Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew lives in twentieth-century music were as dramatically bifurcated as that of Kurt Weill — a German-Jewish composer who rose to international fame in...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn 1969, a 29-year-old British merchant navy officer named Robin Knox-Johnston sailed into history, becoming the first person to complete a solo, non-stop circumnavigation...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedPatrick Campbell — Ireland's most beloved humorist and one of television's most charmingly hesitant personalities — brings his signature wit and warmth to Fat...

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Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most harrowing memoirs to emerge from the Soviet era, A Childhood in Prison recounts...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsMolly Parkin — fashion editor, painter, broadcaster, and one of Britain's most flamboyantly unconventional personalities — turns her...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFreedom has always come at a price, and Thirty Who Were Tried: or Eternal Vigilance by Leslie Hale presents a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: di - price clipped. Few figures witnessed the turbulent birth of Soviet Russia from as intimate...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the Victorian intellectual tradition loom as large — or remain as richly debated — as Thomas Babington Macaulay, the statesman, essayist,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedBehind every great city lies a story of the voices that shaped it — and Informed Sources: A History of the Melbourne Press Club...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA life spent in pursuit of beauty across continents, centuries, and art forms finds its most eloquent expression in For Want of the Golden City,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn one of the most catastrophic and controversial campaigns of the First World War, Allied forces were hurled against the rocky shores of the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerLong before the great waves of postwar immigration reshaped the Australian continent, German-speaking pioneers were quietly carving their names into the young...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodOn October 14, 1947, a young West Virginia farm boy strapped himself into an experimental rocket plane and shattered the sound barrier, forever changing the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn one of the most shocking episodes of Cold War America, a nation turned on its own genius — and The Oppenheimer Case: Security...

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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures loom as large in the annals of early Australian maritime history as Captain James Kelly, the daring Hobart Town seaman...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadow of imperial Russia, where absolute power and aristocratic rebellion collided with explosive consequences, Nathan Eidelman's Conspiracy Against the Tsar chronicles one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersWhat if the story of Jesus of Nazareth was not...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the earliest days of colonial settlement to the turbulent mid-twentieth century, The Quest for Security in New Zealand: 1840...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn one of the most powerful memoirs to emerge from behind the Iron Curtain, Vladimir Bukovsky chronicles his remarkable life as a Soviet dissident...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the dramatic elopement, the passionate verse, and the towering reputation of Victorian poetry's most restless genius lies a far more complex human story...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the barbed wire of Stalin's brutal labour camp system, one man refused to surrender his mind — and what he wrote there changed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind the towering ideology that reshaped the modern world stood a man of startling contradictions — a visionary plagued by...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markAt the turbulent crossroads of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a radical reimagining of art, literature, and human expression erupted across Europe and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the glittering curtain of Broadway's golden age lies a story of genius, collaboration, and the relentless pursuit of perfection — and Alan Jay...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the glittering decades when Hollywood reigned supreme as the dream factory of the world, no studio shone more brilliantly than Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the intersection of labour movement history and the rise of a democratic press, Printers and Politics: A History of the Australian...