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The Saga of Themistocles

The Saga of Themistocles

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Author: Robert J. LenardonBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1978Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the life of Themistocles, an Athenian politician and general who played...
Sailing Ships and Paddle Wheels and Other Gippsland Shipping

Sailing Ships and Paddle Wheels and Other Gippsland Shipping

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Author: Bull, J. C.Binding: HardbackPublished: The Author, 1974Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markings"Sailing Ships and Paddle Wheels and Other Gippsland Shipping" by J.C. Bull is a fascinating...
200 The Westpac Story

200 The Westpac Story

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Author: WestpacBinding: HardbackPublished: Westpac Banking Corporation, 2017Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markings200 The Westpac Story chronicles the history and evolution of the Westpac Banking Corporation, detailing its impact...
Hatch. The Art of Innovation. Celebrating 50 Years of Service. 1955-2005.

Hatch. The Art of Innovation. Celebrating 50 Years of Service. 1955-2005.

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Author: anonBinding: HardbackPublished: Self published, 2005Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book commemorates half a century of service by Hatch, exploring their innovative approaches and contributions...
The Great Ideas Today

The Great Ideas Today

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Author: William BentonBinding: HardbackPublished: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1962Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Great Ideas Today is a collection of significant philosophical and intellectual concepts, presented in a...
The Cree Journals: The Voyages of Edward H. Cree, Surgeon R.N., As Related in His Private Journals, 1837-1856

The Cree Journals: The Voyages of Edward H. Cree, Surgeon R.N., As Related in His Private Journals, 1837-1856

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Author: Edward H. Cree; Michael Levien (Editor)Binding: HardbackPublished: Webb & Bower, 1981Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a detailed account of the voyages and experiences...
PASHS' ODYSSEY - Western Australia: From Hartog's Plate to America's Cup

PASHS' ODYSSEY - Western Australia: From Hartog's Plate to America's Cup

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Author: Frank PashBinding: HardbackPublished: Madella Holdings, 1111Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book chronicles the maritime history of Western Australia, highlighting significant events from the...
Sea Dangers: The Affair of the Somers

Sea Dangers: The Affair of the Somers

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Author: Philip McFarlandBinding: HardbackPublished: Schocken Books, 1985Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book delves into the historical event surrounding the naval tragedy of the USS Somers, exploring...
The Victor Book of the Opera  Simon, Henry  Published by Simon & Schuster, 1968

The Victor Book of the Opera

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Author: Henry W. SimonBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon & Schuster, 1968Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markings The Victor Book of the Opera is a comprehensive guide that explores the...
The Nostradamus Encyclopedia: The Definitive Reference Guide to the Work and World of Nostradamus

The Nostradamus Encyclopedia: The Definitive Reference Guide to the Work and World of Nostradamus

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Author: Peter LemesurierBinding: HardbackPublished: Godsfield Press, 1997Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive encyclopedia offers a definitive reference guide to Nostradamus and his work. It includes all...
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware shop

Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware (SIGNED)

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'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A paean to DIY' - The Times'Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say...
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity

How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female (SIGNED)

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Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced to the 16th century?As the Renaissance visual world became populated by female nudes by the likes of Michelangelo and Titian,...
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era

Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era (SIGNED)

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'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet they are that history at its climax. Alwyn Turner sets...
The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean

The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean

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THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER'Powerful reportage...awash with wonderful obscurities' The Sunday Times''A comprehensive investigation of the staggering damage we have done to the world's oceans and its life forms' ObserverA vital,...
Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them

Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for

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'Uproarious . . . [Phillips and Elledge] pair the abundant good humour of this book with a warning about the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories' The Times From the Satanic...
This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity

This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity

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This book is the hard conversation we must have.In 2020 we have seen clearer than ever that Black people are still fighting for the right to be judged by the...
Homeland Elegies: A Barack Obama Favourite Book

Homeland Elegies: A Barack Obama Favourite Book

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AN ECONOMIST, NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Outstanding... it is hard to convey the breadth and brilliance of this work' Observer'A beautiful novel about an American...
Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality

Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality

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For centuries, women were denied equal access to money and the freedom and power that came with it. They were restricted from owning property or transacting in real estate. Even...
Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies

Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies

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A delicious and delightful narrative history of pie in America, from the colonial era through the civil rights movement and beyondFrom the pumpkin pie gracing the Thanksgiving table to the...
The Anatomists' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Secrets of the Human Body: Volume 4

The Anatomists' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Secrets of the

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The Anatomists Library is a fascinating chronological collection of the best anatomical books from six centuries, charting the evolution of both medical knowledge and illustrated publishing.There is a rich history...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?

Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?

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A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries. Whether or not we trace our families from beyond...
Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies

Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies

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INTERCEPT is the previously untold - and previously highly classified - story of the melding of technology and espionage. Gordon Corera's compelling narrative, rich with historical details and characters, takes...
The Women of Botany Bay: A Reinterpretation of the Role of Women in the Origins of Australian Society: A Reinterpretation of the Role of Women in the Origins of Australian Society

The Women of Botany Bay: A Reinterpretation of the Role of Women in the Origins of Australian Society: A Reinterpretation of the Role of Women in the Origins of Australian Society

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A Short History of Australia

A Short History of Australia

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Fidelity's World

Fidelity's World

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Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award

Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic

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WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC RUNICMAN AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'A gloriously intimate tour of the body in antiquity' Gavin Francis'A...
Behind the Gloss: Disco, divas and dressing up. Welcome to the wild world of 1970s fashion

Behind the Gloss: Disco, divas and dressing up. Welcome to the wild

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Dressing up. Partying all night. This is the world of 1970s fashion, and this book is your backstage pass.Featuring over 25 exclusive interviews with the movers and shakers of the...
This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity

This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity

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'With This Is Why I Resist, Dr Shola is shaking a nation out of its slumber.' Annie Lennox OBE'Smart and courageous, this book should be on everyone's must-read list.' Naomi...
Worlds at War

Worlds at War

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The differences that divide West from East go deeper than politics, deeper than religion, argues Anthony Pagden. To understand this volatile relationship, and how it has played out over the...
The Crimean War and Irish society

The Crimean War and Irish society

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The purpose of this book is to produce what is essentially a 'home front' study of Ireland during the Crimean War, or more specifically Irish society's responses to that conflict....
Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

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Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson...
Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War

Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War

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Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of...
Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era

Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the

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Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation's most important economic...
The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch

The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch

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The ship was almost instantly in flames . . . Some jumped overboard immediately, and all was in indescribable confusion. The masts began to fall one after another, and it...
The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing

The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing

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The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in...
Stephen Decatur: A Life Most Bold and Daring

Stephen Decatur: A Life Most Bold and Daring

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* The story of one of America's great naval heroes *Provides insights into life aboard ship in the war of 1812 *Explores the tragic death of this extraordinary naval officer...
Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation

Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation

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A timely groundbreaking book in the vein of Derrick Bell's Faces at the Bottom of the Well, one of the country's foremost voices on reparations, offers a radical and vital...
No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYA "sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive" portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from "a gifted practitioner of labor history and urban...
The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's Water

The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's

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Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew MarrNo city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn...
Migrants: The Story of Us All

Migrants: The Story of Us All

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We are all descended from migrants. Humans are, in in fundamental ways, a migratory species, more so than any other land mammal. Migration is one of the most toxically controversial...
In Stockmen's Footsteps: How a Farm Girl from the Blacksoil Plains Grew Up to Champion Australia's Outback Heritage

In Stockmen's Footsteps: How a Farm Girl from the Blacksoil Plains Grew Up to Champion Australia's Outback Heritage

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D-Day: Dawn of Heroes

D-Day: Dawn of Heroes

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Rad American History A-Z: Movements That Demonstrate the Power of the People

Rad American History A-Z: Movements That Demonstrate the Power of the People

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The Chiffon Trenches

The Chiffon Trenches

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The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies

The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies

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A radical revision of the geographical history of the discovery of the Americas that links Columbus's southbound route with colonialism, slavery, and today's divide between the industrialized North and the...
Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service

Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service

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The United States Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its army of 300,000 letter carriers delivers 513 million pieces of mail, forty percent of the...
Dictionary Of Modern Arab Histor

Dictionary Of Modern Arab Histor

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From 1980 until Dr. Bidwell's death in 1994, much of his time was taken up with the writing and compilation of this encyclopaedic work which represents, in the true sense...
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret

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As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and...