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  • Bicycling for Ladies

    by Maria E. Ward ...
    "Bicycling for Ladies" by Maria E. Ward is a pioneering work that explores the joys and benefits of cycling for women. The book serves as both a practical guide and an inspirational manifesto, encouraging women to embrace the freedom and empowerment that comes with riding a bicycle. Ward discusses the social implications of women cycling, challenging the norms of her time and advocating for women ... Read more

    $1.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bicycling for Ladies

    by Maria E. Ward ...
    I have found that in bicycling, as in other sports essayed by them, women and girls bring upon themselves censure from many sources. I have also found that this censure, though almost invariably deserved, is called forth not so much by what they do as the way they do it.It is quite natural to suppose, in attempting an unaccustomed exercise, that you have to do only what you see done and as others ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bicycling for Ladies

    The Classic 1896 Guide to Skills, Exercise, Mechanics, and Dress

    by Maria E. Ward ...
    Bicycling for Ladies is the trailblazing book that introduced women to bicycling and shocked a Victorian culture on its release in 1896. Today it remains comprehensive and useful, but also celebrates women's advancement in the sport and offers an inspiring, and amusing, look back.Maria E. Ward let the social norms and gendered expectations of the nineteenth century eat her dust when she wrote the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Definitive Guide to Magic

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  • Pattern Design - A Book for Students Treating in a Practical Way of the Anatomy - Planning & Evolution of Repeated Ornament

    by Lewis F. Day ...
    This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on pattern design, being a practical book for students concerning the anatomy, planning, and evolution of repeated ornament. Complete with interesting information, valuable tips, and a plethora of useful diagrams and examples, this book will greatly appeal to anyone with a keen interest in design. It would make for a worthy addition to collections of ... Read more

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  • Dreams and Stones

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    Translated by Bill Johnston ...
    Dreams and Stones is a small masterpiece, one of the most extraordinary works of literature to come out of Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of communism. In sculpted, poetic prose reminiscent of Bruno Schulz, it tells the story of the emergence of a great city. In Tulli’s hands myth, metaphor, history, and narrative are combined to magical effect. Dreams and Stones is about the growth of ... Read more

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  • PAPER MAGIC

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    by WILL BLYTH ...
    Series series Grasshopper books Series
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  • The Motor-Cycle of the Past - A Collection of Classic Magazine Articles on the History of Motor-Cycle Design

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  • Plumbing Clear Waste System Stoppages

    Includes Locating and Clearing Stoppages in Plumbing Fixtures, Waste Lines, and Identifying Clearing Tools

    Edited by TSD Training ...
    Series series Plumbing
    Plumbing Clear Waste System StoppagesThe Clear Waste System Stoppages course is designed to teach the knowledge necessary for performing tasks related to clearing stoppages in plumbing fixtures and waste drain lines.This course is part of our Plumbing series.Full illustrations and diagrams included.Lessons:- Clear stoppages in plumbing fixtures- Describe the procedures used to clear stoppages in ... Read more

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  • Pattern Design - A Book for Students Treating in a Practical Way of the Anatomy, Planning and Evolution of Repeated Ornament

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  • Construction - Bicycles, Dicycles Or Otto Type Machines And Tricycles

    by G. Lacy Hillier ...
    This early manual on bicycle construction is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. A fascinating read for any cycling enthusiast or historian of the sport, it also contains much information that is still useful and practical to today's cyclist. Detailed instructions are accompanied by black and white illustrations. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the ... Read more

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