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As children, Virginia Woolf, elder sister Vanessa Bell, and brother Thoby, collaborated on their very own newspaper, recording the day-to-day events of the family home, 22 Hyde Park Gate. They...

Exploring never-before-seen images from the Russian State Film and Photo Archive.

The book titled The Hinge Factor: How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History by the author Erik Durschmied. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime. 'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR 'Fascinating' SUNDAY TIMES 'A splendid book ... great entertainment' Sir Patrick...

The book titled New World and Pacific Civilisations: Culture of America, Asia and the by the author Weldon Owen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history. Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands...

Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was...

Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade, surveys the tradition...

The book titled Thursday's Child Has Far to Go: A Memoir of the Journeying Years by the author Walter Laqueur. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

A collection of quotations from notable Australians who have suffered major public defeats or setbacks, yet in some manner, carried the day. From Ned Kelly's words at his sentencing, to...

The book titled Tolstoy by the author A. N. Wilson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Following "Seeds of Change", with its investigation of the seminal role of plants in human social and economic history, Henry Hobhouse here focuses on the economic consequences of the exploitation...

In Fantasy and Reality in History, Peter Loewenberg brings what the discipline of psychoanalysis has learned about human conduct and the irrational to bear on the analysis and writing of...

Behind the Cold War an unseen war was waged for half a century, between the secret services of East and West. By definition, this other war was invisible to the...

Feasts, banquets and grand dinners have always played a vital role in our lives. They oil the wheels of diplomacy, smooth the paths of the ambitious and spread joy at...

In the 1940s and 1950s, Australian pulp fiction jostled with magazines and comics at newsstands. Tariffs kept the local industry cheap and viable and offered Australian writers national and international...

The book titled Decadence and Innovation: Austria-Hungary in the Fin-de-siecle by the author Robert B. Pynsent. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Irving Lewis Allen provides a history of the rise of New York as a metropolis and the accompanying slang that surrounded it. This book is both a lexicon of slang...

This is a collection of essays, charting five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia. Ivan Klima was a witness to the horrors of Nazi occupation, to the Stalinist regimes...

A Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II, shining a long overdue spotlight on five...

What makes Australian war writers special? This collection of fiction, poetry, history and reminiscence clearly demonstrates that the gift of our writers is to reflect national character in war literature....

The book titled Airforce Australia by the author George Odgers. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Seven Wonders of the World were first listed over 2000 years ago but they remain a source of fascination and their influence can still be seen in the cities...

'The Redl Affair had everything: sex, espionage, betrayal, a fall from greatness and a sensational climax in which Redl went to his death like a figure of high tragedy.' The...

Sexual politics is far from being a recent subject of debate. In the 1880s it occupied a position of central importance in certain radical circles in London, where intellectuals such...

A human history of one of the planet's most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around...

A New York Times Best Art Book of 2019 "A riveting book . . . few stones are left unturned."-Roberta Smith's "Top Art Books of 2019," The New York Times...

This series considers artists and their work against the background of the social, political and historical world in which they worked, examining issues of race, class, gender and psychology. It...

By the New York Times 's legendary war correspondent, written while battling terminal brain cancer: a life-affirming memoir of high adventure, deep wisdom, and finding true happiness amid the unlikeliest...

The book titled Hitler's Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge, December 1944-January by the author Trevor Nevitt Dupuy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

'Post-colonial' is a poetic and wildly experimental account of cultural intrusion and appropriation from one of Australia's finest and most prolific writers. Questioning what it is that constitutes nation and...

The book titled Vindication: Postcard History of the Woman's Movement by the author Ian McDonald. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In John Lukacs's view, there is no science apart from scientists, and all of "science", including our view of the universe, is a human creation, imagined and defined by fallible...

This book presents the major events of world history at a glance. Five main sections and over 480 main entries - heroic figures, the rise and fall of emperors, kings...

Following the Napoleonic military campaign in Egypt (1798-1801), Europe reddiscovered the ancient Egyptian civilization, and later expeditions deepened and amplified knowledge of the country's archaeological monuments, giving birth to a...

The book titled The Proud Champions: Australia's Aboriginal Sporting Heroes by the author Bret Harris. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Local takes us through the pubs of London on the eve of the Second World War. With Edward Ardizzone and Maurice Gorham as our guides, we experience a vanished...

The book titled Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan by the author Ian Buruma. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Liz Truss's journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain's shortest-serving Prime Minister The Sunday Times Politics Book of the YearA Guardian Politics Book of the Year 2023 'An insightful and at...

Since the Napoleonic era the two great Scandinavian kingdoms of Denmark and Sweden have been transformed into model parliamentary democracies. The Finns are now no longer seen only as quarrelsome...

SHORTLISTED for ACT Book of the Year RUNNER-UP in the Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize 2019 'An apparition of an adult wandering albatross comes into view. A small...

Thoroughly updated throughout, this new edition of The World Since 1945 traces the major political, economic, and ideological patterns that have evolved in the global arena from the end of...

Class is an emotive subject, and never more so than today. It is part of the very fabric of our contemporary society and Professor Marwick's major historical study of the...

'A trained scout will see little signs and tracks, he puts them together in his mind and quickly reads a meaning from them such as an untrained man would never...

In 1935 the British publisher Allen Lane produced a range of 10 books in a revolutionary paperback binding and put them on sale for sixpence each. The distinctive orange and...

A humorous journey around Britain discovering the history of the eccentrics, crackpots and visionaries who have tried to measure and predict the weather, meeting people obsessed with the weather today...

Chapter OneUnbeknown to Mary Berry, two days before she wrote to her confidant Bertie Greatheed in Go ttingen, Admiral Nelson's fleet had destroyed Napoleon Bonaparte's army in the battle of...