Search Results: Authors starting with H from Lems Bookshop

Revised and updated Fireside edition. Step by step to Championship Bridge Playing with the world's number one as your teacher -a clear and simple explanation of basic bridge for beginners, as well as the latest tips on technique and regulations to bring advanced players up to championship level. 142 pages. Book in good+ condition with tanning. This is a small book, postage reduced in Australia if tracking not needed - contact me.

Teaches the average player winning tactics, the various areas where skill is vital, where the most costly mistakes are made, and works out a few astonishingly simple principles. 160 pages with 70 quizzes. Book (light tanning) and dust jacket (minor wear to edges) in very good condition.

An easily used condensed form showing the essence of all the important points in bridge tips and instruction in this revised edition. 137 pages. Book in very good condition with previous owners signature on first page and light tanning. No dust jacket.

Diseases spread by microbes have decimated populations and profoundly shaped human history, while our behaviours has in turn altered theirs. 250 pages with 21 figures and 3 tables. Book in very good+ condition ex library with a small stamp bottom last page. Dust jacket in very good+ condition in clear wrapper with a sticker on spine and back.

Picked up by one of Cook's captains, Omai was the first Polynesian to visit Britain where he became a human curiosity. After two years he was taken back to the Pacific by Cook. A portrait of Omai in his two worlds and new light on the history of European expansion in the Pacific. 364 pages with 4 colour and 69 monochrome illustrations, 5 sketch maps and endpaper illustration. Book in very good condition with minor reader wear and minor wear to cover. Dust jacket in very good condition with minor wear.

All historical facts have come to us as a result of interpretative choices by historians influenced by the standards of their age. 159 pages. Book in very good condition with some tanning and cover wear. This is a small book and postage will be reduced in Australia = contact me.

The evolutionary patterns of dinosaurs, discovery of dinosaur fossils, how fossils are located, excavated, preserved and displayed; details on individual dinosaurs; how they functioned; and their environment. 288 pages with 100 Plates and 48 Figures. Book in very good condition with previous owners signature on front endpaper, and sticky tape remnants on front and back endpapers. Dust jacket in good condition price clipped with knocks to corners and edges, some small tears and some wear (see photo).

The origin of the French Revolution to the storming of the Bastille. The development of the internal situation in France made a violent upheaval inevitable and the Nation was intellectually prepared for change. 319 pages with 81 illustrations. Book in good+ condition and would have a much higher rating but for spine and back cover held by front hinge otherwise fine except for cover wear (see photo).

From 1911-1918 Emiliano Zapata ruled a large portion of Mexico and for two years about one-third of it. He was known as the Attila of the South and had a fighting force of twenty thousand men. He could not read or write. The author rode with him. 316 pages with 12 black and white illustrations and a map. Book in good+ condition with light tanning. Cover has some fading and wear. No dust jacket.

The author travels the World and gives an account of his adventures. 313 pages. Book in good condition with previous owners details on first page, binding can be seen front inside cover but all sound, tanning, and first and last pages show staining. Cover has knocks to corners and edges, some wear and a scratch mark to spine and some marks to back. No dust jacket.

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas from Columbus' arrival to the early 1800's. 546 pages with 43 illustrations and 7 maps. Book in near fine condition ex library with bar code sticker inside back cover. Dust jacket in near fine condition in clear wrapper and a sticker on spine and back. This is a large/heavy book but no increase in postage in Australia.

A brilliant modern study of the sudden rise of a barren and isolated country to be the greatest power on earth, and of its equally sudden decline. 423 pages. Book in good+ condition with tanning and some wear to cover (see photo).

Life and death in the trenches of World War One - the true horrors of the Great War. The catastrophic offences and tragic errors that led to the death of thousands of brave soldiers sent over the top. 224 pages with 8 pages of black and white illustrations and 9 maps.Book in very good+ condition. Dust jacket in very good condition with some sticker remnants on front (see photo).

Geological Provinces, and Geological History of South Australia. 230 pages with 34 colour Plates, 58 colour Figures and 7 Tables. Book in near fine condition with some marks to cover (see photo).

Aims to assist the student and collector in identifying the molluscs preserved in South Australian rocks during the Quaternary Period. Five main chapters, Fossils; Molluscs; Pleistocene Period; Holocene Period; Terrestrial Molluscs. 327 pages with 82 figures, 23 colour plates, and 2 tables. Book in very good condition with first and last twenty five pages minor knock.

Under the pharaohs of the New Kingdom, Ancient Egypt reached the zenith of its power and cultural achievement and pushed out its borders deep into Nubia and the Near East. The wealth of these new territories enabled them to build grandiose monuments, and to develop a vigorous and cosmopolitan civilization but the imperial splendour only concealed the growth of fatal problems. 212 pages with over 90 illustrations, many in colour. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition.

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.

The author presents three possible scenarios to his book title which should become clearer in the next decade or two as science develops a clearer picture leading to how we see our role in the universe. 108 pages with some illustrations in the text. Book in very good+ condition ex library with stamps on front and back endpapers. Cover has sticker on spine and back.

Between December 1941 and August 1945 the United States and Japan engaged in a brutal and often dramatic struggle for control of the Pacific Ocean - one of the most bitterly fought campaigns of the Second World War. 589 pages with 16 pages of black and white photographs. Book in very good condition with neat underlining on some pages (in the first 260 pages).

A comprehensive and practical handbook that identifies fishes commonly seen in Australian waters. The species entries are grouped in families and every species is accompanied by one or more coloured photographs, nearly all of which show the fishes in their natural habitat, a distribution map and general text all of which enables the positive identification of over 950 species. Book in near fine condition.