3693 Results: New & Used in book in Melbourne Region, VIC (Page 50 of 50)

Personal Power: use, misuse and abuse – Eric Gaudry and Charles Spielberger Very Good Condition. Paperback 208 pages Harper Collins Publishing 1995 Booko Description: Each one of us has our own personal power. We can use this power productively by being assertive and honest in our personal, social and work relationships. We can misuse the power by abrogating our responsibilities and allowing others to make decisions for us and control our lives. We can abuse our power by bullying and intimi

Feminist Poetics: Poiesis, performance, histories – Terry Threadgold Very Good Condition. Paperback 222 pages Routledge 1997 Booko Description: Feminist Poetics in concerned with all of these questions, but also with the issue of rewriting an older poetics for what it does not say about the marginalisation of the feminine. The first half of the book traces the trajectory of a particular, feminine, academic subject learning to find her voice. The second half uses that differently disciplined

Everything You Need To Know About Philosophy – Steve Herman Acceptable Condition. Vinyl covered former library book paperback 133 pages Pocket Books 1999 Goodreads Description: From the five branches of philosophy to the twentieth century's three philosophic schools, this extraordinary compendium explains Kant, questions Socrates, and picks Locke's brain. It's an all-inclusive guide to the study of thought. Pick up is free and easy. Posted recycled padded bags have padding made from 100% r

Everything I Know About Writing – John Marsden Good Condition. Vinyl covered former library book paperback 133 pages Reed Books Australia 1994 Goodreads Description: From the five branches of philosophy to the twentieth century's three philosophic schools, this extraordinary compendium explains Kant, questions Socrates and picks Locke's brain. It's an all-inclusive guide to the study of thought. Pick up is free and easy. Posted recycled padded bags have padding made from 100% recycled newsp

Dangerous Persuaders: An expose of gurus, personal development courses and cults and how they operate in Australia – Louise Samways Very Good Condition. Paperback 148 pages Penguin Press 1994 Goodreads Description: "Louise Samways is a Melbourne psychologist who is a recognised expert in the fields of psychological healing and health. Following the publication of her last book, "Your Mindbody Energy," in which she gave a brief outline of how cults manipulated people by misusing psychologica

Goodreads Description: Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its roots. Drawing inspiration from six of the finest minds in history - Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche - he addresses lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety and conformity. De Botton's book led one critic to call philosophy 'the new rock and roll'. Pick up is free and easy. Posted recycled padded bags have padding made from

Down Under – Bill Bryson Like New Condition. Paperback 397 pages Back Swan Publishing 2001 Goodreads Description: As his many British fans already know, bearded Yankee butterball Bill Bryson specialises in going to countries we think we know well, only to return with travelogues that are surprisingly cynical and yet shockingly affectionate. It's a unique style, possibly best suited to the world's weirder destinations. It's helpful here: Bryson's latest subject is that oddest of continents,

Fatalism And Development. – Dor Bahadur Bista Very Good Condition. Hardcover 190 pages Orient Longmann 1999 Booko Description: The book concentrates on the social and cultural factors which lie behind the current Nepal crisis locating the root cause in the Brahmin-Chhetri minority which dominates Kathmandu and other towns. Fatalism and the caste system still flourish behind the facade of modern bureaucracy, at all levels of government, in education, foreign aid, politics and administration.

Jesus Of The Apocalypse – Barbara Thiering Very Good Condition. Hardcover 462 pages Doubleday Publishing 1995 Goodreads Description: In her controversial 1992 bestseller Jesus the Man, Barbara Thiering first showed how the pesher method of 'decoding' two separate levels of meaning found in the Dead Sea Scrolls could be used by applying it to the Gospels, and presented a completely new historical interpretation of the life of Jesus Christ. Now, in a new work of remarkable research and schola

How Proust Can Change Your Life – Alain De Botton Very Good Condition. Paperback 216 pages Picador Books 1984 Goodreads description: For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-million words of In Search of Lost Time (while bedridden, no less), Alain de Botton has the answer. For, in this stylish, erudite and frequently hilarious book, de Botton dips deeply into Proust’s life and work—his fiction, letter, and conversations—and distills fro

Eye To Eye – Catherine Jinks Very Good Condition. Paperback 151 pages Puffin Books 1997 Goodreads description: While scavenging alone in the desert wilderness, Jansi stumbles across the remains of a damaged star ship which contains a computer capable of thought, expression, and friendship. 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

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

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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

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

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

Book Rip Van Australia by John Singleton with Bob Howard. Set, printed & bound in Australia by Hedges & Bell Pty Ltd. In Good Condition. Dimensions: 136 x 215H mm Please contact Anthony on Or Email at 10 Nicholson St, Coburg VIC 3058 Trading Hours: 10AM-6PM (Mon-Sun) For more views visit our website

Book The Strength in Us All by Sara Henderson. Printed and bound in Australia by McPherson’s Printing Group. 1994 Edition. Dimensions: 158 x 235H mm Please contact Anthony on Or Email at 10 Nicholson St, Coburg VIC 3058 Trading Hours: 10AM-6PM (Mon-Sun) For more views visit our website

The Complete Home Decorating Book by Nicholas Barnard, a Readers Digest publication of 1995, as you can see from some sample pages depicted, gives very clear directions for achieving almost any home decorating project yourself. There are 288 pages, all illustrations are colour photographs. In perfect condition. Gift it to your your young homemaker.

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

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

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

This "Optimum All Colour Reference DIY and Home Improvement" manual is a thoroughly practical and comprehensive book which will help you do all kinds of repairs yourself. Everything is clearly explained and illustrated with photos and diagrams. It's just amazing and everyone needs to have a copy. Published 1984. 512 pages. Excellent condition. 28 x 21 x 4.5 cm.