Search Results: Authors starting with W from JKL Books

James Nisbet, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. Ex-library, attractive blue cloth with gilt lettering. Clean text, firmly bound. Small stains on spine, spine ends worn, corners bumped.

U.S.A.: Waveland Pr Inc, 1983. Soft cover. As New.

Mission, BC: Waite Air Photos, 2010. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bright, clean, pages, firmly bound. Cover shows slight bumping of corners only. 112 pages, including colour photographs, blank lines for journal entries. No dust jacket, as issued. Travel journal with "aerial photographs, taken in 2005, of Abbotsford, Burnaby, Bute Inlet, Campbell River, Coquitlam, Hope, Langley, Maple Ridge, nanamo, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Parksville, Pitt Meadows, Port Moody, Powell River, Richmond, Surrey, Vancouver, Victoria, and Whistler.

Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Slight edgewear on dust jacket.

Scottish Academic Press, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Cover shows no shelf-wear. Dust jacket shows slight wear to edges only.

Kansas: Mennonite Brethren Pub. House, 1979. Soft cover. Good. Clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Cover shows some wear. Inscribed by author. BAy 21-4.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. Like new, but with slight wear to cover. 611 pages. Oxford Readings in Feminism series. Contents: Does a sex have a history? / Denise Riley -- The dialects of Black womanhood / Bonnie Thornton Dill -- Theorizing woman:Funu, Guojia, Jiating (Chinese women, Chinese state, Chinese family) / Tani Barlow -- 'Women's history' in transition: the European case / Natalie Zemon Davis -- The traffic in women: notes on the 'political economy' of sex / Gayle Rubin -- Gender: a useful category of historical analysis / Joan Wallach Scott -- African-American women's history and the metalanguage of race / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham -- Carnal knowledge. BAY 21.

Ottawa: Penumbra Press, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Like new, but with slight wear to dust jacket. 118 pages, including numerous black and white photographs. "Mary E. Baruth-Walsh and G. Mark Walsh present this remarkable story in the words of surviving workers and community members who participated in the events of late 1945 in Windsor" -- dust jacket.

Sturgis & Walton, 1917. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-library, published 1917. Clean, unmarked text, firmly bound. Spine faded, corners slightly bumped, edges of pages tanned.

Vancouver, BC: Lands Directorate, Environment Canada , 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Staple bound. Cover shows wear to edges and rubbing. Many colour illustrations. 104 pages. CDN BAY 12.

Boston: Boston Tract Society, 1860. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering and design. Extensive rubbing to cover, wear to edges of cover, and bumped corners. Top of spine is chipped. Pages are clean; binding is firm. Occasional illustrations. No dust jacket, as published. Ex-library with all the markings, including two black ink blocks on the spine.

Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner , 2003. Soft cover. Very Good. Like new, but with slight wear to edges of cover. 271 pages. Contents: Foreword / Pat Schroeder -- Preface -- Introduction : the White House as ultimate prize / Robert P. Watson -- pt. 1. The struggle for political equality -- Breaking the final glass ceiling : when (not if) a woman becomes president / Max J. Skidmore -- Paving the way : the work of the women's movement / Anne N. Costain -- Changing the climate of expectations / Erika Falk and Kathleen Hall Jamieson -- Profile : Shirley Chisholm, blazing trails / Robert P. Watson and Ann Gordon -- pt. 2. The campaign -- Can women enter the "big tents?" : National party structures and presidential nominations / Melissa Haussman. A war chest full of Susan B. Anthony dollars : fund-raising issues for female presidential candidates / Victoria A. Farrar-Myers -- On the way to the White House : communication strategies for women candidates / Dianne Bystrom -- Public discourse and… Read More

Robert Carter & Sons, 1855, 1855. Hardcover. Fair. Clean, unmarked text, firmly bound. Cover shows some wear: boards rubbed, corners bumped, spine tips chipped, edges fraying. Foxing throughout - largely in the margins of the text block, but throughout front and back end papers. Print is clear, text not obscured. Former seminary library book.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in good condition. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Dust jacket shows wear to edges, including a few small nicks. 234 pages. "The preparation and eating of food are inextricably linked with culture. What foods we eat, who prepares and serves, buys or grows them says a great deal about larger social, historical and cultural issues. . . In Food, Gender, and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes, M. J. Weismantel studies the complex roles food plays in all aspects of society in rural highland Ecuador" - inside flap.

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.

Ottawa: National Archives of Canada, 1990. Soft cover. Fair. Two-volume set. Bright, clean pages, firmly bound. Cover shows some wear. Ex-library with all the markings. English and French text (180 and 440 pages). National Archives of Canada, Government Archives Division, General Inventory Series. v. 1. Series 33/1 to 33/75 -- v. 2. Series 33/76 to 33/147. BAY 33.

Garden City Press, 1927. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Clean, unmarked text. Page opposite the title page (photograph) is coming loose - otherwise tightly bound; spine a little faded, cover has minor scuff marks. Ex-library.

United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Soft cover. Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Cover shows some wear - corners and edges.

British Columbia, Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2013. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. As new with slight wear to dust jacket.

Ottawa: Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, 1980. Soft cover. Fair. Clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows significant wear to edges and along spine, crease across upper right corner. Ex-library with all the markings. 131 pages, including b&w photographs, illustrations, and tables. A good reading copy. "Over the last 10 years women have joined unions in unprecedented numbers. More recently the struggles of union women for improved conditions have been widely publicized and supported. A growing number of women are working in or with trade unions to press for improvements for women in the labour force . . . Despite the amount of recent discussion and action on women and trade unions, research on the subject has been remarkably scarce. . . The research presented here is an attempt to fill that gap" -- Introduction. BAY 34.