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History of Cities in Maps: The ultimate visual exploration of human
A fascinating cartographic study of urban development, perfect for map and history lovers. The city, a concept nearly as old as history itself, is a paradox of human innovation and...
Women, Race & Class
The ground-breaking history of civil rights and inequality by legendary political activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis 'Black women were equal to their men in the oppression they suffered; they...
Paris France
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books \"All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with...
Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend
A joyful, rule-breaking experiment in biography, which celebrates 'country life' as a state of mind 1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and...
The Last of the Nomads
Described by the Australian Book Review as 'deeply moving', this is the story of Warri and Yatungka, an exiled couple who spent thirty years exiled in the Gibson Desert. Partners...
The Making of the English Working Class
The revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals, reissued as a Penguin Modern Classic to mark the 50th anniversary of its publication This brilliant account of working-class society in its...
In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages)
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Chatwin's brilliantly unique record of his adventures in Patagonia and the fascinating people he...
Broken Dreams: First Nations Classics
Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Gayle Kennedy, Broken Dreams is a moving and inspiring story of a life transformed in an accident, told...
Wild Cities: Discovering New Ways of Living in the Modern Urban Jungle
'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting' ISABELLA TREE 'Inspiring and essential' ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS 'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT, Nature isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. But today the majority of the world's...
The Promise of Home
This dyed-in-the-wool country girl will do anything to protect the home she loves... A fast-paced, heartwarming rural romance from a USA Today bestselling Australian author. Entrusted with running her grandfather's...
Outback Astronomer: The extraordinary story of how an amateur
Born and raised in remote Broken Hill, Trevor Barry left school after year ten to work in the mines. Years later, a single glimpse of Saturn through a colleague's telescope...
Checkout 19: 'A book to shake the world anew' Sebastian Barry
The thrilling, furious and stunningly original debut novel about womanhood, art and life, from the blazing new star in contemporary literature, for fans of Eimear McBride, Ali Smith and Deborah...