Talbot Colin (142 results)

Paperback. Condition: As New. APPEARS UNREAD. Paperback. Covers show minimal shelving wear, otherwise an UNBLEMISHED copy.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 103 pages, a few figures in the text, a MUCH-REDUCED-POSTAGE paperback*, a fine copy [0907845851] *The default postage figure will be MUCH reduced in this instance.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Human beings have an evolved but highly adaptable nature. This book sets out to establish a new framework for understanding human nature, from an evolutionary perspective but drawing on existing social sciences. It seeks to explain how human beings can appear to be so malleable in their nature, yet have an inherited set of behavioural instincts. When the founder of sociobiolgy, E. O. Wilson, made a plea for greater integration of the physical and human sciences in his book Consilience, there was an underlying assumption that the traffic would be mainly one way - from physical to human science. This book reverses this assumption and draws on a new branch of human sciences, paradoxical systems theory, to reconceptualise some of the most innovative developments from physical sciences - the related fields of evolutionary psychology, ethology, and behavioural genetics. The new approach is also applied to politics, economic and public policy approaches. Human beings have an evolved but highly adaptable nature. This book sets out to establish a framework for understanding human nature, from an evolutionary perspective but drawing on existing social sciences. It seeks to explain how human beings can appear to be so malleable in their nature, yet have an inherited set of behavioural instincts. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 96 pages. 8.27x5.12x0.39 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. In English.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 96 pages. 8.27x5.12x0.39 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Oversized paperback with minor wear to cover corners, otherwise like new condition. AD. Used.

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Paperback. [Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Colin 'Tad' Talbot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Traven Collins is a sort of detective. He's not really a detective, more what you might call a burnt-out case who was a writer and now who'll take most any kind of writing job to pay the rent. If it's interesting. He lives in a nice seaside suburb of Melbourne with down-and-outers, stand over merchants and ice addicts at one end and pimps, thieves, hookers and transexual rent boys at the other. Traven takes a job from an old friend to promote the visit of the last American beat poet, Duke Weston, who claims to have been a friend of Kerouac & Burroughs etc. Things are going averagely until the first death - which seems to be a hit & run but proves to be a murder. And then the next one.that's murder too. Both of the victims were poets. With his trusty sidekick, the brilliant border collie Maynard G Crabs, Traven sets out to make sure he doesn't become embroiled in these murders most foul & most horrid. And he has to protect Lexi, the young lady who couldn't possibly be his daughter - could she? More Detail: It is 2014 in St Kilda. Traven Collins, 50+, failed journalist, finds writing work he can - even (ugh!) PR. Tray (his street name) is single, never married, no children (well, there is an issue which is revealed in the novel) and living at his existential limits. An old friend from the early seventies anti-war protests days, Franklin Rankin, offers Traven a gig to look after a visiting beat poet, (in fact the last of the beats) Duke Weston, a probable fraud who claims to have been mates with Kerouac, et al. Rank Frank was once his Chief of Staff when Traven worked as a reporter on a big daily newspaper. Traven lives next door to Carmen Romero, a 30-something actress/waitress with daughter Lexi. Carmen is poised for big fame with a part on a soapie called 'All Our Blessings' but there is a problem because her contract is dodgy and the producer, one Momo Gretzky, is trying to stiff Carmen on her pay and conditions. Carmen thinks he is trying to invoke the 'leg over' clause. Traven knows Carmen from years before when he was on a press junket to review the Seattle grunge band Nirvana on Great Mankell Island in Queensland, and Carmen was a radio station prizewinner. It's also when he met Carly Lucinda Ryder aka C.C.Ryder aka Cindy, (a dangerous woman, though this wasn't yet obvious back in 1994), with the third-richest father in Australia. Traven, on the way to talk Carmen into stepping out of her short shorts and halter top for the evening, is waylaid by Cindy and never gets to visit Carmen. Many years later, in St Kilda, the suburb on the bay, the locals hang out at the Roma Cafe where poet Daniel Nugent does his concrete poetry - casting women in real concrete as an installation. To the great annoyance of Traven. Things darken when Momo is found shot to death, and only worsens when the next night Traven discovers The Duke's body in a transsexual hooker pick-up zone in St Kilda. Traven feels it's all too hot and heads to Byron Bay where he meets the seemingly shonky Swami Govinda (but there's something strange and unworldly about the impromptu visit). Traven also meets a couple of odd disciples of the swami, a kind of female Laurel & Hardy duo without the comedy routine (Emily & Bathsheba) and the love of his life, wonderful Kate Carey. In Byron: There's a missing poet, an ashram euthanasia group, a drug import racket, a transvestite drug dealer, Billee, crooked police, and the love of Traven's life. What could go wrong? The Sweet Myst is a mystery, Traven is the anti-hero, yet the novel has a humour - well, the author laughed when he was writing it - and there's evocation of that 'something in the air' thing of the late sixties which said (50 years ago).there's something more than this. 'The Sweet Myst' is a mystery and there are murders and mayhem and guns. Paperback. …

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Comic Book. Standard Format and Oversize. First Printing. Color cover art with black/white interior illustration. 42 pages. FINE. But for slight bump to bottom left all corners sharp and binding tight, without stress creasing and square. No tears or chips. Not marked in any way and very clean, glossy and bright. All comics carefully wrapped and sent boxed. …

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Book contains pencil markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9780199575954. …

166pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A near fine copy. A modern love story.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Paperback first edition 1975. This book is in very good condition - very mild edge wear; spotting on front edge from cover to about page 20; spotting on top edge. Photographs available on request.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback in very good condition. CM. Used.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback in very good condition. Edgewear to covers, including slight peeling of covers at edges in a few places. A few minor scores to rear cover and small marks to page block. Several small marks to inside front cover and title pages; remaining pages are clean and text is bright and clear throughout. TA. Used.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback in very good condition. Faint scores to covers but no other notable flaws. Pages are excellent. TA. Used.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.