Search Results: Titles starting with H from Pegasus Book Orphanage

Thorsons 2002 soft cover Very good condition. Gift suitable. How would you like to be successful at work, to eat healthily, to give up smoking, to stop procrastinating? According to the authors, changing your habits can be simple, quick and fun. This book provides invaluable techniques to help you stop sabotaging yourself.

Jonathan Cape, London 1997 Hardcover with dust jacket VERY GOOD SIGNED book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket On title page: 'With best wishes, Phillip Knightley, 14/10/97'. Twice winner of UK 'Journalist of the Year', this is Phillip Knightley's self-effacing life story, commencing in Australia (including a stint with Ezra Norton), and soon on to Fleet Street and the BIG stories (Suez, Thalidomide, Profumo, Hitler Diaries, Kim Philby). Not surprisingly, he tells a rattling good tale very well!

J A Allen, publisher, London 1977 softcover, 5½" x 8" Book in VERY GOOD condition This paperback marks the first appearance in English of Reiner Geurts' book which was first published in his native Holland. This book will appeal to the scientist and the breeder and also to those people who would like to know which factors determine, and the genetic make-up inherent in, the colouring of horses. Various breeds of horse are discussed and the text is accompanied by numerous illustrations.

Metro Theatre, Melbourne n.d. card covered program, 12' x 9", with twin staples Program in VERY GOOD condition This is the program of the 1970s Harry M Miller-Michael Butler-Aztec Services production of HAIR, directed by Jim Sharman, with music by Galt MacDermot. Full cast list (Tribal Council). Biographies of Harry M Miller, Michael Butler, Kenn Brodziak, the Rado-Ragni-MacDermot trio, Jim Sharman, 28 cast members including very young Marcia Hines and Reg Livermore, et al. Thank heavens, the Age of Aquarius arrived!

DCW, Deniliquin, NSW - 1992 softcover, 5¾" x 8¼" SIGNED BOOK in VERY GOOD condition SIGNED BY 16 CONTRIBUTORS on half-title page. MOUNTED: two press cuttings (Deniliquin Standard, Sept. 9,1992) re launch of this book. This is regional history at its best; told in the words of those who experienced it, without sentimentality or bitterness - although one old shearer clearly hated army life during WWII. Different stories tell of the advent of the motor vehicle, tractor and aeroplane, the effect of electricity on homestead life and the prosperity that came with irrigation channels. Not all these stories are true, however (the old-time raconteurs from the White Lion Hotel, for example). Includes many funny cartoons and historic district photographs.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1982 hardcover, 6" x 8¾", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD price-clipped dust jacket When renowned oriental scholar, translator, and Bloomsbury Group member Arthur Waley died in 1966, it came as a shock to even his oldest friends to find he left a widow. This story, written by her at intervals during the thirty-seven years of their extraordinary relationship, reveals she finally married him a month before his death. Because Alison Waley is a writer of distinction, this is a work of literature; but above all though, it is a tender, sometimes funny, revealing love story.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, publishers, New York - first US edn. 1983 hardcover, 5½" x 8½", with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket When renowned oriental scholar, translator, and Bloomsbury Group member Arthur Waley died in 1966, it came as a shock to even his oldest friends to find he left a widow. This story, written by her at intervals during the thirty-seven years of their extraordinary relationship, reveals she finally married him a month before his death. Because Alison Waley is a writer of distinction, this is a work of literature; but above all though, it is a tender, sometimes funny, revealing love story.

Australian War Memorial 1975 Stapled booklet, 250mm x175mm Attractive booklet in VERY GOOD condition Souvenir of AWM with seventeen colour photographs outlining notable architectural features (sculpture, stained windows, cupola etc.) with explanatory text. First published 1961, reprinted twice, ours is second edition.

John Long, London - first edition 1973 hard cover, 8 3/4" x 5 1/2", with dustjacket VERY GOOD book in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket Black cloth-bound boards with gold type to spine. Widely-published true crime writer Leonard Gribble presents here 12 appalling, bloody, violent, macabre and abhorrent crimes (of a nature offensive to civilised man) - a widely international selection, each overturning deeply established taboos. Jacket has minor wear to edges.

Harper & Row 1971 hard cover Good condition, without dust jacket. Includes some margin notes in pen Being an Account of the Life and Adventures of Friar Servando Teresa de Mier, originally published in French as Le Monde Hallucinant, translated from the Spanish by Gordon Brotherston. A novel based on the life of the friar, rather than a biography.

Routledge, Chapman & Hall, New York - first edition 1988 hardcover, 8.75" x 5.5", & dust jacket MM. AS NEW book in AS NEW unclipped dust jacket Black cloth-bound boards with silver type to spine. In this work the emphasis is placed on Hamlet's fantasies & imaginations rather than on ethical criteria, & on the depiction of Hamlet as a revenge play through an exploration of its mysterious aspects.

Amistad Books / Warner, Fifth Avenue, New York 1989 Hardcover with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Includes a 100-page Discography. Lionel Hampton is one of America's legendary jazz greats, and one of the world's most versatile musicians. He shares his incredible memories: how his uncle Richard came to work for Al Capone; his introduction to the music giants of the day - Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Biederbecke, Mugsy Spanier, King Oliver and His Creole Jazz Band, and Bessie Smith. Here, too, are Hampton's off-the-cuff recollections of Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, and Josephine Baker. Includes 38 b&w photographs.

Countryside Books, Newbury, Berkshire, UK - 1983 bound softcover book, 8" x 10", with card covers Book in VERY GOOD condition Here are the people of Hampshire and their way of life during the first forty years of the twentieth century - years which began with the Edwardian era and ended with the onslaught of the German Luftwaffe. As in a family photo album, these pictures concentration on the happy times rather than the sad. They recall the period with a clarity and charm which will give pleasure to all generations.

Jain Publishing Company, India 1983 Hard cover, lacks jacket. Slight browning to pages, a few loose pages (preface) in front, otherwise binding firm and text clean Instructions for the Clinical Examination of the Sick, with complete dietary and special reference to tropical diseases.Includes iIllustrations.

The Haworth Press, West 321 Street, New York - 1988 hardcover, 14cms x 22cms (no jacket issued) Previous owner's name blacked out on front endpaper. Book in VERY GOOD condition This work was originally a two volume issue of OTHC. It offers the practicing therapist a breadth of the current concepts with clinical examples to facilitate problem based leaning. The papers presented (12) demonstrate an overview of the current thought and understanding of the basic sciences for shaping the course of hand management. For example, the principles of physiology and histology are drawn on to provide the rationale and to offer an explanation for the basis of wound care, scar management and early intervention treatment protocols. Innovations in hand care are shared as are some of the clinical reasonings and solutions for meeting the new challenges offered. The papers presented cover not only the needs of persons of given diagnostic groups, but also reviews of evaluation and treatment regimens relating hand… Read More

Dorset Press, publishers, New York 1973 hardcover, 5¾" x 8½", with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket This book takes you step-by-step through a whole routine of card tricks, such as the Reverse Sliparound, sleight of hand tricks, such as the Coaster Coin Dazzler, and the mental magic of the Ultimate Prediction. Soon you will be able to cut a rope into pieces and restore it, change the faces of playing cards and even saw a woman in half. Easy-to-follow style supplemented with almost 60 illustrations, and a full glossary of magic.

Bantam 1978 paperback Good condition. Alternative Energy Sources that YOU can put to use NOW … heat your home with the sun. Use the wind to make electricity. Power a shop, house or farm with a water wheel. Run natural gas appliances - even your car - on methane that you produce yourself. Cook on a wood-burning stove.

John Wiley & Sons, Chichester & New York 1985 hardcover, 9 1/4" x 6" (no jacket issued) Previous owner's name to ffep. Book in VERY GOOD condition Illustrated board covers, dozens of figures and tables, appendices, bibliography, index of compounds, and subject index. The relative ease with which even complex organic compounds can be labelled with tritium, at very high molar specific activity, has made tritium the most versatile beta emitting radionuclide for use in chemical and biological research. In fact for research in the life sciences, tritium is more often used as a tracer for carbon structures than in other ways. A knowledge of the precise distribution of tritium in labelled molecules is very necessary. This book provides a full theoretical background as well as practical guidance.

Van Nostrand Reinhold, NewYork 1980 Hardcover with dust jacket Jacket edges show wear. Previous owner's name to endpaper. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket This book examines how to best draw the bountiful supplies of plant and animal nutrients from millions of tons of waste material that today are routinely disposed of in both industrialized and developing countries. It provides a concise yet thorough explanation of how to use these wastes to feed the burgeoning world population. It presents a clear, overall picture of organic waste reprocessing theory, procedure and practice.

Pelham Books, London - first edition 1990 hardcover, 9 1/2" x 6 1/2", with dust jacket Reinforced front & rear hinges. Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket. This book is fully endorsed by the British Mountaineering Council. Light-grey cloth-bound boards with gold title to spine, 44 full-colour photographs, 265 b&w photography, many dozens of drawings & diagrams, glossary, index. This is a comprehensive, practical guide to climbing and mountaineering skills for anyone who wishes to learn or further their participation in the sport of climbing. The authors describe not only the principles and methods of movement in rock, snow and ice, but also the correct use of equipment and ways of protecting climbs.