Published by London/Melbourne Allen Lane/Penguin Books 2007., 2007
First Edition
First edition (Australian printing). Octavo-size paperback original. Fine. Illustrated with b/w photographs. This heavy book will cost more to send overseas, than any default postage rate noted.
Published by Allen Lane for Penguin Books, Melbourne 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0713994509 ISBN 13: 9780713994506
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
20.0 x 19.5cm. 724pp. good paperback & cover This book places Australia's history in a world context and exposes many of its national myths, written by an English historian who claims that it is 'probably the most successful society in the world and the most agreeable to live in'.
Published by Allen Lane for Penguin Books, Melbourne 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0713994509 ISBN 13: 9780713994506
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
24.0 x 16.0cms, 720pp, b/w illusts, very good+ hardcover & dustwrapper (owner's signature; spine lightly sunned) This book places Australia's history in a world context and exposes many of its national myths, written by an English historian who claims that it is 'probably the most successful society in the world and the most agreeable to live in'.
Published by Allen Lane / Penguin Books, Melbourne, 2009
ISBN 10: 1846142415 ISBN 13: 9781846142413
Seller: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
Australian ed. Paperback large trade, very good condition, colour photos centre spread, minor edgewear. 178 pp. The key insight of the Gaia Theory of James Lovelock is that the entire Earth functions as a single living super-organism. That organism is now sick. Here, he distils over 40 years of wisdom and observation of the Earth to reveal the faster than expected rate at which our climate is altering, how conventional green measures are not working, and how life as we know it is going to change forever. Only his Gaia model, he shows, can help us fully understand this, and prepare us for the future. (The scarce Australian edition.).
Published by Allen Lane / Penguin Books, Melbourne, 2006
ISBN 10: 0713999268 ISBN 13: 9780713999266
Seller: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
Australian ed. Paperback trade (with flaps), very good condition, colour photos centre spread, few figures, pages toned as usual, minor edgewear. 177 pp. The key insight of Lovelock's Gaia Theory is that the entire Earth functions as a single living super-organism. That organism is now sick. It is running a fever because of increased atmospheric greenhouse gases. Earth will adjust to these stresses, but the human race faces a severe test. It is already too late to prevent the global climate from flipping into a new equilibrium that will threaten civilization. But we can do much to save humanity. In the tradition of "Silent Spring," this is a call to address a major threat to our collective future.
Published by Allen Lane / Penguin Books, Melbourne, 2008
ISBN 10: 1846141311 ISBN 13: 9781846141317
Seller: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
Australian ed. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), pages lightly toned, minor edgewear jacket (tiny tear bottom corner), front cover corner tip creased. 311 pp. Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes provide a devastating reckoning of the true cost of the Iraq war - quite apart from the tragic human toll - estimated by the Bush administration at $50 billion, but which underestimates the real figure up to 60 times. Exposes the gigantic expenses that have not been accounted for, including replacing military equipment (being degraded at six times the peacetime rate), but also the cost of lifetime caring for thousands of wounded veterans. Shifting to a global perspective, they investigate the cost in lives and damage within Iraq and the Middle East generally. With chilling precision, they calculate what the money spent on the war could have produced had it been further invested in economic growth and infrastructure building. Australian edition.
Published by Allen Lane & Penguin Books Melbourne 1984, 1984
ISBN 10: 0140064265 ISBN 13: 9780140064261
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
21.5 x 25.0cms (landscape), 156pp, b/w & Colour Illusts, very good paperback & dustwrapper This book presents Molvig as a shadowy expressionist who had an 'ironic and somimes despairing view of the world. Churcher argues that Molvig 'safeguarded his artistic independence with aggressive, antisocial behaviour.[and that his] drinking, fiery love affairs and violent outbursts.hid an essentially solitary man who was unconditionally committed to painting'.
Published by Allen Lane/Penguin Books (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Melbourne Vic.,, 2013
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Octavo; hardcover, with black endpapers; 650pp., with maps and 16pp. of colour plates. Minor wear; previous owner's name in ink to the half-title page. Dustwrapper lightly edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.
Published by Allen Lane, Penguin Books, Ringwood, Melbourne -, 1984
ISBN 10: 071391646X ISBN 13: 9780713916461
Seller: Book Orphanage, McCrae, VIC, Australia
Signed
Hardcover, 9½" x 6¼" (24cms x 16cms), with dust jacket 302 pages Signed 'Bernard Smith' on Title Page. What was it like growing up, illegitimate, in the Sydney suburbs during World War I? Bernard Smith - scholar and visual arts critic - explores his youth, his unconventional love of learning, his attraction to art and the Arts, his nine years as a rural schoolteacher, and then, in 1940, his joining the Communist Party, and his painting of political allegories (that even his friends rejected). It's a story of changing times and values - and great reading! VERY GOOD SIGNED book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket.