sydney 2022 (26 Ergebnisse)

8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (near Fine). Pp. vi + 278, with b&w illus (no inscriptions).

Octavo, paperback,446 pp.,colour photographs, maps. WAS $50. This comprehensive guide describes the 582 species of wild orchids that occur in NSW and the ACT. This region covers the richest area for wild orchids in Australia and includes over 500 species of seasonal ground orchids and 62 species of evergreen tree and rock orchids. Orchids found in this region include the tallest, heaviest, smallest flowered, most numerous flowered and most bizarre orchids in Australia, including elusive underground species. Guide to Native Orchids of NSW and ACT describes each species, enabling their identification in the field, and includes over 600 photographs of wild orchids in their natural habitat and distribution maps for almost all species. Featuring orchids with a dazzling array of colour and form, this is the essential guide for all orchid enthusiasts.

8vo. 342pp. Original boards in dustwrapper. Black and white illustrations; a near fine copy. . Children#s Book of the Year Winner.

Octavo,246 pages, original wrappers, a fine copy. First edition.

Octavo, paperback,374 pp.,colour photographs. If humanity survives, Stan Breeden's memoir is destined to be a natural classic. For eight decades he has been a peerless observer and chronicler of Earthâs wilds and wildlife. In this book are some of the most poignant accounts of the human affinity with nature that have ever flowed from pen to paper. No one has written it up with finer or easier words to read than these. In his search for meaning our human soul is pivotal. Beyond the reach of deductive science (brain) are feelings (soul) like those experienced lying beneath the giant eucalypts in Tasmaniaâs Styx forest, or at Uluá u, âoverpowering in its size, its sheerness, its isolation, its beauty and its silent mystery - a quality never captured in photographs or film.â âScience denies our soul. Art, too busy being provocative, devalues our feelings. The result is a relentless widening of the chasm between people and nature, exacerbating the creeping malaise of the Nature Deficit Disorder.â When young Breeden gave up on university, he had âwanted to feel nature with all my senses, but also with my very being, my soulâ. Later, in the dunes of Cooloola, then threatened by sand mining but now protected, he reckoned that âif we could just show people the splendorous and seemingly miraculous workings of the natural world, it would become so obvious that nature needed protecting that there would be no need for conflictâ. It was a time when we held high hopes that humankind would turn green. How wrong our expectations were. Yet Breeden has persisted as one of the worldâs finest presenters of the splendours of nature right through to this new epoch of defiant environmental activism. His presentations through National Geographic, his marvellous books on nature, and his role in establishing Queenslandâs Wildlife Preservation Society, speak for themselves. The humble Stan Breeden wants a new Shakespeare to âfind words - full of drama and imagination - that make nature come alive in our minds.â We need only read this book.

Octavo, paperback,322 pp.,Fuelled by her biologist's background and deep curiosity, Danielle Clode delves into the world of koalas to discover what's behind the sweet face on thousands of postcards. From their megafaunal ancestors to the disastrous effects of colonisation, from remarkable conservation success in the 1920s to the devastating bushfires of 2019-2020, Clode tells the story of koalas and their complex relationship with humans. Sharing the latest scientific insights and myth-busting facts, all woven through Clode's award-winning storytelling, Koala takes readers up into the trees to reveal the truth about this extraordinary animal and what must be done to ensure its survival.

4to. xviii+188pp. B/w illustrations. Original wrappers, a near fine copy. . First edition.

fourth edition).Octavo, paperback,336 pp.,colour photographs, maps. In this new fully updated edition, 'A Field Guide to Reptiles of New South Wales' you will find every gecko, flap-footed lizard, goanna, dragon, skink, snake and turtle known to live throughout the stateâs many habitats. The guide narrows down the field of species identification to a manageable size for any naturalist. The telltale details that make identification possible lie in the descriptions of families, genera and species; these are accompanied by clear line drawings. Where you need to tune out similar species, simple keys are provided. For herpetologists, the location maps will prove invaluable. This book is a thorough update, expansion and revision of 'A Field Guide to the Snakes and Lizards of New South Wales' published in 2004. Since then, the number of species has increased, countless names have changed and new species locations have been found.

second edition).Octavo, paperback,367 pp.,colour photographs, maps. This highly successful book features all 840 bird species that live on or visit the Australian continent. Following a brief introduction about bird biology, habitats and bird families, the main part of the book comprises species entries. Each species is depicted in a photograph; sometimes there are two where male and female vary or breeding plumage is different. A map shows each species' distribution in and around Australia, and the text gives details of size, colour, shape, behaviour, calls and habitat. This second edition has updated maps, general text information and common and Latin names. In addition, several photographs have been replaced with better ones.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 228 pp. Still shrinkwrapped. Red cloth covered boards in pictorial jacket. Full-page colour illustrations. The text is in two parts, 'The Artist's Progress Through the Eyes of his Contemporaries' and 'The Painter's Eye', which examines Sickert's lifelong quest to find the best way to use oil paint and how drawings were made as blueprints for the paintings. Also includes some of Sickert's own critical writings. Fine in a fine jacket. 9780947349677 Square 4to.

Large oblong 4to.280pp. Original boards in dustwrapper. Numerous colour and black and white illustrations; a near fine copy. . First edition.

Octavo, laminated boards,272colour photographs. Winner of the 2023 Wildlife Photography Whitley Award. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea showcases 125 of the best photos ever assembled of the most spectacular reptiles and frogs found in the Australasian region, which is one of the worldâs herpetological hot-spots. Twenty-five of the best photographers specialising in their subjects have each submitted five of their most awe-inspiring images, culminating in a unique and captivating publication. Reading like a large field guide with jaw-dropping images, this publication includes details on each speciesâ natural history and distribution. The often rare and spectacular subjects include Horned Land Frog, Jewelled Gecko, Red-eyed Crocodile Skink, Emerald Monitor and Green Python. For each photo technical specifications are highlighted while the story behind each image takes you alongside the photographer for each shot. The contributor accounts read like an adventurerâs diary, with tales of hardship, sacrifice, skill and plain old good luck that were needed in order to find and photograph these amazing beasts. Come along and enjoy the adventure!

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mike Eyedrop, My Story tells the story of a little eye drop named Mike who is low vision and the obstacles that he faces as a child. He also describes the positives attached to his disability and what people can do when encountering someone with a visual impairment. Based on my life with low vision, Mike Eyedrop, My Story seeks to bring awareness to children and their families of people with visual impairments and how to interact with them.

reprint).Octavo, paperback,146 pp.,colour photographs, maps. This book is easy to use with comprehensive identification characters, as well as detailed distribution maps.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What is wrong with democracy as we know it Too many decisions are the result of political deals based on the power strategies and tactics of politicians, not on the merits of the case. The voters can only accept or reject the packages the parties offer them.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A year after its 2008 resurrection from the archives, ARNA is back to stimulate and literate with analytical essays of depth and insight, creative stories of humour and intelligence, poetry of loss and love, social commentary and reflective satire.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Reudor, Moran (illustrator). Neuware - The book's values:

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Mimi visits Copenhagen with her husband and small children, she decides to look up her former boyfriend. Her hands are shaking as she searches for Viggo's name in the phone directory. Will he want to see her.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Despite their very different histories, Australia and France share the typical postcolonial experience of unresolved conflicts. The persistent residues of colonial violence manifest in contemporary outbreaks of violence in Indigenous Australian communities and in communities in France with a large number of immigrants and their descendants from former colonies. In both countries structural limitations and policy failures of the welfare state have become sources of discontent and suffering, leading to interactions between marginalised groups and the state that are punctuated by instances of violent contestation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The adoption of White Australia as government policy in 1901 demonstrates that whiteness was crucial to the ways in which the new nation of Australia was constituted. And yet, historians have largely overlooked whiteness in their studies of Australia's racial past. Creating White Australia takes a fresh approach to the question of 'race' in Australian history. It demonstrates that Australia's racial foundations can only be understood by recognising whiteness too as 'race'. Including contributions from some of the leading as well as emerging scholars in Australian history, it breaks new ground by arguing that 'whiteness' was central to the racial ideologies that created the Australian nation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reading Across the Pacific is a study of literary and cultural engagement between the United States and Australia from a contemporary interdisciplinary perspective. The book examines the relations of the two countries, shifting the emphasis from the broad cultural patterns that are often compared, to the specific networks, interactions, and crossings that have characterised Australian literature in the United States and American literature in Australia.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth, Cairns, Darwin, Bendigo and beyond, it explores the struggles and successes of Chinese people in Australia since the 1850s, as told in their own words. This unique book was written by an insider. Mavis Yen was born in Perth in 1916, the daughter of a Chinese father and an Australian mother. She lived in both countries and understood what it meant to navigate two worlds, to live through war and revolution, and to experience racial discrimination. In the 1980s she began interviewing elderly Chinese Australians, recording hours of conversations. Her intimate understanding of their languages and life experiences encouraged them to share their stories. Published here for the first time, they will change how you think about Australian history.

(XII) 634 p. Hardcover (Very fine copy, like new.).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth, Cairns, Darwin, Bendigo and beyond, it explores the struggles and successes of Chinese people in Australia since the 1850s, as told in their own words.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tiwi Textiles: Design, Making, Process tells the story of the innovative Tiwi Design centre on Bathurst Island in northern Australia, dedicated to the production of hand-printed fabrics featuring Indigenous designs, from the 1970s to today. Written by early art coordinator Diana Wood Conroy with oral testimony from senior Tiwi artist Bede Tungutalum, who established Tiwi Design in 1969 with fellow designer Giovanni Tipungwuti, the book traces the beginnings of the centre, and its subsequent place in the Tiwi community and Australian Indigenous culture more broadly. Bringing together many voices and images, especially those of little-known older artists of Paru and Wurrumiyanga (formerly Nguiu) on the Tiwi Islands and from the Indigenous literature, Tiwi Textiles features profiles of Tiwi artists, accounts of the development of new design processes, insights into Tiwi culture and language, and personal reflections on the significance of Tiwi Design, which is still proudly operating today.

4to. xvi + 620 [and] xxii + 610pp., maps, bibliography. indexes etc. Original laminated boards (No dustwrapper issued). . Numerous colour and black and white illustrations; a fine set in slipcase. First edition.