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Life In The Bush

Life In The Bush

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Author: Katharine KirklandBinding: PaperbackPublished: Kenneth W. Mackenzie, 1994Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis historical memoir presents a vivid firsthand account of colonial...
Portraits Of Power: Those Who Shaped The Twentieth Century

Portraits Of Power: Those Who Shaped The Twentieth Century

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Author: Jeremy Murray-Brown (comp.)Binding: PaperbackPublished: Octopus Books Ltd, London, 1979Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. This compelling historical account chronicles the lives...
The World In Progress: 1815-1914

The World In Progress: 1815-1914

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Author: B. J. ElliottBinding: PaperbackPublished: Hutchinson Educational , 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Faded cover with minimal surface wear. This historical...
Vanuatu Victory (SIGNED)

Vanuatu Victory (SIGNED)

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Author: Helen Rose GillonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Spectrum Publications, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical narrative, Vanuatu Victory: Four Generations Of...
The Neanderthal Enigma: Solving The Mystery Of Modern Human Origins

The Neanderthal Enigma: Solving The Mystery Of Modern Human Origins

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Author: James ShreeveBinding: PaperbackPublished: William Morrow, 1996Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling work of scientific inquiry, The Neandertal Enigma: Solving The...
Sketches From Life: The Autobiography Of Lewis Mumford: The Early Years

Sketches From Life: The Autobiography Of Lewis Mumford: The Early Years

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Author: Lewis MumfordBinding: PaperbackPublished: Beacon Press, 1982Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Faded cover. Light creasing on spine.Sketches From Life: The Autobiography...
A History Of Sri Lanka

A History Of Sri Lanka

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Author: K.M. De SilvaBinding: PaperbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1991Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Minor wear on cover. Light creasing on spine....
The D-Day Experience: From The Invasion To The Liberation Of Paris

The D-Day Experience: From The Invasion To The Liberation Of Paris

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Author: Richard HolmesBinding: PaperbackPublished: Imperial War Museum, 2006Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Mixed Media. All facsimile documents and memorabilia and, CD...
Japan Journey: The Columban Fathers In Nippon

Japan Journey: The Columban Fathers In Nippon

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Author: Edward FischerBinding: PaperbackPublished: Crossroad, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis historical account, Japan Journey: The Columban Fathers In Nippon, chronicles the...
Mother Mary Berchmans Daly: Foundress Of St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne (SIGNED)

Mother Mary Berchmans Daly: Foundress Of St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne (SIGNED)

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Author: Edna M. Skewes R.S.C. (Sister Agnes Skewes)Binding: PaperbackPublished: Spectrum Publications, Melbourne, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMother Mary Berchmans Daly: Foundress Of...
The Top 240: The Greats Of The Vfl 1925-1982

The Top 240: The Greats Of The Vfl 1925-1982

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Author: Greg Hobbs And Alf BrownBinding: PaperbackPublished: The Herald and The Sun., 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks:...
Presentation Album Of Motoring Nostalgia Number 18

Presentation Album Of Motoring Nostalgia Number 18

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Author: James FloodBinding: PaperbackPublished: A James Flood Charity Trust Project in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Footscray, 1111Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light foxing on cover. Small...
The Colonial Australians

The Colonial Australians

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Author: David DenholmBinding: PaperbackPublished: Penguin Books, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis historical account chronicles the formative years of a nation, presenting...
Wrecks & Reputations (SIGNED)

Wrecks & Reputations (SIGNED)

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Author: Don CharlwoodBinding: PaperbackPublished: Burgewood Books, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slightly creased spine.This compelling work of maritime history chronicles the dramatic...
Old Convict Days

Old Convict Days

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Author: William DerrincourtBinding: PaperbackPublished: Penguin Colonial Facsimiles, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Faded spine. Old Convict Days chronicles the harsh realities...
The First Discovery Of Australia And New Guinea

The First Discovery Of Australia And New Guinea

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Author: George CollingridgeBinding: PaperbackPublished: Pan Books, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slightly creased spine. This historical account, The First Discovery Of...
Patrick Mcmahon Glynn: Letters To His Family (1874-1927)

Patrick Mcmahon Glynn: Letters To His Family (1874-1927)

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Author: Gerald Glynn O'Collins, S.J.Binding: PaperbackPublished: The Polding Press, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Light creasing on spine. Light stains on...
Sturt Of The Murray

Sturt Of The Murray

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Author: Michael LangleyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Seal Books - Rigby, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Light creasing on spine. This compelling biography chronicles...
Robert Capa

Robert Capa

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Author: Robert CapaBinding: PaperbackPublished: Studio Vista., 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Tanning and foxing to pages, some yellowing to cover and some bends to book.'Robert Capa...
Treasures Of The Vatican Collections

Treasures Of The Vatican Collections

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Author: Alan LevyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Plume, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageTreasures Of The Vatican Collections presents a magnificent visual and historical journey...
Father San Vitores: His Life, Times, And Martyrdom

Father San Vitores: His Life, Times, And Martyrdom

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Author: Emilie G. JohnstonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical biography chronicles...
Limbang Rebellion: 7 Days in December 1962

Limbang Rebellion: 7 Days in December 1962

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In early December 1962 there was a surprise rebel uprising in northern Borneo. The leader of the anti-colonialist North Kalimantan National Army, Sheikh Azahari, mounted the insurrection that became known...
London: Immigrant City

London: Immigrant City

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TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH 'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has...
American Slavery, 1619-1897

American Slavery, 1619-1897

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A concise, engaging overview of American slavery from the beginning of the colonial era to emancipation and its aftermath. Kolchin takes a broad geographical perspective, putting American slavery in the...
Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII

Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII

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"Was the bombing offensive [against civilians in Germany and Japan] a crime against humanity," writes A. C. Grayling, "or was it justified by the necessities of war? These questions mark...
Changing Altitudes: Stories of Australian Air Force Women

Changing Altitudes: Stories of Australian Air Force Women

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In the early years of the Second World War, Australian women began lobbying to contribute to the nation's wartime effort. From 1940, women were signing up to serve in the...
Idiots, Follies and Misadventures

Idiots, Follies and Misadventures

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The history books are full of heroes and villains ... but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity, one...
Tecumseh

Tecumseh

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' A heroic work of research and scholarship. . . The most complete and reliable account of the events that made the great Shawnee Indian a giant figure on the...
Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear

Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear

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According to the renowned social critic and historian Paul Fussell, we are what we wear, and it doesn't look good. Uniforms parses the hidden meanings of our apparel -- from...
Sweet Land of Liberty?: The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights

Sweet Land of Liberty?: The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights

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A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the...
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England

Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England

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28th April 1870. The flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre. All eyes are riveted upon their lascivious oglings of...
A New Time for Mexico

A New Time for Mexico

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Fuentes' bold and timely study discusses the origins and nature of the tumultuous events that have recently transformed Mexican politics and society. The rebellion in Chiapas, a rash of assassinations,...
Closing Pandora's Box: Arms Race, Arms Control and the History of the

Closing Pandora's Box: Arms Race, Arms Control and the History of the

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This history of arms control in the 20th century challenges the liberal-pacifist view of international relations, and explains the Cold War from a post-Cold War perspective, untangling the complex realities...
De Gaulle: The Ruler 1945-1970

De Gaulle: The Ruler 1945-1970

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The second volume of Jean Lacouture's acclaimed biography of Charles de Gaulle opens with the creation of the Fourth Republic in the aftermath of World War II and with the...
Twentieth-Century France: Politics and Society 1898-1991

Twentieth-Century France: Politics and Society 1898-1991

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Originally published as "Dreyfus to de Gaulle", this authoritative account has been revised and extended, its greater chronological range reflected in the new title.Two substantial additional chapters have been incorporated...
White King: The Tragedy of Charles I

White King: The Tragedy of Charles I

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The first accessible biography in 50 years of one of the most dramatic and bloody reigns in history The subject of a BBC TV series on Charles I The prize-winning...
Alexander Hamilton: A Life

Alexander Hamilton: A Life

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From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the Caribbean island of Nevis, to his unhappy fate in 1804 in Weehawken, New Jersey, at the hands of his old...
Wonder Drug: The Hidden Victims of America's Secret Thalidomide

Wonder Drug: The Hidden Victims of America's Secret Thalidomide

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Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction The shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victims In Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears....
Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture

Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture

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Inspiration for the major film starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi and directed by Gurinder Chadha. Seventy years ago, at midnight on 14 August 1947, the...
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets

Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets

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A history of unmarried motherhood through three generations of an Irish family, and the secrets we conceal How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in...
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

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A landmark work of contemporary history and a wake-up call that aims to restore our understanding of the basis of our way of life, from the author of international bestseller...
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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'THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER- Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. 'Powerful...
1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year

1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year

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The story of the year that rock music exploded, featuring almost every star who defined the decade *THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER* As seen on Apple TV - 1971-...
Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War

Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War

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A fascinating, frightening and sometimes funny window into an all-too recent world - everyday life in Britain in the shadow of the mushroom cloud The first book to tell the...
When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most

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The explosive expose of the billion-dollar company that has often made our world more unequal, more corrupt and more dangerous. **A TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR...
A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard

A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard

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The untold story of why our country looks like it does, from the bestselling champion of national heritage, Simon Jenkins The story of Britain is revealed through its buildings, and...
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany

Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany

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Baillie Gifford-shortlisted author Harald J hner (Aftermath- Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich) presents a staggering new assessment of the short life of the Weimar Republic between the...