talonbooks toronto (10 risultati)

First Edition. Very light shelf wear to the wraps. Small / light patch of creasing along the edge of the spine. The internal pages are clean and the binding is sound. This is a solid copy and a interesting read!

Trade Paperback. Condizione: As New. As New book; "Arnason takes a sharp and satirical look at contemporary life, especially at the role of the modern, liberated male. Superficially they are lighthearted and humorous. Dig deeper, however, and there is a genuine concern for the shallowness of North American life. ".

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 088922269X; Clean, tight, unmarked; INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR on title page; couple of very small bumps to spine; otherwise appears unread; "Arnason takes a sharp and satirical look at contemporary life, especially at the role of the modern, liberated male. Superficially they are lighthearted and humorous. Dig deeper, however, and there is a genuine concern for the shallowness of North American life. " . Very Good. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condizione: As New. As New; Part detective story, part memory play, and part supernatural chiller, stars crime - solving Sister Vivian Salter, an astute, flinty yet compelling Catholic nun forced into the role of amateur sleuth. The mystery she uncovers combines family secrets, unanticipated twists, sudden shocks. and, ultimately, a heart-warming love story between an adult child and an elderly, failing parent.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good +. The New Canadian Criticism series. 160 pp including index. Wraps a little rubbed with light edgewear and creasing, back wrap a little yellowed along edges. Leaves are yellowed at edges - interior is o/w unmarked, spine uncreased.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. As new condition; The time: 1938. The place: a one-room schoolhouse in a farming area just outside the fictional village of Baker's Creek. The play chronicles the teacher's struggle to connect with a boy who has cut himself off from everyone, including himself - an to persuade the cautious and close-knit community to open its arms to this stranger in its midst.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 0889222185; Clean, tight, unmarked; SIGNED BY DAVID ARNASON on title page; light bumping to corners; slight wear bottom front edge; owner's name and # on ffep; "A hilarious, compassionate look at male neo-consciousness taking shape in the contemporary western world-a world in which the economic crisis and the feminist vision have shaken to the roots old assumptions about social, political and sexual awareness. " . Very Good. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condizione: New. 1st Can Ed. "Called "the sick man of Europe" at the beginning of the 20th century, 100 years of history have done nothing to effect a cure on a thoroughly dysfunctional Turkey . Repeatedly rebuffed by the European Union because of its corrupt, chaotic and unstable internal affairs, Turkey's "modernist revolution," created by Kemal Ataturk and his successors, has failed to create a cohesive state . Instead it has increasingly divided the people of this once proud empire . Nowhere has this been illustrated more tragically than in the universal cry of dispair among the victims and survivors of the devastating earthquake of 1999: "Where is the state.?" . How and why has this happened? It is to answer this question that . Reed undertook a series of journeys to discover the "hidden Turkey" - its ethnic diversity ,its Islamic spirituality, its ancient and resonant history and the repression and corruption of its current militarist regime." In search also of the mystical Islamic leader Said Nursi. " 320p. plates bibliography.index.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: New. 1st.Can Ed. Journalist's observations on the social and political conditions and the past and present ethnic tensions in the Balkans. 270. illus. maps .bibliography.

Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: no dustjacket. 8vo pp.370. book.