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Lies of Silence
The book titled Lies of Silence by the author Brian Moore. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.
China: The New Long March
A superbly illustrated and lavishly designed collector's treasure, charting an epic triumph against the odds without parallel in modern history, China's legendary Long March. History is marked by great moments...
The Importance of Being Edward: King in Waiting, 1841-1901
Biographer of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Stanley Wientraub employs previously little-used or unknown diaries, letters, memoirs and reportage from both sides of the Atlantic to throw fresh light...
A Year in the Life of Windsor and Eton
The Royal Borough of Windsor is home to two of the UK's Top 20 Visitor Attractions (Windsor Castle and Legoland) but also boasts Eton College, The Changing of the Guard,...
The Transplanted Gardener
A collection of insightful and witty essays about the history, practices and eccentricities of British gardening by American gardener and author Charles Elliott. The diverse subjects include Frank Kingdon-Ward's search...
To Know a Woman
A collection of essays on various topics related to Israel - the PLO, Jewish terrorists, Israel's offensive into Lebanon and ethnic tensions within his nation. The author explores Jewish attitudes...
Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk
Red Silk is a history of China's Yangzi Delta silk industry during the wars, crises, and revolutions of the mid-twentieth century. Based on extensive research in Chinese archives and focused...
A Woman of No Character
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The book titled A Woman of No Character by the author Fidelis Morgan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.
Prague
This illustrated guide to the 1000-year-old city of Prague covers its history, cultural heritage, architecture, literature, art, folk traditions and people. Despite a turbulent history of invasions and rebellions, conquests...
Creative Strategies: Idea Management for Marketing, Advertising, Media
Ideas are an endlessly renewable resource, but they need careful nurturing in order to reach their full potential. But with the right approach to creativity, any ad agency or marketing...
A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our
We live in an age of awesome technological potential. From nanotechnology to synthetic organisms, new technologies stand to revolutionize whole domains of human experience. But with awesome potential comes awesome...
Ha!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why
humour, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there a way to figure out what we really find funny,and why?In this...
The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence
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And yet when independence came on the stroke of midnight of August 14, 1947, events unfolded with a violence that shocked the world: entire trainloads of Muslim and Hindu refugees...
Motherkind
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MotherKind explores the spiritual education at the heart of the most fundamental transition: the child who grows to nurture his or her parent. Kate, whose care for her terminally ill...
Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created - from Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield - was also the father of ten children (and a...
The Brooklyn Bartender: A Modern Guide to Cocktails and Spirits
Brooklyn is one of the top trendsetting places today anywhere. Its neighbourhoods, artists, writers, restaurants, and, yes, drinking establishments set the pace for the rest of the nation. THE BROOKLYN...
Blue and White China
The book titled Blue and White China by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.
Poisoned Legacy: The Human Cost of BP's Rise to Power
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing eleven workers and creating the largest oil spill in the history of U.S. offshore drilling, a spill that has...
Fish, Blood and Bone
Fish, Blood and Bone is Leslie Forbes' brilliant second novel. When Claire Fleetwood, a young American forensic photographer, inherits a large house and garden in London's East End from relatives...
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
The book titled Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie by the author Rita Hunter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.
Heroes
John Pilger has been in the rare position of having witnessed many of the major world upheavals of the past twenty years. More important, he has demonstrated his skill at...
The Insect That Stole Butter?
Combining both accessibility and authority, The Insect That Stole Butter? describes the origins and development of over 3,000 words and phrases in the English language. The book draws on Oxford's...
The Oxford Book of Comic Verse
From Geoffrey Chaucer to G.K. Chesterton and Augustan Satire to advertising jingles, John Updike to Vikram Seth and Victoria Wood, comic verse has, in its many forms, kept us amused...
The Crocodile Bird
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The book titled The Crocodile Bird by the author Ruth Rendell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.
Paul Scott: A Life
Shortly before his death in 1978, Paul Scott won the Booker Prize for Fiction. In this biography, the author explores Scott's family background in North London, his war years in...
The Book Of British Song: With Piano-Forte Accompaniments, And Biographical And Historical Notes (Two-Volume Set)
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Author: George Hogarth, Esq.Binding: HardbackPublished: James S. Virtue, 1111Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Rebound copy. Brittle pages. Vol I - some...
The Master Mariner (Two-Volume Set)
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Author: Nicholas MonsarratBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis nautical duology presents a sweeping work of historical fiction, charting the life of Matthew Lawe as he...
The Life & Letters Of Gavin Hamilton: Artist & Art Dealer In Eighteenth-Century Rome (Two-Volume Set)
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Author: Brendan CassidyBinding: HardbackPublished: HARVEY MILLER PUBLISHERS, 2011Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly biography The Life & Letters Of Gavin Hamilton: Artist & Art Dealer In Eighteenth-Century...
The History Of Naval Great Britain (Two-Volume Set)
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Author: Edward Pelham BrentonBinding: HardbackPublished: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, 1837Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Rebound - Rare -...
Modern Masterpieces Of British Art: Two Hundred Full Colour Reproductions Of Paintings Selected From Public Galleries In Great Britain And Ireland With Critical Notes And Indexes To Painters & Pictures
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Author: -Binding: HardbackPublished: The Amalgamated Press Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Rebound copy. This lavish volume presents a comprehensive survey of...
The Cult Of The Prince Consort
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Author: Elisabeth Darby; Nicola SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Cult Of The Prince Consort presents a compelling historical analysis of Prince Albert's...
Valiant Occasions
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Author: J. E. MacdonnellBinding: HardbackPublished: Constable, 1952Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Rectangular cuts on prelims. Valiant Occasions chronicles a series...
Atlantic Highway
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Author: Warren ArmstrongBinding: HardbackPublished: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1961Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerWarren Armstrong's Atlantic Highway chronicles a captivating...
1915: A Novel
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Author: Roger McdonaldBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Queensland Press, 1979Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThis powerful historical novel transports readers to the harrowing battlefields of World...
The Everlastin' Ballads: Ballads Of Empire
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Author: Harold HansellBinding: HardbackPublished: The C. J. DeGARIS PUBLISHING HOUSE, 1111Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Binding shaky. This compelling collection...
Nightmares & Sunhorses
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Author: J.S. ManifoldBinding: HardbackPublished: Edwards & Shaw for Overland, 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerManifold’s early collection established him as a major Australian poet, presenting verse...
Who Sank The Sydney?
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Author: Michael MontgomeryBinding: HardbackPublished: CASSELL AUSTRALIA, 1981Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling historical account investigates one of World War II's most enduring naval...
The Ben Line: The History Of Wm. Thomson & Co. Of Leith And Edinburgh, And Of The Ships Owned And Managed By Them. 1825-1955
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Author: George BlakeBinding: HardbackPublished: THOMAS NELSON AND SONS LTD, 1956Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis comprehensive historical account, The Ben Line: The History Of Wm. Thomson...
A Book Of Famous Ships
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Author: C. Fox SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: METHUEN & CO. LTD., 1924Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerA captivating work of maritime history, A Book Of Famous Ships chronicles...
Sea-Toll Of Our Time: A Chronicle Of Maritime Disaster During The Last Thirty Years Drawn From Authentic Sources
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Author: R. L. HadfieldBinding: HardbackPublished: PHILIP ALLAN & CO. LTD., 1935Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerSea-Toll Of Our Time presents a compelling...
A Navy For Australia
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Author: Alun EvansBinding: HardbackPublished: ABC, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis modern naval history presents a direct argument for the strategic, political and economic necessity of a capable...
Smoke On The Horizon: Mediterranean Fighting 1914-1918
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Author: Vice-Admiral C. V. UsborneBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1933Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis collection, Smoke On The Horizon, presents...
Yarns Of The Pentland Firth: Huna Inn Album Poems And The Poet Of The Pentland Firth By David Grant; Also The Pilot Of The Pentland Frith By William Leith Bremner
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Author: David Grant And William Leith BremnerBinding: HardbackPublished: William Smith & Sons, The Bon-Accord Press; Peter Reid & Co., Ltd., John O'Great Journal Office, 1933Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket -...
Orient-Pacific Line Guide: Chapters For Travellers By Sea And By Land.
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Author: W. J. LoftieBinding: HardbackPublished: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY, Ltd., 1900Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Cracked....
Commodore: War, Peace And Big Ships
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Author: Sir James Bisset; In Collaboration With P. R. StephensenBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus and Robertson, 1961Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks:...
Out Of The Smoke: The Story Of A Sail
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Author: Ray ParkinBinding: HardbackPublished: The Hogarth Press, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsOut Of The Smoke chronicles Ray Parkin's...
The Immortal Gamble: And The Part Played In It By H.M.S. "Cornwallis"
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Author: A. T. Stewart And The Rev. C. J. E. Peshall, B.A.Binding: HardbackPublished: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1917Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and...