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King Mob: The Story Of Lord George Gordon And The Riots Of 1780
$15.00 AUD
Author: Christopher HibbertBinding: HardbackPublished: Readers Union, 1959Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account chronicles the tumultuous events of the 1780 Gordon...
In The Old Chateau: A Story Of Russian Poland
$70.00 AUD
Author: R. H. SavageBinding: HardbackPublished: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1896Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn boards....
Adolf Bastian And The Psychic Unity Of Mankind: The Foundations Of Anthropology In Nineteenth Century Germany
$90.00 AUD
Author: Klaus-Peter KoeppingBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Queensland Press., 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Spine slightly discoloured from age, minor chips to edges...
The Decameron Of Boccaccio (Two-Volume Set)
$40.00 AUD
Author: Giovanni BOCCACCIO; translated by J.M. Rigg; drawings by Louis ChalonBinding: HardbackPublished: Navarre Society, 1111Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No...
The Endeavour Journal Of Joseph Banks: 1768-1771 Volume 1 and 2 / Two Volume Set
$200.00 AUD
Author: Joseph Banks, J.C. BeagleholeBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, 1962Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jackets have light tanning along spinesVolume 1 and 2/ Two...
Gerhard Hauptmann and the Naturalist Drama
What was German Naturalism? What were its achievements? How does it compare with its counterparts in other European countries? These are some of the difficult questions addressed by John Osborne...
The Three Musketeers
Age range 3 to 8 Enter a world of friendship, honour, and duty to your King in 17th century France with this beautifully illustrated adaptation of the classic French novel...
Mallorca Marco Polo Pocket Travel Guide - with pull out map
Let Marco Polo Mallorca guide you around this beautiful island. Explore Mallorca with this handy, pocket-sized, authoritative guide, packed with Insider Tips. Discover boutique hotels, authentic restaurants, the island's trendiest...
Go Slow France
Go Slow France is the third book in Sawday's hugely successful Go Slow series. Discover 47 of France's most exquisite ch?teaux, B&Bs and hotels chosen as places to 'go slow'....
Rudolf Laban: Man of Theatre
Rudolf Laban's provocative, experimental, explosive dance theatre works have lain hidden since the Third Reich deliberately annihilated his name. This book exposes Laban's audacity and his significance for dance theatre...
Great Speeches from European Drama
This volume contains speeches from great works of European drama that have either been translated or adapted by Robert David MacDonald, awarded the Goethe Medal for Services to German literature'
First VCS
Officers led and men followed; all were expected to do their duty without thought of reward. Enlisted men rarely penetrated the officer ranks and promotion owed more to money than...
British Theatre And The Red Peril: The Portrayal of Communism
This work explores how communism was portrayed in plays in the British theatre between 1917 and 1945, and how at a time when the capitalist system seemed on the verge...
With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918
With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper--an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than...
The Meiningen Court Theatre 1866-1890
During the late nineteenth century a remarkable combination of circumstances and individual talents permitted the Court theatre of a small German state to become the theatrical sensation of its age....
Britain and World War One
The First World War appears as a fault line in Britain's twentieth-century history. Between August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperial Germany and her allies consumed more...
Sniper One: On Scope and Under Siege with a Sniper Team in Iraq
$10.00 AUD
When Sgt. Dan Mills and the rest of the 1st Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment flew into Iraq in April, 2004, they were supposed to be winning hearts...
The Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Marcel Reich-Ranicki has lived a colourful and picaresque life. Born in 1920 of Polish Jewish parents, he spent his youth in Berlin until the Nazis came to power. In 1938...
Comrades: 1917 - Russia in Revolution
This account of the cataclysmic events in Russia in 1917 begins with the murder of Rasputin by an Oxford-educated transvestite, and the collapse of Old Russia. It ends with the...
Paul
Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and harvesting honey will distract her from a scandal that drove her...
Death or Liberty: Rebels and radicals transported to Australia 1788 -
Now a major documentary film starring Billy Bragg In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the British Government banished their political enemies - viewed with the same alarm as today's...
The Silent Day: A Landmark Oral History of D-Day on the Home Front
On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence. Overnight, 160,000 Allied troops had vanished and an eerie emptiness settled over the country. The majority of those men...
Savoir-Vivre in the 21st Century
In the original French, this book is a practical guide to social living, good manners and etiquette in France and for the French. But this book on the art of...
Fresh Italian: Over 70 healthy recipes
Enjoy all the traditional, rustic flavours of Italian cooking through contemporary recipe ideas and variations that allow you to experience the taste of Italy without the high fat, salt and...
Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe
This book is a major history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs conveys...
Barcelona Like a Local: By the People Who Call It Home
Experience Barcelona the local way with this insider's guide Barcelona is a cultural colossus- ancient streets, top-notch museums and Modernista masterpieces. But what's beyond the well-trodden sights? Old pharmacies hosting...
The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction
The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries they...
Napoleon: A Very Short Introduction
This Very Short Introduction might prove disappointing to those expecting an introduction to a very short man. Dispelling the myth of Napoleon Bonaparte's short stature, as well as the other...
Italian Hours
Henry James was a renowned observer of European culture, both in his fiction and in his life. In particular, he loved Italy, visiting it 14 times and setting several of...
Invaders: British & American Experience of Seaborne Landings 1939-1945
The Second World War was the first in which amphibious landings played a truly significant part in the outcome of a global conflict and in this work, drawing on the...
The Unreliable Life of Harry the Valet: The Great Victorian Jewel
Harry the Valet began his criminal career out of grief, but became Europe s most notorious jewel thief out of love. The story of a real-life Raffles a man who...
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds
Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to conclusions about who we are. They even shape our...
Slow Trains to Venice: A 4,000-Mile Adventure Across Europe
Do you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey across Europe from London to Venice. Escaping the rat race for a...
A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s
$12.00 AUD
"Superb" NICK COHEN, author of What's Left? "Tremendously entertaining" DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Sunday Times "Like his previous histories of the Seventies and Eighties, A Classless Society is an extraordinarily comprehensive work....
Rejoice! Rejoice!: Britain in the 1980s
'A masterly mix of shrewd analysis, historical detail and telling quotes... Indispensable' Mail on Sunday 'Among a host of recent books on the 1980s, Turner's stands out as comfortably the...
Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s
$12.00 AUD
'A masterful work of social history and cultural commentary, told with much wit. It almost makes you feel as if you were there' ROGER LEWIS, Mail on Sunday The 1970s....
World-Class Swedish Cooking: Artisanal Recipes from One of Stockholm's
Chefs Bjrn Frantzen and Daniel Lindeberg dish the kitchen secrets that have made their restaurant (Frantzen/Lindeberg) renowned as the Best Swedish Restaurant of 2012, earning two Michelin stars and delighted...
Secrets of French Design
The author of Villa Decor and French by Design celebrates the Old World in New World decor by presenting the flare and pomp of French style through breathtaking photographs of...
The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That
'I squealed laughing at this but now worry that my knowledge of history has been dangerously ruined' Matt Forde A fascinating and hilarious gallop through twentieth-century British history, by comedian...
Patrick Melrose Volume 2: Mother's Milk and At Last
$10.00 AUD
Now a major Sky TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril, and Patrick Melrose, now a husband and father, is trying to gather...
A History of Modern Britain
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or...
The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz
Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the "rousing" (Jay Winik, author of 1944 ) story of the liberation of Paris during World War II-a triumph achieved only through...
Garibaldi's Biscuits
$10.00 AUD
In nineteenth-century Italy, the wife of General Garibaldi bakes biscuits as a peace offering for the defeated French army.
The Making of Modern Britain
In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the...
Lisbon Like a Local: By the People Who Call It Home
Experience Lisbon the local way with this insider's guide Experience Lisbon the local way with this insider's guide Lisbon is picture-perfect, with its mosaicked tiles, bright yellow trams and plates...