Search Results: Titles starting with O from Bookhome Sydney

Praha [Prague]: Stani Nakladatelstvi Detske Knihy [Public Children's Books Publishing Company], 1955. Hardback oblong quarto, board cover (green cloth spine), very good condition, colour drawings, corners little bumped, minor edgewear. Unnum 24 pp. A delightful children's picture story in the Czech language.

Melbourne: William J. McCarthy, 2002. 1st ed.. Paperback thin octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, few colour photos, minimal edgewear. 183 pp. William McCarthy recounts the lives of the members of a Melbourne family. Diaries, letters, records, and personal memories have provided much of the detail for this book. The story is rich in anecdotes and records their many travels.

London: Pinter & Martin, 2005. New ed.. Paperback large trade, very good plus condition, minimal edgewear, cover design differs from stock photo. 231 pp. Stanley Milgram describes one of the most influential experiments in social psychology. Volunteers are instructed by an experimenter to apply an electric shock every time a learner makes a mistake. A surprisingly high number of participants go right up the scale to 450 volts. This study helps explain how ordinary people can commit the most horrific of crimes if placed under the influence of a evil authority, as in Nazi Germany. Foreword by psychologist Jerome Bruner. (Originally published in 1974.).

Sydney: University of Sydney, 2008. 1st ed.. Paperback square octavo, very good condition, colour photos, minimal edgewear. 71 pp. A collection of editorials written by Professor Gavin Brown, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Sydney 1996 - 2008.

Sydney / London: Methuen of Australia / Frederick Warne, 1981. Hardback very small, no jacket as issued, very good condition, pictorial cover, colour photos, minor edgewear, copy 2. 128 pp. A scarce Australian edition of the highly collectible Observer series. A listing and pictorial descriptions of prominent Australian wildflowers. Australian Observer's Series, A8.

Sydney / London: Methuen of Australia / Frederick Warne, 1979. Hardback very small, no jacket as issued, very good condition, pictorial cover, black & white text-photos & drawings, minor marking front endpapers, minor edgewear, owner's sticker. 214 pp. Timothy and Elizabeth Hall provide a listing and pictorial description of civil aircraft in Australia and New Zealand. Contains detailed descriptions and photos of 193 aircraft, including make and model, power, speed, range, seating, and much more. One of the scarce Australian series of the little Observer collectible reference books. .

New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Reprint ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, figures, minor edgewear. 121 pp. Drawing on their clinical experience, the authors give a brief and lucid account of the nature of obsessions and compulsions. The book is intended mainly for the sufferers of obsessive compulsive disorder, and their families and friends. It will also be of interest to health care workers who have to deal with this clinical problem.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 2nd, reprint ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, scratch rear cover, minor edgewear. 141 pp. Second edition. Drawing on their clinical experience, the authors give a brief and lucid account of the nature of obsessions and compulsions. The book is intended mainly for the sufferers of obsessive compulsive disorder, and their families and friends. It will also be of interest to health care workers who have to deal with this clinical problem.

Melbourne, Ascot Vale: Red Rooster Press, 1992. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear. 54 pp. A collection of poems by Sydney literary personality Jean Stone. She previously wrote a biography of her late husband: 'The Passionate Bibliophile: The Story of Walter Stone, Australian Bookman Extraordinaire', Angus and Robertson (1988). She assisted Walter with his publishing company Wentworth Press.

New York: Dover Publications, 1959. Reprint ed.. Paperback small octavo, good plus condition, few black & white text-photos (including frontispiece), covers little creased, top edge lightly foxed, bottom edge rubbed, minor edgewear. 551 pp. Applies the stern light of rational examination to hundreds of persistent "illusions and delusions" of mankind, such as (as listed on the front cover): stigmata, poltergeists, seances, ESP and telepathy, hypnotism, firewalking, mystical experience, lycanthropy, peyotl visions, auras, levitation, automatic writing.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback thick octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, tiny tear top edge few pages, top corner tips last few pages little creased, minor edgewear. 518 pp. A comprehensive insider's account of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, told for the first time by the Iraqi Prime Minister, Ali A. Allawi.

London: Profile Books, 2012. Paperback, very good condition, black & white text-photos, corner tips covers little creased, minor edgewear. 276 pp. This book chronicles the last two eventful years before the Palestinian bid for UN statehood in September 2011. The author has kept a diary since the 1967 Israeli invasion, and he has written a fierce and lyrical portrait of a life lived under siege, shown through a delicate balance of memory and everyday reality.

Sydney: Scholastic Press, 2018. 1st ed.. Paperback small square quarto, stapled, very good plus condition, full-page watercolour drawings. 32 pp. Australian children's picture story about the baby undersea creatures. A beautiful bedtime story. The rhyming text and delightful drawings will appeal to any age.

London / Tokyo: Bodley Head / Holp Shuppan, 1982. Facsimile ed.. Hardback wide octavo, very good condition, blind stamped red decorations covers, gilt title cover & spine, illustrated cover, full-page colour drawings (8 leaves of plates). In cardboard slipcase. 18 + 8 leaves of plates pp. Facsimile edition. This book was the first of a series of instructive reading books for young children that publisher Darton and Clark initiated in 1844. Samuel Clark had an interest in the physical sciences, and he may have promoted, if not written and illustrated, this fine book. The beautiful drawings would appeal to most ages. (One of a set of 35 handsome facsimiles in 28 slipcases.).

Sydney, North Ryde: Methuen Haynes, 1985. Abridged ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, frontispiece, minor edgewear jacket (base spine lightly rubbed, faint foxing reverse side, tiny scuff top corner rear cover). 210 pp. (This copy: Oceana: The Tempestuous Voyage of J. A. Froude, 1884 and 1885, edited by Geoffrey Blainey, Methuen Haynes, 1985.) This book records the travels of James Anthony Froude, the famous English biographer and historian, who visited Australia and New Zealand in 1884 and 1885. The book is republished for the first time in nearly a century. Edited and abridged by Geoffrey Blainey, this new edition includes a foreword on Froude and his life, and notes that illuminate his travels. From the 'Travellers Tales of Early Australia & New Zealand’ series.

Sydney: ABC Books, 2006. Paperback octavo, very good condition, single colour text-photos, minor edgewear. 272 pp. In this very special book that captures the ANZAC spirit, nurse Narrelle Hobbes left her comfortable life in Australia to go to London to join the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. By 1915 she was in Malta, healing the wounded from Gallipoli, then transferred to Sicily, then India and Mesopotamia, to deal with the fall-out from other fronts. Exhausted and ill, she convalesced in the hill stations of the Himalayas. The author uses Narelle's letters and photos to trace one woman's extraordinary journey through the exhilaration and tragedy of the 'war to end all wars'.

Sydney: Elizabethan Press / Edwards & Shaw (Printer), 1957. Hardback octavo, no jacket (missing), good plus condition, cancelled EX-LIBRARY (large spine label), minor edgewear. 32 pp. (Estimated date, 1950s, Trove catalogue.) A book of poems on literary themes by Australian author. Four of the poems have been previously published in "Meanjin".

Sydney: Penguin / Random House Australia, 2016. Paperback octavo, very good condition, bottom corner rear cover & some pages little creased, minor edgewear. 274 pp. Written with humour, honesty and courage, this book is the author's journey to find the family that she thought she had lost.

New York: Forge / Tom Doherty Associates, 2015. Reprint ed.. Hardback thick octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), small mark bottom edge, slight bump bottom edge few pages near base spine, closed tear top spine jacket, minor edgewear. 512 pp. This historical novel by Mary Pat Kelly, set in 1903, is the story of Nora Kelly, 24, who is the beloved daughter of the Chicago-Irish Kelly clan. Nora is talented and forward-looking but poor, but she climbs the ladder of Chicago's fashion industry. Nora goes to Paris where she meets a group of Ireland's revolutionry women. They challenge Nora to honor her Irish blood and join the movement to free Ireland. The author weaves historical characters such as William Butler Yeats, Gabrielle Coco Chanel, and James Joyce into a vivid and compelling story filled with wit and authenticity. (The first novel of 4 in the Of Irish Blood series.).

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Reprint ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, small mark top edge, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 139 pp. From translator's note: The text translated here is that of a lecture on spirituality given 14 March 1987, at the end of a conference organized by the College International de Philosophie in Paris, entitled "Heidegger: Open Questions". The notes were naturally added later. The translators give references wherever possible to English versions of the texts by Heidegger cited by Jacques Derrida. The translator's have retranslated throughout in the interests of consistency and proximity to the versions used by Derrida.