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Deserted and Destitute: Motherhood, Wife Desertion and Colonial Welfare.

TWOMEY, Christina. · 2002

A$135.00 (€82.98 | $91.46 | £69.23 | ¥14,605)

Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2002. Paperback. Ex-library, a touch of sunning to spine, otherwise good (no markings to clean and bright text). Scarce. Explores "...women's efforts to provide for their children and reformers' attempts to deal with the problem of wife deserti...

Himalayan Dreaming: Australina Mountaineering in the Great Ranges of Asia, 1922-1990.

STEFFEN, Will. · 2010

A$135.00 (€82.98 | $91.46 | £69.23 | ¥14,605)

ANU E Press, 2010. Paperback. Ex-library, small mark to RH edges, otherwise good (no markings to clean and bright text). B/W & Col. photos. Scarce. 593pp. ISBN 9781921666162.

Blue Peaks and Red Ridges: The 1965-66 Campfire Field Notes of Desert Exploration in Western Australia.

MUIR, Peter. · 1996

A$112.00 (€68.85 | $75.88 | £57.44 | ¥12,117)

Western Desert Guides, 1996 (1989). Paperback. Very good condition. B/W photos and illus. Diary of a dogger and 4WD exploration work for the Agricultural Protection Board in the Western Desert. Scarce.. 449pp. ISBN 0958671508.

Micro-Breweries to Monopoly and Back: Swan River Colony Breweries 1829-2002.

SPILLER, Geoff. · 2003

A$50.00 (€30.73 | $33.88 | £25.64 | ¥5,409)

Western Australian Musem, 2003. Paperback. Ex-library, otherwise good condition (no markings to clean and bright text). .B/W photos and illus. 232pp. ISBN 1920843019.

The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology.

WAGNER, Gunter P. ed. · 2001

A$48.00 (€29.51 | $32.52 | £24.62 | ¥5,193)

Academic Press, 2001. Hardcover. B/W illus. Previous owner's embossed stamp to front endpaper. Condition vg. No dustjacket. Includes sections on The Character Concept: Adaptionalism to Molecular Developments; Behavioura Characters and Historical Properties of Motor Patterns; H...

Agricultural Technology Transfer: The Relevance of the Australian Experience.

HARRISON, P.G. ed. · 1989

A$110.00 (€67.62 | $74.53 | £56.41 | ¥11,901)

The Australian Institute of Agricultural Science, 1989. Paperback. Condition vg. Proceedings of the AIAS National Conference, Darwin, May, 1989. Includes papers on The Australian International Development Assistance Bureau and Agricultural Technollogy Issues; A Semi-mechanised...

Timbers of Sabah. Sabah Forest Records No. 6.

BURGESS, P.F. · 1966

A$65.00 (€39.95 | $44.04 | £33.33 | ¥7,032)

Forests Departments, Sabah, Malaysia, 1966. Hardcover. Small 4to. Condition vg. No dustjacket. Frontispience. Scarce. 501pp + index.

Biomechanics in the Musculoskeletal System.

PANJABI, Manohar M. & WHITE, Augustus. · 2001

A$180.00 (€110.64 | $121.95 | £92.31 | ¥19,474)

Churchill Livingstone, 2001. Hardcover. Small 4to. B/W photos. Previous owner's embossed stamp to front endpaper. Condition vg. No dustjacket. Includes sections on Motion of Rigid Bodies; Motions and Loads; Loads on Rigid Bodies; Materials Under Loads; Structures Under Loads; ...

Advances on the Study of Peromyscus (Rodentia).

KIRKLAND, Gordon L. Jr. and LAYNE, James N. eds. · 1989

A$180.00 (€110.64 | $121.95 | £92.31 | ¥19,474)

Texas Tech University Press, 1989. Hardcover. B/W photos. Condition vg in lghtly sunned dustjacket. Includes sections on Systematcs and Evolution; Adaptive Physiology; Peromyscus and Apodemus: Patterns of Similarity in Ecological Equivalents etc. Scarce.367pp. ISBN 0896721701.

Opinions of Attorneys-General of the Commonwealth of Australia with opinions of Solicitors-General and the Attorney-General's Department. Volume 1: 1901-14

BRAZIL, Patrick & MITCHELL, Bevan eds. · 1981

A$350.00 (€215.14 | $237.13 | £179.49 | ¥37,866)

Australian Government Publishing Service, 1981. Hardcover. Small 4to. Some wear and tears (with a little loss to top edge of rear cover) to dust jacket, touch of sunning to top edge of rear cover, otherwise condition vg. Covers issues from federation up to the First World War....

Health, History and Horizons.

PEARN, John ed. · 1992

A$80.00 (€49.18 | $54.20 | £41.03 | ¥8,655)

Amphion Press, 1992. Hardcover. Bottom corners lightly bumped, otherwise condition very good. No dj. Includes papers on The Surgeonsof Melville Island: Pioneering Attempts to Establish Western Medicine in Northern Australia; Neurosurgery in the Pre-Federation Era in Australia;...

Development, Growth and Evolution: Implications for the Study of the Hominid Skeleton.

O'HIGGINS, Paul & COHN, Martin eds. · 2000

A$90.00 (€55.32 | $60.98 | £46.15 | ¥9,737)

Academic Press, 2000. Hardcover. B/W photos. Previous owner's embossed stamp to front endpaper. Condition very good in dj. Includes papers on Biomechanical Influences on Skeletal Growth and Development; Development and Evolution of the Vertebrate Skull; Development and Pattern...

Shaping Primate Evolution: Form, Function and Behavior.

ANAPOL, Fred, GERMAN, Rebecca Z. & JABLONSKI, Nina G. eds. · 2004

A$50.00 (€30.73 | $33.88 | £25.64 | ¥5,409)

Cambridge University Press, 2004. Hardcover. B/W photos. Condition very good. No dj. Includes papers on Cranial Variation Among the Asian Colobines; Craniometric Variation in early Homo Compared to Modern Gorillas: A Population-Thinking Approach; Comparatie Fiber-Type Composit...

Skeletal Function and Form: Mechanobiology of Skeletal development, Aging, and Regeneration.

CARTER, Dennis R. & BEAUPRE, Gary S. · 2001

A$45.00 (€27.66 | $30.49 | £23.08 | ¥4,868)

Cambridge University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Small 4to. B/W illus. Previous owner's embossed stamp to front endpaper, small pen annotation to front endpaper, otherwise condition very good. No dj. Addresses "...the role of mechanical factors in the development, adaptation, main...

Collecting and Testing Tropical Forage Plants.

CLEMENTS, R.J. & CAMERON, D.G. eds. · 1980

A$59.00 (€36.27 | $39.97 | £30.26 | ¥6,383)

CSIRO, 1980. Paperback. A touch of sunning to spine, otherwise good condition. 154pp. ISBN 0643003894.

The Lutheran Church and the East German State: Political Conflict and Change Under Ulbricht and Honecker.

GOECKEL, Robert F. · 1990

A$40.00 (€24.59 | $27.10 | £20.51 | ¥4,328)

Cornell University Press, 1990. Hardcover. Condition very good in dj. Provdes an "...umderstanding of the popular forces that swept the Honecker regime from power in the fall of 1989". 327pp. ISBN 0801422590.

Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858.

HIND, Henry Youhle. · 1971

A$42.00 (€25.82 | $28.46 | £21.54 | ¥4,544)

M.G. Hurtig, 1971. Hardcover. A little edgewear to dj, otherwise condition very good. B/W illus, plates, fold-out maps. Two vols bound as one. 494pp; 472pp.

Animal Body Sizes: Linking Pattern and Process across Space, Time and Taxonomic Group.

SMITH, Felisa A. & LYONS, S. Kathleen eds. · 2013

A$50.00 (€30.73 | $33.88 | £25.64 | ¥5,409)

The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Hardcover. Ex-library, otherwise good (no markings to clean text). No dj. Includes papers on Macroecological Patterns in Insect Body Size; Latitudinal Variation of Body Size on Land Snail Populations and COmmunities; Geographic Variation ...

Settlement: A History of Australian Indigenous Housing.

READ, Peter ed. · 2000

A$220.00 (€135.23 | $149.05 | £112.82 | ¥23,801)

Aboriginal Studies Press, 2000. Paperback. 4to. Ex-library, otherwise good (no markings to clean text). Encompasses "...the whole history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing - from the multiplicity of shelters used in pre-invasion times to the extraordinary cottag...

Ancient Paper of Nepal: Results of Ethno-technological Field Work on its Manufacture, Uses and History - with Technical Analyses of Bast, Paper and Manuscripts.

TRIER, Jesper. · 1972

A$81.00 (€49.79 | $54.88 | £41.54 | ¥8,763)

Jutland Archaeological Soceity Publications, 1972. Paperback. 4to. B/W photos and illus. Tipped-in examples of woodcuts both B/W and colour. Small mark to rear cover, a touch of foxing to edges and tipped-in woodcut as frontispiece, otherwise good condition. Examines the histo...