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Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Well and What We Can Learn
Until recently though scientists have been reluctant to accept these stories, dismissing them as romantic anthropomorphism. But things are changing as more and more scientists uncover examples of insects, birds...
The Coconut Book: A Novel
There is a forgotten castaway one an island in the thousands of miles of the Pacific Ocean. He writes his story in a battered paperback novel, covering the space between...
Fortune
$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: No fep as issued. A celebrated work of Australian literary fiction, Fortune by Robert Drewe presents...
Rough Wallaby
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: Remainder markA raucously comic Australian novel rooted in the larrikin tradition, "Rough Wallaby" takes the infamous Fine Cotton horse-switching scandal as...
Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War
A gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the bestselling historian June 1944. Operation Bagration- the greatest defeat ever suffered by the...
Slipstream
$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsA sweeping work of Australian literary fiction, Slipstream chronicles the life of a man shaped by the vast,...
The Other Side of Silence
The book titled The Other Side of Silence by the author Margaret Mahy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
1915: A Novel
$15.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsSet against the devastating backdrop of World War One, Roger McDonald's 1915 is a sweeping Australian literary novel that...
Screen Memories: Hollywood Cinema on the Psychoanalytic Couch
Screen Memories delves into the psychological features of mainstream movies from Casablanca to Working Girl. While most psychoanalytic film criticism is highly theoretical, Dr. Greenberg, a practicing clinician, writes in...
The Savage Crows
$35.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA darkly comic work of Australian literary fiction, The Savage Crows chronicles the parallel stories of Stephen...
I'm a Little Special: Muhammad Ali Reader
Collecting together 30 pieces written about Muhammad Ali, the boxer's story is told in this book by an array of authors, athletes and social commentators. In addition to pieces by...
Wish You Were Here
As the title suggests, this is a thoughtful and deeply personal collection. It is in one sense a backwards glance over the last few years, at journeys taken and places...
"The Man from Snowy River
The book titled "The Man from Snowy River by the author A. B. Paterson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Taxidermist's Dance
The book titled Taxidermist's Dance by the author Richard Lunn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Citizens Of Mist (SIGNED)
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: SignedCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Text - some foxing on book block and prelims....
Kisses Of The Enemy (SIGNED)
$70.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedA landmark of Australian literary fiction, Kisses of the Enemy is a sweeping, darkly satirical political novel that...
Communicating in Geography and the Environmental Sciences
This is a comprehensive source of information on presentation skills for all university students studying geography and environmental sciences. It provides students with an insight into the expectations of the...
What Became Of Jane Austen? And Other Questions
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Usual aging. Shelf wear. A spirited collection of literary and cultural...
Horn of Darkness: Rhinos on the Edge
The black rhino is nature's tank, feared by all animals. Even lions will break off a hunt to detour around one. And yet the black rhino is on the edge...
Cornerstones Of Astrology
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Pages clean and bright. Binding tight.Usual aging. Shelf wear. Good copyA foundational work in the tradition...
The Female Experience: An American Documentary
$12.00 AUD
While women's experience encompasses all that is human, while women have participated in history and the making of history through all time, until very recently they have been largely excluded...
Women and Social Protest
Bringing together eighteen thought-provoking articles--most of them written especially for this volume--Women and Social Protest addresses a long-neglected area in social history and politics, showing how in recent years feminist...
The Journals
Born into an affluent and politically active black family, Charlotte Forten Grimk'e (1837-1914) was a scholar, reformer, teacher and writer. Her journals describe her privileged childhood, her sporadic teaching career,...
Australian Legendary Tales
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Usual aging. Faded spine. A landmark work in the study of Indigenous...
The Algae: A Review
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Foxing on block - does not extend internally. A foundational work in...
Moral Dilemmas in Modern Medicine
The moral dilemmas raised by modern medicine--test-tube babies, the mechanical prolongation of life, the prescription of contraceptive pills to underage girls, the nontreatment of handicapped newborns--are no longer the concerns...
Take Ten
The 10 British film directors included in this collection of interviews and essays demonstrate the diversity of the British industry. Complete with filmographies, bibliographies, stills and production shots, this study...
Old Men and Comets
Old men and comets have been revered for the same reasons, said Swift - their long beards and their pretensions to foretell the future. And, in the case of old...
Lady Anna
When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man...
Dictionary Of All Scriptures And Myths
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA monumental reference work in the field of comparative religion and esoteric symbolism, Dictionary of All Scriptures and Myths presents...
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
This book is intended for all those with a love of the sea and all things nautical
Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship
'A trained scout will see little signs and tracks, he puts them together in his mind and quickly reads a meaning from them such as an untrained man would never...
The Door from Nowhere
When Dylan suddenly finds out that he is adopted, and that his real mother lives in Swansea, he leaves home on the spur of the moment to try to find...
The Oxford Book of Children's Stories
Children's writer and Carnegie medallist Jan Mark has selected 44 stories which include moral tales, fairy tales, ghost stories, adventure stories, and school stories; they are inhabited by good and...
Mammals of Australia
$12.00 AUD
The book titled Mammals of Australia by the author Terence Lindsey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Evatt: Politics And Justice
$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Shelf wear. Usual aging. Good copyA landmark work of Australian political biography, Evatt:...
Four Respectable Ladies Seek the Meaning of Wife
A hilarious and heart-warming novel about the true meaning of 'for better or worse' - both in marriage and in friendship. 'Marriage isn't always a bed of roses. And there...
Slipstream
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Ex school library book. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Usual aging. Shelf wear. A sweeping work...
The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand
$50.00 AUD
A classic revised- the new edition of this monumental and much-loved book features its biggest update ever. A wonderful celebration of New Zealand's extraordinary and diverse birdlife. A classic revised-...
Son Of Mars
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA sharp and incisive exploration of identity and urban disillusionment, Son of Mars captures the shifting social landscape of mid-century...
Truckdogs
Is it an animal with an engine? Or a car with floppy ears and a wet nose? In a far-off desert world, remarkably similar to outback Australia, evolution has taken...
The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
$12.00 AUD
Part biography of a book, part scientific exploration, part bibliographic detective story, The Book Nobody Read recolors the history of cosmology and offers a new appreciation of the enduring power...
Mayor's Nest
$30.00 AUD
Edition: First editionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Foxing on block - does not extend internally. Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. Pages clean and...
Political Animals: Confessions of a Parliamentary Zoologist
Jane Clifton has been big-game hunting in the corridors of power for more than 25 years as a political journalist, columnist and commentator. Here she looks back with characteristic wit...
Butterfly Song
Tarena Shaw has just finished her law degree but isn't sure she wants to be a lawyer after all. What place does a black lawyer have in a white system?...
Isle Of The Sea Horse
$20.00 AUD
Edition: First editionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. Pages clean and bright.Binding tight....
A Handful Of Pennies
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. A richly observed work of autobiographical fiction, A Handful...