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The Cease Of Majesty: A Study Of Shakespeare's History Plays

The Cease Of Majesty: A Study Of Shakespeare's History Plays

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Author: M. M. ReeseBinding: HardbackPublished: Edward Arnold, 1961Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight Discolouration to the dust jacketThis scholarly work offers a comprehensive analysis of William Shakespeare's history...
Tapestries: A Collection Of Family Histories From Presbyterian Ladies' College

Tapestries: A Collection Of Family Histories From Presbyterian Ladies' College

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Author: Presbyterian Ladies' College.Binding: HardbackPublished: Ashwood House, Surrey Hills, Vic, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Number 116The book compiles family histories, offering a rich tapestry of...
Cut Lunch Commando

Cut Lunch Commando

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Author: Vere MoonBinding: SoftbackPublished: Vere Moon, 2011Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book was written by Vere Moon and tells of her wartime experiences in WWII.
Rubens' Self-Portrait: In Focus

Rubens' Self-Portrait: In Focus

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Author: David JafféBinding: SoftbackPublished: Australian National Gallery, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book offers an in-depth examination of Rubens's self-portrait. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the...
My Story: 50 Memories From Fifty Years Of Service

My Story: 50 Memories From Fifty Years Of Service

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Author: Mohammed Bin Rashid Al MaktoumBinding: HardbackPublished: Explorer Publishing & Distribution, 2019Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor stain on prelims. Clean text. This book...
The Spy Who Disappeared: Diary Of A Secret Mission To Russian Central Asia In 1918

The Spy Who Disappeared: Diary Of A Secret Mission To Russian Central Asia In 1918

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Author: Reginald Teague-JonesBinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz, 1990Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cloth in good condition. DJ repaired with tape. This book presents a firsthand account of...
So Ends This Day: An Autobiography

So Ends This Day: An Autobiography

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Author: Captain Sir John WilliamsBinding: HardbackPublished: Globe Press Melbourne, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Light stains on page edges. Clean text. This autobiography chronicles...
In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography Of Isaac Asimov, 1954-1978

In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography Of Isaac Asimov, 1954-1978

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Author: Isaac AsimovBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn DJ with surface wear. Foxing on page edges. Clean text. This volume presents...
Scientific Temperaments: Three Lives In Contemporary Science

Scientific Temperaments: Three Lives In Contemporary Science

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Author: Philip J. HiltsBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon & Schuster, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book presents an examination of three prominent figures within modern scientific discourse....
Russell Drysdale: A Biographical And Critical Study

Russell Drysdale: A Biographical And Critical Study

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Author: Geoffrey DuttonBinding: SoftbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis volume presents a comprehensive biographical and critical examination of Russell Drysdale's life and artistic contributions....
Secret Service Chief

Secret Service Chief

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Author: U.E. Baughman With Leonard Wallace RobinsonBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann, 1963Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded cloth. Worn Dj with surface wear. Clean text. This book...
The Arms Of Time: A Memoir

The Arms Of Time: A Memoir

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Author: Rupert Hart-DavisBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, London, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book presents a personal account of the author's life experiences. It offers insights into the...
My Dear Great Great Grandfather James Mellor (SIGNED)

My Dear Great Great Grandfather James Mellor (SIGNED)

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Author: Alfred B. MellorBinding: SoftbackPublished: Armadale, Vic. : A.B. Mellor and M.A. Mellor, 1993Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Minor marks and specks on cover. Gifter's inscription on...
The Phantom Major

The Phantom Major

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Author: Virginia CowlesBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1968Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: FEP missingMarkings: No markingsThe book recounts the compelling story of David Stirling, the founder of the Special Air Service (SAS)...
Martin Buber's Life And Work (Three-Volume Set)

Martin Buber's Life And Work (Three-Volume Set)

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Author: Maurice FriedmanBinding: SoftbackPublished: Wayne State University Press, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsMaurice Friedman's Martin Buber's Life and Work is a comprehensive three-volume biography that meticulously explores...
The Bradman Albums (Two-Volume Set)

The Bradman Albums (Two-Volume Set)

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Author: Sir Donald BradmanBinding: HardbackPublished: Lansdowne Press, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded spines. This two-volume set compiles a comprehensive visual history of one of cricket's...
When the Going Gets Weird: The Twisted Life and Times of Hunter S.

When the Going Gets Weird: The Twisted Life and Times of Hunter S.

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A look at the life and lunacy of the well-known journalist traces the people and events that shaped Thompson's life, describing his troubled Kentucky childhood, his life in New York...
Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking

Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking

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'Powerfully entertaining. A true thriller of resilience and defiance' JANELLE MONAE 'Tanya Smith's story is unbelievably bold, captivating, and moving. Never Saw Me Coming is a wild ride from start...
A Guest of the Reich: The Story of American Heiress Gertrude Legendre

A Guest of the Reich: The Story of American Heiress Gertrude Legendre

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From the co-author of The Zhivago Affair, a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Award, comes the riveting story of a wealthy heiress who joined the OSS and was...
I Must Belong Somewhere: An extraordinary family tale of survival

I Must Belong Somewhere: An extraordinary family tale of survival

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'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, fled the Russian threat in Ukraine for Vienna in 1914. Blinded in the First World War, he...
Four Waifs on our Doorstep

Four Waifs on our Doorstep

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When no one cares, who will pick up the pieces of abused children's lives? At eleven o' clock one night in 1997, four hungry, damaged young children arrive on foster...
The Still Point of the Turning World

The Still Point of the Turning World

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Like all mothers, Emily Rapp had ambitious plans for her first and only child, Ronan. He would be smart, loyal, physically fearless, level-headed but fun. He would be good at...
Beyond the Throne: Epic journeys, enduring friendships and surprising

Beyond the Throne: Epic journeys, enduring friendships and surprising

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Beyond the Throne will cover in detail Kristian's extraordinary time on 'Thrones', including how the show was made and what the actors behind the characters were like. Kristian was auditioned...
Throwing the Book

Throwing the Book

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Wayne Barnes - one of the most-experienced international referees in history and criminal barrister to boot - uniquely lifts the lid on a lifetime of trying to keep the biggest...
Fifteen Percent Pregnant: A Man, a Woman and IVF

Fifteen Percent Pregnant: A Man, a Woman and IVF

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Tony Hardy is 43 and trying to become a dad for the first time. He is typical of those self-absorbed 40-somethings who live in the cashed-up inner suburbs. Delaying fatherhood...
Between Borders and Buses: A tale of mayhem and misadventure through

Between Borders and Buses: A tale of mayhem and misadventure through

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What happens when you take a clumsy Australian of Anglo Indian descent, a backpack, stick him on a bus in Europe and close the door? A good question, the answer...
The Clinton Years: The Photographs of Robert Mcneely

The Clinton Years: The Photographs of Robert Mcneely

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Robert McNeely -- President Bill Clinton's official photographer from 1992 to 1998 -- has traveled the world and roamed the halls of the White House, a virtual fly-on-the-wall, documenting the...
Elizabeth And Her German Garden

Elizabeth And Her German Garden

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May 7th -- There were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But I did it...
Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family

Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family

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If there is a literary gene, then the Waugh family most certainly has it-and it clearly seems to be passed down from father to son. The first of the literary...
This Will Only Hurt a Little: The New York Times Bestseller

This Will Only Hurt a Little: The New York Times Bestseller

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Busy is a legit writer with a voice as clear as a bell' Tina Fey 'F unny, refreshingly candid memoir about Hollywood, motherhood and BFFhood'...
Michael Faraday and The Royal Institution: The Genius of Man and Place

Michael Faraday and The Royal Institution: The Genius of Man and Place

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A self-educated man who knew no mathematics, Michael Faraday rose from errand boy to become one of Britain's greatest scientists. Faraday made the discoveries upon which most of twentieth-century technology...
Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

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John Hodgman-New York Times bestselling author, semifamous personality, deranged millionaire, increasingly elderly husband, father, and human of Earth-has written a memoir about his cursed travels through two wildernesses- from the...
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh

In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh

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In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the...
Andy Murray (A Life Story)

Andy Murray (A Life Story)

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Andy Murray: tennis player, sports icon, Olympian. Get the inside track on one of history's most spectacular athletes! A Life Story: this thrilling series throws readers directly into the lives...
Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany

Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany

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A great deal of Holocaust survival stories revolve around disguise--many Jews were forced into impersonation by the desperateness of their plight. Imagine if a person, by the accident of birth,...
First Friends

First Friends

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The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

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"A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn't...
Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It - the

Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It - the

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*FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023* 'A visceral, unsparing picture of our current situation' ROB DELANEY 'A radical vision for how we might do things better '...
Dreams from My Father (Adapted for Young Adults): A Story of Race and

Dreams from My Father (Adapted for Young Adults): A Story of Race and

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BRAND-NEW EDITION of the multi-million-copy bestseller, now adapted for YA readers and complete with never-before-seen colour photos. A revealing portrait of one of the most important voices in America long...
Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front

Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front

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A self-described "desert rat" who rocketed to fame at the age of twenty-two, Bill Mauldin used flashing black brush lines and sardonic captions to capture the world of the American...