Search Results: Titles starting with P from JKL Books

Oxford, 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. Ex-library, published in 1880. Attractive brown cover with gilt lettering. Clean text, firmly bound. Slight softening of head of spine, library markings on spine, cracking inside hinges.

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Text is clean and unmarked, binding is firm. Endpapers have foxing: more prominent on front free endpapers. Dust jacket has a couple of small nicks, minor edge wear. 170 pages. BAY 8.

Toronto: Clarke, Irwin and Co., 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Poor. Clean, unmarked pages, with the exception of a small brown 1/4" stain on title and contents pages. Binding is firm. Dust jacket is in poor condition: grubby with a number of small open and closed tears (see image). Label on inside back cover (Vancouver Art Gallery). First edition. CDN BAY 9.

Sutton West, ON: Paget Press, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Orange cloth with gilt lettering. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Spine tips are bumped. Small closed tear across top of spine (cover and dust jacket). Dust jacket in very good condition, with the exception of aforementioned tear. 50 unnumbered pages. Introduced by Penelope Johan. "Though he's been an important player in the publishing industry for over 40 years, Jack Hannan has been one of Canadian poetry's best-kept secrets. . . Hannan's poetry, which has been compared to Stephane Mallarmé's and John Ashbery's, is mysterious and fluid, hermetic and hypnotic, evoking the crescendo of a music score or the emotional pull of an oil painting" -- Open Book - Toronto.

London: Lutterworth Press , 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Cover shows minor wear only. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. No dust jacket.

Regina, SK: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1997. Soft cover. Good. Clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows wear to edges; corners are bumped. Ex-library with all the markings. 202 pages, including b&w photographs, illustrations, and maps. "A fascinating study encompassing the origins of the names of hundreds of Saskatchewan [Canada] cities, towns, and hamlets, and a host of other sites in the province. A 'must read' for anyone interested in Saskatchewan history" -- back cover. BAY 34.

France, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows minor wear. 144 pages. " The People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) began almost forty years ago as an anti-Shah study group in the University of Tehran. Slowly, its leadership moved toward a combination of Marxism and Islamic fundamentalism, from study to violence. Yet, when the Shah fell in 1979, the PMOI began a bloody and indiscriminate war that lasted until May 2003. It is considered to be one of the most lethal and unpredictable terrorist organizations in the world" -- back cover. BAY 35.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Like new with minor wear to dust jacket.

Tokyo: Japan Publishing Industry Foundaton For Culture (JPIC), 2017. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Contents: Cold war between Japan and China -- Senkaku turbulence -- Japan-U.S. alliance and Okinawa -- Hidden war -- Cooperation by Japan, the U.S., Australia, and ASEAN encircling China -- The ruthless economic battle between Japan and America's TPP and China's AIIB -- China needs to learn from Showa history -- Chronology of key events.

Ho Chi Minh City: Vietham Buddhist University, 2006. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Like new, but with some rubbing of cover. 437 pages. No jacket, as issued. "The pages that follow will be dealing with Vasubandhu and his philosophy, a subject which is laden with so much controversy and confusing questions that even the identity of Vasubandhu himself is put into doubt. Scholars generally agree, however, to consider him to be an idealistic philosopher . . . according to which 'consciousness' is the sole reality outside which nothing exists.' . . . My own research about him and his philosophy indicates the contrary, nonetheless" -- Preface.

Adelaide: Dulwich Centre Publications, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows some wear to spine and edges; small faded stamp. Stamp on half-title page also. 154 pages. Contents: 1. On Being a Systematic Therapist -- 2. The Seven Sources of Illusions -- 3. Pathways to Radical Relativism -- 4. The Chicken and the Egg: A hindsight view of therapy -- 5. Criticism of Psychotherapy: Attack is the best form of defense -- 6. Adverse Effects of Psychotherapeutic Beliefs -- 7. Return of the Question "Why?" -- 8. Openess - A New Megtrend in Human Services -- 9. The Use of Humour in Brief Therapy.

2009. Soft cover. Very Good. This is the book that accompanied the DVD. DVD is not included. Book consists of bright, clean, unmarked pages. Cover shows very little wear. (126 pp.) Two 7 x 4" glossy replicas of the "14 Hour Technicolor Dream" poster included (Mike McInnerney's Original Poster Design - 1967) on separate sheets.

Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows minor wear only. 330 pages, including b&w and color photographs, illustrations, maps. Contents: Introduction : local acts of placing and remembering / James Opp and John C. Walsh -- Performing public memory and re-placing home in the Ottowa Valley, 1900-58 / John C. Walsh -- History and the Six Nations : the dynamics of commemoration, colonial space, and colonial knowledge / Cecilia Morgan -- Edmonton's Jasper Avenue : public ritual, heritage, and memory on Main Street / Frances Swyripa -- The highland heart in Nova Scotia : place and memory at the Highland Village Museum / Alan Gordon -- "That big statue of whoever" : material commemoration and narrative in the Niagara Region / Russell Johnston and Micheal Ripmeester -- Placing the displaced worker : narrating place in deindustrializing Sturgeon Falls, Ontario / Steven High -- Capital queers :… Read More

Presbyterian Church in Canada, 1921, 1921. Soft cover. Fair. Ex-library. Clean, unmarked text; volume firmly bound. Cover shows some wear/grubbiness under library's transparent adhesive covering. Pages lightly tanned.

Toronto: Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, 2001. Soft cover. Fine. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Cover shows only slight wear. 93 pages. CDN BAY 13.

Dom Polski, 2012. Soft cover. Very Good. Clean, unmarked pages. Cover shows light shelf-wear only. Back cover: Piotr Jaroszynski is "Professor and Chairman of the Department of Philosophy of Culture at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland)

Duncan, BC: WISE Society, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows minor wear only: 1.5" crease across back corner. 181 pages. "With rare courage and unrelenting honesty , 21 women tell their stories of living below Canada's poverty line. . . Because the stories begin in childhood, they give a more complete account of how and why poverty happens" -- back cover. BAY 27.

2015. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. Like new. 348 pages. This book "is the a result of the joint Project 'Policy Impact of Civil Society in BRIC countries' by Public Policy Department of National Research University Higher School of Economics and 'Interlegal' International Foundation, supported by International Organization OXFAM as part of the EU funded academic research, namely 'Empowering CSO Networks in an unequal Multi-polar world'" -- title page verso. Contents: Pt. I Civil Society in Brazil: consolidation of Protest Publics -- Pt. II Civil Society in Russia: confronting or escaping progressive legislation? -- Pt. III Civil Society in India: growing variety of agencies and digital mobilization -- Pt. IV Civil Society in China: main-land traditions and the drive of Hong Kong "occupy" -- Pt. V Civil Society in South Africa: NGOs vs Grass Roots Movements: who wins the future?

Canada: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1990. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Cover shows light edge-wear. CDN BAY 7-42.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Dust jacket shows minor wear only. Former owner's name on front free endpaper and title page. 204 pages. "Mexican politics is changing faster; and becoming more important to the United States, than at any time in the past sixty years, and this book shows that popular political organization plays a far more significant role in these changes than previously thought. Democratic transitions across Latin America have raised the profile of popular movements, but this book argues that the existing theory provides an inadequate account of the organization, strategies, and identity of such movements. This book explores the process of popular mobilization in contemporary Mexico through the experience of the country's most important popular organization - the teachers' movement" -- dust jacket. BAY 35.