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Unsolved Murders
Discover the stories behind 20 of the world's most infamous unsolved murders. MURDERS THAT DEFY DETECTION. Discover the stories behind some of the most infamous unsolved murders of the last...
The Third Reich in Power, 1933 - 1939: How the Nazis Won Over the
The terrible and compelling story of the Nazi regime, from the moment Hitler seized power in the summer of 1933 to the point where he plunged Europe into war. The...
The Patchwork Nation
this is a book about: the re-building of Australian democracy the re-invention of business and community in a global age and, the re-engagement of government in its task of serving...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the
An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth...
History'S Most Daring Moments: Extraordinary Stories of Daring and
The human psyche, when confornted by the all-but-impossible, can produce the most extraordinary reactions---acts of heroism, self-sacrifice, endurance and sheer grit that in many instances remain unbelievable. Whether these are...
Jazz: An Illustrated History
A real gem - the history of jazz, beautifully illustrated with more than 200 illustrations Ken Burns and geoffrey Ward bring us the history of the first American music, from...
Born in 1964?: What Else Happened?
.... But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and they died...
The History Question: Who Owns the Past?: Quarterly Essay 23
In QE23, acclaimed writer and thinker Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake - what kind of history do...
The Almost Complete History of the World: 75 incredible events from
Recorded history is rich with events that have changed the course of human experience that have rippled through the centuries, and still others that rumble on today. Here in one...
Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire
The definitive biography of Saladin. Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in...
Chamber Divers
'Fascinating...a great historical military account and essential reading' John Volanthen, author of Thirteen Lives . The untold story of the D-Day scientists who changed special operations forever. On the beaches...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS A TABLET BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War
'Entertaining and vivid... This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment' OBSERVER 'Reads like a thriller' THE SUN The astonishing story of the ten million...
The Kindness of Strangers: The History of Lort Smith Animal Hospital
The poignant story behind the Lort Smith Animal Hospital, and the women who were its driving force. Based on a desire to alleviate the suffering of animals irrespective of profits,...
Chamber Divers
'Fascinating...a great historical military account and essential reading' John Volanthen, author of Thirteen Lives . The untold story of the D-Day scientists who changed special operations forever. On the beaches...
Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for
In this unique book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his 75-year struggle with China to save Tibet and its people. Instant New York Times Bestseller...
The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea
An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water 'Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.' Roddy Doyle 'Remarkable. Lively ... Gower writes beautifully [and] the book is profoundly popular.' Times...
Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It
Alice Vernon often wakes up to find strangers in her bedroom. Ever since she was a child, her nights have been haunted by nightmares of a figure from her adolescence,...
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War. Lawrence's...
Dinner with the Devil
In 1896 a small group of Melbourne's first women doctors opened a makeshift hospital in a borrowed church hall. They wanted to give 'poor women the opportunity of being treated...
Victoria's Children of the Dark
Victoria's Children of the Dark tells the story of Queen Victoria's invisible subjects - women and children who laboured beneath her 'green and pleasant land' harvesting the coal to fuel...
Budapest: A History of Grandeur and Catastrophe
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Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours
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800 Years of Women's Letters
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The Hundred: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
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Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it
One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think...
The Story of the SS: Hitler's Infamous Legions of Death
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Untying the Knot: A Short History of Divorce
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Aboriginal Australians: First Nations of an Ancient Continent
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Joe Gould's Secret
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We Wish We'd Done More: Ninety Years of Cms and Aboriginal Issues in North Australia
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The Shop: The University of Melbourne 1850-1939
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Fear: An Alternative History of the World
'Extraordinary' Ai Weiwei'Brilliant' Simon SchamaFear has long been a driving force - perhaps the driving force - of world history: a coercive tool of power and a catalyst for radical...
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Fascism: A Warning
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St George's Chapel, Windsor, in the Late Middle Ages
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A Foot Wide on the Edge of Nowhere: Olive and Theo Simpkin - sharing Good News in China
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Love Lessons: A Wartime Diary
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The Naughty Nineties: The Decade that Unleashed Sex, Lies, and the World Wide Web
Featuring a new foreword by Molly Jong-Fast, THE NAUGHTY NINETIES is a sexual history of the 1990s when the tabloids, the tawdry, and the titillating took over Washington, Hollywood, and...
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror , The Verge tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and...
The Viceroy's Daughters
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Cultural Dementia: How the West has Lost its History, and Risks Losing Everything Else
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Debunking History: 152 Popular Myths Exploded
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Captured Lives: Australia's Wartime Internment Camps
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Guiding Lights: The Extraordinary Lives of Lighthouse Women
Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from tending ancient altar flames to manning modern day lighthouses. Yet most of their stories are little-known. Guiding Lights is...