Search Results: Titles starting with D from JKL Books

London: EARTHSCAN, 1993. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows minor wear. 183 pages. Date stamp on half-title page. "These world-renowned experts - all contributors to this book - are expressing their professional outrage over a feasibility study that recommends construction of the Three Gorges Dam. The study, funded through foreign aid, tries to justify the forced relocation of one million people, and the destruction of one of the remaining wonders of the world" -- back cover. BAY 28.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Dust jacket shows only slight wear (scratches are in photograph, not cover). Includes b&w photographs and family tree. "Guinness is a name known the world over, a name popular with beer drinkers, respected in banking circles and high on the list of society-watching journalists; a name associated with glamour, scandal, and above all, success. But just who were and who are the Guinnesses?" (dust jacket). BAY 35.

London: Joseph Masters, 1856. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Brown cloth, binding solid, pages bright. Covers show wear (rubbing and bumped corners) and there are pencil markings in margins throughout. Former owner's name on front free end paper. 1896 newspaper clipping of Denison's obituary has been enclosed between two pages, which are tanned as a result. Former owner's name at top of front free end paper. Ex-lib. A rare volume in robust condition. REGS-403.

Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2004. Soft cover. Very Good. Signed by author on title page. Clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover has bumped corners, minor edgewear. "An impassioned plea to keep culture at the heart of the Canadian experiment" -- back cover. Contents: Preface; Introduction; I. Making the Case; 1 Culture, the Heartbeat of a People; 2 Art and Society; 3 The Promise of Our Diversity; 4 The Power of Myth:The Importance of Our Stories; II. Making the Connection; 5 The Artist; 6 The Arts Organization; 7 The Shock of the New Technologies; 8 Business and the Arts; III. Making It Happen; 9 The Role of Government; 10 The Canada Council for the Arts; Envoi; Acknowledgements; Bibliography.

USA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Soft cover. Good. Crisp, clean pages with occasional small pencil markings in text. Binding is firm. Cover shows minor wear to corners. BAY 23-5.

Transaction Publishers, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Cover shows no shelf-wear.

U.S.A.: State University of New York Press, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows minor wear - lower right corner is bumped.

Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Like new. 318 pages. Contents: Introduction -- Flowers in the Sky (1981) -- The Return (1981) -- Rice Bowl (1984) -- A Candle or the Sun (1991) -- The Shrimp People (1991) -- The Crocodile Fury (1992) -- Green Is The Colour (1993) -- Abrahams Promise (1995) -- Perhaps In Paradise (1997) -- Playing Madame Mao (2000) -- Shadow Theatre (2002) - Conclusion.

Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Cover shows only slight wear. Near-new condition. Contents: An Indonesian view, Indonesian, Australia and the region / S. Wiryono -- A regional view, the Garuda dan the Kangoroo / K. Kesavapany -- An Australian view, the outlook for the relationship / Paul Kelly -- The new Australia-Indonesia strategic relationship, a note of caution / Hugh White -- The war on terror, the primacy on national response / Rizal Sukma -- Strange, suspicious packages / David Reeve -- The Indonesian student market to Australia, trends and challenge / Isla Rogers-Winarto -- The centrality of the periphery, Australia, Indonesia, and Papua / Richard Chauvel -- The Australia-Indonesia partnership for reconstruction and development / Scott Dawson -- The SBY promise to the business world / Noke Kiroyan --Australia and Indonesian in the wider context of regional economic relations / Stephen… Read More

Toronto: Univ of Toronto , 2014. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Firmly bound. Cover shows slight wear only. Small sticker on back free endpaper. No dust jacket.

New York: BPS Books, 2014. Soft cover. As New. Like new. "Ray Robinson relates how, as Canada's youngest diplomat, he rose to become, arguably, his coutry's most influential environmental official, serving throughout the first two decades of the contemporary environmental era. Robinson's account also details his central role in cleaning up the Great Lakes, battling acid rain, getting lead out of gasoline, and writing the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act" -- back cover. BAY 36.

Macmillan, 1899, 1899. No Binding. Good. MICROFICHE. 6 sheets, each in own envelope. Originally published in London by MacMillan, in 1899. Microfiche produced by Lost Cause Press, Louisville, 1981

U.S.A.: St. Martin's Griffin, 2002. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Cover shows slight shelf-wear only. BAY 16-2.

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1978. Soft cover. Very Good. Pale green cover with red lettering and red and silver design. Clean, unmarked pages,firmly bound. Cover shows wear to edges and along spine, crease across very top right corner, and a price sticker. 237 pages, including b&w photographs. A good reading copy. BAY 34.

New York: Peter Lang , 2008. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, with the exception of two pages which have pen underlining. Binding is firm. Cover shows minor wear only. Five pages have creases across corners. 397 pages. Contents: Foreword / James A. Banks -- Introduction / Darren E. Lund & Paul R. Carr -- Framing the notion of democracy and democratic education -- Resisting neo-liberal global capitalism and its depredations: education for a new democracy / Dave Hill -- From the margins to the mainstream: critical pedagogies and global citizenship -- Education in the era of globalization / Michael O'Sullivan -- Interrogating citizenship and democracy in education: implications for disrupting universal values / Jennifer Tupper -- "Other-ed" pedagogy: the praxis of critical democratic education / Ali Sammel & Gregory Martin -- Can rebelliousness bear democracy? / Reinaldo Matias Fleuri -- Reflections on democratic dissonance and dissidence -- Educators'… Read More

Programme For Theology & Cultures In Asia, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good. Clean, unmarked text, firmly bound. Inscription on title page. Very little wear to cover.

Amnesty International UK, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Cover shows very little shelf-wear. BAY 16-7.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, with the exception of five pages that have highlighting. Dust jacket shows some wear to edges. 258 pages. "Modern scholars of most major religious traditions, who seek gender egalitarian interpretations of their scriptural texts, confront a common dilemma: how can they produce interpretations that are at once egalitarian and authoritative, within traditions that are deeply patriarchal? This book examines the challenges and resources that the Islamic tradition offers to Muslim scholars who seek to address this dilemma. This is achieved through extensive study of the intellectual history of a Qur'anic verse that has become especially contentious in the modern period: Chapter 4, Verse 34 (Q. 4:34)" -- dust jacket. Oxford Islamic Legal Studies.

Scholar's Choice, 2015. Soft cover. Very Good. 2015 reproduction of the 1910 ed. Like new, but with slight wear to corners of cover. 238 pages. "The memoirs of Miss Elliott offer a twofold interest: they show the attitude of the Duc d'Orleans, Philippe-Egalite, during the course of the French Revolution, and they present a picture of revolutionary prisons . . ." -- Introduction.

London: J. Bumpus and R. Baynes, 1821. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. A New edition," translated from the French by Samuel Boyse. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Clean, fairly bright pages, with some foxing. Front and rear internal hinges have cracked. Corners of cover are a little bumped; spine has faded. Binding is firm. Ex-library (seminary). 204 pages. A rare volume.