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The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

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An entertaining and informative journey across Italy in the footsteps of the great Italian political hero, Garibaldi. 'Elegantly written, full of wit and charm, this is travel writing at its...
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family

An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family

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Two hundred years of modern science and culture, told through one family history In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in...
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill

Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill

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From The New York Times bestselling author, the gripping story of Winston Churchill's exploits in the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill believed that to achieve his ambition of...
Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West

Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West

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Discover the man behind the movement in this intimate biography of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). In 1965, a seventy-year-old man-soon to...
The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon

The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon

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**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER** 'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure' JOHN GRISHAM The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett,...
Shackleton: Explorer. Leader. Legend.

Shackleton: Explorer. Leader. Legend.

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The enthralling life, endurance and incredible leadership of Sir Ernest Shackleton, told by the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes. To write about Hell, it helps if you have...
The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789

The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789

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A brilliant account of the coming of the French Revolution, and the culminating work of this most distinguished historian 'Events do not come naked into the world. They come clothed...
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849

Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849

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An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history 'People embraced each other, shook hands, joy radiated from every eye, there was no limit to the...
1914: The Year the World Ended

1914: The Year the World Ended

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Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. In July that year,...
The Diaries of Franz Kafka

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

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An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers Dating from 1909 to...
A Training School for Elephants

A Training School for Elephants

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From the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia, comes a new journey tracing a colonial-era African expedition. In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

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The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death...
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

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A history of modern Greece by one of the pre-eminent experts in the field We think we know ancient Greece, the civilization that shares the same name and gave us...
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914

The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914

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A masterpiece of historical writing which brings to life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era of revolutionary change The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century...
Ancien Regime and the Revolution

Ancien Regime and the Revolution

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A new translation of this classic text The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is...
Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters

Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters

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Churchill through the eyes of those who met him, published for the 150th anniversary of his birth This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political events, incorporating perspectives...
1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet

1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet

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An extraordinary narrative history of the First Fleet, by the bestselling author of The Forgotten Children. Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this....
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It

The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It

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We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for the Russia Anxiety is within reach ... Russia is an exceptional country,...
The Fatal Shore

The Fatal Shore

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'An extraordinarily vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia In 1787, the...
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia

Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia

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An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia - with introduction from Inga Clendinnen. An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on...
Ornament and Crime

Ornament and Crime

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Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture 'But art has nothing to do with forgery, with lies. The paths of...
Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Burke's seminal work on the French Revolution, and a fine example of conservative political thought Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it...
The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller

The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed writer and potter **THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **WINNER OF THE...
Birds Without Wings

Birds Without Wings

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'Captivating and compelling. A masterpiece' Independent on Sunday Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia...
Warrior: A legendary leader's dramatic life and violent death on the colonial frontier

Warrior: A legendary leader's dramatic life and violent death on the colonial frontier

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Winner of the 2015 Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance Winner of the 2016 Magarey Medal for Biography 'Connors lays down the hard truth. Not all our...
The Colony: A history of early Sydney

The Colony: A history of early Sydney

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Winner of the 2010 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 'Grace Karskens writes with the passion and insight of a novelist, and the accuracy of a historian. To read it...
Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry: 1890-1940

Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry: 1890-1940

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The Arts and Crafts Movement, a fascinating period in decorative history, led to the unprecedented commercialisation of fine crafts and the empowerment of thousands of women and immigrants, who began...
Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851 to 1951

Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851

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Hundreds of 19th- and 20th-century curiosities and contraptions are catalogued in this amusing assembly of more than 1,000 images. The days from the first Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851 to...
Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851 to 1951

Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851

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Hundreds of 19th- and 20th-century curiosities and contraptions are catalogued in this amusing assembly of more than 1,000 images. The days from the first Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851 to...
Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy

Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy

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A dramatic reevaluation of Thomas Jefferson's thinking on foreign policy and his record as a statesman This book, the first in decades to closely examine Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy, offers...
Dictionary Of Modern Arab Histor

Dictionary Of Modern Arab Histor

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From 1980 until Dr. Bidwell's death in 1994, much of his time was taken up with the writing and compilation of this encyclopaedic work which represents, in the true sense...
Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914: Engineering Triumphs That Transformed Meiji-era Japan

Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914: Engineering Triumphs That

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A rousing look at Japanese railways and history for railroad enthusiasts. Dan Free tells the fascinating history of the rise of Japanese railways amidst a period of rapid modernisation during...
Mahler: His Life, Work and World

Mahler: His Life, Work and World

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Gustav Mahler was born on 7 July 1860 in an insignificant outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He grew to become one of the greatest conductors and composers of his time,...
Riders of the Apocalypse: German Cavalry and Modern Warfare, 1870-1945

Riders of the Apocalypse: German Cavalry and Modern Warfare, 1870-1945

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Despite the enduring popular image of the blitzkrieg of World War II, the German Army always depended on horses. It could not have waged war without them. While the Army's...
The Greeks in Australia

The Greeks in Australia

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The Greeks have made an enormous contribution to Australian cultural and social life, and this book vividly tells their story. Beginning with an examination of the conditions in Europe that...
Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840

Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840

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Writing from and between a variety of disciplines, scholars from European, Polynesian and Settler backgrounds show how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory history than that supposed by...
The Strassmanns: Science, Politics and Migration in Turbulent Times (1793-1993)

The Strassmanns: Science, Politics and Migration in Turbulent Times

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Across six generations and two hundred years, this book tells the story of a German- Jewish family who emigrated from Rawicz, Poland, first to Prussian Berlin, and finally to America....
Force from Nietzsche to Derrida

Force from Nietzsche to Derrida

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In this book, Clare Connors sets out to answer the question: What is the pervasive character of the world?, tracing a genealogy of the idea of force through the writings...
Alexei Jawlensky

Alexei Jawlensky

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Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941) was Russian, but lived in Germany much of his life and obtained German citizenship in 1934. He was a friend of Vasily Kandinsky, who he met in...
Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan

Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan

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This innovative study of ethics in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) explores the intense struggle to define a common morality for the emerging nation-state. In the Social Darwinist atmosphere of the time,...
Modern Art in Egypt: Identity and Independence, 1850-1936

Modern Art in Egypt: Identity and Independence, 1850-1936

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Following a spectacular surge in interest for Egyptian masters, Modern Art in Egypt fills the void in Egyptian art history, chronicling the lives and legacies of six pioneering artists working...
On the Estate: Memoirs of a Russian Lady Before the Revolution

On the Estate: Memoirs of a Russian Lady Before the Revolution

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These are the reminiscences of Mariamna Davydoff, born in 1871 and forced to flee the country in 1919. Mariamna's vivid, detailed watercolours and writings reveal the intimate details of life...
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile the Making of a Revolutionary

Conspirator: Lenin in Exile the Making of a Revolutionary

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The father of Communist Russia, Vladimir Ilych Lenin now seems to have emerged fully formed in the turbulent wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. But Lenins character...
Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793

Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy

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In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time-the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain. The occasion...
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945

Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in

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In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical attention...
Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil

Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil

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In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently...
I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition

I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition

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With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott KingA beautiful collectible edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther...