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Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" ( New York Times Book Review ) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom...
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of
In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant...
Prisoners Of War
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew experiences in warfare are as harrowing and profoundly human as captivity — and Prisoners of War brings those experiences into vivid, unflinching focus. This...
Boom And Depression 1860-1893: Agriculture, Mining, Industry And Town Life
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA sweeping chronicle of one of Australia's most transformative eras, Boom and Depression 1860-1893 transports readers into the raw, restless energy of a young nation grappling...
Mad Magazine: No. 151, June 1972
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Price sticker on front cover. Few publications in American cultural history have wielded satire as sharply or...
Statue Of Liberty: Keeper Of Dreams
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStanding at the threshold of the New World, arms raised and torch blazing, the Statue of Liberty has...
Federation And The Early Commonwealth
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the dawn of a new nation, the story of Australia's Federation and the birth of the Commonwealth stands as one of the most pivotal chapters...
Between War And Depression
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the turbulent interwar years — a period sandwiched between the catastrophe of World War One and the crushing despair of the Great Depression — Australia...
Australia In The Nineteen Twenties: Commentary And Documents
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA vivid portrait of a nation at a crossroads, Australia in the Nineteen Twenties: Commentary and Documents chronicles...
The Depression Decade In Australia
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadow of global economic collapse, Australia found itself gripped by an era of unprecedented hardship —...
Depressions: 1890S, 1930S: A Social History
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen economic collapse swept through Australia in the 1890s and again in the 1930s, it was not merely...
New York's Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the
The gritty, true blue story of two remarkable cops and an equally extraordinary nurse who provided the spirit and smarts that transformed Fear City into the safest big city in...
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in
Doris Kearns Goodwin's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and...
Lonesome Traveler
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA restless soul haunted by the open road, Jack Kerouac chronicles his wandering life across America, Mexico, Morocco,...
Oranges
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat begins as a deceptively simple inquiry into a single piece of fruit becomes one of the most...
The Committee: The Extraordinary Career Of The House Committee On Un-American Activities
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, few institutions wielded more fear-inducing power in American public life than...
The Closing Of The American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy And Impoverished The Souls Of Today's Students
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA thunderclap in the world of American intellectual life upon its release in 1987, The Closing of the American Mind presents a searing indictment...
Patton Uncovered
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew military commanders have captured the American imagination quite like General George S. Patton — a warrior of...
Henry James Letters: Volume I, 1843–1875
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew windows into a literary genius are as intimate or as revealing as a collection of personal correspondence, and Henry James Letters:...
King O'Malley: 'The American Bounder'
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: minor stain on book block. Few figures in Australian political history are as colourful, contradictory, and captivating as King O'Malley...
Goldfields Reminiscences: Castlemaine's Golden Era
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the sun-scorched hills of Victoria's goldfields, a community was forged in sweat, ambition, and the glittering promise...
San Diego County Place-Names: Yesterday's People ... Today's Geography
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat's in a name? In San Diego County, the answer is an entire tapestry of human...
12 Great American Novels
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it take to make a novel truly great? In 12 Great American Novels, distinguished...
The Girl from Donegal
'An atmospheric story, sweeping across 80 years' Sunday Independent Donegal, Ireland, 1939 As the world teeters on the brink of WWII, Eliza Lavery is alone in the world after her...
Hiding Mengele: How a Nazi Network Harbored the Angel of Death
Read the international sensation already translated into 10 languages! Unearthing the network that hid the 'Angel of Death', the infamous Nazi doctor who escaped justice for more than three decades....
Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt
In 1903, a renowned naturalist joined the President of the United States for a two-week camping trip to Yosemite. John Burroughs offers delightful reminiscences of Theodore Roosevelt and their shared...
The Illustrated War News 81-84; 86-90
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Good for age, vol 85 missing - tears; spine splitting, a few rusted staples. February 23, 1916...
Sister Carrie
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the twentieth century, a young woman steps off a train in Chicago with little...
Agrarian Socialism: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation In Saskatchewan. A Study In Political Sociology.
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the windswept prairies of Saskatchewan, a political revolution quietly took root — one that would reshape the...
The Eureka Stockade
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the summer of 1854, on the goldfields of Ballarat, a band of miners raised the...
The Executioner's Song
$35.00 AUD
Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the desolate flatlands of the American...
Inside The Green Berets: The First Thirty Years: A History Of The U.S. Army Special Forces
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the jungles of Southeast Asia to the frozen mountain passes of Afghanistan, the U.S. Army Special Forces — better...
Pioneer Merchant: The Letters Of James Graham 1839-54
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the raw and restless years of colonial Australia, one man's correspondence offers an intimate and vivid window into a...
Threshold Of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt And American Entry Into World War Ii
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the pivot point of the twentieth century, one man's decisions would alter the course of history forever — Threshold of War by Waldo Heinrichs...
Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis (SIGNED)
$65.00 AUD
Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedWhen the King of Rock 'n' Roll died on August 16, 1977, the world mourned — but none felt the loss more...
In The Field: The Language Of The Vietnam War
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodTo understand a war, one must first understand its language — and no conflict in modern American history generated a...
Inside The Company: Cia Diary
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew accounts of intelligence work carry the explosive credibility of a confession written from the inside — and...
Corporate Power In America
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a time when boardrooms wielded more power than ballot boxes, Corporate Power in America stands as a...
The Exploding Metropolis
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a moment when American cities were straining under the pressures of rapid postwar growth, suburban flight, and...
The Affluent Society
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst published in 1958, John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society stands as one of the most provocative and...
The Living And The Dead: A Study Of The Symbolic Life Of Americans
$60.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the intersection of ritual, myth, and everyday life stands W. Lloyd Warner's landmark study, The Living and...
The Death Of A President: November, 1963
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the four days that shook the world — November 20–25, 1963 — America witnessed the assassination of...
An Introduction To 50 American Novels
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor any reader seeking to navigate the vast and storied landscape of American literature, Ian Ousby's An Introduction...
Russia And America: Dangers And Prospects
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, when the fate of the world balanced on a...
Life On The Mississippi
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew rivers have shaped a nation's identity as profoundly as the Mississippi, and no writer understood...
The Last Hero: Charles A. Lindbergh
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an age when aviation was synonymous with daring and death, one man rose above the...
Remember Pearl Harbor!: Revised Edition
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn the morning of December 7, 1941, the United States was forever changed when Japanese forces launched a...
The Life Of Abraham Lincoln
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in American history have captured the imagination of the world quite like Abraham Lincoln, and Stefan...