Search Results: Titles starting with U from Bookhome Sydney

New York: Ballantine Books, 1977. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback small, good condition, black & white photos centre spread, pages toned as usual, bottom corner rear cover creased, fore-edge little bumped, edges & endpapers lightly lightly foxed, edgewear. 480 pp. Paris Flammonde, a French UFO investigator, provides a broad-based history of UFO reports from prehistory to modern times, case reports, and whether governments and military has hushed up this topic. This first paperback edition has an insert of b&w photos.

Sydney: UFO Research (NSW), 1977. Each issue; Paperback large quarto, good plus condition, stapled (rusted), stencilled text, black & white drawings, some foxing & creasing (mainly covers & edges), some edgewear. Each issue: 10 to 16 pages pp. Ten issues of this UFO research journal from the New South Wales research group run by chemist Bill Chalker. (3 being duplicates, title differs), 1977 to 1979. UFO Newsletter: nos 51 (x2, one being a photocopy), 52 (x2), 53. Australian UFO Newsletter: no 54-55 combined issue. Australian UFO Researcher: nos 56-57 combined, 58-59 combined, 60 (x2).

Milano / Torino: Cooperativa Studi e Iniziative UPIAR S.R.L. / Printed by Lito Master, 1981. Paperback small thick octavo, good plus condition, few drawings, typewritten text, pages notably toned, spine little creased, covers little marked, minor edgewear. 269 pp. A double issue of this annual international UFO research magazine, based in Italy, containing several research papers. Includes two papers on the 1978 New Zealand case, by B. S. Maccabee and R. F. Haines. ISSN 0391111X.

Bologna, Italy: Editecs Pub. House / CNIFAA (Comitato Nazionale Indipendente per Studio dei Fenomeni Aerei Anomali), 1976. Paperback small octavo, good plus condition, drawings, typewritten text, spine little creased, covers little marked, minor edgewear. 119 pp. The first issue of this annual international UFO research magazine, based in Italy, containing several research papers. Includes Richard F. Haines on UFO appearance recognition and identification. J Allen Hynek is one member of a lengthy editorial board.

Sydney: UFO Research (NSW), 1996. Each issue (one issue differs); Paperback large quarto, good plus condition, stapled (little rusted), black & white drawings, minor foxing, creasing & edgewear. Each issue: 20 pp. Four issues of this UFO magazine from New South Wales. Consists of Volume 1 (no 1, March 1992) and Volume 5 (nos 2, 3 & 4, June to December, 1996). Volume 1(1) differs (52 pages, expanded first issue, covers detached & foxed). The issues cover crop circles, alien abductions, Brisbane seminar papers, and the visit of Prof. John Mack to Sydney.

London: New English Library (NEL), 1981. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, good plus condition (in good plus dustjacket), black & white photos centre spread, drawings, edges foxed, minor edgewear, sticker mark front flyleaf. 245 pp. Ronald Story provides an intelligent evaluation of both fact and fakery that casts new light on the UFO controversy, especially the 1% of reports that defy immediate rational explanation.

Sydney: State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) Press, 2018. Paperback large octavo, very good plus condition, stapled pamphlet, card covers, black & white & sepia & colour text-photos, minimal edgewear. 36 pp. This pamphlet accompanies an exhibition held from 6 October 2018 to 5 May 2019 at the State Library of New South Wales. This pamphlet describes a range of original documents that show significant points in the development of the Australian nation. The documents are: First Fleet Journals, Core Of My Heart, Dorothea Mackellar, Holterman Collection, Giant Glass-Plate Negatives, Internee Papers, World War 1 Diaries, and a list of works.

Torino: Cooperativa Studi e Iniziative UPIAR S.R.L., 1983. Paperback large trade, good plus condition, drawings, typewritten text, stapled (rusted), covers little marked, edges lightly foxed, minor edgewear, owner's written name front cover (1 issue). 56 to 88 pp. The first three issues of this international UFO research magazine, based in Italy: Volume 1, nos 1 & 2 (1982), volume II, no 1 (1983). ISSN 0391-111X.

Torino: Cooperativa Studi e Iniziative UPIAR S.R.L., 1984. Paperback large trade, good plus condition, drawings, typewritten text, covers little foxed (notably spine), minor edgewear, staple holes two pages. 190 pp. A double issue of this international UFO research journal, based in Italy: Volume II, no 2/3 (1984). ISSN 0391-111X. Articles on geophysical, physiological and radiation effects. Ghost rockets in 1946 (Scandinavia). Apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Two essays by Australian researchers: John Prytz and Frank Gillespie.

New York: Penguin Young Readers Group, 2005. 1st this ed.. Hardback small wide quarto, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good dustjacket), pictorial cover, colour drawings, slight edgewear jacket. 34 pp. This children's picture story by Hans Christian Andersen has been beautifully translated here from the Danish tale. The illustrations by Robert Ingpen bring his spectacular adaptation to a new generation of readers. The story is about an awkward bird and his search for acceptance, only to find that the beauty he was looking for was inside him all of the time.

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photos, bottom edge near spine little bumped, top corner tip front cover little creased, minor edgewear. 263 pp. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen provides an innovative exploration of modern ethnic identity, focused on diaspora and homeland, and understandings of each other, in Ukraine and in Ukrainian ethnic communities overseas, mainly in Canada. The author explores a wide array of folk songs, poetry and stories, trans-Atlantic correspondence, family histories, and rituals of homecoming and hosting that developed in the Ukrainian diaspora and Ukraine during the 20th century. Based on field work in Ukrainian villages and the Canadian-Ukrainian experience. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in folklore, ethnic and diaspora studies, modernity, migration, folk psychology, history, and cultural anthropology.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1972. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), edges lightly foxed, some edgewear jacket (reverse side lightly foxed & toned), spine ends & corners scuffed, few foxed spots & light toning endpapers, toned strip free flyleaves 266 pp. Humorous autobiography of Alexander Macdonald, the well-known Sydney humorist. Anecdotes of life on the Australian Broadcasting Commission, of Mo, and of Peter Finch. He spent most of his boyhood in a Catholic seminary school in Scotland. He joined the ABC in Sydney as a writer, and later wrote gags for Jack Davey and Roy Rene (Mo). The poet Kenneth Slessor rounds off the book with a lively panorama of Sydney bohemian life in the 1930s and 40s. .

USA: Entrepreneur Media Corporation, 2013. Reprint ed.. Paperback small wide quarto, very good condition, black & white figures, minor edgewear, faint sticker mark rear cover. 206 pp. This book about Twitter tips for improving your business sales has bonus online content. Ted Prodromou has written a comprehensive Twitter guide to help businesses in the real world.

New York: Penguin Books, 1999. Reprint ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, pages faintly toned, minor edgewear. 301 pp. A collection of writings by eighteen experts who cite serious deceptions that led to the discovery of psychoanalysis, including inconsistencies between Freud's case histories and what was learned about his patients. The book shows that Freud had dogmatic views and failed to mark the important difference between patient fantasies and his own.

Melbourne: Hardie Grant, 2010. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, card covers (with flaps), very good condition, few black & white photos, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 308 pp. Portia de Rossi describes her battle with anorexia. This well written book will inspire hope. Written by Australian-born actress best known for her role in the US Television series "Ally McBeal”.

Chew Magna, UK: Surrey Walking Club, 1999. Paperback large trade, very good condition, black & white photos centre spread, corner tips covers little creased, spine little creased, edges little foxed, minor edgewear. 203 pp. Founded in 1899, Surrey Walking Club was the first athletics club in the UK, to specialise in walking. This book looks at some fascinating stories and anecdotes over the last 100 years, not only about Surrey Walking Club, but about walking for athletics and recreation, from the days of the celebrated pedestrians to the present day. Edited by Sandra Brown.

London: Earthscan Publications, 2010. Hardback octavo, no jacket as issued, pictorial cover, as new condition. 185 pp. Michael Heazle explores how uncertainty is interpreted and used by policy makers, experts and politicians. It argues that conventional notions of rational, evidence-based policy making - hailed by governments and organisations across the world as the only way to make good policy - is impossible in highly complex and uncertain environments. The blind pursuit of such a rational goal is in fact irrational in a world of competing values and interests. Based on two high-profile case studies: the Iraq War, and climate change policy in the US, UK and Australia. Based on three years' research - including interviews with experts such as Hans Blix, Paul Pillar and Brian Jones. Both case studies show that treatment of uncertainty issues in specialist advice is often determined by how well the advice fits with or contradicts the policy goals and orientation of the politicians. One should not… Read More

New York: Basic Books, 1994. Paperback octavo, very good condition, top edge lightly foxed, pages faintly toned, minor edgewear. 282 pp. True stories that illustrate how we forget childhood trauma, and they tell us how and why these repressed memories return.

Sydney, Cremorne: Cremorne1.Com, 2011. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photos & drawings, colour frontispiece, laminate lightly lifting rear cover near spine, cover corners little creased, minor edgewear, correction slip loosely inserted. 113 pp. This biography by Margaret Bowering of the five Heyde brothers emerged after her frequent visits to the beautiful farm that they pioneered near Manjimup in Western Australia. She researched their lives, obtaining interviews, information and photos from many of the Heyde descendants in Germany, as well as descendants of former neighbours in Manjimup. Excerpts from the brothers' letters home and the photos provided by the Heyde family bring their story to life.

Melbourne, Carlton: Five Islands Press, 2007. Paperback trade, very good condition, bottom corner front cover little creased, sticker mark rear cover. 72 pp. This collection of poetry by Brook Emory offers a variety challenges the distinction St Augustine draws between the common light of the awareness that is everyday life, and the uncommon light of God's omniscience. The poems look at perception, thought, belief and unbelief. The author is an award winning poet.