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Published by Allen Lane, Camberwell, Victoria, 2005
ISBN 10: 0713998555ISBN 13: 9780713998559
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Photographic (illustrator). First Edition. list of illustrations, acknowledgements and index. Dark blows coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with two inserts, of a pages each, of black-and-white photography. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper with gilt and dull red coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. The author was the last governor of Hong Kong, and returned to England to a political landscape totally transformed by one party sorcery and the other party's stupidity. The author offers comment that is not bound by the restrictions of diplomacy as was the case when he was working. Much that he says throws new light and interpretation upon world events of the last 20 years. Minor rubbing of the book corners and back strip edges. Browning of the text block edges and pages. A little rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels. This is the first Australian edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 323, [1] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Politics & Government; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0713998555. ISBN/EAN: 9780713998559. Inventory No: 0121024.
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Published by Allen Lane, Camberwell Victoria, 2003
ISBN 10: 0713996587ISBN 13: 9780713996586
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Book
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 2nd Impression. 450 g; (10), 310 pages, indexed, in original photographic illustrated softcover binding. The book shows no damage. This book shows how the underground economy is linked to the mainstream economy and how things a country hides are often more revealing than those it proudly displays. Size: Large Format Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sociology & Culture; Local History -- America; United States; Politics & Government. ISBN: 0713996587. ISBN/EAN: 9780713996586. Inventory No: 0284136.
Published by Allen Lane, Camberwell, Victoria, 2006
ISBN 10: 0713999586ISBN 13: 9780713999587
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
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Trade Paperback. Reprint. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 482 pages. Managing to extract information from within the tightly sealed American military, Ricks' speaks to key participants and officers about this epic disaster in which far too many American and Iraqi lives have been lost.
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Published by Allen Lane, Camberwell, 2008
ISBN 10: 1846141923ISBN 13: 9781846141928
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A second-hand copy with no annotations no underlining. (It is actually a used copy that has been read!) Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and reproductions of artworks in the text, and a number of colour plates. The author reveals financial history as the essential back story behind all history. He explains why the origins of the French Revolution lie in a stock-market bubble caused by a convicted Scots murderer. He shows how financial failure turned Argentina from the world's 6th richest country into an inflation ridden basketcase  and how a financial revolution is propelling the world's most populous country from poverty to power.  Yet the most important lesson of financial history is that sooner or later every bubble bursts.  Paraphrasing the rear panel blurb Full number line. Size: Trade Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Business, Finance & Marketing; Economics. ISBN: 1846141923. ISBN/EAN: 9781846141928. Inventory No: 0277000.
Published by Allen Lane an Imprint of Penguin Books, Camberwell, Victoria, 2009
ISBN 10: 0713999918ISBN 13: 9780713999914
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Book First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An explanatory note: in which we admit to lying in our previous book, introduction: putting the freak in economics, acknowledgements, notes and index. Colour illustrated paperback binding with black and white coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. Colour photographs of authors to the rear panel. Quoting from the rear panel blurb " . Four years in the making Superfreakonomics will once again transform the way we look at the world. It reveals, among other things, why you are more likely to be killed walking front then driving drunk; how a prostitute is more likely to sleep with a policeman than be arrested by one; why terrorists might be easy to track down then you would imagine; how a sex change could boost your salary; and how there really is a cheap fix for climate change." Rubbing of the book edges and panels with age toning of the text block edges. A few marks to the lower text edge. First Australian edition. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 320 pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Economics; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0713999918. ISBN/EAN: 9780713999914. Inventory No: 0290088.
Published by Allen Lane, Camberwell, Victoria, 2010
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Softcover (Stiff Boards). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Australian Paperback Edition. 700 g.; (13), XIV, (5), 4-459, (5) pages, A Note to Readers, acknowledgements, a note on sources, notes and bibliography. Photographic title page, showing the balcony where Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, and on and the 4th page following are mug shots of James Earl Ray. Black-and-white photographic front cover, showing Martin Luther King Jr. in an open topped car, with white titles to the front panel and backstrip. Minor rubbing to the book corners. "Hellhound on His Trail is the story of two very different men whose lives catastrophically interweave over the course of some nine months in the late 1960s; one was a thief and a con man called James Earl Ray, the other one the greatest American figures of the twentieth century, Martin Luther King Jr." -- from the rear panel blurb. Size: Trade Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; Popular Culture; Social History; History -- America; ISBN: 9781846143649. Inventory No: 0111342.
Published by Allen Lane, Camberwell, 2008
ISBN 10: 184614129XISBN 13: 9781846141294
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A second-hand copy with no damage to describe, from the Pulitzer prize-winning author, who speaks to American's urgent need for national renewal and explains how a green revolution can bring about both a sustainable environment and a sustainable America. Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Economics; Environment & Ecology. ISBN: 184614129X. ISBN/EAN: 9781846141294. Inventory No: 0271725.
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Published by Allen Lane/Penquin, Camberwell, 2009
ISBN 10: 184614146XISBN 13: 9781846141461
Seller: Marlowes Books and Music, Ferny Grove, QLD, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 394 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.
Published by Allen Lane, Camberwell, 2003
ISBN 10: 0713997729ISBN 13: 9780713997729
Seller: Marlowes Books and Music, Ferny Grove, QLD, Australia
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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 428 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. There's Much More To Recent American Hisdtory Than The Way The Federal Government Declared Victory In Its Long Struggle Against Deficits, Only To See The Red Ink Quickly Return.
Published by Allen Lane/Penquin, Camberwell, 2005
ISBN 10: 0713998628ISBN 13: 9780713998627
Seller: Marlowes Books and Music, Ferny Grove, QLD, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 575 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Bringing Together New Evidence From A Range Of Sources And Piecing Together The Myriad Influences,from Climate To Culture, That Make Societies Self Destruct, This Also Shows How, Unlike Our Ancestors,we Can Benefit From Our Knowledge Of The Past- And Learn To Be Survivors.
Published by Camberwell. Allen Lane., 2007
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
First Edition
Or.bds. Dustjacket. 531pp. (some foxing) b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st Australian ed. American economist Alan Greenspan served as Chair of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. He studied clarinet at the Julliard School before drifting into economics in 1948.
Published by Camberwell. Allen Lane., 2007
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
(rep) Thick 8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 724pp. col & b/w plates & a map. Very good copy. Fidel Castro's life began on a sugar plantation; from there he went on to graduate as a lawyer, lead a failed revolution, fled to Mexico only to return to start a guerrilla war and march into Havana.
Published by Allen Lane, Camberwell, Australia, 2010
ISBN 10: 184614390XISBN 13: 9781846143908
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 237 pages. The cover has a lilttle wear. The page edges are somewhat tanned and foxed. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.
Published by Allen Lane/Penguin Books (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Camberwell Vic.,, 2018
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Octavo; hardcover; 1,129pp., with monochrome plates. Mild wear; a bump to the spine heel with a corresponding crease to the dustwrapper. Dustwrapper 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. Gandhi lived one of the great 20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and galvanized many millions of men and women around the world. He lived almost entirely in the shadow of the British Raj, which for much of his life seemed a permanent fact, but which he did more than anyone else to destroy, using revolutionary tactics. In a world defined by violence on a scale never imagined before and by ferocious Fascist and Communist dictatorship, he was armed with nothing more than his arguments and example. This magnificent book tells the story of Gandhi's life, from his departure from South Africa to his assassination in 1948. It is a book with a Tolstoyan sweep, both allowing us to see Gandhi as he was understood by his contemporaries and the vast, varied Indian societies and landscapes which he travelled through and changed beyond measure. Drawing on many new sources and animated by its author's wonderful sense of drama and politics, Gandhi is a major reappraisal of the crucial years in this titanic figure's story.
Published by Allen Lane, Camberwell, Vic, 2008
ISBN 10: 1846141346ISBN 13: 9781846141348
Seller: Ripponlea Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xv+671pp., Pictorial colour illustrated black covers with b/w portrait of author inside rear panel- light edge and corner wear to lower front panel, author's note, family tree, prologue, b/w plts. & text, notes, bibliog., index. Steve Coll's The Bin Ladens is the history of a family and its fortune: of how a young, illiterate bricklayer, Mohammed Bin Laden, went to the new, oil-rich country of Saudi Arabia and quickly became a vital figure in its development, building great mosques and highways and making himself and his many children millionaires. Size: Thick Large Octavo. Book.
Published by Allen Lane/Penguin Books (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Camberwell Vic.,, 2002
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with black endpapers; 448pp., with 16pp. of monochrome plates. Mionr wear. A few superficial scratches to the rear panel of the dustwrapper; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Eric Hobsbawm has been widely acclaimed as one of the greatest living historians. Called "a lyrical, pungent, and provocative memoir" by Publishers Weekly, Interesting Times offers a personal tour through what Hobsbawm terms "the most extraordinary and terrible century in human history." The book takes us from his birth in Alexandria, Egypt, and early schooling in Weimar Berlin to his student days as a Cambridge Red and Apostle at King's College. Hobsbawm took E.M. Forster to hear Lenny Bruce, demonstrated with Bertrand Russell against nuclear arms, translated for Che Guevara in Havana, and inaugurated the modern history of banditry. With Interesting Times, we see the making of one of the Left's most important intellectuals, and the history of the twentieth century through the unforgiving eye of one of its most intensely engaged participants.
Published by Allen Lane/Penguin Books (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Camberwell Vic.,, 2002
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and a blue ribbon; 646pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; light spotting to the text block top edge. Dustwrapper lightly worn at edges. Near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. From our first realization that Earth was not the centre of the cosmos and that human beings are just one species of animal among many, to the Big Bang theory and the sub-microscopic study of the molecules that make us human, the incredible discoveries and inventions of scientists over the past 450 years have changed the way we see the universe - and ourselves. In this book, John Gribbin tells the story of the people who made science and the turbulent times they lived in. As well as famous figures such as Copernicus, Darwin and Einstein, there are also the obscure, the eccentric, even the mad. This diverse cast includes, among others, Andreas Vesalius, landmark 16th-century anatomist and secret grave-robber; the flamboyant Galileo, accused of heresy for his ideas; the obsessive, competitive Newton, who wrote his rivals out of the history books; Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk who founded modern genetics; and Louis Agassiz, so determined to prove the existence of ice ages that he marched his colleagues up a mountain to show them the evidence. Although we tend to think of science in terms of unique geniuses, here John Gribbin shows that more often it involves ordinary people building step by step on the progress of previous generations - not out of lust for glory, but to satisfy their own intense curiosity about how the world works.
Published by Allen Lane, Camberwell, Victoria, Australia, 2008
ISBN 10: 0713998563ISBN 13: 9780713998566
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The page edges have minor tanning. 490 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-253mm).
Published by Allen Lane/Penguin Books (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Camberwell Vic.,, 2007
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and decorated endpapers; 623pp., with many monochrome illustrations and 16pp. of colour plates. Minor wear. Dustwrapper is heavily sunned along the spine panel. Else very good to near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "Less than 50 years after his death, one of his earliest biographers, Georgio Vasari, attempting to capture Leonardo's greatness, established the tone of imaginative and verbal extravagance which has lastingly set the parameters for all subsequent celebrations of Leonardo's very special genius: 'Leonardo was mourned out of measure by all who had known him, for there was none who had done such honour to painting. The splendour of his great beauty could calm the saddest soul, and his words could move the most obdurate mind. His great strength could restrain the most violent fury, and he could bend an iron knocker or a horseshoe as if it were lead. He was liberal to his friends, rich and poor, if they had talent and worth; and indeed as Florence had the greatest of gifts in his birth, so she suffered an infinite loss in his death.' How many hundreds of thousands of words have been written since Vasari, trying to convey the extraordinary combination of talents and imaginative brio which made up the mind of this enigmatic man? While the exquisite drawings, diagrams, maps and engineering blueprints, and the handful of achieved paintings have consistently fascinated all who have seen them, the man himself continues to elude us. Nicholl is a man mesmerised by the minutiae of archival evidence - the shreds of everyday life preserved accidentally for posterity, and from which the biographer-sleuth can piece together a vivid personality and a plausible career. Each shard of writing deciphered from the margins of a manuscript determines a direction for further exploration. His Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind is an expansive volume, dense with footnotes and copiously illustrated with images from the manuscripts. In Nicholl's patient hands, acres of undervalued and unread material are painstakingly unpicked, rewoven, and moulded into an armature which gives coherent shape to the long life of a Renaissance genius. The more than 7,000 surviving pages of Leonardo notebooks are for him a goldmine of clues to follow, theories more or less tentatively proposed, and assertions of 'fact' boldly risked. Like all biographers of Leonardo before them, Nicholl wrestles with the problem of forming coherence from the rather few, disparate fragments of 'fact' which give only shadowy shape to Leonardo's life. From his opening meditation on the single phrase with which Leonardo breaks off a page of geometrical annotations, 'because the soup is getting cold', Nicholl proceeds to build a painstakingly constructed edifice of possibilities: ' It tells us a great deal: that Leonardo ate a bowl of lukewarm soup on a day in 1518 hardly qualifies as an important piece of biographical data. What seems to make it special is a quality of surprise, of casualness. Into the dry abstractions of his geometrical studies has intruded this moment of simple, daily humanity.' Some of these details - particularly regarding Leonardo's childhood, of which we know virtually nothing - verge on the far-fetched. But whether or not one accepts Nicholl's Freudian inferences (some mooted by Freud himself) regarding Leonardo's early life, what the reader gets is a rich, textured feel for the world the fatherless boy inhabited and from which he drew his later inspiration. Nicholl is always careful to warn us if he is adducing evidence from beyond his subject's own life, or risking a guess or a flash of purely personal insight into his much-researched hero's personality. By doing so he charms the reader into trusting him elsewhere. By implication everything else is grounded in the surviving manuscript evidence as examined under the microscope of Nic.
Published by W.C. Bysh, Camberwell; J. Allen, Warwick Lane. [c.1861], 1861
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Four woodcuts in text. Orig green printed wrappers. Disbound. 12pp. Not on Copac.