58 Results: New & Used in Nonfiction Books in Killarney Heights 2087, NSW

This excellent book is a freebie for anyone who buys another of the history books I have today advertised on Gumtree. However, I will sell it separately for a reasonable offer.

Hard cover, good condition. Price negotiable, say $20?

"Robert Hughes's wonderfully written history of the convicts, The Fatal Shore, was to entice more readers than any other book on Australia's history . . ." "an authoritative and engrossing record . . . this account, richly peopled with bizarre and compelling characters, is probably the most full-blooded and monumental treatment the subject has been given." "[It] provide[s] a vivid portrayal of the human cost of Britain's colonial venture and how these experiences have helped shape modern Austra

SOLD TOGETHER OR SEPARATELY The Mind Machine "explores the frontiers of our present state of knowledge about the human brain and mind. Understanding of this extraordinarily complex machine has expanded rapidly in recent years as research has brought about many startling new breakthroughs. This book looks at the developments". The Mind Machine "reviews in non-technical terms current knowledge about the human brain and includes discussions of the philosophical questions of human consciousness an

‘a masterful compilation in one volume of virtually every important aspect of mind, brain and consciousness’, Washington Post First published in 1987, to huge acclaim, The Oxford Companion to the Mind immediately took its place as the indispensable guide to the mysteries — and idiosyncracies — of the human mind. In no other book can the reader find discussions of concepts such as language, memory, and intelligence, side by side with witty definitions of common human experiences such as the ‘co

In excellent condition.

Really easy to follow all the actions in these graphic illustrations. A great way to learn. If you can't collect, we can post. An Australia Post satchel will easily hold this hardback with room for two or three more paperbacks so it makes sense to find another book for the same parcel. Look for one among our other advertisements on Gumtree.

If you can't collect, we can post. Australia Post prepaid satchels easily hold several books so it makes sense to find other books to go for the same postage. Look among our other advertisements on Gumtree.

Used but as new. If you can't collect, we can post. Australia Post prepaid satchels easily hold several books so it makes sense to find other books to go for the same postage. Look among our other advertisements on Gumtree.

If you can't collect, we can post. Australia Post prepaid satchels easily hold several books so it makes sense to find other books to go for the same postage. Look among our other advertisements on Gumtree.

If you can't collect, we can post. Australia Post prepaid satchels easily hold several books so it makes sense to find other books to go for the same postage. Look among our other advertisements on Gumtree.

If you can't collect, we can post. Australia Post prepaid satchels easily hold several books so it makes sense to find other books to go for the same postage. Look among our other advertisements on Gumtree.

If you can't collect, we can post. Australia Post prepaid satchels easily hold several books so it makes sense to find other books to go for the same postage. Look among our other advertisements on Gumtree.

If you can't collect, we can post. Australia Post prepaid satchels easily hold several books so it makes sense to find other books to go for the same postage. Look among our other advertisements on Gumtree.

If you can't collect, we can post. Australia Post’s satchels hold several paperbacks so it makes sense to choose more than one book for the same parcel, so look at our other book advertisements on Gumtree Fiction, Non Fiction, and Textbooks to fill your satchel instead of paying the same postage for just one book.

This "compendium of cock-ups" shows fifty of the biggest Worst Decisions. From Adam's and Eve's eating the apple to the Trojan War to Gallipoli, from the Boston Tea Party to the Enron scandal. Cleopatra and Nero to Churchill and Mugabe. Not all wanted mayhem; things just went really wrong. Governments and corporations are also scrutinised. Motivations are unveiled with decisions' lasting impacts. A Cambridge University graduate, Stephen Weir has worked with authors as diverse as Patrick White,

An illustrated account of the Gulf War written by two Australian Middle East specialists - Ian Bickerton and Michael Pearson - with contributions from experienced journalists - Greg Wilesmith, Jonathon Holmes, Michael McKinley, Peter Krien - who covered the war. Includes extracts from reports filed by ABC correspondents in Washington, Moscow, London, and the Middle East, and an appendix of key documents.

16 of the world's most outrageous scams and hoaxes. They all really happened and were taken from firsthand accounts, newspaper reports, or historical documents found in public libraries. They date as far back as the late 1800s, but most are more recent. However, you won't find any defrauded widows or orphans in these stories. The victims are institutions or corporations quite capable of defending themselves, and the crooks who match wits with them are just as savvy.

How the wealthiest and most powerful corporation in the world, within a few of the 1980s, threw away advantages built up and kept over decades. IBM was not prepared for PCs. It dominated computers through might rather than innovation. For mainframes this was successful but Apple and Digital, Microsoft and Ross Perot's Electronic Data Systems, stole a march on IBM. This is the human and technical story of IBM's decline towards a $2.8 billion loss in 1991.

Read about this book on https://www.yachana.org/writings/stupidwhitemen.html.

An irreverent look at the Whitlam era.

Written by an angry man. Disturbing.

Donald Horne is the author of THE LUCKY COUNTRY.

Former Deputy Prime Minister, Treasurer, and Minister in the Australia Labor Government, he analyses the local and international forces that were mobilised to engineer the dismissal of the Government. Jim Cairns's view of the dismissal.