Publicado por Allen Lane, Camberwell, Victoria, 2005
ISBN 10: 0713998555 ISBN 13: 9780713998559
Librería: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Photographic Ilustrador. First Edition. list of illustrations, acknowledgements and index. Dark blows coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with two inserts, of a pages each, of black-and-white photography. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper with gilt and dull red coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. The author was the last governor of Hong Kong, and returned to England to a political landscape totally transformed by one party sorcery and the other party's stupidity. The author offers comment that is not bound by the restrictions of diplomacy as was the case when he was working. Much that he says throws new light and interpretation upon world events of the last 20 years. Minor rubbing of the book corners and back strip edges. Browning of the text block edges and pages. A little rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels. This is the first Australian edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 323, [1] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Politics & Government; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0713998555. ISBN/EAN: 9780713998559. Inventory No: 0121024.
Publicado por Allen Lane, Camberwell Victoria, 2003
ISBN 10: 0713996587 ISBN 13: 9780713996586
Librería: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. 2nd Impression. 450 g; (10), 310 pages, indexed, in original photographic illustrated softcover binding. The book shows no damage. This book shows how the underground economy is linked to the mainstream economy and how things a country hides are often more revealing than those it proudly displays. Size: Large Format Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sociology & Culture; Local History -- America; United States; Politics & Government. ISBN: 0713996587. ISBN/EAN: 9780713996586. Inventory No: 0284136.
Publicado por Allen Lane, Camberwell, Victoria, 2006
ISBN 10: 0713999586 ISBN 13: 9780713999587
Librería: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Trade Paperback. Reprint. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 482 pages. Managing to extract information from within the tightly sealed American military, Ricks' speaks to key participants and officers about this epic disaster in which far too many American and Iraqi lives have been lost.
Publicado por Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, Camberwell, Victoria, 2006
ISBN 10: 0713999586 ISBN 13: 9780713999587
Librería: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Original o primera edición
Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Photographic Ilustrador. First Edition. XIV, 482 pages, cast of characters, notes, acknowledgements and index the text is illustrated with a 16 page insert of black-and-white photographs. Photographic front cover, showing American troops loading a comrade into a helicopter, against a white background with black and ochre coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. " Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior correspondent Thomas E. Ricks' Fiasco is the definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgement on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it." -- from the rear panel blurb. This is the first Australian edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very clean secondhand copy, with no damage. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0713999586. ISBN/EAN: 9780713999587. Inventory No: 0243308.
Publicado por Allen Lane an Imprint of Penguin Books, Camberwell, Victoria, 2009
ISBN 10: 0713999918 ISBN 13: 9780713999914
Librería: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Original o primera edición
Softcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. An explanatory note: in which we admit to lying in our previous book, introduction: putting the freak in economics, acknowledgements, notes and index. Colour illustrated paperback binding with black and white coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. Colour photographs of authors to the rear panel. Quoting from the rear panel blurb " . Four years in the making Superfreakonomics will once again transform the way we look at the world. It reveals, among other things, why you are more likely to be killed walking front then driving drunk; how a prostitute is more likely to sleep with a policeman than be arrested by one; why terrorists might be easy to track down then you would imagine; how a sex change could boost your salary; and how there really is a cheap fix for climate change." Rubbing of the book edges and panels with age toning of the text block edges. A few marks to the lower text edge. First Australian edition. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 320 pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Economics; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0713999918. ISBN/EAN: 9780713999914. Inventory No: 0290088.
Publicado por Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, Camberwell, Victoria, 2006
ISBN 10: 0713999586 ISBN 13: 9780713999587
Librería: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Original o primera edición
Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. Photographic Ilustrador. First Edition. XIV, 482 pages, cast of characters, notes, acknowledgements and index the text is illustrated with a 16 page insert of black-and-white photographs. Photographic front cover, showing American troops loading a comrade into a helicopter, against a white background with black and ochre coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. A little rubbing and creasing to the book corners. Very light age toning of the pages and text block edge. " Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior correspondent Thomas E.Ricks' Fiasco is the definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgement on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it." -- from the rear panel blurb. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0713999586. ISBN/EAN: 9780713999587. Inventory No: 0240051.
Publicado por Allen Lane, Camberwell, Victoria, 2010
Librería: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Softcover (Stiff Boards). Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Australian Paperback Edition. 700 g.; (13), XIV, (5), 4-459, (5) pages, A Note to Readers, acknowledgements, a note on sources, notes and bibliography. Photographic title page, showing the balcony where Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, and on and the 4th page following are mug shots of James Earl Ray. Black-and-white photographic front cover, showing Martin Luther King Jr. in an open topped car, with white titles to the front panel and backstrip. Minor rubbing to the book corners. "Hellhound on His Trail is the story of two very different men whose lives catastrophically interweave over the course of some nine months in the late 1960s; one was a thief and a con man called James Earl Ray, the other one the greatest American figures of the twentieth century, Martin Luther King Jr." -- from the rear panel blurb. Size: Trade Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; Popular Culture; Social History; History -- America; ISBN: 9781846143649. Inventory No: 0111342.
Publicado por Allen Lane, Camberwell, Victoria, Australia, 2008
ISBN 10: 0713998563 ISBN 13: 9780713998566
Librería: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. The page edges have minor tanning. 490 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-253mm).