Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodHe was a scholar, a soldier, a strategist, and an enigma — T.E. Lawrence, better known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia, remains one...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind every age of empire lurks a figure too wild, too reckless, and too combustible to be contained by its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the aftermath of World War II, the chess world stood at a crossroads — and in 1948, the greatest players on the planet gathered in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFor a century, the Naval and Military Club of Melbourne has stood as one of Australia's most distinguished institutions, a bastion of tradition, camaraderie,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1942, one man was handed a mission so secret and so improbable that its success would alter the entire trajectory...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the thunderous arrival of European settlers on uncharted shores to the complex political machinery of the modern superpower, Hugh...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent crossroads of Cold War geopolitics and postcolonial Southeast Asia, Prince Norodom Sihanouk presents...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA century and a half of faith, community, and identity unfolds in A Standard for the People, a...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodOne of history's most celebrated intellects turns his formidable pen upon himself in Memoirs of My Life, the unfinished autobiography of Edward Gibbon, the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the sweltering summer of 1972, a remote Icelandic city became the unlikely epicentre of a Cold War clash that transcended the 64 squares of a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: light stain on the dj. At the dawn of Australia's European settlement, a young naval lieutenant named Philip Gidley King sailed into...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodAt the height of Britain's imperial zenith, the decade spanning Queen Victoria's Golden and Diamond Jubilees — 1887 to 1897 — stands as one...

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Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP4098 Twenty-two books of biography, autobiography and memoir — from Paul Hogan and Yehudi Menuhin to Vinnie Jones, Chris Patten and Hunter S....

Secondhand Religious Philosophy Bargain Book Box SP4093 An extraordinary collection of academic theology and religious philosophy, centred heavily on Don Cupitt — the Cambridge philosopher-priest who spent decades dismantling traditional...

Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4079 A wonderfully broad box of non-fiction — popular science, sharp cultural writing, business, nature, humour and self-help all represented. Hawking on cosmology, Bryson on...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn an era defined by industry, empire, and radical transformation, Victorian Visionaries illuminates the extraordinary minds who dared to imagine a different...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore the might of the British Empire swept across the Australian continent, there were...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the heart of one of history's most formidable reigns stands a woman of startling contradictions — a young girl who ascended the throne at eighteen...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedThe Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911–1917 presents a electrifying portrait of one of the twentieth century's most formidable literary minds at the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBetween 1890 and 1970, seventeen men and women made the long journey to Australia from the far corners of the world — Austria, China, England,...

Edition: First Edition Thus.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedBehind every Nobel Prize lies a story of obsession, sacrifice, and the relentless pursuit of human understanding...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to be Australian? Going It Alone: Australia's National Identity in the Twentieth Century confronts this...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Advanced Reading Copy.From the rubble of World War II to the fractured politics of the twenty-first century, Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 chronicles seven...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of Britain's socialist movement, a remarkable circle of intellectuals gathered to reshape the destiny of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Advanced Reading Copy.Britain in the early 1960s stands at a crossroads — a nation shedding its imperial skin, wrestling with modernity, and...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark intervention in the discourse of race and gender, Ain't...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most celebrated airmen of the Second World War, Wing Commander Guy Gibson...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the convict ships of early colonial Australia to the heights of financial and social power, the extraordinary life of Samuel Terry...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the intersection of gender, education, and Australian social history stands a compelling institutional chronicle — Feminine Singular: a history...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the legendary Australian author of My Brilliant Career lies a decade of American life largely hidden from public view — Verna Coleman's Miles...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Minor tear on dj. Behind the closed doors of Australia's most secretive intelligence agency, a hidden war was being...

Edition: Leatherbound special EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew figures in Australian history command as much admiration and complexity as Sir John Monash...