Search Results: Titles starting with G from Lems Bookshop

The author, a champion tennis player herself, writes about fifteen of her competitors. 224 pages with 28 black and white photographs. Book in very good- condition with marks and wear to cover (see photos). No dust jacket.

Part of the Pan Grand Strategy series the book is a classic study of the battles of Gallipoli and re-examines all the political, strategic and tactical aspects of the most inspiring, infuriating and heartbreaking of all Allied campaigns of the Great War. 384 pages with 51 black and white illustrations and 22 maps. Book in very good condition with tanning.

Simple solutions to landscaping in shady places, improve soil conditions, and creating a sound growing environment despite the lack of sun, and plants that grow well in full shade, semi-shade, semi-dry shade, and damp shade. 48 pages with colour illustrations throughout. Book and dust jacket in as new condition.

This edition concentrates on European art enabling a fuller account of individual works of art, of stylistic development and pf historical context. 801 pages with 96 colour plates and black and white illustrations on most other pages. Book in very good condition with previous owners name on first page and sticky tape marks on first and last pages. Cover has knocks and some wear to corners and in clear wrapper.

Sixty of the finest images from the Hubble Space Telescope chosen for their scientific themes and beauty with descriptions explaining the science behind the images and the significance of the discoveries. 123 pages with colour illustrations. Book in very good condition ex library with stamps on first and last pages. Cover in clear wrapper with sticker on front, spine and back.

Architect of quantum theories, brash young group leader on the atomic bomb project, inventor of the ubiquitous Feynman diagram, bongo player and storyteller, Richard Feynman was the most brilliant, iconoclastic and influential physicist of modern times. 531 pages with 16 pages of black and white photographs. Book in near fine condition.

The transfer of technology, ideas, culture and social institutions from East to West and West to East. A journey through world history following the different roads taken by Eastern and Western nations to achieve wealth and power in the modern world. 288 pages with colour illustrations throughout. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good+ condition with some minor wear.

Undated publication but around 1917. Part 1 - Introductory, Part II - A Geological Reconnaissance. 301 pages with 16 Plates and 33 Figures. Book in very good condition ex library with stickers and name inside front cover, stamp on front endpaper, title page and six other pages. Cover has some wear (see photo).

The first book to survey and illustrate the full career of George French Angas, the intrepid artist who traversed the frontier regions of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in the years 1844-52. A documented biography and a series of 56 reproductions of his works, 16 in colour illustrating the full range of his art. 88 pages. Book in near fine condition.

The process by which Hitler and his Party Chiefs were able to indoctrinate the highly professional and non-political Imperial German Army and build up the mighty war machine put in action in 1939. 383 pages with 16 pages of black and white illustrations. Book in good condition with some tanning and wear to cover.

The Germans that came during the colony of South Australia's first decades were a divided people by country, culture and class but they brought an astonishing variety of knowledge and talents, and were destined to make a difference in many fields - no less varied has been the experiences of their descendants. 449 pages with around 70 black and white illustrations. Book in as new condition.

Gestapo - the most dreaded name in Europe, the original instrument of Hitler's most atrocious crimes. The book examines what they did and what they did not do - who was responsible for Nazi crimes against humanity. 191 pages. Book in good condition with previous owners name on first page along with two letters, tanning to pages and cover has corner clipped and has wear (see photo).

The story of the men who challenged the continent and constructed a railway known as the Ghan. to write the history the author made the journey in the brake van from Port Augusta to Alice Springs and gains fascinating glimpses of the past. 273 pages with 23 black and white photographs and 6 maps. Book in very good condition with light tanning.

In late 1803 convict William Buckley fled the embryonic settlement in the Port Philip Bay area to take his chances in the wilderness. He was found by the local Wadawurrung tribe who took him in and he lived with them for 32 years as a tribesman. In 1835 John Bateman, a bounty hunter from Van Diemen's Land. arrived in the area to control the perfect pasturland around the Bay. 306 pages with some black and white illustrations and a map.
I also have The Ship that Never Was $15
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Milton's work was bound to the events of his time including the English Civil War and the restoration of the monarchy. Nearly all his poems are mentioned but mostly Paradise Lost. Few poets have produced such conflicting critical opinions as Milton did. 136 pages with colour illustrations on 36 pages and many black and white illustrations. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition with small booksellers sticker first endpaper.

The origins of modern civilization, tracing religion, medicine, architecture, customs, rituals, and symbols back to Ancient Egypt. 288 pages with numerous colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Book and dust jacket in as new condition.

A vivid picture of an age and the men who created a uniquely English confection of mock-heroic satire, geniality and authentic lyricism which still retains a special place in the culture and affections of the English speaking world. 128 pages with 143 black and white illustrations. Book (previous owners name on first page) and dust jacket (remnant booksellers sticker on front) in very good+ condition.

The fossil war between E D Cope and O C Marsh and the rise of American science. Just after the American Civil War Cope and Marsh set out to answer the question, could the history of life and the proof of evolution be found in fossils - the contest quickly turned into bitter rivalry. 424 pages with 8 pages of black and white illustrations and a map. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

A first hand account giving fascinating detail of every day life in the wartime USSR and recounts the gruelling toll of combat and breathtaking bravery of this female sniper. She volunteered for military service and at eighteen was sent to sniper school and after arduous training saw combat from November 1944 in ferocious battles in East Prussia and Poland. 206 pages with 14 pages of black and white photographs and a map. Book in as new condition.

Written in the hope that the people and stories in the book will lift spirits, touch hearts, and demonstrate that citizen activism and service can be a powerful agent of change in the world. 240 pages. Book in as new condition with booksellers sticker on back cover.