Search Results: Authors starting with P from Lems Bookshop

Part of The Arts in Australia series. Aboriginal art expressed on different mediums, in different settings, and using different materials. 32 pages with 4 colour and 22 black and white illustrations. Book in very good+ condition with previous owners details on first page.

Australian Aboriginal Myths in Paintings. 79 pages with 32 colour plates and 32 black and white drawings. Book in near fine condition with minor stain on top. Dust jacket in near fine condition.

The book is the story of the Japanese pursuit of destiny, from the opening of Japan by the West until the United States and Japan made peace in 1951. Since the beginning of the Christian era Japan had not been beaten in battle until World War 2, nor had any foreign boot ever trod the land since the Yamato race came down from Korea. Japan's rulers believed it was their destiny to rule Asia. 514 pages with 24 pages of black and white photographs and a map. Book in very good+ condition with light tanning. Dust jacket in good condition with dent on front, and some knocks to edges (see photo).

A new complete history of the Second World War and is the first general history to strike a balance between the European and Far Eastern theatres. The book combines a detailed account of the war with in depth analysis of the strategies, politics and economics of war. 500 pages with 35 illustrations and 29 maps. Book in good condition ex library with borrowing sleave remnants last page, three quarter split from inside front cover, light tanning and some reader wear. Dust jacket in clear wrapper with stickers on spine and back and knocks to edges.

An overview of how our knowledge of the cosmos has developed and great discoveries and the people who made them. 317 pages with 17 figures/illustrations. Book in as new condition.

No publisher or date. In remembrance of blood and tears - a grim episode of World War 2 when 60,000 POW and 200,000 Asian labourers were put to work by the Japanese Army to construct a 415 km railway line linking Thailand and Burma. 60 pages with numerous illustrations throughout. Book in near fine condition.

A Latin Reader for students. 176 pages. Book in very good condion with previous owners name and address on front end paper and name on Note page and light tanning.

Translated by Britta Charleston. Forty three pages of text followed by 93 colour photographs covering The Old Empire (2600-2190BC), The Middle Empire (c2040-1710BC), The New Empire (1580-1085BC), The Funeral Treasure of Tutankhamen, with eight pages of commentaries on the illustrations. 58 pages plus 48 pages for the photographs, in near fine condition.

An engrossing journey through nearly 2,500 years of scientific innovation - along the way we encounter glimpses into the personalities and creative thinking of some of the field's most interesting figures. 244 pages with illustrations throughout. Book in very good condition ex library with stamp on title page and last page, minor wear and front and back covers have abrasions where sticky tape was. Dust jacket in near fine condition with minor bumping.

Events leading to the transfer of power in India starting with the outbreak of World War 2 in September 1939 to the transfer of power on 15 August 1947. 543 pages with 12 pages of black and white photographs and Facsimile of Memorandum giving Congress Comments on the Draft Independence Bill. Book in very good condition ex library with sticker inside front cover, stamp on first page and publishing page, and borrowing sleave remnants on back endpapers. Cover has reference on spine and some wear (see photos).

Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world 1852-2001. Freedom of expression and individual enterprise have distinguished the societies of powers dominate at sea, and since supreme maritime nations have prevailed over their territorial rivals in the great wars of the modern era, it is they that have created today's world. 369 pages with 16 pages of black and white photographs and 4 maps. Book in very good condition.

A 141 days journey from North to South Poles along the 30 degree East line of longitude, chosen because it crossed the greatest amount of land. 320 pages with numerous colour and black and white illustrations throughout the text. The book and cover in very good contion with minor bump to top right cover and first pages.

A simultaneous documented view of every theatre of World War 2. 754 pages with 620 photos and 84 maps. Book and dust jacket in very good condition with some foxing to top of pages and minor bumping to dust jacket and slight wear. This is a large book but no increase in postage in Australia.

Evolution, Darwin and the influence of evolutionary thinking on science, culture and religion. 346 pages including illustrations throughout the text. Book in near fine condition.

A Dorling Kindersley Book first published in Australia by Readers Digest - a Pockets guide. An insight into the origin, formation, and variety of fossils and information on how to find and collect fossils. 160 pages with colour photographs throughout. Book in near fine condition.

The authors travel throughout South Africa and record what things entertained and excited them. 446 pages with 44 black and white illustrations, 4 maps and endpaper maps. Boo in very good condition with previous owners details on front endpaper. Dust jacket in very good condition with some wear to edges.

The decade of the 1890's - a period of intense artistic and political activity the people had a sudden vision of themselves as a nation with a character of their own with an historic role to play - this vision set fruitful creative forces in motion. 156 pages with 11 colour plates and black and white illustrations throughout. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition.

A pictorial representation of the Sanctuary and works of art with accompanying description and notes. 20 pages followed by 88 pages of black and white photographs. Book in very good condition with small chip to cover top back/spine.

In 1800 the vast interior of Australia lay undiscovered. By 1874 its lands had been all but won. The author gathers together the stories of those intrepid explorers who, often against great odds, beat starvation, inadequate information, disease and loss to open the country for development. 239 pages including 8 pages of plates, 4 pages of maps and 11 pages of illustrations throughout the text. Book in very good condition with mark on cover where a sticker used to be, slight knock to corner and rear.

With overall responsibility for the preparation and journey of the first fleet to Australia, Arthur Phillip was the first Governor of New South Wales - why he was chosen, and how he fared is the subject of this book along with a new perspective on the precarious first years of the settlement at Port Jackson. 294 pages with 8 pages of illustrations. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition.