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Bye-Bye Charlie: Stories from the Vanishing World of Kew Cottages
Kew Cottages has long been an iconic symbol for many Australians. Opened in 1887 by the Victorian Government, it was Australia's first and largest specialised institution for people with intellectual...
Imperial Japanese Navy Aces 1937-45
The outcome of the Pacific War was heavily influenced by the results of naval battles between the Imperial Japanese fleet and the US Navy. One of the key elements was...
The Houses of Guinness: The Lives, Homes and Fortunes of the Great
An elegant social and architectural history of the Guinness family. In winter 2025/26, the new Netflix epic 'House of Guinness', a saga of Europe's most enduring dynasties, will sweep into...
The Men Who Killed Qantas
This book is the account of the Qantas story that every airline passenger needs to read: the full and frank history of Australia's national airline - updated with two new...
Seven Flowers: And How They Shaped Our World
The lotus, lily, sunflower, opium poppy, rose, tulip and orchid. Seven flowers: seven stories full of surprise and secrets. Where and when did these flowers originate? What is the nature...
A Year at the Chateau: As seen on the hit Channel 4 show
THE ENTERTAINING AND HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in...
Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibres Became the Backbone of
A unique and compelling adventure through the history of rope and its impact on civilization, in the vein of single-subject bestsellers like Salt and Cod. Tim Queeney is a sailor...
Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibres Became the Backbone of
A unique and compelling adventure through the history of rope and its impact on civilization, in the vein of single-subject bestsellers like Salt and Cod. Tim Queeney is a sailor...
The Man Who Sold Honours: The First Modern Cash for Honours Scandal
Paying for a peerage - an illegal practice - feels like a very modern form of corruption, one that both the Labour and Conservative parties have been happy to indulge...
Burning Rubber: The Extraordinary Story of Formula One
In Burning Rubber, Charles Jennings tells the fast and furious tale of motor sport's premier competition, from its earliest roots in the suicidal road races of the Edwardian age to...
Tollund Man: Gift to the Gods
On May 6, 1950, Viggo and Emil Hojgaard from the small village of Tollund were cutting mud to find peat for their stove in the Bjaeldskovdal peat bog, 12km west...
The Little History of the Teddy Bear
If you go down to the woods today...On 14 November 1902, the 52nd President of the USA Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a captive bear on a hunting trip. Newspaper...
Fac - Reshaping Australia's Aviation Landscape
The book titled Fac - Reshaping Australia's Aviation Landscape by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Japanese Army Air Force Aces 1937-45
Little has been published in English on the Japanese Army Air Force (JAAF), let alone its most successful fighter pilots no less than 150 of them achieved ace status during...
Spitfire on Fairway: And Other Unexpected Hazards of Golf in Wartime
"Golf in Wartime" is illustrated from the author's own photographic collection with rare period images of golf during various wars around the world, throughout the whole of the 20th century.
Perfecting Sound Forever: The Story Of Recorded Music
From our CD collections to iPods bursting with MP3s to the hallowed vinyl of DJs, recordings are the most common way we experience music. Perfecting Sound Forever tells the story...
Divine Discontent: The Brotherhood of St Laurence, a History
A comprehensive history of the Brotherhood of St Laurence since its foundation in 1930. Provides rich detail of the Brotherhood's almost continuous history of contributions to employment, poverty and housing.
Bernt Balchen: Polar Aviator
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Glines provides a full and compelling portrait of a Norwegian American pilot overshadowed in his lifetime by Admiral Richard Byrd but whose expertise and vision continue to guide trans-Artic a...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the
'Witty and geekily eclectic' The Times An erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times 'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable . . . engrossing' Sunday Times 'A pleasure' Spectator...
Clash of Eagles
A commemoration to all the airmen who served in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) from 1914 until the end of the Vietnam War. Included are letters from airmen to...
Dad's Army: The Story of a Very British Comedy
The story of the greatest British sit-com and its enduring appeal. When we laugh at Dad's Army we laugh at ourselves, and nearly fifty years after it was first broadcast,...
Doolittle: Aerospace Visionary
Lt. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle was both a daring military pilot and an aeronautical pioneer. Daso examines Doolittle's innovations in both the civilian and military fields of aviation and also provides...
Dark Eagles: The History of Top Secret U.S.Aircraft
In this book Curtis Peebles tells the story of the ''Dark Eagles''. These were planes which were developed, tested and operated in deepest secrecy and pushed aviation technology to its...
The Battle Of Britain: The Fight for Survival in 1940
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Clear blue skies laced white with vapour trails of fighting aircraft... petrol-filled beer bottles in the garden shed to repel the panzers... streets deserted when the Prime Minister was on...
Speed: How it Explains the World
Prepare to view the world through a new lens - SPEED - a groundbreaking exploration that challenges your perceptions of life's driving force, from the internationally bestselling author Explore how...
The House: Its Origins and Evolution
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An overview of the development of house and home, from its beginnings in the caves of early man through the variety of structures that have evolved, influenced by climate and...
It's Not Cricket: Skullduggery, Sharp Practice and Downright Cheating
An eye-opening survey of cricket, from the crowd violence and blatant match-rigging of the eighteenth century, down to the twentieth century's glaring abuses of the spirit of the game. Written...
Start of Play: Cricket and Culture in 18th-century England
John Nyren's famous account of the matches of the Hambledon club on Broadhalfpenny Down in the 1770s has passed into cricketing legend, establishing an ideal version of Hambledon at the...
The Golden Bough
Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) caught the popular imagination with his vast and enterprising comparative study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, which in its third edition numbered 12...
A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
China Mieville's brilliant reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document: The Communist Manifesto . 'It's thrilling to accompany Mieville... as he wrestles - in critical good...
Moments in Time Titanic
The book titled Moments in Time Titanic by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders
In this groundbreaking new book from the UK's leading criminologist, David Wilson explores what our nation's most lethal murderers reveal about us in a thrilling blend of history and true...
Gaza Faces History
Is the destruction of Gaza only a consequence of the October 7, 2023 attack, or is it also the outcome of a long process of dispossession and eradication? Do Palestinians...
History of English Churches in 100 Objects
Published in collaboration with the National Churches Trust, this fascinating book is a sumptuous and authoritative photographic history of churches in England, as told through the objects inside them. Arranged...
Robert Barton: A Remarkable Revolutionary
The first biography of the enigmatic Robert Barton, a central figure in the Irish Revolution. The enigmatic Robert Barton was a central figure in Irish Revolution. From an Anglo-Irish ascendancy...
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth
In this radical re-evaluation of American history, Saidiya Hartman uses her singular talents to create a striking portrait of nineteenth century slavery and its many afterlives. By turning critical attention...
Tent Show: Arthur Names and His ""Famous"" Players
Before movie screens filled the country and television screens filled our homes, entertainment had to travel to the people. The traveling tent show was a popular form of melodrama and...
Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western
Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from space - to see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god Apollo - images of...
Flying Down to Rio: Hollywood, Tourists, and Yankee Clippers
In this book, author Rosalie Schwartz uses the 1933 RKO-Radio Pictures production Flying Down to Rio to examine the interplay of technology and popular culture that shaped a distinctive twentieth-century...
Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America
Born in Blood investigates one of history's most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world over consider violence in the United States as measurably different than that...
The Shield and the Spear: The Kimberley Land Council
** Shortlisted for WA Premier's Prize for Book of the Year 2023 ** '... you need an organisation like the KLC to be your shield and spear, to be able...
The Routes of English
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The book titled The Routes of English by the author Simon Elmes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The "Times" Picture Collection: Explorers
From Scott's ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic, through successive attempts on Everest from Shipton in the 1930s through to Hillary's successful climb in 1953, and on through the conquest of...
The Team That Wouldn't Die: Story of the Busby Babes
The 6 February 1998 marks the 40th anniversary of the Munich air disaster. Twenty three people died as the plane carrying Manchester United home from a Euopean Cup tie crashed...
These Divided Isles: Britain and Ireland, Past and Future
A vital history from the award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition. These Divided Isles tells the story from both sides...
The Fossil Revolution: The Finds That Changed Our View of the Past
"Petrified Life" tells the stories of the fossil discoveries that unlocked the secrets of the past. Told in the order of discovery, the stories take you on an archaeological journey....
Turning to Stone
'Vast and arresting' SPECTATOR 'A remarkably human take on the geological world' NEW STATESMAN Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is...