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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating
WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag...
Francis Bacon in Your Blood
It is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time, telling it as it really was before that whole world that I shared with Francis vanishes......
The Short Story of Contemporary Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements,
The Short Story of Contemporary Art is a must-read introduction to this exciting and important period, from bestselling author and art historian Susie Hodge. This fascinating pocket guide explains the...
Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created
$25.00 AUD
"This is history told the old-fashioned way. The book is only as long as it needs to be, the adroit narrative full of heroes (Smith, Roosevelt, big-city Democratic bosses) and...
On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War
Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of...
Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain
How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness has been imagined,...
Power and the Palace: The explosive new royal book that reveals what
'Lively . . . peppered with entertaining lines. One of [Low's] skills as a journalist is an ability to sift through mountains of archive material and pick out the gems'...
The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry
The CEOs of Britain's largest companies wield immense power, but we know very little about them. How did they get to the top? Why do they have so much power?...
Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer kills almost 350,000 women each year. What's more horrifying, is that millions have died of this disease that's nearly 100% preventable. It's no secret that healthcare is full...
Interpreting Contemporary Art
The interpretation of contemporary art has always presented the critic with the hardest challenge; yet today, as new and often bewildering trends and movements come to the fore with dizzying...
Front Page History
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The book titled Front Page History by the author Harold Evans. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Third Hand: Collaboration in Art from Conceptualism to
Since the 1960s, a number of artists have challenged the image of the lonely artist by embarking on long term collaborations that dramatically altered the terms of artistic identity. In...
England Revisited
The book titled England Revisited by the author John Seymour. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Few: Summer 1940 - Battle of Britain
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Fifty years ago, in the blue skies of a late English summer, history''s first major air battle was fought. In a journey to the airfields and other key locations, this...
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's
When the R101 first took to the skies, she was the largest aircraft ever to fly. What followed was a tragic finale to a tale of human folly on a...
British Naval Aviation: Fleet Air Arm, 1917-90
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From conducting the first deck landing to deployment of the first vertical take-off aircraft, the British Fleet Air Arm has been at the forefront of international naval air development. Through...
Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan
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,...
After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
During the last two decades of the 20th century, the perception of Italian cinema's prominence within the film industry waned. This decline, in part due to the loss of its...
My Manchester United Years: The autobiography of a footballing legend
Bobby Charlton is Manchester United through and through. One of the original 'Busby Babes'; he has devoted his career to the club, playing in 754 games over 17 years and...
Angry White Pyjamas
Adrift in Tokyo, teaching giggling Japanese high school girls how to pronounce Tennyson correctly, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: he'd never been fit. In a bid to...
Mind Over Matter: Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent
In November 1992 Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr Michael Stroud set out to achieve what no one had ever done: to walk and ski - unsupported - the 2700km across...
Dear Mr Shaw: Selections from Bernard Shaw's Postbag
___________________ SELECTIONS FROM GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S POSTBAG ____________________ '...wonderful entertainment' - Julian Symons, SUNDAY TIMES 'Shaw's charm and brilliance pervade this book' - Piers Brendon, OBSERVER '...sparkling celebration of a...
The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British
The book titled The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British by the author Anthony Cave Brown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
The Story of Modern Art
The Story of Modern Art is firmly established as an outstanding introduction to the subject. Writing in a clear and direct style, Norbert Lynton aims at helping the reader to...
The Pity of it All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933
The purpose of this text is to try to understand how Germany could attempt to exterminate its Jewish population during the Nazi period. Through individual stories, beginning with Moses Mendelsohn...
The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: v. 1: Private Years
Russell's letters span 70 years, from the late Victorian age to the 1960s, and range from private love letters to impassioned pleas to political leaders to technical philosophical letters. His...
In Valiant Company: Korean War Memoir: A Company at the Battle of
In Valiant Company marks the 50th anniversary of Australia's most significant Korean War engagement, the infamous Battle of Kapyong. Ben O'Dowd, a Lieutenant Colonel, was in the thick of the...
The Zero Hour: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition
Now faced with the "zero hour" created by a new freedom of expression and the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet cinema has recently become one of the most...
Francis Bacon & the Loss of Self
Since his death in April 1992 Francis Bacon has been acclaimed as one of the very greatest of modern painters. Yet most analyses of Bacon actually neutralize his work by...
Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union
Many westerners used to call the Soviet Union 'Russia'. Russians too regarded it as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end,...
Art in Theory, 1900-90: An Anthology
Since it was first published in 1992, this book has become one of the leading anthologies of art theoretical texts in the English-speaking world. This expanded edition includes the fruits...
Dunkirk
This is the story of Dunkirk and of the men who planned it (insofar as it was planned) and of the men who carried it out, and of their ships....
Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85
These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kinglsey Amis and John Betjeman,...
Facing North
Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia is the first book to assess the whole history of Australia's relations with Asia since Federation. This first volume presents a...
Recollections at Play: a Life in Australian Theatre
Sumner offers numerous, sometimes surprising, insights into all aspects of theatre life: acting, directing and the production process, the question of standards, the role of government, and of course the...
Has Modernism Failed?
An art critic confronts the current art milieu, characterizing it as being without purpose or moral authority, and questions whether allegedly radical artists now reflect the culture of consumerism more...
Seven Keys to Modern Art
As artists push further and further beyond their, and our, comfort zones, this book aims to help decipher the bizarre and often intimidating aspects of modern and contemporary art by...
Europa, Europa
The Inspiration Behind The Golden Globe --Winning Film "An engrossing and memorable tale."Jewish Book World "The sheer emotion of telling the tale is palpable. The whole is moving, and strange...
The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues
Gayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice. The Post-Colonial Critic brings together a selection...
French Painters, Russian Collectors
$50.00 AUD
Originally published in 1983, this book tells the story of the two Moscow merchants, Sergey Shchukin and Ivan Morozov, who between them amassed the greatest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist...
The Berlin Blockade
From the beginning of 1948 the Russians gradually mounted a siege against the Western sectors of Berlin occupied by American, British and French troops since the end of the war...
The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History
A fascinating exploration of why Hitler's death was only confirmed in 2018 Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put...
The Impossible Bomb: The Hidden History of British Scientists and the
The remarkable story of the forgotten British scientists who enabled the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb Atomic weaponry is widely understood as a story of American scientific achievement-but...
Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941-1945
The extraordinary story of Kathleen Harriman, daughter of the US ambassador to the USSR, told through her wartime letters Kathleen Harriman was the daughter of American businessman W. Averell Harriman....
Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India
The gripping story of Indira Gandhi's premiership-and the profound influence she had on India Indira Gandhi's ascent as prime minister of India in 1966 was entirely unforeseen. But she soon...
The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War
A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets "A great book."-Michael Goodman, BBC...
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan "Eloquently discusses the making of India and Pakistan after British rule on the subcontinent...