endurance, fuel, and time than the eastward journey, because the craft must travel against the prevailing Atlantic winds). When Markham decided to take on the Atlantic crossing, no pilot had yet flown non-stop from Europe to New York, and no woman had completed the westward flight solo, though several had died trying. Markham hoped to claim both records. On 4 September 1936, she took off from Abingdon, England. After a 20-hour flight, her Percival Vega Gull, The Messenger, suffered fuel starvation due to icing of the fuel tank vents, and she crash-landed at Baleine Cove on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. She thereby became the first woman to cross the Atlantic east-to-west solo, and the first person to make it from England to North America non-stop from east to west. She was celebrated as an aviation pioneer. The book is a paperback soft cover with portrait of Beryl Markham on the cover . just a small tear near the spine , otherwise very good condition. The inside is good as well , no end papers on the front but a presentation of the book , no past owner name , it may have been on that missing end paper, book is in good condition ,solid spine, no writing or marking , 294 pages. Order Now! BookId: D6-19C1375 ISBN: 1550541129 Title: Bachelor Brother's Bed & Breakfast Author: Bill Richardson Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Price: 20.00 Description: Douglas & McIntyre. Paperback. Condition: As New. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact; pages are clean .152 pages Order Now! BookId: D6-2 Title: Love on the Super-Tax Author: Marghanita Laski Publisher: Cresset Press Price: 35.00 Description: Clarissa and her parents, struggle to make ends meet, juggling shillings and coupons, and trying to save face with the traders who make their living off the backs of their upper crust customers. Upper class Clarissa and her parents, the Duke and Duchess are portrayed as ill-prepared, for the world they find themselves in. Struggling valiantly to hold on to their world and its values – they are figures to be pitied. Her working-class characters, are intelligent, worldly, have opportunities to earn wartime wages that are denied the struggling, upper classes. Social mores were changing in the 1940s and Marghanita Laski’s first readers must have read her novel with a wry smile, and a good deal of understanding for what she was saying. The plot itself – is simply told. Clarissa and her parents are impoverished aristocracy. One son is serving abroad, the other involved in shadowy exploits of the black-market kind. Their country home has been requisitioned by the army, and they live in a kind of genteel squalor in their London home, with no servants, they are frequently hungry and cold. Their fortune; mismanaged by the Duke has disappeared and the Duchess has taken to selling some of her clothes to a dress agency. Clarissa and her parents, struggle to make ends meet, juggling shillings and coupons, and trying to save face with the traders who make their living off the backs of their upper crust customers. They find themselves rather envying the working classes who can take advantage of ‘war wages’ and who are all doing rather well. Marghanita Laski (24 October 1915 – 6 February 1988) was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist. She also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories, and contributed about 250,000 additions to the Oxford English Dictionary. This is a small book by Cresset , hard cover with a dust jacket (no price cut) , dating from 1944 .... time of the changes in the British society , after the war . The hardover has a pale yello-pink cover with title on the front , , title as well with author name on the narrow spine , in brown letters . The inside of the book is getting old but spine is solid and no spoiling unatural (writing,marks) , 127 pages . A funny book if you aren't part of the Supertax ! Order Now! BookId: D6-3 Title: The Female Eunuch Author: Germaine Greer Publisher: Paladin Price: 18.00 Description: The Female Eunuch is a 1970 book by Germaine Greer that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. Greer's thesis is that the "traditional" suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses women sexually, and that this devitalises them, rendering them eunuchs. The Female Eunuch is a 1970 book by Germaine Greer that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. Greer's thesis is that the "traditional" suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses women sexually, and that this devitalises them, rendering them eunuchs. The book was published in London in October 1970. It received a mixed reception, but by March 1971, it had nearly sold out its second printing. It has been translated into eleven languages. Greer's irreverence towards Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis was inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. The work bridged academia and the contemporary arts in presenting the targets of the final section of the book, Revolution; it is in accord, and often associated with, a creative and revolutionary movement of the period. A sequel to The Female Eunuch, entitled The Whole Woman, was published in 1999 The book is a soft cover in very good condition , no dust jacket . The inside of the book is very good , no writing,marking, spoiling, solid spine, 354 pages. Order Now! BookId: D6-4 Title: The little world of Don Camillo Author: Giovanni Guareschi Publisher: Gollancz Price: 32.00 Description: Giovanni Guareschi's writings are always a classy and welcome addition to any bookshelf. Giovanni Guareschi as a young man he drew cartoons for Bartoldo. When the war came he was arrested by the political police for howling in the streets all one night. In 1943 he was captured by the Germans at Alessandria and adopted the slogan;’I will not die even if they kill me’. Back in Italy after the war he became editor-in-chief of Condido at Milan. Don Camillo and Peppone are the fictional protagonists of a series of works by the Italian writer and journalist Giovannino Guareschi set in what Guareschi refers to as the "small world" of rural Italy after World War II. Most of the Don Camillo stories came out in the weekly magazine Candido, founded by Guareschi with Giovanni Mosca. These "Little World" (Italian: Piccolo Mondo) stories amounted to 347 in total and were put together and published in eight books, only the first three of which were published when Guareschi was still alive. Don Camillo is a parish priest and is said to have been inspired by an actual Roman Catholic priest, World War II partisan and detainee at the concentration camps of Dachau and Mauthausen, named Don Camillo Valota (1912–1998). Guareschi was also inspired by Don Alessandro Parenti, a priest of Trepalle, near the Swiss border. Peppone is the communist town mayor. The tensions between the two characters and their respective factions form the basis of the works' satirical plots. The book , here is a nineteenth edition of the Gollancz edition, published in 1953, with the original dust jacket in plain paper, price uncut , clean and in good condition . the book itself hardcover with blue cloth cover , title and name of author on spine with gold letter, in good condition as well . The translation is by Una Vincenzo Troubridge, and the illustrations very likely by Guareschi himself as it was his first interest.... name of past owner on the end paper, other wise clean, solid and in good condition (sometimes difficult with children books), 238 pages. Order Now! BookId: D6-5 Title: Mind and nature Author: Gregory Bateson Publisher: Bantam philosophy Price: 15.00 Description: This classic book summarizes Gregory Bateson's thinking on the subject of the patterns that connect living beings to each other and to their environment. Bateson's classic transdisciplinary work presents us with tools of thought, and explores the presuppositions of science and everyday life. Bateson begins with a list of basic scientific presuppositions that "every schoolboy should know", and further epistemological foundations are laid in two later chapters, one on the importance of combining different perspectives, of having "multiple versions of the world", and the other on different types of relationship. This material is used as the basis for tackling three major topics: finding explicit criteria for the existence of "mind"; examining parallels between learning and evolution as stochastic processes; and constructing a general purpose epistemological schema, a zig-zag between form and process. Mind and Nature deserves its status as a classic, and I hope it continues to be widely read Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. His writings include Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979). The book is an everyday paperback by Bantam , no dust jacket and fair/good condition.Clean , solid , but a bad redmark on side of pages left by a marker , bottom back right pages , not affecting the reading , no name of past owner , 259 pages including index. Order Now! BookId: D6-6 Title: The pursuit of Loneliness American culture at breaking point Author: Philip Slater Publisher: Pelican Price: 24.00 Description: In a classic indictment of American individualism and isolationism, Philip Slater analyzes the great ills of modern society-violence, competitiveness, inequality, and the national 'addiction' to technology. Slater, chairman of the sociology department at Brandeis, views with increasing alarm the irrationally strong reactions we experience toward dissident "blacks, hippies, and student radicals." Contrasting "our intense fear of small and comparatively unarmed minorities" with the cheerful, schizoid blandness with which we greet the possibility of a nuclear holocaust or an ecological Armaggedon (or perhaps last night's neighborhood stabbing and the girl's annoying screams), he is very troubled about what sick things must be happening within ourselves. Somehow, in the United States, our emotional programming has blown a very serious fuse. The "human emotionality" of the participants in our society has been strangely warped to bring such responses. A delicate balance has been upset. Philip Elliot Slater (May 15, 1927 – June 20, 2013 was an American sociologist and writer. He was the author of the bestselling 1970 book on American culture, The Pursuit of Loneliness (1970) and of numerous other books and articles.Besides the influential 1970 bestseller The Pursuit of Loneliness, Slater was the author of nine other books of sociology and social commentary. He wrote more than 25 novels and plays. In a prescient 1964 Harvard Business Review article called, "Democracy is Inevitable," he and co-author Warren Bennis predicted the fall of the Soviet bloc and the rise of democracy: "Democracy... is the only system that can successfully cope with the changing demands of contemporary civilization." Slater believed fervently in democracy's adaptive superiority, an idea he would later develop in his last two books of nonfiction, A Dream Deferred (Beacon 1992) and The Chrysalis Effect (Sussex Academic Press 2008). The book is a paperback in used and only fair condition, a good reading copy. No name of past owner and plenty of pencilling and underlines in the text , the book is solid, but used, , some left over sticker on the front, some creasing , but still a good book to read. 174 pages. Order Now! BookId: D6-7 Title: The doors of Perception and Heaven and hell Author: Aldous Huxley Publisher: Penguin books Price: 40.00 Description: ldous Leonard Huxley 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including novels and non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with an undergraduate degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962. Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addressing these subjects in his works such as The Perennial Philosophy, which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism, and The Doors of Perception, which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novel Brave New World and his final novel Island, he presented his visions of dystopia and utopia, respectively. The doors of Perception : Published in 1954, it elaborates on his psychedelic experience under the influence of mescaline in May 1953. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, ranging from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision", and reflects on their philosophical and psychological implications. Heaven and Hell;Heaven and Hell is a philosophical essay by Aldous Huxley published in 1956. Huxley derived the title from William Blake's book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The essay discusses the relationship between bright, colorful objects, geometric designs, psychoactives, art, and profound experience. Both essays are in the same penguin book, These remarkable narratives relate and analyse the author's visonary experiences under the influence of mescalin, an ancient Mexican drug. The book is from 1960 and inperfect condition, 144 pages, very clean. Order Now! BookId: D6-8 Title: Civilization Author: Clive Bell Publisher: Pelican books Price: 28.00 Description: A lovely and blue 1938 edition of Civilization by Clive Bell. This essay has been dedicated to Virginia Woolf, and Bell writes in this dedication: 'Then came the war. And the war, with its political and economic consequences has, as you will soon perceive, modified my ideas considerably. Indeed the difference between this essay and the book about which I used to chatter in your workroom in Fitzroy Square is to be attributed mainly to that differentiating event. For, though the comedy - the spectacle, I mean, of millions of men and women trying by means of political and social organisation to get what they more or less believe they want, and calling what they believe they want good - remains, the illumination is new.' Arthur Clive Heward Bell (16 September 1881 – 17 September 1964) was an English art critic, associated with formalism and the Bloomsbury Group. He developed the art theory known as significant form.Clive Bell joined the pacifist movement in World War I, issuing a pamphlet Peace at Once, which was confiscated by the Lord Mayor of London in 1916. The book a white and blue pelican cover from 1938 is in fair condition , but the cover and first title page are getting loose , the book is clean, 236 pages , no writing or marking ...a good reading copy . Order Now! BookId: D6-9 Title: The Organization man Author: William H Whyte Publisher: Penguin Price: 35.00 Description: The Organization Man by William Whyte was published in 1956 and is considered among the most influential management books ever written. Whyte argues that America has been overtaken by “the social ethic,” a belief that organizations were able to make better decisions and benefit society more. The Organization man : A central tenet of the book is that average Americans subscribed to a collectivist ethic rather than to the prevailing notion of rugged individualism. A key point made was that people became convinced that organizations and groups could make better decisions than individuals, and thus serving an organization became logically preferable to advancing one's individual creativity. Whyte felt this was counterfactual and listed a number of examples of how individual work and creativity can produce better outcomes than collectivist processes. He observed that this system led to risk-averse executives who faced no consequences and could expect jobs for life as long as they made no egregious missteps. He also thought that everyone should have more freedom. William Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte Jr. (July 11, 1917 – July 11, 1999) was an American urbanist, sociologist, organizational analyst, journalist and people-watcher. He identified the elements that create vibrant public spaces within the city and filmed a variety of urban plazas in New York City in the 1970s. The book is an early Penguin book from 1961, with a full orange cover and human faces ... in white, The book is in good condition, 378 pages plus index, no writing or marking , clean reading copy. Order Now! BookId: E1-002673 ISBN: 1858411688 Title: Baseball, a Pictorial Tribute Author: Johnson Lloyd Publisher: Bison Books Price: 25.00 Description: London: Bison Group. 1995, London, 1995. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Picture Book. with index, b/w & many colour photos; 224 pages , mostly B&W and Colour photographs. Order Now! BookId: E1-002680 ISBN: 0831739126 Title: The Pictorial History of Wrestling: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Author: Napolitano, George; Sugar, Bert Randolph Publisher: Gallery Books Price: 22.50 Description: Gallery Books New York, NY, 1985. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. George Napolitano, Bert Randolph Sugar and Jack O'Shea (Photography) (illustrator). 4thPrinting. 8.5 x 11in., 192 Pages. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "All your favorite heroes - and your favorite villains, too - are here: Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, Nick Bockwinkel, Sergeant Slaughter, Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, Ivan Putski, the Iron Sheik, and many, many more, 192 pages , mostly black and white , but for some color photographs . |
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