2953 Results: New & Used in Nonfiction Books in Whittlesea Area, VIC (Page 50 of 50)

Disorganised Capitalism – Claus Offe Good Condition. Vinyl covered paperback 366 pages Polity Press 1985 Goodreads description: Should the Western democracies, contrary to their prevailing self-image as "planned" and "managed," be seen as highly disorganised systems of social power and political authority? If so, what are the symptoms, consequences of, and possible remedies for these disorganising tendencies tn these ten essays, Claus Offe seeks to answer such questions. Moving beyond the bo

Social Assessment in Natural Resource Management Institutions – Dale, Taylor, Lane (eds) Very Good Condition. Paperback 296 pages CSIRO Publishing 2001 Goodreads description: This book is the first significant international attempt to outline and analyse how social assessment has been integrated within natural resource management institutions to date. In doing so, it focuses on contemporary Australian and New Zealand experiences, and relates these back to the international context. Social

Institutions For The Earth – Hass, Keohane, Levy (eds). Very Good Condition. Vinyl covered paperback 448 pages The MIT Press 1993 Goodreads description: Can environmental institutions be effective at bringing about a healthier environment? How? Institutions for the Earth takes a close look at the factors influencing organised responses to seven international environmental problems - oil pollution from tankers, acid rain in Europe, stratospheric ozone depletion, pollution of the North Sea an

Inside Of A Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know – Alexandra Horowitz Very Good Condition. Hardcover 351 pages Scribner 2009 Goodreads description: The bestselling book that asks what dogs know and how they think. The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human. Temple Grandin meets Stephen Pinker in this engaging and informative look at what goes on ins

Human Ecology Human Economy – M. Diesendorf, C. Hamilton (eds). Very Good Condition. Paperback 378 pages Allen & Unwin 1997 Goodreads description: 'A brilliant synthesis of ecology and economics that provides a sure guide to a sustainable future. It is a must for all environmentalists and economists.' Pick up is free and easy. Posted recycled padded bags have padding made from 100% recycled newspaper. Australia Post standard: $10:70 Australia Post Express: $13:70

Environmental Problems In An Urbanizing World – Hardoy, Mitlin, Sattertwaite Very Good Condition. Paperback 448 pages Earthscan 2001 Goodreads description: New edition of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America contain some of the world's most life- and health-threatening human environments. Environment-related diseases and injuries cause millions of preventable deaths each year. In many squatter settlements, children are 40 to 50 times more li

An Odyssey With Animals: A Veterinarian's Reflections on the Animal Rights & Welfare Debate – Adrian R. Morrison Like New Condition. Hardcover 272 pages Oxford University Press 2009 Goodreads description: The relationship between animals and humans is more complex today than ever before. In addition to the animals that have served as household pets, and the farm animals that have provided labor and food, countless monkeys, rabbits, rats, and cats have enabled modern scientists to treat and

American Lake: Nuclear Peril In The Pacific – Peter Hayes, Lyuba Zarsky, Walden Bello Acceptable Condition. Paperback 528 pages Penguin Books 1986 American Lake reveals the precarious state of the American and Soviet nuclear stand-off in the Pacific. Pick up is free and easy. Posted recycled padded bags have padding made from 100% recycled newspaper. Australia Post standard: $10:70 Australia Post Express: $13:70

Contaminated Sites In Australia – Gerard C. Rowe and Steven Seidler (eds) Very Good Condition. Paperback 228 pages Allen & Unwin 1993 Contaminated Sites in Australia: Challenges for Law and Public Policy Pick up is free and easy. Posted recycled padded bags have padding made from 100% recycled newspaper. Australia Post standard: $10:70 Australia Post Express: $13:70

Down To Earth Sociology – James M. Henslin Good Condition. Paperback 432 pages The Free Press 1976 Book Description adaptation: Down to Earth Sociology, Introductory Readings is a reader that supplements the traditional introductory sociology text. It has been revised to include exciting new material for the introductory course as well as classic articles that all sociology students should have. Fascinating and easy to read, this widely used book focuses on participant observation - giving

Environmental Law In Australia 4th Edn – Peter Bates Acceptable Condition. Paperback 534 pages Butterworths 1993 Booko description: Fourth edition of a textbook for lawyers, students and environmentalists, which has been completely rewritten and reorganised to reflect the continually changing law systems and values adopted by governments. New topics include sustainable development, corporate polluters and environmental auditing with its subsequent ramifications for insurance companies. Inc

Maralinga: British A-Bomb Australian Legacy – Adrian Tame & F. P. J. Robotham Acceptable Condition. Paperback 272 pages Fontana Books 1982 Booko description: Treatment of Aborigines living in test-site area; radiation sickness at Yalata. Pick up is free and easy. Posted recycled padded bags have padding made from 100% recycled newspaper. Australia Post standard: $10:70 Australia Post Express: $13:70

Sociology: A Biological Approach – Peter and Brigitte Bergen Good Condition. Paperback 411 pages Penguin Books 1976 Pick up is free and easy. Posted recycled padded bags have padding made from 100% recycled newspaper. Australia Post standard: $10:70 Australia Post Express: $13:70

Goodreads description: Distilled into one volume by his daughter Anna, this volume of Freud's writings constitutes a key to the understanding of his work. It includes "The Question of Lay Analysis", "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality", "On Dreams", "The Ego and the Id", "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" and 15 shorter pieces. Together, they provide a comprehensive picture of all the central Freudian concepts, and how they connect up to make one of the most challenging bodies of thought of t

The Wade House Case – Warwick Forge Like New Condition. Paperback 132 pages McCulloch Waterloo Press 1985 Goodreads description: Study of one of the most controversial town planning cases in Melbourne's recent history, where residents opposed plans to extensions of a house in South Parkville owned by former footballer Doug Wade. It follows the case through two years of wrangling to its conclusion in the Supreme Court and questions the whole town-planning process and the adequacy of the cou

Six Capitals – Jane Gleeson-White Like New Condition. Hardcover 314 pages Allen & Unwin 2014 Goodreads description: This is the story of a twenty-first-century revolution being led by the most unlikely of rebels: accountants. Only the second revolution in accounting since double-entry bookkeeping began, it is of seismic proportions, driven by the 2008 financial crash and our ongoing environmental crisis. The changes it will wreak are profound and far-reaching and not only will transform th

Freud: The Man And The Cause – Ronald W. Clark Like New Condition. Paperback 652 pages Grenada Publishing 1982 Goodreads description: An intimate story of the scientist and the man Pick up is free and easy. Posted recycled padded bags have padding made from 100% recycled newspaper. Australia Post standard: $10:70 Australia Post Express: $13:70

Doubt: A History – Jennifer Michael Hecht Like New Condition. Paperback 549 pages Harper Collins 2004 Goodreads description: In the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially-from Socrates to Galileo and Darwin to Wittgenstein and Hawking. This is an

Basic Aspects Of Psychoanalytic Group Therapy – Peter Kutter Very Good Condition. Paperback 124 pages Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1982 Goodreads Description: First published in English in 1982 and based on more than five years of experience with therapy groups in the author’s own practice, this book aims to introduce the reader to psychoanalytic group therapy. Assuming little previous knowledge, it presents the subject in a progressive and illustrative way, and gives a central place to cas

Go Set A Watchman – Harper Lee Like New Condition. Hardcover 278 pages William Heinemann 2015 Goodreads description: From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – "Scout" - returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the Sou

The Affluent Society: Fourth Edition – John Kenneth Galbraith Very Good Condition. Vinyl covered hardcover-former library book 291 pages Andre Deutsch 1985 GoodReads description: John Kenneth Galbraith's international bestseller The Affluent Society is a witty, graceful and devastating attack on some of our most cherished economic myths. As relevant today as when it was first published over forty years ago, this newly updated edition of Galbraith's classic text on the 'economics of abunda

The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis – David Runciman Like New Condition. Hardcover 381 pages Princeton University Press 2013 Goodreads description: Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of mom

GoodReads Description: In This Sex Which Is Not One, Luce Irigaray elaborates on some of the major themes of Speculum of the Other Woman, her landmark work on the status of woman in Western philosophical discourse and in psychoanalytic theory. In eleven acute and widely ranging essays, Irigaray reconsiders the question of female sexuality in a variety of contexts that are relevant to current discussion of feminist theory and practice. Among the topics she treats are the implications of the thou

Sandinistas Speak – Speeches, writings and interviews with Leaders of Nicaragua’s Revolution Good Condition. Paperback 160 pages Pathfinder Press 1986 Booko description: The best selection in English of historic documents of the FSLN and speeches and interviews from the opening years of the 1979 Sandinista revolution. Pick up is free and easy. Posted recycled padded bags have padding made from 100% recycled newspaper. Australia Post standard: $10:70 Australia Post Express: $13:70