Scribe publications melbourne vic (17 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The cover has a little wear. The page edges are moderately tanned and foxed. 122 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Book, Paperback. Condizione: Used. The Brain That Changes Itself. These are USED books. Please only purchase if you are happy with that. Images & Editions We use stock images and database descriptions based on the ISBN. The image shown may NOT be the actual book cover you will receive. Covers, editions, printings, and publishers may differ. If you need a specific cover, edition, or printing, please contact us before purchasing. What ?Used? Means Because these books are pre-owned: Colouring books may be coloured in Textbooks may have answers filled in, highlighting, notes, or underlining Workbooks may have writing inside Access codes, download codes, CDs, DVDs, or online content are usually missing or already used Books that originally came with toys, inserts, maps, cards, or bonus items will usually NOT include them Pages may be folded, marked, or show normal signs of use If you are buying a book for anything other than reading (e.g. colouring, study use, collecting, gifts, specific covers, bonus items, or digital access), used books may not be suitable. Condition All books are listed as Used ? Good Books are clean and readable but not new Some books may have: Writing, highlighting, or markings Folded pages or minor wear A small warehouse or inventory sticker on the spine Original retailer stickers (we do not remove them) Our Process We purchase books by the pallet and scan thousands at a time. For this reason, we cannot photograph or individually inspect every book. Acknowledgement By purchasing, you acknowledge that: You understand the book is used You accept the condition and limitations described above Stock images and descriptions may not exactly match the item received Thank you for supporting Oak Books and helping give books a second life. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. The dust jacket has a little wear. The page edges are moderately tanned and foxed. 200 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Trade Paperback (21cm X 15cm). Condizione: Very Good. 262pp. Pages lightly age-tanned. Light bump to bottom of spine. In otherwise lovely condition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Some edgewear. Pages have sunned. Several months have passed since Burke and Wills have disappeared. Now a search party has assembled to rescue. A novel of love, identity, desire and death, set in a rapidly changing yet still unknown Australia.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Sticky tape on the author synopsis page is now covered with a blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Sunning to foredges. Interior and binding are still very good. In 1971, when the racially selected all-white Springbok rugby team toured Australia, we became a nation at war with ourselves. There was bloodshed as tens of thousands of anti-Apartheid campaigners clashed with governments, police, and rugby fans, who were given free reign to assault protestors. Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen declared a State of Emergency. Prime Minister William McMahon called the Wallabies who refused to play 'national disgraces'. Barbed wire ringed the great rugby grounds to stop protestors from invading the field. Pitched Battle recreates what became of the most rancorous periods in modern Australian history — a time of courage, pain, faith, fanaticism, and political opportunism — which made heroes of the Wallabies who refused to play, played a key role in the later political careers of Peter Beattie, Meredith Burgmann, and Peter Hain, and ultimately contributed to the abandonment of Apartheid.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. In many respects, Australia behaves as if it were still a colonial dependency. Our policies on foreign affairs, trade, human rights, and the environment seem to be uncritically allied to those of the United States. Alison Broinowski argues that Australia's development as an independent nation has stalled, and warns that behaving like the schoolyard bully's errand-boy has earned Australia a reputation for being ready to 'kiss up and kick down'.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Some pages have been dog-eared. Body text and binding are still very good. Based on extensive interviews with the main participants, journalist Nicholas Stuart traces Rudd's life from his childhood on a Queensland dairy farm and the family's struggle after the tragic death of his father to the present. He examines in detail Rudd's university years, his diplomatic service in Copenhagen and Beijing, his political apprenticeship as Wayne Goss's chief of staff and later head of the Cabinet Office, his entry into federal politics and witnessing the disintegration of successive Labor leaders, his rapprochement with Julia Gillard, and his ultimate emergence as Labor leader.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers and protective plastic covering. Stamps on inside. Partial date due slip on author bio page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Body text and binding are still very good. Farewell, Dear People contains ten extended biographies of young men who exemplified Australia's gifted lost generation of World War I. Prequel to Life So Full of Promise.…

Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still very good. This is a beautiful and intense exploration of friendships, landscape, and homecoming. Written with great energy and humour, Position Doubtful offers a unique portrait of the complexities of black-and-white relations in contemporary Australia. 4th printing.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Ex library copy with all external stickers removed. Small piece of sticky tape on front end paper has been covered with a blank ex libris sticker. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good. Told with the pace, depth, and psychological richness of a great novel, An Unconventional Wife is a riveting biography that shines a shaft of light on a hidden but captivating life.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. In 1860, a Wotjubaluk Aboriginal youth converted to Christianity and took the name Nathanael Pepper. But even as Christian missionaries were making their first impact upon Aboriginal culture, pastoralists were driving thousands of sheep and cattle into the region. The story is about their attempt to accommodate 'the people of the sheep'. The Lamb Enters the Dreaming traces the life of Nathaniel Pepper, of the Wotjobaluk people, from his early days in the Wimmera to his conversion to Christianity, his family, particularly his brothers Philip and Timothy, his life at Ebenezer Mission, his move to Ramahyuck Mission Station, his friendship with Moravian missionary F A Hagenauer, to his last days and his grave. Includes background to the establishment of Ebenezer Mission, and life for Aboriginal people in Victoria and the Wimmera in the 1800s; includes the life of Willie Wimmera; references to the Moravian mission at Lake Boga. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine condition. Niki Savva lays out the final unravelling of the Coalition at the hands of resurgent Labor and the so-called Teal independents, which culminated in the historic 2022 election.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Previous owner has removed half-title page presumably to remove ownership details. Title page remains.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo; trade paperback; 250pp., with 8pp. of monochrome plates. Mild wear; remainder mark to the text block bottom edge; covers a little rubbed and edgeworn; text block and page edges a little toned. Very good. Standard postage quoted is for a maximum 1kg book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Books listed on Abebooks are not kept at our bookshop. Please enquire if you wish to see the book at our premises.…

Softcovers, 23.5x15.5cm,626pages, b&w plates, notes , index,light bump to spine ends, corner cover bump,rear cover has a crease to each corner. Authors second multi-biography about Australia's lost generation of World War I, features a collection of inter-woven stories set in that defining era.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 298 pages. Excellent condition. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.