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Humanly Possible: The great humanist experiment in living
Author: Sarah Bakewell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Seven hundred years of heroic humanists (and their enemies), from the acclaimed author of How to Live and At The Existentialist...
The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty
Author: Joseph Sassoon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's pre-eminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East' The...
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling: First Nations Classics
Author: Larissa Behrendt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 228 Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction by Fiona Foley, Finding Eliza is a vital Indigenous perspective...
Hunters and Shooters: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy Seals in Vietnam
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Iraqi War Debrief: Why Saddam Hussein Was Toppled
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Eichmann Interrogated: Transcripts from the Archives of the Israeli Police
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The Commentators: 100 Years of Sports Commentary
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Fever Hospital: A History of Fairfield Infectious Diseases HospitaL
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The Splendid Blonde Beast
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Legacy: Search for the Origins of Civilization
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Voyages That Changed the World
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The Ever Open Door: A History of the Royal Melbourne Hospital
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In the Blink of an Eye: A Cultural History of Spectacles
Author: Stefana Sabin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 This book examines those who wore glasses through history, art and literature, from the green emerald through which Emperor Nero watched...
Chocolate Wars
Author: Deborah Cadbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 In the early nineteenth century the major English chocolate firms,Fry, Rowntree, and Cadbury,were all Quaker family enterprises that aimed to do...
Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence
Author: Joanna Bourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Disgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. The book explores how sexual violence varies widely across time and...
Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal
Author: John Beck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avant garde, abandoned places and things - decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested...
Acts Against God: A Short History of Blasphemy
Author: David Nash Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The first accessible history of blasphemy, from the ancient world to today's ferocious religious debates. A phenomenon that spans human experience,...
Trees, Woods and Forests: A Social and Cultural History
Author: Charles Watkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 Throughout human history our relationship with trees, woods and forests has remained central to the development of our technology, culture and...
Dressing Up: A History of Fancy Dress in Britain
Author: Verity Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Pierrot, Little Bo Peep, cowboy: these characters and many more form part of this colourful story of dressing up, from the...
Policing the Big Apple: The Story of the NYPD
Author: Jules Stewart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Policing the Big Apple is the story of America's largest and most celebrated law enforcement agency. The book covers the history...
Seeing into the Future: A Short History of Prediction
Author: Martin van Creveld Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 If there is anything that distinguishes us from animals, it is our ability to understand that such a thing as...
Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World
Author: Jerry Brotton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the...
The Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration
Author: Colin Burgess Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 356 The space race was perhaps the greatest technological contest of the 20th century. It was a thrilling era of innovation, discovery...
Strokes of Genius: A History of Swimming
Author: Eric Chaline Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Pleasure beckons at the water's edge.' With these words, Eric Chaline celebrates the physicality and sensuality of swimming - attributes that...
Blood Rush: The Dark History of a Vital Fluid
Author: Jan Verplaetse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 As a young man Jan Verplaetse saw a hare suspended from a meat hook, skinned and gutted. What struck him so...
The Waterless Sea: A Curious History of Mirages
Author: Christopher Pinney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Mirages have long astonished travellers and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Chinese and Japanese poetry and images depicted mirages as the exhalations...
The Pleasure's All Mine
Author: Julie Peakman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 472 What is perverse sex and what isn't? Now available in paperback, The Pleasure's AllMine explores the gamut of sexual activity that...
Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans
Author: Helen M. Rozwadowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 Vast Expanses is a cultural, environmental and geopolitical history that examines the relationship between humans and oceans, reaching back across...
The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America
Author: Lisa Z. Sigel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The first history of American handmade and homemade pornography, The People's Porn offers the backstory to the explosion of amateur...
Last Landscapes: the Architecture of the Cemetery in the West
Author: Ken Worpole Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 "Last Landscapes" explores the cult and celebration of memory and loss in the landscapes of the cemetery. It traces the history...
Industrial Britain: An Architectural History
Author: Hubert J. Pragnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Industrial Britain details the history of industrial architecture in Britain by architectural historian and artist, Hubert Pragnell. A fascinating insight...
Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Social Network
Author: Lydia Pyne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 Although postcards are usually associated with cheeky seaside tableaus and banal holiday pleasantries, they are made possible by sophisticated industries and...
Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers
Author: Randy Malamud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 324 Virginia Woolf's novel famously begins - 'Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.' Of course she would: why would...
From Wireless to Wallabies: A Life of Norman McCance
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Brief Histories of Almost Anything: 50 Savvy Slices of Our Global Past
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St Catherine's : a Centenary Celebration 1896-1996
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Under the Influence: A History of Alcohol in Australia
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Bitter Freedom: Ireland In A Revolutionary World 1918-1923
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Antarctic Eyewitness
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Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House
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Suburban Heartland: A History of the City of Whitehorse
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Real Matilda: Woman and Identity in Australia - 1788 to the Present
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A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES...
Hope and Fear: Modern Myths, Conspiracy Theories and Pseudo-History
Author: Ronald H. Fritze Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A myth-busting journey through the twilight world of fringe ideas and alternative facts. Is a secret and corrupt Illuminati conspiring...
Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day
Author: Simon Jarrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities over 300 years The Idiot traces the little-known lives of people with...
Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers
Author: Randy Malamud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 324 Virginia Woolf's novel famously begins - 'Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.' Of course she would: why would...
Paths of Fire: The Gun and the World It Made
Author: Andrew Nahum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 If you squeeze the trigger of a Kalashnikov a bullet is kicked up the barrel by an archaic chemical explosion that...