Search Results: Titles starting with F from Bookhome Sydney

London: FSR Publications, 1972 - 1973. Each issue: Paperback small quarto (stapled), good- plus condition, figures, tables, edgewear. Each issue: 16 pp. Supplements 12, 13 and 14.

Sydney, Waverton: Domino Publications, 1975. Reprint ed.. Paperback small, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, drawings, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear & creasing. 36 pp. This little pamphlet of over 40 mouth-watering fish recipes has been issued on behalf of the New South Wales Fish Industry. Originally published, 1972. Originally distributed free, but we purchased this out-of-print secondhand copy.

Boston: Branden Publishing, 1996. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photos, minor edgewear. 238 pp. Kathy Marks provides a critical examination of right-wing political violence in the United States over the previous 25 years. The focus is on David Koresh, Randy Weaver and the Oklahoma City bombing.

Sydney, Annandale: Hawkins Press / Federation Press, 1997. Paperback large trade, very good condition, pages lightly toned as usual, minor edgewear. 250 pp. The three editors have produced the first collection of ten essays dedicated to the issues of hate crimes in Australia. The essays illustrate popular contemporary perceptions of minorities in an imagined homogeneous Australia. Topics covered include immigration, the racist far-right, gay hate, vilification of Aborigines, anti-semitism, Holocaust denial and legal issues.

Moscow: Biodiversity Conservation Centre, 2005. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, no jacket as issued, very good condition, pictorial cover, figures, black & white text-photos, tiny scuff spine, minimal edgewear. 266 pp. This book has 18 selected papers from the International field seminar on grassland restoration, held in 2003, based on the Galichya Gora Nature Reserve (Lipetsk province, Russia). The contributions are from nine different countries, looking at the multiple issues involved in grassland restoration efforts in various parts of the world. The authors provide a wide array of conceptual and practical tools useful for the improvement of grassland restoration projects. The book is aimed at practitioners and students involved with the restoration projects with a view to making the projects more efficient, effective and dynamic.

Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (LEA), 1999. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket), minimal edgewear. 165 pp. Lawrence Calhoun and Richard Tedeschi construct the first systematic framework for clinical efforts to enhance the processes for "posttraumatic growth", defined as positive change through struggle with even the most horrible sets of circumstances. People who experience it tend to describe three general types of change: realistically stronger feelings of vulnerability that are nonetheless accompanied by stronger feelings of personal resilience, closer and deeper relationships with others, and a stronger sense of spirituality. Draws on a burgeoning professional literature as well as on their own extensive clinical experience. Presents tested strategies for helping clients effect all three types of positive change.

Melbourne: Black Inc., 2016. Revised ed.. Paperback trade, very good plus condition, minor edgewear. 196 pp. David Marr provides a political biography of Bill Shorten, Federal minister during the Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard Labor governments, and later Opposition leader during the Abbott and Turnbull Coalition governments. The author traces the career of a Labor warrior, brilliant recruiter and factional player who was said to be responsible for ousting Rudd and Gillard as Labor Prime Ministers because of poor polling. The revised edition of 'Quarterly Essay' 59, 2015.

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2022. Paperback octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear. 392 pp. From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts’, a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era. How did this happen? It was the culmination of a journey of online radicalisation that began with the weaponisation of disinformation by political leaders and outrageously biased 'news' commentators. Ed Coper puts fake news in its historical context and explains how disinformation has fractured society, even threatening democracy itself. He explains why disinformation is so potent and so hard to stop, and what we can do to help prevent its proliferation in Australia - where politicians and shock jocks are already operating from the same dark playbook. He outlines how anyone can defuse disinformation in the home, office or pub, or wherever the deluded gather to spread their nonsense. Ed Coper is a communication expert who helped drive the success of… Read More

Sydney: Emusic Pty Ltd, 1983. Paperback quarto, very good condition, card cover (stapled), minor edgewear. 55 pp. Sheet music for 25 popular Australian songs: Big country round - Boyhood story - The breaker - The buddies song (have a go) - Country football - Diggers of the Anzac - A granda plan for Landa - Hawkesbury River lovin' - Heaven's right here - Just a dog - Kill the night - Love of a true blue girl - Murrumbidgee madness - Old man emu - Only a dog - Road train - Send down the rain - Silver haired showman - Springbrook - True blue - Under the bridge - Why don't we separate and be lovers? - Wrinkles - Your body feels like heaven to me - You've gotta be fair dinkum.

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2013. 1st ed.. Hardback oblong quarto, no jacket, very good plus condition, pictorial cover, colour drawings. 30 pp. A colour picture book for children and young adults about his memories of World War Two. He was a young boy, and in the second year of WW2, he moved with his family to the city, his Dad stayed to work on the sheep station because he had fought in World War One, and was a little too old for this war. He remembers his class racing outside to watch a line of soldiers in trucks and jeeps from the American army base passing by, and how the children played war games and knew every aeroplane and tank and warship. Everyone became a part of the war effort, and they waited for the day when it would end.

Adelaide: Seal Books / Rigby Limited, 1974. Reprint ed.. Paperback mass market, very good condition, black & white text-photos, map, protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. 188 pp. Douglas Lockwood, a journalist, relates stories about dinkum Aussies that he has met over 18 years in the Northern Territory. Includes the Japanese bombing of Darwin and the Petrov affair. (Originally published, 1960. This is the 1974 reprint of the Seal edition of 1969.).

Melbourne: Miegunyah / Melbourne University Press (MUP), 2013. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, as new condition. 304 pp. The Sydney Morning Herald journalist provides the definitive account of the fate of Fairfax. It is the story of greedy media moguls, angry and ambitious politicians, foolhardy heirs and heiresses, zealous journalists, muddling management and the rise of digital media (which Fairfax completely missed). The once-mighty Fairfax has been a victim of them all.

Sydney, Willoughby: Weldon Kids, 1994. 1st ed.. Hardback small folio, no jacket as issued, very good condition, pictorial cover, full-page colour drawings, some foxing front endpapers & title page, minor edgewear. 28 pp. A beautiful children's picture book with stories about fairies. The delicate images of children dressed as fairies will delight children and adults alike. Stories by Leonie Young, illustrations by Bernard Rosa and Janine Fuller.

New York: William Morrow, 1997. 1st ed.. Hardback small, dustjacket, as new condition (in as new dustjacket). 179 pp. A memoir by the American Hall of Fame golfer about his teacher, Harvey Penick, his golf secrets, and how he taught them - and Kite's friendly rivalry with Ben Crenshaw, and the special relationship all three enjoyed.

Hampton, VIC: P. N. Reilly, 1978. 2nd or revised, reprint ed.. Paperback small, very good condition, card cover, stapled pamphlet, black & white text-photos, minor edgewear. 32 pp. Pauline Reilly lovingly describes the penguin colony of Phillip Island, Victoria, based on the work by the Penguin Study Group at Phillip Island.

London: Beal, Stuttard & Co., 1920. Paperback folio, blue card cover (scuff mark price sticker), very good condition, string binding (top spine repaired), owner's written name & date. 8 pp. (Publication date, about 1920 - from NLA similar author / publisher. Written name dated 1934.) Solo and duet piano sheet music. As a teaching piece, considered quite equal to Smallwood's Fairy Barque.

London / Letchworth: J. M. Dent & Sons / Temple Press, 1940. Reprint ed.. Hardback small, no jacket, very good condition, green cloth boards, navy borders front cover & spine, colour illustration tipped-in on cover, frontispiece, colour plates, spine little faded, covers little scuffed & rubbed, light foxing edges, pages lightly toned, owner’s printed name label inside front cover, owner's written name front free flyleaf. 126 pp. Fairy tales from Spain. Some of the fairy tales are titled: The City Of Fortune - The Author Of The Wall - The Man With The Two Faces - The Quack Doctor - The Man With The Nose - The Judgement Of the Flowers. The watercolour plates add a richness to the accompanying stories. A wonderful collection of fairy stories for anyone interested in the folklore of other countries. (Originally published, 1913.).

Melbourne: Hotham History Project, 2000. Paperback small quarto, very good plus condition, many black & white text-photos, minimal creasing covers. 96 pp. The history of the Lort Smith Animal Hospital and the Lost Dog's Home, North Melbourne. The dedication and generosity of many people who have devoted their time, money and expertise to welfare of animals is a central part of this important book.

Sydney, Sutherland: Albatross Books, 1985. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, good condition, pages & inside covers lightly toned, front cover little creased, top spine bumped, minor edgewear. 152 pp. This thought-provoking book by Donald Robinson examines the theological origins of the New Testament. Written by Archbishop of Sydney in the Anglican Church of Australia.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1956. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in good dustjacket), pages lightly toned, flap jacket unclipped (small edge tears & minor loss, minor edgewear), endpapers toned. 235 pp. E. V. Timms, the author of Australian historical romances here produces an historical novel set in the 17th century England. During the reign of Charles II, Englishmen saw the power and ambition of Louis XIV of France a deadly threat to their nation. Plot and counter-plot simmered under the glittering surface of court life, ever ready to explode into violent action. (First edition, this title. Originally published in 1931 as 'Whitehall'.).