Search Results: Titles starting with N from Petes Loved Books

London, England: Penguin Books Ltd, 1987. Used. Featuring "The News From Ireland"--set on the estate of the Protestant Pulvertafts during the famine years of the 1840s--this collection of short stories exemplifies the qualities of subtlety, honesty and humanity

Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2007. Used. Companies today stand or fall, not by the efficiency of their processes and systems, but by the talent of their people. By using the techniques of NLP you can develop talent and achieve success. This is the popular but definitive book of NLP for people who want to make exceptional progress for their organisations. It demystifies NLP and relates the theories and principles to current business challenges. Its practical techniques, methods, and examples drawn from leading practitioners in the field, ensures you can implement this straight into your everyday working life. NLP Business Masterclass takes the applications of NLP in business beyond simple everyday techniques, to consider the bigger challenges facing organisations today including: ? How do you get the best from your people?? What's the best way of organising teams?? How can NLP help us to motivate people?? What about incentives and rewards for employees?? How do you change a culture and keep it… Read More

London: Hamish Hamilton, 2012. Used. Hobbes, Smith, Bentham, Locke and Russell. Five identical blocks make up the Caldwell housing estate in North West London. If you grew up in this relic of seventies urban design, the plan was to get out and get on, to something better, somewhere else. Thirty years later, Caldwell kids Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan have all moved on, with varying degrees of success - whatever that means. Living only streets apart, they occupy separate worlds, and navigate an atomized city in which few care to be their neighbour's keeper. Then one April afternoon a stranger comes to Leah's door, seeking help, disturbing the peace, and forcing Leah out of her isolation . . . From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, where the main streets hide the back alleys and taking the high road can sometimes lead you to a dead end, NW is a quietly devastating novel of encounters. Depicting the modern urban zone - familiar to town-dwellers everywhere - Zadie Smith's brilliant… Read More

HarperCollins Australia, 2010. large size paperback. Used. America in 1968 is in turmoil and the leafy Holloman suburb of Carew is being silently terrorised by a series of vicious and systematic rapes. When finally one victim finds the courage to speak out and go to the police, the rapist escalates to murder. For Captain Carmine Delmonico, it seems to be a case with no clues.

London:PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER.Berkley Books, 2004. Used. In Naked Prey, John Sandford puts Lucas Davenport through some changes. His old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her, creating a special troubleshooter job for him for the cases that are too complicated or politically touchy for others to handle. In addition, Lucas is now married and a new father, both of which are fine with him: he doesn't mind being a family man. But he is a little worried. For every bit of peace you get, you have to pay???and he's waiting for the bill. It comes in the form of two people found hanging from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota. What makes it particularly sensitive is that the bodies are of a black man and a white woman, and they're naked. "Lynching" is the word that everybody's trying not to say???but, as Lucas begins to discover, in fact the murders are not what they appear to be, and they are not the end of the story. There is worse to… Read More

London: Maclehose Press, 2013. Used. Casi is a hotshot public defender working on the front line of America's War on Drugs. So far he's on the winning side. He's never lost a case. But nothing lasts forever, and pride like his has a long way to fall. Funny, smart and always surprising, A Naked Singularity speaks a language all of its own and reads like nothing else ever written. Casi's beautiful mind and planetary intelligence make him an inimitable and unforgettable narrator. In De La Pava's hands, the labyrinthine miseries of the New York Justice System are as layered and diabolical as Dante's nine circles of Hell. But the Devil doesn't hog the best lines. There are plenty here to go around.

New York: Penguin Books,WELL READ PAPERBACK. CREASES TO THE SPINE AND COVER.1964. Used. **EX LIBRARY COVERED..The Naked Society is a 1964 book on privacy by Vance Packard. The book argues that changes in technology are encroaching on privacy and could create a society in the future with radically different privacy standards.

Jonathan Cape, 2004. Hardcopy. Used. In the style of Manwatching and Bodywatching, Desmond Morris turns his attention and skill to the female form The Naked Woman builds on Desmond Morris?s unrivalled experience as an observer of the human animal. In this, his latest book, he turns his attention and skill to the female form, taking the reader on a guided tour ?from head to toe.? Highlighting the evolutionary functions of various physiological traits, Morris?s study explores the various forms of enhancement and constraint that human societies have developed in the quest for the perfect female form. All this is delivered in his trademark style, communicating what is often complex detail in direct, clear and focused language.

London: Bantam Press, 2007. Used. When Tim Harding agrees to do a favour for a friend by bidding on his behalf for an antique ring at auction, little does he know of the secrets that tie the ring to three tragedies: the sinking of HMS Association off Scilly in 1707, a murder in Penzance thirty years later and the drowning of a journalist diving at the Association wreck site in 1999. In the event, the ring is stolen before it can be sold. And a shocking murder soon follows. Harding is drawn into a web of conspiracies surrounding the ring's origins and finds, close to the heart of the mystery, a young woman he is certain he recognizes, even though they have never met before. As he goes in search of her identity, his life begins to fall apart around him. Somewhere, a perilous truth awaits him, coupled with a terrible realization: those who uncover that truth are not allowed to live...

Ringwood, Vic: Pan Books Ltd, 1984. Used. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon-all sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey, where "the most interesting things happen at night."

Picador Australia, 2005. Used. What happens when the life you choose involves denying everyone you love'.In her final year at school, Caitlin meets Fraser, a Satya Deva devotee, on the bus. Her life is instantly changed, and she gives up everything to be with him and to follow his faith. Her past means nothing to her - all that matters is that she is with her new family, a family who can give her what she needs as she pursues a path that involves denying the person she once was and the people she once loved. Her parents, Liam and Sharn, have reached an impasse. Sharn spends her days resenting Liam and his inaction; Liam spends his watching video footage of his family in happier times. With Caitlin's sudden disappearance, the relationship is stretched even further, almost to breaking point. When Sharn finally tracks Caitlin down, what she discovers will force her to take matters into her own hands. If her daughter won't come home, she'll make her.

Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Used. Spanning Three Decades And Crossing Continents, Jhumpa Lahiri`S Much-Anticipated First Novel Is A Triumph Of Humane Story Telling. Elegant, Subtle And Moving, This Novel Is For Everyone Who Loved The Clarity, Sympathy And Grace Of Lahiri`S Pulitzer Prize-Winning Debut Collection, `Interpreter Of Maladies`.

Text Publishing, 2010. Used. Some secrets are best left buried... Knee-deep in the mud of an ancient burial ground, a winter storm raging around him and at least one person intent on his death- how did Murray Watson end up here? His quiet life researching the lives of writers in university libraries seems a world away. And yet it is because of the mysterious poet Archie Lunan, dead for thirty years, that Murray now finds himself scrabbling in the dirt on the remote island of Lismore. Loaded with Welsh's trademark wit, insight and gothic charisma, Naming the Bonesweaves the lives of Murray and Archie together in a tale of literature, obsession and dark magic.

Pymble, N.S.W: HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2002. Used. The number one bestselling biography of Australia's greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a na??ve, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in a Viennese street. From that moment, she declared that she would do everything in her power to rid Europe of the Nazis. What began as a courier job here and there became a highly successful escape network for Allied soldiers, perfectly camouflaged by Nancy's high-society life in Marseille. Her network was soon so successful - and so notorious - that she was forced to flee France to escape the Gestapo, who had dubbed her 'the white mouse' for her knack of slipping through its traps. But Nancy was a passionate enemy of the Nazis and refused to stay away. Supplying… Read More

Artarmon, NSW: Giramondo Publishing, 2007. Used. Seven conscripts from a village near Dijon set out to follow Napoleon on his campaign to conquer Egypt. Later, the survivors sail with Nicholas Baudin on his expedition to New Holland. They are threatened, by disease and starvation, yet like nothing better than to talk, to think, to dream.

OLDER PAPERBACK WELLL READ IN AVERAGE CONDITION. TAPE ON THE SPINE AND SLIGHT DISCOLORISATION DUE TO AGE..Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2011. Used. G. K. Chesterton is already a staple in the Hendrickson list with "Orthodoxy" and "Heretics" in the Hendrickson Christian Classics series. Known primarily for his non-Fiction, he also wrote Fiction, and "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" and "The Man Who was Thursday" are among his best known and most loved novels."The Napoleon of Notting Hill," his first novel, tells the story of residents of a London suburb who take up arms and declare their independence from England. Line drawings are included throughout."The Man Who was Thursday," his most famous novel, tells the story of a policeman who becomes unwittingly--and unwillingly--caught up in a resistance group that is infiltrating a secret organization of anarchists.

Australia: Vintage Books, 2015. Used. The bestselling author of Schindlers List and The Daughters of Mars returns with a remarkable novel about the friendship between a quick-witted young woman and one of historys most intriguing figures, Napoleon Bonaparte, during the final years of his life in exile on St. Helena..hailed by the New York Times Book Review as insightful and nimble...consistently fresh and engaging...call[ing] to mind the giants of 19th century fiction. In October 1815, after losing the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was banished to the island of Saint Helena. There, in one of the most remote places on earth, he lived out the final six years of his life. On this lonely island with no chance of escape, he found an unexpected ally: a spirited British girl named Betsy Balcombe who lived on the island with her family. While Napoleon waited for his own accommodations to be built, the Balcombe family played host to the infamous exile, a decision that would have devastating… Read More

Enderby: Doubleday, Doran, 1935. Used. The Narrow Corner is a novel by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, published by William Heinemann in 1932. A quote from Meditations, iii 10, by Marcus Aurelius, introduces the work: "Short therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells."

New York: Random House Australia, 2013. Hardcover/First Edition. Used. Hardcover First Australian Edition 2013 Random House Edition in excellent condition. Includes dust jacket also in pristine condition.From the winner of Australia's National Fiction Prize, author of the hugely acclaimed "Gould's Book of Fish, " a magisterial, "Rashomon"-like novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway in 1943, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. His life is a daily struggle to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from pitiless beatings. Until he receives a letter that will change him forever. Moving deftly from the POW camp to contemporary Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo and his comrades to those of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of death, love, and family;… Read More

London: Penguin, 1989. Used. An enchanting early novel from the author of the bestselling Paradise Postponed and Titmuss Regained. A faithful wife and devoted mother finds herself compelled to take extraordinary steps to protect her family when a young actress with ties to her husand is found murdered near their home.