Search Results: Authors starting with T from KALAMOS BOOKS

Nottingham: Shoestring Press, 2001 Book. Illus. by Trans. Philip Ramp. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Printing.. Translation of "Hoi apostatai" by Philip Ramp"'The action takes place during the Occupation of Greece by the Axis powers. The story is set in a private school, its professors (some more or less mediocre, others frankly comical) pupils and their families. The pupils care very little about their scholarly obligations, and very much about the Resistance (the boys) and about the Resistance and the art of loving (the girls) They are playing a dangerous game and three lose ther lives,]... a wise, sad and beautifully written book. xxx.135p. Stamp of a bookstore in Athens, Greece - else fine..

Athens: Odos Panos, 2002 Book. New Book from Greece. French Wraps. 1st Greek Edition. Modern Greek poetry. 39p. [ 3 copies found in WorldCat] .

Athens: Vivliopoleion tes Hestias, 1997 Book. New. French Wraps. 1st Greek Edition. This study is based on an unpublished MS of 1790 by the famous Greek scholar Adamantios Koraes [1743-1833] The Chios Library MS 313 is included [pages 127-143 with critical apparatus. 185p, appendix Pages uncut. untrimmed. unread..

Athens: Ekdoseis D.N Papademas, 1996 Book. New. French Wraps. 1st Greek Edition. Analysis of Cicero's"Synkrisis Politeion" of Rome and Sparta in Rep. I, II, IV. Includes passages in Latin translated in Greek. 254p. bibliography.Index locorum: p. 235-243; Index nominum et rerum: 245- 254. Publisher's PR sheet in English laid in.[ 9 copies in WorldCat.

Tokyo: Meisei-sha, 2000 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Japanese Edition. Bi-lingual texts in English and Japanese. Table of contents in English.159 + 155p.illus.maps..

London: Hutchinson, 1944 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. Eyewitness account from BBC radio reporter of the campaign in North Africa, and particularly of the Battle of El Alamein."But this book is more than a war correspondent's log of a campaign. It is a distinguished observer's account of his and the soldiers' personal experiences in the desert, written in that intimate style which Godfrey Talbot gives to his BBC broadcasts." (no date 1943-44?) 153p. Plates (B & W) (Spine slightly scuffed and faded).

London, ON: University of Western Ontario Ex-Library. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition.. An interesting account [with some entertaining asides] of the difficult birth and hearty growth to maturity of a Canadian University and of the personalities of the founder, faculty and students who developed it.125p.+ plates Illustrated endpapers Neat sound copy with library marks and bookplates..

Melbourne, Australia : Cambridge University Press, 2005 Book. New. Trade Paperback. 1sr Canadian Edition. "The Greeks have made an enormous contribution to Australian cultural and social life, and this book tells their story. Beginning with an examination of the conditions in Europe that led to migration, it details the role of the Greek people in Australian settlement, the two large waves of Greek migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the ways in which the Greeks have maintained a solid sense of Greek cultural expression. Numbering approximately half a million, the Greek community in Australia comprises the second-largest ethnic minority after the Italians" By the Professor of Hellenic Studies, La Trobe University. x,205p. illus bibliography, index.

Melbourne, Australia : La Trobe University Press, 2005 Book. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. 1st Pbk Edition. An exhaustive analysis of the various linguistic, political and religious attitudes and activities of different "Macedonian" immigrants in Australia. By examining how the inter-communal controversies arose in Australia it also reveals much about the complicated ethnic mixtures of the Balkan states and the ways in which they were politically exploited even in their new environment.387p. illus. bibliography. index.

Montreal: McGill Companions to Modern Greek Studies, 1991 Book. Illus. by Edited By Anne Farmakides & Anne-Marie Farmakides. New Book from Publisher. Hardcover. 1st Can Ed. "McGill Companions to Modern Greek Studies"series Series B, # 8. Contains the text in Greek with extensive notes, questions and explanations in English by Anne Farmakides & Anne-Marie Farmakides xiv, 264 p. : 2 maps ..

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1991 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her suspicious, Americanized daughter..

London: Ward Lock, 1970 Ex-Library. Illus. by Photographs Bin Takahashi. Good. Hardcover. First Thus. Small well illustrated book about the Acropolis, originally published in Japan. 134p. plates (col) map. Ex-library copy, usual slightly loos, but text completelibrary marks, amerls, coming loose in binding, but otherwise complete..

Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International, 1969 Book. Illus. by Photographs Bin Takahashi. Fine. French Wraps. 1st Edition. (This Beautiful World Series Vol.12) Small illustrated book about the Acropolis,originally published in Japan. 134p. plates (col) map..

Toronto: Scholastic / Madison Press, 1997 Book. Illus. by Greg Ruhl. Fine. Laminated HC. First Thus. "I Was There " series. ". with fascinating text and splendid, accurate, illustrations, this book recreates the lost world of this buried Roman city and--based on archaeological detective work-describes how Eros the steward might have lived, and how he came to die in his master's house. Returnoing to the present , the ongoing scientific study of Pompeii is described, showing how it is helping us to learn more abot life during Roman times. 48p. illus. col.

Athens: Lycabettus Press, 1990 Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Greek Edition. "When I moved to Athens I began serving these, my favorite recipes, to friends and colleagues at the Hellenic American Union.People were always asking for "the recipe" and thus this book was born". 96p. .

Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1990 Ex-Library. Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus. "A small masterpiece, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women is a novel about loneliness, love, and companionship of the most unexpected kind. In this story of Japanese society and manners, Tanizaki gives us a perfectly-formed oddball comedy, and a love triangle in which the only real rival is feline. " Translated by Paul McCarthy, Professor of Comparative Cultures at Surugadai University. This translation of A Cat, a Man, and Two Women won the Japan-America Friendship Commission Prize in 1991. 164p.Neat tight copy ffep missing, Library labels on fjdj..

New York: St Martins Press, 1999 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Ed... Fatal Majesty is the story of Mary Queen of Scots - but this is no conventional retelling of a fascinating yet familiar tale. Reay Tannahill, with her mastery of characterisation, pace and plot, presents Mary's life not simply as a romantic saga on the grand scale, but also as one of the most complex and violent political thrillers in the annals of British history.466P. .

London: Century, 1985 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st UK Ed... Description In 1426, leaving her home in the sun-bleached courts of Avignon, seventeen-year-old Ninian rides into the darkness and strife of Scotland to marry a stranger. Her path crosses that of Gavin Cameron of Kinveil, priest and Chancellor of Scotland. Laconic, ambitious and handsome, he is the one man the Stewart king dares to trust, the one man strong enough to save the kingdom from the civil war planned by the charming, implacable Archdeacon Columba Crozier and his bastard sun, Adam de Verne. Tied by blood on one side and by an overwhelming -- and forbidden -- love on the other, Ninian, growing from her careless girlhood into a beautiful woman and an artist of brilliance and power, is precipitated into violence and tragedy, in which she, too, has a vital part to play.479p. Genealogy on endpapers ..

Chatam, Ontario: The Shepherd Publishing Co, 1939 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Can Ed.. The author was Superintendent of Schools, Chatham,Ontario. This book is "A Condensation of a Thesis Submitted in Conformity With the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Pedagogy in the University of Toronto". and includes and array of statistical charts and tables reflecting the reults of various reading and intelligence tests administered to White and Negro schoolchildren in the area during the 1930s. 'It is proposed in the following work to give some account of the history of the early settlement of Negroes in Kent County, Ontario, and to make a study of the mental capacity of Kent County coloured children.While there are many data available from the testing of American Negroes, very few attempts have been made to examine the mental capacity of any reasonably large group of Canadian Negroes. Kent County, Ontario, was among the few regions where Black people were found in comparatively large… Read More

Toronto: Longmans,GreeN & Company, 1957 Ex-Library. Illus. by Illustrations by Sylvia Hahn. Fine. Rebound Copy. 3rd Edition. Vintage Canadian school textbook covering the explorers who sailed west and discovered and settled the New World. 267p .illus. maps. Rebound in handsome leather covers .