Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Bookhome Sydney

Melbourne: Affirm Press, 2018. Paperback octavo, very good condition, colour photos, light toning edges, minor edgewear. 276 pp. This is the personal story of Heather McNeice and a friend who went on a challenging trek to raise funds for the education of young Bhutanese girls. As the team face blizzards, avalanches, altitude sickness and snow blindness, their reward is a glimpse of life in the last Shangri-La. This book is a love song to Bhutan and its people, an intimate portrait of the only remaining Budddhist kingdom of the Himalayas.

Halls Creek, WA: Yiyili Community School, 1998. Paperback oblong quarto, very good condition, stapled, black & white drawings, covers little scratched, spine little creased, minor edgewear. 21 pp. The Aboriginal stories for children come from the East Kimberley region of northern Western Australia situated on what is now known as Louisa Downs Station near the Margaret River. This area is known to the local Gooniyandi people as Marrara. The stories have been handed down orally from one Aboriginal generation to the next. Includes text in the local Aboriginal language. By the Yiyili Community School, Halls Creek.

Adelaide, Elizabeth: Railmac Publications, 1992. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, stapled, card covers, very good condition, black & white text-photos, spine little rubbed & creased, minor edgewear. 20 pp. This booklet has been produced as a companion to the Railmac publication Yass Railway Portfolio. A collection of photos of the much-loved railway line and the classical Yass Junction station over the past 30 years.

Sydney, North Sydney: Penguin Random House Australia, 2016. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, good condition, colour photos, spine little creased, corner tips covers scuffed, minor edgewear. 322 pp. This book is about a Sudanese-Egyptian-Australian Muslim woman. At 21, Yassmin found herself working on a remote Australian oil and gas rig; she was the only woman working there. This is a story about Yassmin growing up migrant and Muslim in Australia post 9/11, navigating the usual teenage dramas, on top of adjusting to now being seen as the face of the 'enemy'. It is also about the strength of women, about learning to lead and understand the power of failure and a well-placed joke. This story challenges who we are as a society, and asks you to join the journey to a better society.

Melbourne: Viking / Penguin Books, 2013. Paperback octavo, as new condition. 164 pp. In 2011, history was made and the future broken. One of our most incisive and eloquent observers, Bob Ellis has reviewed the occurrences of 2011 and found it to be a year as important as 1848. He and his collaborators refresh and repopulate our memories with enormous events already forgotten, revealing their coherence and resonance. From the Arab Spring to the London riots and Occupy Wall Street, from the Christchurch earthquake and the Fukushima meltdown to the possible discovery of the Higgs God particle, from the shooting of US Senator Gabby Giffords to her vote on the bill that saved America's economy, from Assange fighting extradition to the Murdoch empire on trial, from the last hours of Kim Jong - il and Vaclav Havel to the Breivik massacre in Norway and the executions of Gaddafi and bin Laden - the year 2011 was portentously charged. The shockwaves from these events continue to reverberate through the… Read More

Auckland: Hachette, 2018. Paperback octavo, very good condition, front hinge minimally split (pages firm), minor edgewear. 305 pp. This novel is set in Venice. Kat has fallen in love with an Italian man and is moving to Venice where she is going to help him run his guesthouse, Hotel Gondola. Kat hopes to write about the first year of her new adventure, the food she eats, the recipes she collects, the people she meets, and the man she doesn't really know all that well but is going to make a life with. Will her adventure turn out the way she wants?

New York: Harper & Row, 1974. 1st US ed.. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, frontispiece, cloth spine, faint foxing edges, minor edgewear jacket (faint toning reverse side). 185 pp. Francis Watson provides an irresistibly entertaining and irreverent view of England in 1857 and the fantastic personages - artistic and political - whose erratic behaviour made it memorable, including Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale.

Canberra: Mulini Press, 1983. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white drawings, front hinge lightly split (as usual, all pages firm), minor edgewear & rubbing. 114 pp. Judy Blacket writes a fascinating story about her search for a house of her own in Canberra. The many adventures she has along the way to finding her perfect home will be familiar to many people looking for a permanent home. Text and drawings by the author, who is a descendent of the famous architect Edmund Blacket, and has worked as a librarian in various locations in New South Wales. (A Mulini Press publication. 1 of 2 available copies.).

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1968. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, endpaper maps, minimal foxing first two pages, coloured top edge lightly faded, edge lightly foxed, minor edgewear jacket. 191 pp. His personal account of the year he spent at Scott Base, Antarctica. The base is New Zealand's contribution to Antarctic exploration.

Philadelphia / Sydney: Theo. Presser Co. / Allan & Co., 1917. Paperback folio, two folded sheets, good plus condition, minor creasing & small edge tears. 8 pp. (Copyright, 1917.) Sheet music for this waltz. Includes sheet music for "June Roses" and "Love Dreams" (1 page each, at rear).

Sydney, Drummoyne: Golden Press, 1986. Hardback small quarto, very good condition, pictorial cover, colour drawings, minor edgewear & creasing. 31 pp. A delightful Australian Aboriginal folktale (children's picture story) by Barbara Ker Wilson about Tiro, an Aboriginal boy and his dingo companion Pandi (an indigenous Australian dog). It is also about how the Aborigines and dingos migrated together long ago from New Guinea to Australia. Illustrated by Kathleen Phelps. (A Golden book. 1 of 2 available copies.).

Dubbo, NSW: Review Publications, 1971. Paperback quarto, good plus condition, yellow card cover, stapled, cartoons, spine faded, cover lightly foxed. 56 pp. Bill Hornadge has compiled a fascinating anthology of derogatory text extracts, poems and cartoons that satirize Asian (mainly Chinese) immigrants to Australia in the 19th Century. (ISBN not printed in book.).

Ontario: Broadview Press, 2009. Paperback trade, very good condition, bottom corner rear cover & some pages little creased, bottom corners two pages folded (bookmark), minimal edgewear. 186 pp. In this very readable book, Stephen Hetherington invites readers to think philosophically by the use of sceptical (skeptical) ideas. He challenges our complacency and ask us to reconsider what we think we know. The author is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales.

London: Rider, 2020. 1st U.K. ed.. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in good plus dustjacket), minor edgewear jacket (top corner scuffed, spine ends little rubbed, sticker mark rear cover). 141 pp. This book is an extraordinary uncovered work by Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, the author of the bestselling classic ’Man's Search for Meaning'. Published in English for the first time. Victor Frankl delivered this series of talks just months after his liberation from Auschwitz. Prompted by his experience of Nazi concentration camps, and despite the horrors in the camps, he learnt from his fellow inmates that it is always possible to say ‘Yes to Life'. He founded a new branch of psychotherapy, logotherapy, based on the meaning of life. Translated from the German. Introduction by Daniel Goleman.

Canberra: Mulini Press, 2002. 2nd ed.. Hardback small quarto, no jacket, pictorial cover, very good condition, black & white drawings, frontispiece, tiny dent spine edge. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 276 pp. Second (revised and enlarged) edition. Victor Crittenden provides a fascinating history of gardening books in Australia. The first part outlines the story of gardening books in Australia and the people who wrote them. Many of the introduced plants and flowers are identified, and the growing of native plants from the earliest times is referred to in this part. This enlarged edition now lists 206 Australian gardening books published before 1950. The second part of the book lists in detail all Australian gardening books from the first Gardening Guide in 1806 up until 1950, and gives a brief description of the contents of each book.

Sydney, St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1998. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos & drawings, minor edgewear jacket (few closed tears, crease rear cover, corner tip rear cover scuffed). Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 380 pp. A history of St Patrick's College, Manly, Sydney. The college was established specifically to train local candidates for the Catholic priesthood. Traces the events and the political and ecclesiastical manoeuvrings that led to the acquisition of the site, and the building and opening of the seminary. Then he chronicles its development over almost 90 years.

Broome / Fitzroy Crossing, WA: Magabala Books / Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre, 1996. Paperback small quarto, very good condition, black & white & colour text-photos, map, inside covers lightly toned, top edge lightly foxed, tiny tear fore-edge single page, minor edgewear. 64 pp. About the Yirra Festival in August 1994, which was organised by the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre (KALACC). The many different language groups of the Kimberley come together for celebration and cultural exchange. Yirra (pronounced Ir-ray) is a permanent waterhole in Nyikina country on the banks of Raparapa (Fitzroy River) and is part of the Aboriginal owned Mount Anderson pastoral station about 70 kilometres from Derby. The book includes a map of Kimberley languages, and an historical and political overview of the Kimberley. The groups attending the festival include: Nyikina and Mangala, Bardi, Jaru, Ngardi and Kukatja, Wangkajunga and Walmajarri, Kija and Ngarinyin, Kija and Miriwoong,… Read More

New York: Colophon / Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972. Paperback small, good condition, light foxing edges, top spine lightly worn, front free flyleaf REMOVED, minor edgewear, sticker mark inside rear cover, minor edgewear. 244 pp. In a classic text, Geraldine Coster compares Yoga and Western psychology. This brief book largely stands the test of time, though Initially published in 1934. For simplicity, yoga refers to the Patanjali Yoga Sutras (based on Raja Yoga, the most authorative form). Psychology refers to 'analytical psychology' (as developed by Freud, Adler and Jung). A brief readable description of both systems, which are said to have much in common.

London: Grub Street, 2010. 1st ed.. Hardback small, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), pictorial cover, full-page colour photos, minor edgewear jacket. 271 pp. This book by Arto der Haroutunian has over 200 recipes ranging from hearty peasant fare to elegant, light dishes. Includes the history of yogurt, how to make it, and how it is easily used in all kinds of delicious recipes. There are fragrant soups, wonderful salads, and interesting egg dishes, recipes for fish, poultry, meat, pasta, and vegetables, bread, pancakes and fritters. A great book for people who like yogurt, and to convert those who do not care for it.

Margaret River, WA: Margaret River Press, 2018. Paperback small trade, very good condition, top corner rear cover little creased & laminate little lifting. 250g pp. Australian novel by Laurie Steed about trust and connection. About what keeps us going, in spite of ourselves. Jen and Steven meet at 16 and marry at 18. They have three young children. The children keep them together until love turns to lies and the family breaks down. The children become adults, and each one faces love and loss in the shadow of their family legacy.