Biography

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFor readers who hunger for remarkable lives told with depth and clarity, Today's Best Biographies presents a curated collection of the most compelling biographical...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerTriumph in the West 1943–1946 stands as one of the most intimate and authoritative chronicles of...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the turbulent crucible of the mid-1930s, America stood at a crossroads...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: sound copy for age; frontispiece loose; map at rear...

Edition: bceCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat does it truly mean to live a fulfilling life? One Man's Happiness by Lord Tweedsmuir — son of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerA century of dreams, discipline, and distinction unfolds in this landmark institutional history, chronicling the remarkable journey of Methodist Ladies' College in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew institutions embody the spirit of English intellectual life quite like Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Patrick Bury's meticulous chronicle brings its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the turbulent decades following the First World War, few figures navigated the shifting tectonic plates of global politics with...

Edition: one of a thousand certified copiesCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Signed,Previous ownerIn the sun-scorched goldfields of Victoria's Mount Alexander district, a generation of extraordinary men and women carved...

Edition: 3rd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedOne of the most provocative and enduring questions in human history — who was Jesus of Nazareth? — receives a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the 1990s, a team of scientists made one of the most staggering discoveries in...

Edition: later repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew works have shaped the understanding of English life across the centuries as profoundly as English Social History,...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedWhen the University of Melbourne opened its doors in 1853, it stood as a bold colonial experiment — a institution...

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: SignedIn the vast pastoral landscapes of nineteenth-century Victoria, one family's story becomes a vivid chronicle of colonial life, ambition,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in the colonial history of Australia and New Zealand provoke as much fascination — and controversy — as...

Edition: 16th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerWhat happens when a hapless, pleasure-seeking young man stumbles into the brutally competitive world of 1950s British medical...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the vast, sun-scorched silence of the Australian outback, one man dared to bring hope, healing, and human...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodThe definitive reference work on Australian visual art, The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art stands as the most comprehensive and authoritative compendium of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark survey of Australian artistic achievement, Modern Painters 1931-1970 chronicles four decades of creative evolution that transformed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBefore the guns of August shattered the old world forever, Australia's privileged elite basked in a golden age of wealth, leisure, and breathtaking inequality...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA century of childhood, mischief, and community unfolds in Larrikin Days: 100 Years of Growing Up in an Australian Suburb, a richly nostalgic chronicle of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThroughout the centuries, women of extraordinary courage, intellect, and vision have shaped the course of history...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt the crossroads of cultural identity and artistic ambition, Modern Australian Painting, 1975/1980 presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of the most devastating conflict in human history stood the men and women whose decisions, courage, and infamy shaped the course...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in Australian cultural history provoke as much fascination, controversy, and sheer creative wonder as Norman Lindsay...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the smoke-choked battlefields of antiquity to the mechanised carnage of the twentieth century, Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle presents a sweeping and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew artists have captured the soul of a continent with the raw, mythic intensity of Sir Sidney Nolan, and Sidney Nolan-Australia stands as a definitive...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFew artists have captured the spiritual heartbeat of Australia's First Nations people with the breathtaking reverence of Ainslie Roberts, and this volume stands as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: dj - small tear repaired with tape. Few outlaws in the annals of history have captured the imagination of a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the daring pioneers who first coaxed fragile biplanes into the vast Australian skies to the decorated wartime aviators who shaped the course of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the vast, unforgiving expanse of the North African desert, a brilliant British commander achieved what many thought impossible — a decisive, crushing victory...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodAt the intersection of literature and history stands Memoirs From Beyond the Tomb, the monumental autobiography of François-René de Chateaubriand — statesman, diplomat, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodPerched on a hill in the heart of Melbourne, Strathcona Baptist Girls' Grammar School stands as a testament to over six decades of educational...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBefore the guns of August shattered the old world forever, Australia's privileged elite lived in a gilded age of opulence, leisure, and breathtaking social...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the bustling, gritty world of Melbourne's waterfront, generations of waterside workers endured...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; minor stain on the book blockAt a time when the Australian art world was largely...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedFew artists have abandoned the comfort of bourgeois civilization so dramatically — or so defiantly — as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageDarwin, Australia's most remote and resilient capital city, has always attracted a unique breed of individual — and...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore the age of commercial flight, before the world had mapped the limits of human daring, men...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an age of unparalleled artistic ambition, two titans rose above all others — and Leonardo, Michelangelo and...

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the edge of the British Isles, where the North Sea meets the Atlantic, lies Lerwick — a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodGreat Artists: A Treasury of Paintings by the Masters is a magnificent compendium that transports the reader through centuries of artistic genius, presenting an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the raw brushstrokes of colonial settlement to the bold experimentation of the mid-twentieth century, Australian Painters: Colonial 1788–1880; Impressionists 1881–1930; Modern...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodA landmark publication from one of Australia's most prestigious cultural institutions, 25 International Artists Who Have Made an Impact...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: pages can have minimal notes and/or underlining in grey leadOne of the most radical and transformative movements in the history...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary figures have embodied the spirit of an age quite so completely as Rudyard Kipling — poet, storyteller, and the youngest-ever Nobel Laureate...