Search Results: Titles starting with K from Lems Bookshop

Kakadu National Park is in the top end of the Northern Territory and a place of great richness. Four tribal elders explain how they maintain links with the Dreamtime, how they look after country and pass on traditions to the next generation - a spectacular record of a culture and environment. 208 pages with colour photographs on most pages and two maps. Book in very good condition and if not for missing first page (endpaper) would be in as new condition. Dust jacket in very good+ condition with very minor wear.

The author joins the 1930 expedition to climb the 28,156 feet high Kangchenjunga, the second highest Himalayan summit. 344 pages with black and white illustrations on 8 pages. Book in very good condition with minor foxing and minor tanning. Cover has wear and fading to spine (see photos).

Signed by the author and presented to the previous owner by the Assistant Defence Attache to the Republic of the Philippines. The author enlisted in the RAAF in 1942 wanting to fly aircraft but found himself in top secret wireless units working to intercept radio transmissions sent in Japanese katakana code which when analysed produced highly reliable intelligence that drastically shortened the war in the Pacific (about two years) - at the time of publication the Australian Government had not given any recognition of the RAAF katakana operators despite Allied commanders praising them. 204 pages with illustrations throughout. Book in very good+ condition with previous owners sticker on first page..

The aim of the book is to inform people how to work co-operatively with each other. To sell a scheme you have to understand, to consult with, your client group. Start with kinship, relationships and language - it will require lots of cups of tea, countless hours of conversation, amazing patience and coming to understand that the ultimate aim is for Aboriginal people to recover control of their own health issues. They used to be the healthiest people on earth. 160 pages with 8 pages of colour illustrations and black and white illustrations/ tables on 33 pages. Book and dust jacket in as new condition.Two copies $40 each.

How a shy choirboy evolved into the greatest songwriter and most influential guitar player in the history of rock music. 336 pages with 16 pages of black and white photographs. Book in very good condition ex library with stamps on front and back endpapers, sticker on title page, remnants of borrowing sleaves on back endpapers, some reader wear to edges. Dust jacket in very good condition with stickers on spine and back.

One man's view of a destroyer in wartime - a brief record of the doings of a group of personalities, and of the background against which they did what they did, both comic and serious. Not the least of these personalities is the Kelly herself. 219 pages with 16 pages of black and white photos and 2 maps. Some of the text has minor foxing but generally clean. Front page has been cut to remove some writing but does not affect map and first blank page has an inscription.Edges have some foxing. Cover in fair condition - see photo.

The author puts forward the idea that prior to the recorded history of the Egyptians and Greeks two major Semitic migrations or dispirtions took place, worldwide in scope. 300 pages with 54 illustrations. Book and dust jacket in very good condition.

Khai Liew has established an international reputation as an Australian designer of furniture with inspiring original style, a poetic elegance of form and complex structural ingenuity by developing a technical and design vocabulary that spans ages and cultures in its source and spirit. 104 pages with 53 colour images. Book signed by Khai as best wishes to previous owner. Book and dust jacket in as new condition.

The account of the author's first voyage as an apprentice in the sailing ship Denbigh Castle is unique in the annuals of sail. The voyage to South America took thirteen months. 192 pages with 15 black and white illustrations. Book in good+ condition with presentation sticker om front endpaper, some foxing to leading edges and front endpaper, and light tanning. Dust jacket in fair condition with knocks and small chips and wear (see photo).

An epic Australian war story of bravery and betrayal. The top secret Z Force commandos were chosen for the biggest behind the scenes operation of the Pacific War and they were betrayed in their hour of need. 306 pages with 16 pages of illustrations. Book in near fine condition.

A book of historical fiction (complete with 18 maps) covering the four days of the American Civil War at Gettysburgh. 360 pages. Book in good condition with fading.

The story of Australia's greatest fighter pilot who saw action against the Germans, Italians and Japanese. A colourful portrait of a colourful Australian. 282 pages with 16 pages of black and white photos. Book in very good condition with previous owners name on first page. Front cover has been slightly bent.

Kim is a half caste white boy in the Punjab whose Indian mother dies when he is very young and then his father, a former soldier of an Irish Regiment, dies from taking opium, Kim has to fend for himself and avoid being caught by missionaries and charitable societies. 413 pages with 10 illustrations. Book in good+ condition and would have been higher but for the cover which is coming away from the spine (see photo).

Belgium through its King devastated the peoples and resources of the Congo in order to provide him with a private dynastic fortune so enormous he could act independently of a democratic parliamentary system. In the end the exploitation was abortive but the damage was done. 310 pages and a map. Book in very good condition with tanning.

The first of the authors work of The Great Rebellion which is the four eventful years preceding the Civil War in England. How did the men and women of that time think and feel and why did they act as they did leading to civil war and the death of a king. 510 pages with 10 black and white illustrations. Book in very good condition ex library with previous owners name and date on first page as well as a tear and library references and a stamp on first and last page, light reader wear and some tanning. Dust jacket in good- condition with pieces missing and tears (see photo).

The Viking activity from the eighth to the eleventh centuries was an attempt to gain wealth and land and thereby power and prestige at the expense of the peoples of western and eastern Europe although others colonised the Atlantic islands. Wherever they settled in Europe they quickly assimilated into the local way of life and it was this factor and the coming of Christianity that saw the end of the Viking culture. 182 pages with 16 black and white plates, and 19 figures including maps. Book in very good condition ex library with stamp on front endpaper, stamp, sticker and reference on back endpaper, and borrowing sleave remnants inside back cover, Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back.

247 pages with 16 pages of illustrations and 4 pages of maps. Book in good condition ex library with some fading, reader wear, some marks on about 12 pages but no interference to text, library stamp on last page. Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper and library sticker bottom spine.

The biography of a soldier - the outstanding Axis field commander of the Second World War who was respected, even admired, as well as feared by his opponents. 601 pages with 32 black and white photographs and 20 maps. Book in good- condition ex library with stamps and stickers on last page, book has split showing binding just after page 242 and has been taped, inside front and back cover also taped, reader wear to leading edge, cover has some wear to bottom, pages clean. Dust jacket in good+ condition with sticker on spine and minor wear.

A leading figure in the history of science, Francis Bacon never made a major discovery or revealed any hidden laws of nature. He was the first to describe how science should be done and why it should be done that way - promoting the use of experimentation and outlining and defining the rigorous procedures of the scientific method that forms the bedrock of modern scientific progress. 177 pages with 5 illustrations. Book in very good condition ex library with stamps on first and last endpaper. Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back.

Adapted for native English speakers from the original - the essential dictionary for all students of Japanese. 718 pages. Book in near fine condition..