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Barney Greatrex: From Bomber Command to the French Resistance - the
The incredible untold World War II story of Australian hero BARNEY GREATREX - from Bomber Command to French Resistance fighter . A school and university cadet in Sydney, Barney Greatrex...
Emerson, the Stoics, and Me: Timeless Wisdom for Living an Authentic
"This is a beautiful book, full of ideas that could help restore America's genius for freedom and promise." -Thomas Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Care of the Soul...
Smokescreen
When Allen Long's attempts to make a documentary on drug smuggling stalled for cash, smuggling seemed the obvious way to raise the necessary funds. Millions of dollars later the film...
Smart Money: How Digital Currencies Will Shape the New World Order
A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An excellent book' VINCE CABLE | 'A must read' JO JOHNSON | 'A fascinating read' BILL DUDLEY A timely manifesto on how...
Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man
Norah Vincent really did date women as a guy named Ned, retreat to a monastery, infiltrate a men's therapy group, get a job in a testosterone-fuelled office and join a...
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx
One of the best works of investigative journalism in years, 'Random Family' tells the story of growing up in the Latino ghettos of the Bronx, a story of drug-dealers, young...
The Bone Woman
In 1996, Clea Koff was a 23-year-old student studying prehistoric skeletons. Then she was sent to Rwanda by the UN to work with a team exhuming victims of the genocide....
John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand
In the first definitive biography of Britain's greatest public intellectual, Richard Reeves reveals John Stuart Mill as a passionate man of action: a philosopher, radical MP and reformer who profoundly...
Women of Bloomsbury: Virginia, Vanessa and Carrington
Three Bloomsbury women: a great writer, a talented painter, and an unsuccessful, reclusive artist. Mary Ann Caws's deeply personal book takes a fresh look at the lives of Virginia Woolf,...
Memoirs
Before his spectacular career as General of the Union forces, William Tecumseh Sherman experienced decades of failure and depression. Drifting between the Old South and new West, Sherman witnessed firsthand...
Masai Days
Between 1980 and 1986 the author accompanied her husband, a newspaper correspondent, on his assignment to Kenya. There she happened to get to know very well two English-speaking Maasai schoolboys,...
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
New York Times Bestseller Featured in the critically acclaimed documentary RBG "It was beyond my wildest imagination that I would one day become the 'Notorious RBG." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...
The 100 Most Influential Women
With the aid of women's studies professors, Deborah G. Felder has ranked social reformers, women's rights activists, scientists, educators, labour leaders, artists, performers and sports figures - women who have...
Desert Sands, Jungle Lands: A biography of Major General Ken Eather
Ken Eather was one of Australia's foremost soldiers. Serving in the pre-WW2 militia he was one of the first officers appointed to the AIF. He led a unit in the...
Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur
' Words for My Comrades ambitiously sets out to transcend the standard pop star biography, carefully knotting the evolution of hip-hop into a sweeping account of 20th-century radical US politics'...
From Palace to Prison: Inside the Iranian Revolution
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In the first half of this book Naraghi, a prominent Iranian sociologist, engagingly recounts his long conversations with the Shah in the weeks before the revolution. Here is the Shah...
In the Shadow of Papillon: Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela's Prison
Following the collapse of his business and the loss of his home, Frank Kane made a catastrophic decision. In desperation, he agreed to smuggle cocaine out of Venezuela. Almost inevitably,...
In Her Own Words: Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada,
Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States Jill Ker Conway, author of one of the most celebrated memoirs of recent decades, is also the premier anthologist...
Holding the Man film tie in
As uplifting as it is moving, Holding the Man is a funny, sad and celebratory account of growing up gay, and a powerful love story. Now a major feature film...
Women's Letters in Wartime, 1450-1945
This is an anthology of women's letters written during times of conflict in Britain from the Wars of the Roses in the 15th century to the end of World War...
Smart Money: How Digital Currencies Will Shape the New World Order
A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An excellent book' VINCE CABLE | 'A must read' JO JOHNSON | 'A fascinating read' BILL DUDLEY A timely manifesto on how...
Smart Money: How Digital Currencies Will Shape the New World Order
A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An excellent book' VINCE CABLE | 'A must read' JO JOHNSON | 'A fascinating read' BILL DUDLEY A timely manifesto on how...
Smart Money: How Digital Currencies Will Shape the New World Order
A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An excellent book' VINCE CABLE | 'A must read' JO JOHNSON | 'A fascinating read' BILL DUDLEY A timely manifesto on how...
The Scholar Gypsy: The Quest for a Family Secret
Anthony Sampson knew his grandfather, John, had been an authority on the gypsies, but very little was told of his private life. Using rhymes, letters, and illustrations, this work follows...
Smart Money: How Digital Currencies Will Shape the New World Order
A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An excellent book' VINCE CABLE | 'A must read' JO JOHNSON | 'A fascinating read' BILL DUDLEY A timely manifesto on how...
Major Corrections: An Intellectual Biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro
Sebastiano Timpanaro (1923-2000) was one of the most original leftist thinkers of the 20th century. His thought spans a unique range of subjects, from materialism to classical philology, from the...
A Marriage of Inconvenience: Persecution of Ruth and Seretse Khama
In 1948, a young white English woman, Ruth Williams, made headline news all over the world. For she had met, fallen in love with and married Seretse Khama, an African...
Catfish and Mandala
Vietnamese-born Andrew Pham finally returns to Saigon, not as a success showering money and gifts onto his family, but as an emotional shipwreck, desperate to find out who he really...
Warlords
In THE WAR LORDS, Field Marshal Lord Carver has assembled an engrossing series of short, detailed biographies of forty-three of the dominant military commanders of the twentieth century century, American,...
Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard - Until Someone Listened
From the author of the phenomenal Sunday Times bestsellers 'One Child' and 'Ghost Girl', comes a startling and poignant memoir of three people's victimisation and abuse - and their heartbreaking...
The Talcott Parsons Reader
Talcott Parsons has been one of the most influential American sociologists of the postwar period. Bryan Turner's selections from Parsons' work provide a comprehensive overview of his principal contributions and...
The Mask Of Command
This book discusses generals: who they are, what they do, and how they do it affects the world in which we live. It argues that generalship is a cultural activity....
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
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This account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia. It contains 19 essays, comprising reportage through personal experience by Croatia's leading...
Working: My Life as a Prostitute
The book titled Working: My Life as a Prostitute by the author Dolores French. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
As It Happened
In this compulsively readable book John Button reflects on the patterns in his life, from growing up in his father's house in Ballarat to his days as a Cabinet Minister...
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
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From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful lives Aristotle was the first...
On Jung
The work of Jung has had an incalculable effect on the development of psychology for scholars, students and the lay person alike. This book provides an introduction to the theories...
Mohammed
Seventh-century Arabia, although fragmented and in many respects primitive, was moving from a nomadic towards a settled economy, despite the restraints of tribal anarchy. The ideology of Islam - calling...
Thanks for the Memory: Unforgettable Characters in Air Warfare,
The book titled Thanks for the Memory: Unforgettable Characters in Air Warfare, by the author Laddie Lucas. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Serowe: Village of the Rainwind
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An examination of Serowe's recent past - seen through the words and memories of the village inhabitants.
Tumbledown: When the Fighting is Over: A Personal Story
This is the story of Robert Lawrence of the Scots Guards who was severely wounded as he led his platoon in an attack against an Argentinian machine-gun position during the...
On Creativity
A series of interviews exploring the process of creativity with the great artists, composers and writers of our time. The interviewees include: Howard Hodgkin, Antony Caro, Elliot Carter, Eve Arnold,...
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides...
Duty: A Father, His Son and the Man Who Won the War
The book titled Duty: A Father, His Son and the Man Who Won the War by the author Bob Greene. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
To Sandakan: The Diaries of Charlie Johnstone, Prisoner of War 1942-45
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Today little evidence remains of the prisoners of war who once so desperately clung to life at the 8 Mile Camp at Sandakan in North Borneo. To Sandakan is Charlie...