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Secondhand History, Politics & Ideas Bargain Book Box SP2933 A Pelican-era miscellany at its richest — the kind of shelf assembled when a bookshop's non-fiction section is at its most...

Secondhand WWII Aviation Bargain Book Box SP2932 Twenty-one books on the air war of 1939–45 — fiction and non-fiction together, from first-hand pilot memoirs and squadron histories to the thrillers...

Secondhand Australian Natural History Bargain Book Box SP2935 Fifteen volumes from the beloved Periwinkle Colour Series — Australia's classic illustrated guides to native wildlife and natural environments, published from the...

Secondhand History & Biography Bargain Book Box SP2941 From the courts of Henry VIII to the Burma Railway, from the Congress of Berlin to the Elizabethan stage — this box...

Secondhand Biography, Memoir & Travel Bargain Book Box SP2939 This box won't keep still — it moves from Arctic ice to rural Provence, from Cambodian brothels to AFL football grounds,...

A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what we recognize as today's varied gay culture. This book...

Secondhand Philosophy Bargain Book Box SP2864 Twenty-two philosophy texts spanning Kant to Wittgenstein, from the Enlightenment to the analytic revolution — Blackwell paperbacks, Fontana Modern Masters, and Mentor Philosophers editions...

Secondhand Psychology & Psychoanalysis Bargain Book Box SP2870 Nineteen books from the disputed borders of the human mind — where Freud meets his sharpest critics, where R.D. Laing challenges the...

Secondhand Natural Science Bargain Book Box SP2902 Eighteen books for the reader who finds science as compelling as any novel — from the origin of life to the unweaving of...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2909 Twenty-one books from the golden age of Pelican and Penguin non-fiction — history, biography, literature, espionage, and a Spike Milligan memoir alongside...

The start of World War 2 changed women's lives and their place in Australian society forever. Thousands of women ventured where few had gone before - into the services and...

The book titled The MGM Story by the author John Douglas Eames. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Spanning the past two centuries, this book explores the fascinating role played by this small but highly significant community in the economic. political, social and cultural life of this country....

Inspired by a photograph taken during an emergency landing at an airfield near the author's home, this is an account of the life and death of the Flying Fortress called...

From the author of bestseller Fake History , Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars in history. 'A brilliant book.' James O'Brien Whether...

The iconic New Yorker and Vittles food writer asks: Why do we eat the way we eat now? Being into food - following and making it, queuing for it and...

Explore the failures, mistakes and missed opportunities that shaped history in this new entry in the bestselling series. From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder,...

For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds when Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George...

50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - now a Virago Modern Classic with a new introduction by Alexandra Harris 'Full of dignity, courage and humour, and as fresh and insightful as the day...

Monumental changes in the Australian way of life are making the present into one of the most challenging periods in our history. Such issues as the "new woman", a record...

Expanded, revised edition! Airplanes and motion pictures were born within a year of one another. In 100 years they have both risen from uncertain infancy through growing adolescence to robust...

Originally published in 1980 and still the best one-volume aerial history of World War II, Richard Overy's classic work remains profound and highly original. Far from just an account of...

Lt. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle was both a daring military pilot and an aeronautical pioneer. Daso examines Doolittle's innovations in both the civilian and military fields of aviation and also provides...

In 1889, Victorian impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte opened The Savoy, Britain's first luxury hotel. Allowing the rich to live like royalty, it attracted glamour, scandal and a cast of eccentric...

The book titled Melbourne's Mercy by the author Susan Priestley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this book Curtis Peebles tells the story of the ''Dark Eagles''. These were planes which were developed, tested and operated in deepest secrecy and pushed aviation technology to its...

The book titled Grave of Alice B Toklas by the author Otto Friedrich. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Under the Southern Cross: Brief History of Astronomy in Australia by the author Bhathal Ragbir. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Clear blue skies laced white with vapour trails of fighting aircraft... petrol-filled beer bottles in the garden shed to repel the panzers... streets deserted when the Prime Minister was on...

At 20 years of age, Ross Gregory was selected to play cricket for Australia. He went on to play alongside Bradman before enlisting in the RAAF and serving in England...

Since the 19th century, Westerners have laid siege to the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet. The colonial British saw it as a strategic prize, 1920s botanist Frank Kingdon-Ward saw it as...

The Salamander Oasis Trust was founded in 1976 from among those who served in the Middle East during the Second World War, and took part in compiling the original Oasis...

Representing the work of key international scholars in the field, this important work chronicles the suffering of the non-combatants, or enemy aliens as officials described them, who were interned by...

The book titled Making the Legend: The War Writings of C.E.W. Bean by the author C.E.W. Bean. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled The House at the Bridge by the author Katie Hafner. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The end of the nineteenth century in France was marked by political scandals, social unrest, dissension, and "decadence." Yet the fin de siecle was also an era of great social...

In 1916, just thirteen years after the Wright brothers' first flight, a group of twenty-eight college students, nearly all of them from Yale, decided to try the new sport of...

Fin-de-siecle France was a period of unrest, with strikes, demonstrations, and anarchist terrorism reflecting deep social and political differences. Yet at the same time, this decade produced a vibrant visual...

Dogs at War is a fascinating collection of true-life accounts of canine courage under fire. In military conflicts around the world, these often unsung heroes have proved themselves time and...

The book titled The Second World War: v. 6: Triumph and Tragedy by the author Winston S. Churchill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled The Second World War: v. 5: Closing the Ring by the author Winston S. Churchill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled The Second World War: v. 3: Grand Alliance by the author Winston S. Churchill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Communists vilified her as a raging neurotic. Leftists dismissed her as a confused idealist. Her family pitied her as an exploited lover. Some said she was a traitor, a stooge,...

From the German stormtroopers of 1918 to the jungles of Vietnam, the role of the infantry soldier has developed and evolved. This book describes the changes in the way that...

So much about the society that is now emerging in the twenty-first century bears an astonishing resemblance to the most prominent features of what we call the classical world -...

A fascinating and highly readable account of humankind's development over 10,000 years in a brilliantly illustrated volume by one of the world's most distinguished historians.