Uwa publishing perth (28 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. A very good copy. Pp. xiv, 304. Edited and Introduced by Imre Salusinszky. Foreword by Rupert Murdoch.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. A fine copy. Pp. ix, 254. The work focuses heavily on the ecological transformations of south-western Western Australia since European settlement. It argues that early settlers failed to "read" the landscape because they could not understand its First Nations stewards, rendering the true nature of the ecosystem completely "invisible" to them. …

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine copy. Pp. 187. Self-taught West Australian naive artist.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Australian Edition. HEAVY. 256pp, index, glossary, num col ills. Or pictorial glossy boards in jacket. Near new. Ten year ocean census covering all types of marine life from microbes to whales. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Pp. 575. Governor-General and Australia's first UN representative.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket in fine slipcase. Pp. 120.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. A fine copy. Pp. xvii, 452.

8vo, x + 251pp. Original pictorial wrappers, very slightly edgeworn. Some mild pencil underlining throughout. A very good to near-fine copy. First edition.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. A very good copy. Pp. xix, 492. Outlines the trailblazing life and career of Mary Gaudron AC QC, the first female justice of the High Court of Australia. It maps her trajectory from a impoverished childhood in rural New South Wales to her appointment to the highest court in the nation, where she co-authored landmark decisions on Indigenous land rights.…

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. A fine copy. Pp. x, 598. The tan-coloured fields of the Western Australian wheatbelt form one of the most visible signs of human impact on the planet when viewed from space. Hughes-d'Aeth examines the making of this landscape through the creative writing of eleven significant authors who lived in or wrote about the wheatbelt. These include Albert Facey, Cyril Goode, James Pollard, John Ewers, Peter Cowan, Dorothy Hewett, Jack Davis, Barbara York Main, Elizabeth Jolley, Tom Flood, and John Kinsella.…

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket as Issued. Very Good. Light general wear to covers. Spine not creased. Some creasing to first couple of pages. Otherwise internally clean. 328pp Size: 155mm x 235mm. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. A fine copy. Pp. xxviii, 327.

Paperback octavo, very good condition, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 312 pp. This literary anthology is named after one of Vietnam's most poetic waterways. The writers live in Vietnam and a number of other countries. Some are of Vietnamese background - others not. For all the writers, Vietnam had defined itself as a voice of inspiration, of homeland, memory and discovery. These stories and poems on home, displacement, war, migration, new spaces, modernity and tradition give us rare insight into the beauty and complexity of modern Vietnam. Some of the writers are Pham Thi Hoai, Lam Thi My Da, Ho Anh Thai, Nam Le and many others. The editor is professor of creative writing at RMIT University, Melbourne.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket as Issued. First Edition. Light general wear to covers. Spine not creased. Internally clean. 220pp Size: 220mm x 250mm. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. A fine copy. Pp. 268. BETWEEN DUTY AND DESIGN. The Architect-Soldier Sir J.J. Talbot Hobbs. Examines the life of the English-born immigrant who became a leading Western Australian architect and one of Australia's most distinguished soldiers. Hobbs arrived in Perth in 1887 and built a successful architectural practice whose works (public buildings, domestic and commercial designs, and war memorials) remain prominent across Perth, Fremantle, and Western Australia. At the same time, he served as a volunteer soldier; in 1914, at age 50, he went to World War I, surviving Gallipoli and the Western Front. His organisational abilities led to him becoming Australia's highest-ranking soldier in Europe after the war, and he played a key role in designing and organising Australian war memorials in France and Belgium.…

1st ed. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photos, maps, minor edgewear. 362 pp. After a period of loss and much change, Saskia Beudel began walking. Within 18 months she had walked the Snowy Mountains, the southwest coast of Tasmania, the MacDonnell Ranges west of Alice Springs, the Arnhem Land plateau in Kakadu, the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales, and in Ladakh in the Himalayas, and Central Australia. She also discovers the stories from Australia's desert heart, examines the entanglement of Aboriginal and European cultures, remembers POW camps in Indonesia during World War 2, and relives childhood epiphanies in a haunting collection of landscapes while tracing family secrets across the globe. The author captures the enigmas of displacement, belonging and the intricacies, often at odds with one another, of Aboriginal and settler understandings of the desert environment. (1 of 2 available copies.).…

Paperback thick ocatvo, very good plus condition, minor edgewear, owner's written name, bookshop sticker inside rear cover. 452 pp. Toby Davidson provides a unique and patiently researched re-evaluation of John Curtin, the revered Australian wartime Prime Minister. The author reveals the poetry of his times, notably the poems he himself read. For Curtin, reflection on his poetry reading influenced his thoughts and language from his socialist youth to the last days of his leadership of a nation transformed by the global peril of World War 2. (Sticker of Museum of Australian Democracy, Canberra.).…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. A fine copy. Pp. vii, 393. Illustrated monograph on the Balgo (Wirrimanu) Aboriginal art movement, one of the most vibrant, colourful, and influential schools of Western Desert painting in Australia.

Softcover. Condición: New Book. First Edition. 23cm x 15cm. x, 325 pages, black and white and colour illustrations and photographs. Lettered wrappers. Category: LGBTIQ+; LGBTIQ+::Lesbian Studies; LGBTIQ+::Gay Studies; 21st Century: 2010s; Politics, Government & Economics. ISBN/EAN: 9781742583457. Inventory No: 0011447. …

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. B&W photos throughout. 21 x 14 cm. 364 pp.

1st ed. thus softback with stiff wrappers As New small octavo 152pp., b/w plate, First published in 1983.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Minimal wear to jacket. No tears. Inscription to ffep, otherwise internally clean. Binding tight. 470pp Size: 205mm x 255mm. Book.

Paperback octavo, very good condition, pages lightly toned as common, top corner tip front cover faintly creased, minor edgewear, bookshop sticker. 163 pp. Hanifa Deen looks has examined historic archives and discovered a tribe of men with a hidden history - men whose stories are rarely told: the 'Ghans', cameleers, 'sepoys', hawkers, herbalists and pearl divers, known collectively as 'Mohammedans' in early Australian history. The White Australia policy Race was used to classify people and bar them from entering the country, yet some remained. These stories may help explain some of the moral ambiguities and strange ironies that trouble citizens about Muslims in Australia today. (1 of 2 available copies.).…

1st edition stiff wrappers New Book octavo 263pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, bibliog..

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers As New quarto 438pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., bibliog., Fine study inc. 45pp. of colour illustrations of journal covers.

1st edition stiff wrappers As New octavo x + 356pp., bibliog., 'WWI wrecked Europe. Millions lost their lives, whole towns disappeared into the mud, and the golden age of civilisation collapsed. Australia leapt from the debris, led by Anzacs silhouetted against the rising sun'.

Boards. Quarto, pictorial boards, printed paper wrap, colour illus, pp 320. The paper wrap with cut-out design is very lightly marked (now protected), the book is in fine (as-new) condition. "Celebrating the centenary of Wesfarmers Limited, this is the story of how a humble farmers' co-operative evolved into one of Australia's top ten companies." Includes many photographs.…

Boards. Quarto, pictorial boards, printed paper wrap, colour illus, pp 320. In original hard cloth slipcase stamped in gilt. Fine condition. "Celebrating the centenary of Wesfarmers Limited, this is the story of how a humble farmers' co-operative evolved into one of Australia's top ten companies." Includes many photographs. …