829 Results: New & Used in Nonfiction Books in Alphington 3078, VIC (Page 5 of 35)

Strategic Action For Animals: A Handbook on Strategic Movement Building, Organizing, and Activism for Animal Liberation – Melanie Joy Very Good Condition Paperback 155 pages Publisher: Lantern Books 2008 Goodreads description: The animal liberation movement is growing in size and strength, but so are the industries that exploit animals. These industries have vastly more resources at their disposal than activists do. Given this tremendous power differential, how can activists hope to compete

Outline Of Equity And Trusts: Second edition – Michael Evans Very Good Condition Vinyl covered paperback 454 pages Publisher: Butterworths 1993 Booko description: Second edition of a legal text for both students and practitioners that provides a statement of the principles of equity including those dealing with the law of trusts and equitable remedies. The text is based on principles with cases used as authority for statements of principle and to illustrate the application of these principle

Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary: Seventh edition – Roger Bird Good Condition Paperback 389 pages Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell 1989 Booko description: First published in 1927, "Osborn's" is the classic, concise dictionary of legal terms. Renowned for its comprehensive coverage including an extensive listing of journals, law reports and their abbreviations, it offers speedy access to a mass of technical terms and phrases in both English and European law. Extensive legal referencing takes all ent

Federal Constitutional Law: An Introduction – K. Booker, A. Glass, R. Wall Very Good Condition Paperback 362 pages Publisher: Butterworths 1994 Booko description: Deals with cases on corporations, freedom of political communication, excise duties, judicial power and Territories. Discussions of external affairs, constitutional rights and constitutional interpretation have been reworked. Includes a table of cases and an index. Booker is lecturer in law and Glass is associate professor in law a

Ned Kelly: A Short Life – Ian Jones Very Good Condition Paperback 486 pages Publisher: Hachette Australia 2008 Goodreads description: Renowned Australian authority on Ned Kelly, Ian Jones, shares the result of many years' research into the legendary bushranger's life. Ned Kelly emerges as a man who hated conflict yet never escaped it. A thorough account of a most remarkable life. Author Biography: As an historical writer, Ian Jones has written for television and film, his work including T

The Great Disruption – Paul Gilding Like New Condition Hardcover 290 pages Bloomsbury Press 2012 Goodreads description: "One of those who has been warning me of [a coming crisis] for a long time is Paul Gilding, the Australian environmental business expert. He has a name for this moment-when both Mother Nature and Father Greed have hit the wall at once-'The Great Disruption.' " -Thomas Friedman in the New York Times It's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding.

Eco-Gardening: The Six Priorities – Coralie Whitby Very Good Condition Paperback 145 pages Publisher: Rigby Publishing 1981 Eco-Gardening: The Six Priorities presents an approach to gardening based upon natural environment.. The author bases her theory on the ‘forest priorities’, in which not even a weed or an insect is wasted. Everything returns to the soil and adds richness to its organic reserves. Pick up is free and easy. I’ll post 2 or 3 similar sized or smaller books in one Postpak

Who Can You Trust?: How Technology is Rewriting the Rules of Human Relationships – Rachel Botsman As New Condition Hardcover 322 pages Publisher: Hachette Book Group 2017 Goodreads description: If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust--far from it. In this revolutionary book, world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the tipp

Do Not Disturb: Is the Media Failing Australia? – Robert Manne (ed.) Good Condition Paperback 232 pages Publisher: Black Inc. 2005 Booko description: At a time when the Howard government has radically narrowed the national vision, the mainstream media has failed to notice or hold it to account. Do Not Disturb offers diverse and enlightening explanations for this failure. Eric Beecher gives reasons for the decline of quality journalism, and Guy Rundle charts the rise of the attack-dog commen

The Cushion In The Road – Alice Walker Like New Condition Hardcover 365 pages Publisher: The New Press 2013 Goodreads description: This gorgeous collection gathers Alice Walker’s wide-ranging meditations - many of them previously unpublished - on our intertwined personal, spiritual, and political destinies. For the millions of her devoted fans, and for readers of Walker’s bestselling 2006 book, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For, here is a brand new "gift of words" that invites reader

Victoria's Constitution: The constitution of Victoria with notes on how it works - Third edition Very Good Condition Paperback 108 pages Publisher: Law Press 1997 Victoria's Constitution: The constitution of Victoria with notes on how it works - Third edition Pick up is free and easy. I’ll post 2 or 3 similar sized or smaller books in one Postpak for 1 postage charge if they fit. Australia Post standard: $11:60 Australia Post Express: $15:10 Posted recycled padded bags have padding made fr

The Selfish Society: How We All Forgot to Love One Another and Made Money Instead – Sue Gebhardt Very Good Condition Paperback 388 pages Publisher: Simon and Schuster 2010 Goodreads description: Best-selling author and respected psychologist Sue Gerhardt goes to the heart of the causes of broken Britain Sue Gerhardt has the backing and support of a number of politicians and psychologists including best-selling author Oliver James. .Extensive publicity and serialisation in major national ne

On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics – Sheila Fitzpatrick Very Good Condition Hardcover 364 pages Publisher: Melbourne University Press 2015 Goodreads description: The first chronicle of Stalin's inner political and social circle―from a leading Soviet historian Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team ov

Night School: Wake Up To The Power Of Sleep – Richard Wiseman Like New Condition Hardcover 326 pages Publisher: Manmillan 2014 Goodreads description: Almost a third of your whole life is spent asleep. Night School uncovers the scientific truth about the sleeping brain - and gives powerful tips on how those hours of apparently 'dead' time in the dark can transform your waking life.Based on exciting new peer-reviewed research, mass-participation experiments and the world's largest archive of d

After The Ice: Life, Death, and Geopolitics in the New Arctic – Alun Anderson Like New Condition Hardcover 298 pages Publisher: Smithsonian Books 2009 Goodreads description: New from Smithsonian Books, After the Ice is an eye-opening look at the winners and losers in the high-stakes story of Arctic transformation, from nations to native peoples to animals and the very landscape itself. Author Alun Anderson explores the effects of global warming amid new geopolitical rivalries, combining scie

A New Green History Of The World – Clive Ponting Like New Condition Paperback 452 pages Publisher: Penguin Books 2007 Goodreads description: Clive Ponting’s original and provocative history of human civilisation, now in a thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition Years ahead of its time, Clive Ponting captivated readers with A Green History of the World, his study of great civilisations and the causes of their fall. Using the Roman empire as its central example, this classic work r

The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria – Janine Di Giovanni Like New Condition Hardcover 206 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury 2016 Goodreads description: In May of 2012, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria. It would mark the beginning of a long relationship with the country, starting with her coverage of the peaceful uprising and continuing as the situation quickly turned into one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawn to the stories of the ordinary peo

Where The Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region – Masha Gessen Very Good Condition Hardcover 170 pages Publisher: Nextbook 2016 Goodreads description: From the acclaimed author of The Man Without a Face, the previously untold story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia that reveals the complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the familiar narrative that begins with pogroms and ends with emigration. In 1929, the Soviet government

The Politics Of The Earth: Second edition – John S. Dryzek Like New Condition Paperback 261 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press 2005 Goodreads description: The Politics of the Earth provides an excellent and accessible introduction to thinking about the environment by looking at the way people use language on environmental issues. John Dryzek analyses the various approaches which have dominated environmental issues over the last three decades, and which are likely to be influential in

The Silk Roads: A New History Of The World – Peter Frankopan Like New Condition Hardcover 645 pages Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf 2015 Goodreads description: Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilise notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe

Are We Being Watched? The Search For Life In The Cosmos– Paul Murdin Like New Condition Hardcover 224 pages Publisher: Thames & Hudson 2013 Goodreads description: An engaging exploration with renowned astronomer Paul Murdin of how life emerged on Earth―and the possibilities that it exists elsewhere There is no more fascinating question than whether or not we are alone in a vast universe. Here, Paul Murdin applies the latest scientific discoveries and theories to inquire whether life exists

Einstein's Greatest Mistake: The Life Of a Flawed Genius – David Bodanis Like New Condition Hardcover 280 pages Publisher: Little, Brown Books 2016 Goodreads description: Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was also ignored by most working scientists, his ideas opposed by even his closest friend

Being A Beast– Charles Foster Very Good Condition Hardcover 218 pages Publisher: Profile Books 2016 Goodreads description: Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans, the beasts. And to do that, he tried to be like them, choosing a badger, an otter, a fox, a deer, and a swift. He lived alongside badgers for weeks, sleeping in a sett in a Welsh hillside and eating earthworms, learning to sense the landscape through his nose rather than his eyes. He caught fish in his t

Towards Sustainability: Emerging Systems for Informing Sustainable Development – Jackie Venning and John Higgins (eds). Very Good Condition Paperback 239 pages Publisher: UNSW Press 2001 Goodreads description: This text looks at the ways that new systems for documenting ecologically sustainable development have been evolving in Australia. Key issues the book considers include environmental and economic models, environmental and economic measures, and sustainability indicators. Pick up is f