Search Results: Authors starting with P from Elizabeth's Bookshops

Inkata Press, Melbourne, 1982. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Very Good +. Edgewear to jacket.. AUSTRALIAN FAUNA & FLORA Agriculture viii, 312 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. Fruit. Pests: Insects. New South Wales Vegetables. Pests: Insects. New South Wales Fruit -- Diseases and pests -- New South Wales Insect pests -- New South Wales Vegetables -- Diseases and pests -- New South Wales #300124 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Hardcover in Dustjacket Very Good +. Edgewear to jacket.

Queensland Department of Primary Industries, 1991. Softcover. Near Fine. Third revised edition of a guide originally published in 1981. It describes the ecology of the parasitic nematode pest, explains the problems it causes in agriculture, and discusses methods of monitoring and control. The authors work in plant pathology at the Indooroopilly Agricultural Research Laboratories. Appendices include effects of the parasite on Queensland crops, and details of various nematicides. Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1997. Softcover. AS NEW COPY!. WEST AUSTRALIANA ""I was baptised Imelda Pearl Margarita ... It was such an impressive list of names for a small fish who in her early years was jostled back and forth, passed from hand to hand and slept in more strange beds in strangers' homes than most folk do in a lifetime.""Pearl Smith grew to womanhood with plenty of experience of the darker side of human nature. Born to a single mother, related to a notorious prostitute, Pearl was an innocent victim of the cruel gossip, hypocrisy and distorted moralism that was the downside of the close-knit working class community of Fremantle between the wars.After war service in the Air Force, where the experience of a community of supportive women showed how things might have been, Pearl drifted into an ill-advised marriage to a man whose home life is revealed as a sharp contrast to his public image as a hero of the union movement.Vividly and passionately written, A Small Fish finally exorcises… Read More

Anthropology Museum, University of Queensland, 1977. Softcover. Very Good +. AUSTRALIANAFraser Island (the geography, archaeology, ethnohistory of this island off the southern coast of Queensland, Australia) Queensland. Fraser Island, 1770-1905. Essays Ecology. Queensland. Fraser Island. Essays Ecology -- Queensland -- Fraser Island Fraser Island (Qld.) -- History K'Gari / Fraser Island (SE Qld SG56-03) xiii,256p. : ill., graphs, maps ; 29cm. #250424 (University Donation plate on fep.) Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Softcover Very Good +

Bentley Drivers Club Ltd, 1988. Softcover. FINE. pp. 38 illusts #0820 SCARCEWalter Owen Bentley, MBE (16 September 1888 – 13 August 1971) was an English engineer who founded Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

Shire of Yilgarn, 2001. Softcover. Near Fine. Detailed account of the search for the pilot and navigator of a Vultee Vengeance dive bomber lost in the outback of Western Australia in 1944. The search for the missing airmen was one of the largest in Australian history. Includes photos, notes, glossary, bibliography and index. pp. 264 illusts SCARCE #0221. Signed by Author. (Presentation plate to prelim.) [Note: In display cabinet at Warehouse.] Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

Air Britain Historians Ltd, Tonbridge, 1992. Hardcover. As new.. First Edition. pp. 480 illusts #0520 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. (Please note: Over standard weight or size. Orders via ABE Books or Biblio or from Overseas may incur additional postage charges. We will contact you prior to processing order to request your approval or contact us to confirm postage cost.)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2004. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Near Fine. FLORA & FAUNA: AUSTRALIAN & GENERALStanding tall on the sunburnt plains of Africa and Australia, like great living giants, baobabs may be the oldest life forms on the planet, and many of the specimens still standing today have been around for at least 2000 years. For centuries, the tree has provided food, medicine, shelter, places of refuge and worship and even served as prisons and tombs. Long before Africa was opened up by European explorers, the news of the baobab had astonished the world of science, due to its stupendous size (twice the girth of any tree in Europe), its bizarre appearance (more like a pumpkin than a tree) and its extraordinary soft, pith-like wood. Today, the baobab continues to baffle scientists. Nothing seems certain about the tree except that mythology comes to it naturally. The countless superstitions and myths that surround these 'gnarled upside-down giants' are as strange and intriguing as the… Read More

Army History Unit, Dept. of Defence, 2011. Softcover. AS NEW COPY!. AUSTRALIAN MILITARY From 1962 to 1972 Australia joined the United States in fighting a communist inspired insurgency war in the jungles of South Vietnam against infiltrators who sought to overthrow the local government. Over 50,000 Australians served in Vietnam, 519 lost their lives, and the conflict ended ignominiously in the insurgents’ victory. Although now in the past, the Vietnam War resonates with lessons for the Australian Army as it strives to defeat not Communism but Terrorism. Australian Military Operations in Vietnam highlights some of the successes and failures of an earlier generation of officers for the benefit of today’s leaders. 199 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm. #220923 Bibliography: p. 187-189. Second Edition reprint Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Participation, Australian Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Campaigns Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book… Read More

Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2002. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Near Fine. AUSTRALIAN MILITARY""As the Australian Army begins its second century, it can look back on a proud and rich history that has seen it answer the nation's call during two world wars as well as a number of lesser conflicts. Although the army's great achievements on numerous fields of battle are already well recorded, the story of how the nation organised its military strength is only now being told. The Australian Army: a history of its organisation 1901-2001 fills a significant gap in the army's history. It focuses on the development of the army's organisation and its evolution from the colonial armies of Federation to the modern, professional force it is today. The army's organisation is the result of complex interactions between the government's security and fiscal policies, the desires of the public, and the vision and ambitions of the nation's military leaders. This book demonstrates that the forces that shaped the… Read More

Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2016. Softcover. Very Good +. WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL This book, Noongar people, Noongar land, arose from the protracted struggle of the Indigenous Noongar people of the South West of Western Australia to gain recognition of their native title rights and interests under the Australian federal government's Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) (NTA).Based on the expert anthropological report for the Noongar people's native title claim, known as the 'Single Noongar Claim', it is a collective account of Noongar people's relationships with each other and the country to which they remain connected.The Noongar people who informed the content of this book, some of whom have not survived to see its publication, bear witness to the continuing vibrancy of Noongar tradition.xxiii, 240 pages ; 24 cm #020523 (Light crease to cover corner, otherwise Fine.)Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-231) and index.Noongar (Australian people) -- History. | Noongar (Australian… Read More

Bantam, Sydney, 1990. Softcover. Very Good (Used copy). AUSTRALIAN MILITARY VIETNAM WARFrank Palmos -- an Australian war correspondent who was ambushed by Viet Cong with four colleagues in the Chinese quarter of Saigon, but escaped when the commandos paused to avoid friendly fire.Palmos determined to ""rid the devils"" by returning to Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) twenty years later and investigate the ambush incident. Above all he hoped to meet his attackers and achieve reconciliation. ix, 214 p., [8] p. of plates : 1 map, ports. ; 22 cm. #160124 Palmos, Frank -- Biography Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Journalists -- Biography War correspondents -- Australia -- Biography Veterans -- Biography Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's… Read More

Curtin University Printing, 1977. Softcover in Dustjacket. FINE!. AUSTRALIAN ART West AustralianaExhibition Catalogue. pp. 48 illusts #021223Pamela Gaunt is an artist with a practice spanning more than thirty years. She has a Research Masters Degree in Art History Theory from COFA, UNSW and has received several significant grants from national and state funding bodies including: 2001 ARTSWA Creative Development Fellowship; and 1997 Australia Council Milan Studio Residency, Italy.Until 2014, she held a fractional senior lecturer position in the School of Design; Art, Curtin University, Perth and was Director International for the School between 2012–14. She is currently working part time with Culture and the Arts, Department of Local Government, Sport, Cultural Industries (DLGSC).Pamela exhibits nationally and internationally and was represented by Galerie Düsseldorf in Perth, until its recent closure. She has published three monographs on her art practice, and a book: The Decorative in… Read More

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2016. French flaps|Softcover. Fine. AUSTRALIAN ARTContinuing ACCA's ongoing series of Big Picture exhibitions focussing on contemporary art's relation to wider social, cultural and political contexts, Unfinished Business is a major exhibition conceived to animate critical, albeit under-represented, practices and debates within contemporary Australian art and society. Surveying the diverse scope of feminist art practices -- including painting, performance, photography and film to community engagement and cultural activism -- the exhibition focuses upon the dynamic formal invention and social engagement of feminist artists. It explores strategies and analyses of gender identity and representation, intersectional politics, and practices which embrace performative codes, text and media technologies, humour and critique. Adopting a collaborative, polyphonic form which encourages diverse voices, practices and debates, Unfinished Business presents new commissions and… Read More

Terrail, 1997. Softcover. Near Fine. Architecture seeks inspiration in the past, thus Classicism tends to conserve whilst remaining a living genre thanks to its adaptation to new lifestyles. This volume highlights many modern projects that are classically influenced. #0521 (Oversized and weight)Allan Greenberg American approach architects Architecture and Urbanism Associates Bank Bologna Born Bottom BUILDINGS & PROJECTS built central centre century civic classical architecture College competition complete construction continuity creating cultural detailed early elements elevation established exhibition extension facade floor France Front Gallery garden Germany Graduated Group Hall historical human individual industrial Institute interior Italy John Simpson Krier language Leon living London Masterplan materials Museum nature Opposite Top organized origins Park past Paternoster period Porphyrios Poundbury practice present principles Professor provides Quinlan Terry reconstruction Renaissance… Read More

Joint Venture of Perth New Car Dealers, 2005. Hardcover in Dustjacket. FINE!. CARS WEST AUSTRALIANAFirst Edition. SCARCE. vii, 235 p. : ill., ports. ; 31 cm. #230424 Automobile dealers -- Western Australia -- Perth Metropolitan Area -- History Automobile industry and trade -- Western Australia -- Perth Metropolitan Area -- History Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. (Please note: Over standard weight or size. Orders via ABE Books or Biblio or from Overseas may incur additional postage charges. We will contact you prior to processing order to request your approval or contact us to confirm postage cost.) Hardcover in Dustjacket FINE!

Australian Centre for Craft and Design, 2005. Softcover. Fine. This unique and unprecedented survey brings together the outstanding work of indigenous and non-indigenous basket makers from across Australia. This publication and the travelling exhibition it accompanied were developed by Australian Design Centre to celebrate the beauty, diversity and importance of an art form with an ancient past and an exciting future. Woven Forms is one of the most ambitious surveys of basket making in Australia.""This publication accompanies the exhibition, Woven forms : contemporary basket making in Australia, shown from 17 September to 13 November 2005 at Object Gallery, Sydney before touring throughout Australia""Woven Forms: Contemporary basket making in Australia features the work of 58 contemporary fibre artists.Aboriginal Indigenous Art. Basket making -- Australia -- Exhibitions.  |  Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Exhibitions.  |  Art, Australian -- Exhibitions.  |  Art… Read More

Fourth Estate, 2012. Softcover. Very Good (Used copy). AUSTRALIANA Biography AgricultureAutobiography of Ian Parkes (founder of Parkes Clemenger Advertising, Perth) 341 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.First Edition #0119/170424'People who truly live in the outback listen to it. What they hear, I do not know .What the country says is beyond words.' In the early 1950s, Australia was riding on the sheep's back and no-one doubted the wisdom of making a life in the wool industry, certainly not sixteen-year-old Ian Parkes. Having grown up with his grandfather's stories about the bush, he was eager to earn his way on sheep stations in the Australian outback. But he had no idea that the country would creep inside him and take root. Tough yet tender, funny one moment, poignant the next, this is the story of a life lived on the land and for the land. It was a time when a young lad starting out might work side-by-side with Aboriginal stockmen, when a big social event was a day at the races,… Read More

Melbourne University Press, 2002. Hardcover in Dustjacket. AS NEW COPY!. AUSTRALIANA First Edition. xi, 232 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. Bibliography: p. 222-225. #030523Rotary Club of Melbourne -- History. | Clubs -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- History. | Social service -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- History. Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Hardcover in Dustjacket AS NEW COPY!

Fine Arts Press, Sydney, 1991. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Near Fine. vii, 31 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm. #0521Includes reprint of pp.180-211 of ""ART and Australia"" vol. 29 no.2 Summer 1991. Includes bibliographical references. John  Power, Andrew Anderson, Elwyn Lynn, Bernice Murphy. (Presentation plate on fep.) Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Hardcover in Dustjacket Near Fine