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Five Gold Rings: A Royal Wedding Souvenir Album

Five Gold Rings: A Royal Wedding Souvenir Album

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This title is published to celebrate The Queens Diamond Wedding Anniversary in 2007 a companion to the best-selling "Queen Elizabeth II: A Birthday Souvenir Album". This is the story of...
Arthur Edwards' Magic Moments: The Greatest Royal Photographs of All

Arthur Edwards' Magic Moments: The Greatest Royal Photographs of All

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Arthur's tremendous career has led to his becoming the most familiar face on the royal circuit and the respect he shows his subjects means that his is a popular figure...
Australia and the Wider World: Selected Essays of Neville Meaney

Australia and the Wider World: Selected Essays of Neville Meaney

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The essays in Australia and the Wider World bring together a lasting contribution to the story of Australia and the history of ideas in this country. Since the 1960s Neville...
Vegetarian Mediterranean Cookbook: 125+ Simple, Healthy Recipes for

Vegetarian Mediterranean Cookbook: 125+ Simple, Healthy Recipes for

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Over 125 vegetarian ways to savor the Mediterranean Over 125 vegetarian ways to savor the Mediterranean Mediterranean mealtime is an event, accompanied by close family and friends, where Western wellness...
Through Irish Eyes: A Visual Companion to Angela McCourt's Ireland

Through Irish Eyes: A Visual Companion to Angela McCourt's Ireland

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A collection of photographs depicting Ireland in the 1930s and 1940s which aims to evoke the times captured in Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes. The book also contains extracts from the...
L S Lowry

L S Lowry

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L S Lowry's 'matchstick men' have become some of the most readily recognized images in twentieth-century British art. His vivid and faithful portrayal of the industrial north has led to...
Brett Whiteley: Art & Life

Brett Whiteley: Art & Life

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Brett Whiteley was one of the most dynamic and talented artists in the history of Australian art, an artist whose recognition had spread worldwide before his untimely death in 1992....
That's the Way I See It

That's the Way I See It

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An account of popular artist, David Hockney, who describes in his own words his life and work since the mid-1970s. David Hockney has worked in almost every medium - painting,...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: The Presidential Portfolio - History as Told

John Fitzgerald Kennedy: The Presidential Portfolio - History as Told

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The Kennedy Presidency, and his role in the history of a turbulent time, told through fast-paced narrative and illustrated with documents, photographs, artifacts, and audio recordings exclusive to the John...
Les Six: The French Composers and Their Mentors Jean Cocteau and Erik

Les Six: The French Composers and Their Mentors Jean Cocteau and Erik

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Les Six are Francis Poulenc, Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud and Germaine Tailleferre. They were a group of talented composers who came together in a unique collaboration...
Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars

Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars

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Beyond the Battlefield provides a fascinating account of female creativity in America, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand during the turbulent era of twentieth-century conflict. This book looks at women...
The Girl in the Lion's Mouth: Memoir of a Child Survivor of the

The Girl in the Lion's Mouth: Memoir of a Child Survivor of the

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p>During World War II eleven-year-old Dita was hidden in the Nazi headquarters in Hungary s capital city, Budapest. She was separated from her parents and responsible for the care of...
Lenin's Embalmers

Lenin's Embalmers

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In 1924 Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, died and, at Stalin s instigation, his body was mummified and put on display. Ilya Zbarsky s father Boris was one...
Washington Babylon

Washington Babylon

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This expose of Washington politics revives the disreputable profession of muckraking, scrutinizing with an unforgiving eye the political culture of the Clinton era. Paying open tribute to the tone and...
Britain and the Greek Colonels: Accommodating the Junta in the Cold

Britain and the Greek Colonels: Accommodating the Junta in the Cold

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At the apex of international Cold War tension, an alliance of Greek military leaders seized power in Athens. Seven years of violent political repression followed in Greece, yet as Cold...
Psychological Warfare in the Intifada

Psychological Warfare in the Intifada

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Psychological warfare is a touchy subject in western democratic societies. It raises the spectre of Nazism and totalitarian methods of mind control, yet provides an explanation for the spectacular success...
Arms Control in the Middle East: Cooperative Security Dialogue, and

Arms Control in the Middle East: Cooperative Security Dialogue, and

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This is the story of a regional process in the making: from the very concept of arms control as applied to the region, through the innovative regional forum and format...
Israel's Nuclear Option: Behind the Scenes Diplomacy Between Dimona &

Israel's Nuclear Option: Behind the Scenes Diplomacy Between Dimona &

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In the early 1950s, Israel secretly launched a project designed to achieve a nuclear option. Initially supported by France, this daring project stood to engineer a dramatic change in Israels...
This is Kandinsky

This is Kandinsky

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Intellectual, emotional, restless, dogged, loyal, selfish; Kandinsky was an artist - and a man - of contradictions. This genre-defying painter didn't pick up a brush until he was thirty years...
Fifty Years

Fifty Years

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In September 2006, television in Australia will have been broadcasting for half a century - this book celebrates that anniversary with a comprehensive, highly illustrated large format account of those...
Moro Easy

Moro Easy

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From the multi-award-winning and bestselling authors comes a brand-new book to celebrate 25 years of delicious Moorish cuisine. For fans of Moro- The Cookbook (135k TCM), Persiana (205k TCM) and...
The Destruction of Yugoslavia: Tracking the Break-up 1980-92

The Destruction of Yugoslavia: Tracking the Break-up 1980-92

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The year 1992, scheduled to be a milestone on the road to European unity, saw Sarajevo and other European cities bombarded slowly to pieces and their inhabitants starved before the...
Globalisation In World History

Globalisation In World History

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A provocative and illuminating collection of essays that is the first to look at the major theme of globalization from an historical perspective. Globalisation was the buzzword of the 1990s;...
Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past

Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past

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The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator...
Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man

Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man

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The son of Russian immigrants, Aaron Copland (1900-1990) became America's most loved and esteemed composer. Commonly referred to as the American composer - 'the best we've got' in the words...
The Golden Age Of Australian Radio Drama

The Golden Age Of Australian Radio Drama

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These were the halycon days, before television. For Australian people radio was a major source of entertainment and information, a link to worlds far beyond their own. This book evokes...
The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage

The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage

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This 1996 book presents Edwardian entertainment and the Edwardian entertainment industry as parts of a vital, turbulent era whose preoccupations and paranoias echo those of our own day. Responding to...
A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990

A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990

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Polish director Tadeusz Kantor, who died in 1990 at the age of 75, is widely recognized as one of the most important theatre artists of this century. Critics have ranked...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century

Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century

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Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned...
The Imperial Cruise: A True Story of Empire and War

The Imperial Cruise: A True Story of Empire and War

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In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea....
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill

Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill

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The dramatic story of one of the most formative years in the life of Winston Churchill. The dramatic story of one of the most formative years in the life of...
My Life in Politics

My Life in Politics

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Born in 1913 to poor working-class parents, Willy Brandt was involved in socialist politics from an early age. By 1933 he was an active anti-Nazi, so that at 19 he...
To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and

To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and

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Between 1870 and 1940, tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the center of the publishing, art, musical, theatrical, and educational worlds. Even...
The Test Match Year: 1996-97

The Test Match Year: 1996-97

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Provides full statistical coverage of the complete test year, including all test matches played around the globe. The year begins with England v India in June 1996 and ends with...
Death at Morning House

Death at Morning House

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An instant New York Times and Indie bestseller! From the bestselling author of the Truly Devious books, Maureen Johnson, comes a new stand-alone YA about a teen who uncovers a...
Liberty's Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British

Liberty's Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British

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'More than just a work of first-class scholarship, Liberty's Exile's is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfil's the historian's most challenging ambition: to revivify past experience.' Niall Fergusson On a...