Search Results: Authors starting with R from Bookhome Sydney

Sydney: Giramondo Publishing Company, 2016. Paperback octavo, very good condition, corner tips covers little scuffed, bottom corner rear cover & spine little creased, minimal edgewear. 335 pp. Australian novel set in Tasmania. This novel is about Michael, an aspiring writer who takes a job as the secretary to his literary hero, Lucian Clarke, a reclusive novelist with a mysterious past. Lucian lives in a cottage in a village on a mountain outside Hobart, named Wood Green.

New York: Avery / Penguin Group, 2005. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), cloth spine, minor edgewear. 266 pp. American geriatric psychiatrist, - bestselling author of "The 36-Hour Day" - explains how the many changes that occur as a person ages can trigger severe and life-altering anxiety and depression, often destroying lives. This valuable guide will help readers to: learn how late-life anxiety differs from anxiety in younger people; identify the disorder a loved one may have and its causes; and treat the affliction with the best options available. Provides the tools to help people break free from the debilitating grasp of their disorders. Stories from patients encourage and motivate both sufferers and their caregivers.

Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1980. 2nd ed.. Paperback large octavo, very good condition, flexible glossy card covers, tables, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear, owner's written name title page. 302 pp. The Effects of Psychological Therapy, by S. J. Rachman & G. T. Wilson (1980). Second edition. Updated and enlarged to provide the improved critical evaluation of the evidence for psychological therapies. Psychoanalysis, Rogerian client-centered therapy, behaviour therapy, and the newer forms of cognitive therapy are covered in depth.

Bundaberg: Best Books, 1985. Hardback small quarto, no jacket, very good condition, pictorial cover, sepia (brown-tinted) photos, five adverts & single photo, light foxing rear endpapers & edges, tiny bump fore-edge front cover. 107 pp. Neville Rackemann's Historical Note Book: Bundaberg (1985). This book is not a chronological history of Bundaberg. It is a selection of his 'historical notes', now in the fifth year of publication by the Bundaberg News-Mail. Topics include: Explorers, sheepmen, cattlemen, the murder of Blaxland, Bundaberg's founders John and Gavin Steuart, sugar and commerce. Where else but in Bundaberg would you find a man refusing to leave his flooded home until he fed the chooks? .

Sydney: NewSouth / University of New South Wales Press, 2017. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos spread, minor edgewear, small sticker top corner front free flyleaf. 320 pp. Mathew Radcliffe documents the 50,000 plus Australian servicemen and their families rotated through the Penang region of Malaysia (Butterworth air base) for two-year tours of duty, from 1955 until 1988. This spans the end of the British Empire and the start of the Cold War through to real engagement with Asia. This book shines a light on the complex, uneven and dynamic history of the Australian military presence in northern Malaysia and the lives of the people who lived there. The men, women and children lived full lives during their deployment, seemingly a bastion of Australianness in the midst of a Malay, Chinese and Indian community.

Melbourne: High Horse Books, 2008. 1st ed.. Hardback oblong quarto, very good plus condition, black & white & colour cartoons (few single-colour), minimal edgewear jacket (few small scratches). 186 pp. This book showcases the range of Bruce Petty's artistic & political cartoon styles, as well as his intellectual and moral concerns. Much of the work has been previously unpublished.

London: Left Book Club / Victor Gollancz, 1939. Paperback, good condition, card covers (spine little creased during manufacture), pages & covers lightly toned, rear cover lightly foxed, minor edgewear corners. 381 pp. Melvin Rader describes the struggle between two worlds: democracy and fascism. He is a lecturer of philosophy, University of Washington. He leaves the traditional themes of philosophy to write about the dangers of fascism for the survival of philosophy, and for democratic society in general.

Siena, Italy: Rasna, 2004. Paperback trade, very good condition, minor edgewear. 283 pp. Englishman Jonathan Radford grew up in an English familiy of gardeners, and became an international garden designer. He reports his fascinating life story, and finally living his eco-friendly gardening dreams in Tuscany, Italy.

Neptune City, NJ: TFH: T. F. H. Publications, 1999. Paperback quarto, very good condition, glossy paper, colour text-photos. 64 pp. (Estimated date: 1999.) All you need to know about keeping the beautiful Australian bird (budgerigars) as a pet, known as parakeets in the United States. A complete reference book in magazine form.

Birmingham: Radiation Ltd, 1949. 35th ed.. Hardback small octavo, fair condition only (reading copy), cloth covered thick boards, gilt title front cover, cloth spine, few colour plates, few black & white photos at front, tables (menus), pages lightly toned, light foxing & creasing few pages, covers little marked & slightly faded & rubbed (little scuffed & bumped), front hinge slightly split (pages firm), tiny edge tear one page, corner tips few pages creased, owner's written name (initials) top corner flyleaf. 309 pp. A very special well-loved book, complied to go with the Regulo New World Cooker. All the recipes and menus have been carefully tested. The first Radiation Cookery Book, compiled for the benefit of the satisfied users of Regulo New World Cooker appeared in 1927 and this is the 35th edition. The whole book is logically arranged and the instructions are easy to follow. A good addition to any old cookbook collection. (Appears to be the only copy of the 35th edition… Read More

Melbourne: Viking O'Neil / Penguin Books, 1988. Reprint ed.. Paperback quarto, card covers, very good condition, minor edgewear, edges lightly toned. 136 pp. This book is a selection of sheet music for the best-known, best loved Australian songs of our heritage-convict songs, shearing songs, bush songs, union songs, sentimental, satirical and sad songs. Compiled by music historian Therese Radic, who also provides the provenance of each song.

London: Corgi Books, 2009. 1st Corgi ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, black & white drawings, minimal toning pages, minor edgewear. 408 pp. Eminent parapsychologist Dean Radin provides a rigorously reasoned manifesto who unveils persuasive empirical evidence for the existence of psychic phenomena. Radin explores myriad phenomena: from ESP to ghosts to psychokinesis. He analyzes how the inevitable mass acceptance of the mind-matter link will affect social, economic, academic, health and spiritual issues. He is the director of the Consciousness Research Laboratory, University of Nevada Las Vegas, and twice president of the Parapsychology Association. He has also done cutting-edge research for AT&T, Stanford, Princeton's Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory, the University of Edinburgh, S.R.I. International and the U.S. Government. First British paperback edition. .

London: Universal Edition, 1993. Paperback folio, very good condition, card cover (stapled), few minor creases covers, minor edgewear. 16 pp. Sheet music for five original pieces with more than just a hint of the "blues": The Intruder - Schoolhouse Blues - Gatecrasher - Waltz for Gemma - Ben's Tune.

Montreal: Brimar Publishing, 1992. 1st ed.. Hardback small quarto, no jacket, very good condition, pictorial cover, full-page colour photos, colour text-photos. 192 pp. This book has recipes using Campbell's soups with easy step-by-step techniques. There are over 250 beautiful colour photos. Edited by Angela Rahaniotis.

Wagga Wagga, NSW: Riverina-Murray Institute Archives, 1985. Paperback trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, thin yellow card covers, light creases spine & front cover, minor edgewear. 6 pp. This paper was originally produced in October 1890 in the report of a conference of fruit-growers and vine-growers, and was published by the Government Printer of the Colony of New South Wales in a Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. This is a brief look at the beginning of fruit preserving which the author hoped would be an industry which would produce results in the future. (No 13 in a series. Limited edition, 60 copies.).

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press (SUNY Press), 1998. Paperback octavo, very good plus condition, tiny spot fore-edge, minor edgewear corner tips. 399 pp. These essays provide a critical insight into the questions of race, gender, sexuality, and locality in sport and society. Topics include postmodern sport writing, sport and the postmodern deconstruction of gender and sexuality, virtual sport and the postmodern mediascape, discipline, normalization, rationalization, surveillance, panopticism, and other forms of power to "invest" postmodern sporting bodies, and new perspectives on sport and physical culture, consumer culture, and postmodern geography. Edited by Genevieve Rail, human kinetics, University of Ottawa.

Sydney: New South Wales Rail Transport Museum, 1970. Reprint ed.. Paperback large wide trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, many black & white text-photos (mostly full-page), staples little rusted, rear cover lightly foxed, faint foxing top edge, minor edgewear. 40 pp. This booklet from the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum is a pictorial history of steam engines in New South Wales railways. There are photos of 42 steam locomotives at work, mostly on their regular duties. Of interest to railway and Australian history enthusiasts. Originally published, 1966 (this is the 1970 reprint). (1 of 2 available copies.).

Melbourne: J. Hickmer, 1910. Ephemera, invoice, oblong octavo (18 x 20 cm), good plus condition, page lightly toned, minor edgewear. 1 pp. A single-page invoice from this business at 273 Swanston Street, Melbourne, dated August 17, 1910. The customer is Castle Bros, Kyneton. Text in pencil, with extra annotation in ink. Rubber stamp "James Railton" overprints business name Railton Bros.

City Not Stated: Commonwealth Railways, 1965. Paperback tall trade, thin card, colour photo on cover, light toning & foxing, spine rubbed, written annotation rear side 2pp. This menu provides a dining car service breakfast on the Trans-Australian Railway (from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie, across the Nullarbor Plain). The colour photo on the card cover is a view of Standley Chasm, Central Australia. There are signatures of four of the passengers on the rear side. (Estimated date, 1960s.).

Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002. Paperback octavo, very good condition, few black & white drawings, spine lightly faded, minor edgewear. 186 pp. Drawing on her directing experience, and years of leading workshops on Restoration theatre, Suzanne Ramczyk provides an historic overview of the period and the literature. She also provides analysis of the major literary devices and features, methods to approach vocal interpretation of highly artificial text, a solid grounding in period manners and movement, specific exercises to get actors quickly and easily into the Restoration style, detailed artwork of period costumes, as well as illustrations of such period necessities as bows, curtsies, the 'language' of the fan and snuff-taking. The author is an American professor of theatre arts.