Current Affairs from Diversity Books, IOBA

Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Viking (Penguin), 2000. xii, + 274pp. Unpaginated, b/white halftone plate section, plus an intext, double-page, line-drawn locality map. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped on upper foredge corner only. Textblock mildly age-toned, else unmarked. Indonesia in the late 1990's was a country in turmoil, with a collapsed economy, a string of… Read more about this item

Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: The Department of Tutorial Classes, University of Sydney, 1957. 73pp. Illustrated throughout: b/white halftone plates, line-drawings, maps and tables. Saddle-stitched, staplebound format. Staples tight and slightly rusted. Illustrated paper wrapper minimally edgeworn and soiled. A date stamp on title page, else minor bump on texblock foredge. "In this volume, Part 2 of 'Australia's Resources and Their… Read more about this item

North Shore, New Zealand: Howling at The Moon Publishing, 2007. 320pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper mildly edge-rubbed only. From the rear cover: "In the most politically-incorrect book ever published in this country, journalist Ian Wishart rounds up a herd of sacred cows - demolishing Richard Dawkins, sideswiping the anti-smacking lobbyists, skewering the social engineers… Read more about this item

New York: Human Rights Watch, 2005. 159pp., b/white maps and photographic illustrations. Book clean. Spine firm. Leaves clean, soft corner crease to several. Illustrated card wrapper softly corner creased and mildly edge-rubbed. From the rear cover: "The northeast corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is home to one of Africa's richest goldfields. This report documents widespread human rights… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2002. ix, + 284pp., one b/white map. Book clean, square. Spine firm, bronze title there-on. Plain black boards very good+. Leaves clean. Illustrated dustjacket trivially edge-creased only. From the jacket flap: "Mary Anne Weaver elucidates a country in turmoil through two decades of eyewitness reporting and unparalleled access to Pakistan's presidents, prime ministers, generals,… Read more about this item

New York, U.S.A.: Human Rights Watch, 1997. xiv, + 204pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Printed card wrapper has a soft corner crease to rear panel. From the rear cover: "Landmines are inherently indiscriminate weapons recognizing no cease-fire, and, long after the fighting has stopped, continue to maim or kill the children and grandchildren of the soldiers who… Read more about this item

Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc, 2005. 113pp. Book clean. Spine firm. Leaves clean, slightly edge-tanned. Printed card wrapper very good. " . . . pre-eminent scientist and environmentalist Ian Lowe tackles the problem head on and offers far-reaching solutions to our environmental and social crisis. He advocates a fundamental change to our values and social institutions and offers a vision… Read more about this item

Crows Nest, N.S.W., Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010. 279pp. Book clean, slightly canted. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper very mildly creased and indented. " . . . puts key issues which face us today under the microscope. Covering suburban sprawl, sustainable transportation, food shortages, biodiversity, technology, public policy, and more, 'The Big Picture' not only identifies the problems… Read more about this item

Camberwell, Victoria, Australia: Penguin Books, 2009. xx, + 600pp., plus 16 page, b/white photographically illustrated section. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper undamaged. " . . . delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment, account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman… Read more about this item

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia: Griffith University, in conjunction with Text Publishing, 2009. 268pp., b/white photographic illustrations. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean, tiny nick to the margin of one page only. Illustrated card wrapper has several minor indentations. Contributors include: Gideon Haigh, Erica Sontheimer, Christopher Joye, Jonathan West, Barbara Gunnell, Margot Saville, Mark Welker, Geoffrey Barker, Colin Mills, Tom Morton,… Read more about this item

Camberwell, VIC, Australia: Viking/Penguin, 2005. 309pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, black title there-on. Black line-drawn art-illustration (Mike Constable) on front panel of undamaged grey boards. Author signature to title page (with pen stroke through printed name below), else leaves clean and unmarked. Like-illustrated (in colour) dustjacket negligibly edge-creased only. Contents include 27 chapters over 5 'parts', Notes, Acks., Index.… Read more about this item

Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A.: Brazos Press, 2002. 334pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Previous owner's name to half-title page, otherwise leaves clean. Illustrated ( Francis G. Mayer) card wrapper negligibly edgeworn, in-production surface laminate striation to lower half of spine. " . . . the editors have gathered an astonishing collection of essays that calls the church to respond to… Read more about this item

South Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Matchbooks, 1989. xiv, + 138pp., several b/white maps intext. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly edgeworn only. Foreword by Dr A. Barrie Pittock, CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research. Contents include: Foreword, Introduction, 8 chapters, Index. Book weight approx. 210g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g.… Read more about this item

Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: Pan Macmillan, 2009. 278pp., plus 8 page, b/white, photographically-illustrated section. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper has a small bump to head. "Born during the Russian invasion and spending her youth in refugee camps in Iran and Pakistan, Malalai Joya returned to Afghanistan in her teenage years. There she worked as a women's… Read more about this item

Western Australia: Veritas Publishing Company, 1983. iv, + 62pp. Book clean. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper edgeworn, rubbed and corner-creased. "An examination of Patterns of Subversion, Worldwide Conspiracy and Culture -Alienation, as promoted in the Media of Mass-Communication, and elsewhere . . . " Contents include: Author's Preface, Introduction, One-World Hegemony - Dream of Nightmare?, Mind… Read more about this item

London: Bloomsbury, 2008. 309pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean, one page formerly corner-creased. Illustrated card wrapper has negligible bump to head. " . . . sets out the problems and the solutions in a straightforward way - no hidden aganda, no breast-beating, no hair shirts . . . Includes: Science, Adaptation, Technological Solutions, Political Solutions, Personal and Local… Read more about this item

Crows Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2003. 278pp., b/white map. Book clean, square. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly scuffed. Tanya Reinhart, an Israeli soldier known for her work in linguistics, and author of a biweekly column in the daily newspaper 'Yediot Aharonot', demonstrates the hoax suffered by the Palestinian people, sometimes with the complicity of their own Authority… Read more about this item

Saint Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2007. xviii, + 317pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean, faint mark to head of textblock. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly scuffed only. " . . . author Frank Brennan argues that the Australian government's response to the 'Tampa' incident was a massive overreaction, possible only in a remote country like Australia… Read more about this item

Australia: Pocket Books, 2008. 225pp., plus 8 page, colour and b/white, photographically-illustrated section. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper as new. "Funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt, empathic and demanding. Who is the woman Barack Obama calls 'the boss'? . . . Journalist Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait, taking us inside the marriage… Read more about this item

United Kingdom: Ebury Press, 2005. 342pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly edgeworn only. "Amaranta Wright was hired by Levi's to journey through Latin America, befriending teenagers and helping Levi's market their products more effectively to a continent in crisis . . . a compelling portrait of a continent riddled with paradox, complexity, beauty and… Read more about this item