Search Results: Authors starting with N from Great Southern Books

William Heinemann Ltd, London. UK, 2009. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 337 pages. This book is in very good or better condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is still in great condition. The front cover has some bumps and marks. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: Azar Nafisi, author of the international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's political revolution.A girl's pain over family secrets; a young woman's discovery of the power of sensuality in literature; the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by political upheaval - these and other threads are woven together in this beautiful… Read More

Dover Publications, New York, 1959. New Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 611 pages. Text contains marks and notes scattered throughout, in ink. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. This book is available and will be shipped within two business days. All items are tracked and details are available on request.. Twenty-five centuries of stage history in more than 300 basic documents and other primary material. "An indispensable complement to the study of the drama." - Educational Theatre Journal. A rich resource for students of theater and theater historians, this volume features an annotated collection of more than 300 unusually interesting and detailed articles. Passages by contemporary observers from ancient Greece to modern times include notes on acting, directing, make-up, costuming, stage props, machinery, scene design, and much more. "Most… Read More

Simon & Schuster, New York, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Second impression of the First Edition. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 367 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. The battle for Moscow was the biggest battle of World War II-the biggest battle of all time. And yet it is far less known than Stalingrad, which involved about half the number of troops. The full story of this epic battle has never been told because it undermines the sanitized Soviet accounts of the war, which portray Stalin as a military genius and his people as heroically united against the German invader. Stalin's blunders, incompetence, and brutality made… Read More

Little Brown, London, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Very Good. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 439 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage, other than spine which is faded by sun exposure. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. Revisiting Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan and Malaysia - the countries he visited for "Among the Believers" (1981), Naipaul reviews his impressions of the Islamic world. He explores the life and culture, and the current ferment which exists inside the nations of Islam. This book was written in a time before 9/11. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category:… Read More

Bayland Publishing, Houston, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Fair. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 289 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears, and is foxed here and there. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. This book is available and will be shipped within two business days. All items are tracked and details are available on request.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Economics; United States; 1970s; ISBN: 0934018006. ISBN/EAN: 9780934018005. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 5952. . 9780934018005

Aldus Books/Jupiter Books, London, United Kingdom, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 488 pages. A very nice copy. The book VG+ and DJ fair to good. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. The dust jacket is price clipped and largely intact. Some repairs have been made which have been effective. All edges are clean, neat and free of foxing. Items are in stock and will be shipped same day or next business day directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: The book is divided into three sections - Lands of Spice and Treasure, Charting the Vast Pacific and Lands of the Southern Cross. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Expeditions & Discoveries, Maritime, Oceania; ISBN: 0490002927. ISBN/EAN: 9780490002920. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0002548. . 9780490002920

Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2008. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine Condition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 307 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Economist and syndicated journalist Loretta Napoleoni argues that the world is undergoing rapid and unexpected great transformations fueled by what she calls rogue economics. Eagerly awaited around the world (translation rights have already been sold throughout Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia), Napoleoni's account is based on top-to-bottom primary-source interviews from banking executives in New York to Russian prostitutes to London morgue workers, and grounded in the author's personal experience in international finance. From Eastern Europe's booming sex trade industry to China's… Read More

Hyland House Publishing, Melbourne, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. First impression. Size: Small Octavo. 207 pages. Text contains minor marks and annotations. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Argues that Aboriginal writing search for and maintain a commitment to a distinctive Aboriginality; community writing seen as potential origin for a new literature; criticism of Aboriginal writing and music directed at the majority community; effects of assimilation - Identity Magazine; opposition of orality and literacy in Aboriginal narratives; Aboriginal theatre; womens writing; discussion of Lionel Fogarty, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Kevin Gilbert, Lucy Cox, Robert Bropho, Archie Weller, Robert Merritt, Elsie Roughsey, Ruby Langford and Sally Morgan. Quantity Available:… Read More

4th Estate, London, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. First impression. Size: Small Octavo. 557 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book has been read and it may have some creases but is sound overall. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind, a brilliant new approach to the story of modern economics and to understanding how we got into today's financial mess. As the twenty-first century faces new and ever more daunting economic obstacles, Sylvia Nasar tells the story of how our financial world came to function as it does today, and how a handful of men and women would change the lives of every person on the planet. Economics was not always associated… Read More

Simon & Schuster, London, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 327 pages. A fine unread copy.. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. The most terrifying novel you will read this year... Just as he's celebrating his last day on the job, FBI agent E L Pender receives a letter from Dorie Bell. Dorie is afraid. Last year she attended a convention for Persons with Specific Phobia Disorder. Since then, a couple of the delegates have died in suspicious circumstances. Carl Polander had acrophobia. Fear of heights. So what would he be doing on the 12th floor of the building the police say he jumped from? Mara Agajanian had haemophobia. Fear of blood. So how could she have cut her own wrists in the bathtub? Dorie, who suffers from an irrational fear of masks, wants Pender to look into these cases. She suspects there may be a twisted serial killer on the loose. Someone, who quite literally, enjoys scaring his victims to… Read More

Macmillan Publishers Ltd, London, United Kingdom, 2004. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Printing. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 251 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book has been read and carries some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Tony Blair's affair with America is one of the most compelling stories of our time. He is the Prime Minister whose bonding with George W. Bush imperilled his political future in Britain, while becoming a hero to many Americans after 9/11. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: International Affairs, Politics, Terrorism; Britain/UK; ISBN: 1405051191. ISBN/EAN: 9781405051194. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0001544. . 9781405051194

Pan Books, London, 2013. New Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine Condition. 1st Printing. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 296 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. A fine unread copy.. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Tony Blair's affair with America is one of the most compelling stories of our time. He is the Prime Minister whose bonding with George W. Bush imperilled his political future in Britain, while becoming a hero to many Americans after 9/11. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: International Affairs, Politics, Terrorism; Britain/UK; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781447261582. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8112. . 9781447261582

Orion Books, London, 2014. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 301 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. This is real Tehran: a city that is hidden from view and rarely written about, where survival depends on an intricate network of lies and subterfuge. It is a place where mullahs visit prostitutes, drug kingpins run crystal meth kitchens, surgeons restore girls' virginity and homemade porn is uploaded onto the Internet and sold in the bazaars. Plotted around the city's great central thoroughfare, Vali Asr Street, CITY OF LIES chronicles the lives of eight protagonists drawn… Read More

Summit Books, New York, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition (ex-library)/Very Good. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 303 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust jacket has been protected by it's library plastic cover but it is sun faded down the spine.. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Library stamps etc only on endpapers, half-title page.. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Examines events and Japanese naval code transmissions preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor to raise new questions concerning Winston Churchill's advance knowledge of the attack. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; United States; 1940s; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0671708058. ISBN/EAN: 9780671708054. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No:… Read More

Scribe Publications, 2006. Reprint. Soft cover. Very Good. 294 pages. This book is in very good or better condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book although the previous owner's name has been cut out with scissors. The spine of the book is still in great condition. The front cover has some bumps and marks. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. Five year old Enrique is like many young Hondurans. His family is too poor to feed the children and to keep him in school, so his mother leaves Honduras to work in the United States with the promise that she will return quickly. But she struggles in America.… Read More

Virago Modern Classics, London, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Third impression of the First Edition. Size: Small Octavo. 297 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are lightly toned throughout. Edges browned slightly. No crease marks on spine. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. Introduced by Holly Eley 'One of the greatest writers of our time' Toni Morrison 'She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her . . .' When sixteen-year-old Janie is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Janie endures two stifling marriages… Read More

ABC Books, 2007. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 2nd Printing. 288 pages. This book is in fine or better condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is still in great condition. The front cover has some bumps and marks. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: It's not always easy being a mother. It is not always domestic bliss and we are not always perfect. The Bad Mother's Revenge is a wise and wry book that tells it like it sometimes is. This is a consoling and hilarious take on motherhood from birth to the teenage years by desperate housewife and mother of three, Sonia Neale. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Family Relationships, Infants & Toddlers, Motherhood, Parenting, Teenagers; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780733318344. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon… Read More

Pen and Sword Books, United Kingdom, 2014. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine Condition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 327 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. A fine unread copy.. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Saturday at M.I.9 is the inside story of the underground escape lines in occupied Northwest Europe which brought back to Britain over 4,000 Allied servicemen during World War Two. Airey Neave, who in the last two years of the war was the chief organizer at M.I.9 gives his own unique account. He describes how the escape lines began in the first dark days of German occupation and how, until the end of the war, thousands of ordinary men and women made their own contribution to the Allied victory by hiding and feeding men and guiding them to safety. "There isn't a page in the book which… Read More

Atlantic Books, London, 2016. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 276 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. A fine unread copy.. The book is available and ready to ship. "In The Crash Detectives, veteran aviation journalist and air safety investigator Christine Negroni takes us inside crash investigations from the early days of the jet age to the present, including the search for answers about what happened to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. As Negroni dissects what happened and why, she explores their common themes and, most important, what has been learned from them to make planes safer. Indeed, as Negroni shows, virtually every aspect of modern pilot training, airline operation, and airplane design has been shaped by lessons learned from disaster. Along the way, she also details some miraculous saves, when… Read More

Harper Collins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 515 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Edges browned slightly. This book is currently IN STOCK and would be shipped directly from our Australian address.. One of Australia's most respected journalists turns his unflinching gaze to the big issues that affect us George Negus is one of Australia's most respected journalists. As the host of SBS TV's Dateline, and in his earlier international programs Foreign Correspondent and 60 Minutes, George has traversed the world, meeting and interviewing politicians, philosophers, peace-brokers, philanthropists, presidents, princes and pundits. From Al Gore and Bob Geldof to Mikhail Gorbachev and Colonel Gaddafi, from the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu to Naomi Wolf,… Read More