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My Dear Great Great Grandfather James Mellor (SIGNED)

My Dear Great Great Grandfather James Mellor (SIGNED)

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Author: Alfred B. MellorBinding: SoftbackPublished: Armadale, Vic. : A.B. Mellor and M.A. Mellor, 1993Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Minor marks and specks on cover. Gifter's inscription on...
The Terrible Secret: Suppression Of The Truth About Hitler's 'Final Solution'

The Terrible Secret: Suppression Of The Truth About Hitler's 'Final Solution'

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Author: Walter LaqueurBinding: HardbackPublished: Little Brown & Co, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Small cut on FEP. This book investigates the deliberate concealment of information surrounding...
The Phantom Major

The Phantom Major

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Author: Virginia CowlesBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1968Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: FEP missingMarkings: No markingsThe book recounts the compelling story of David Stirling, the founder of the Special Air Service (SAS)...
Greek Culture: The Adventure Of The Human Spirit

Greek Culture: The Adventure Of The Human Spirit

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Author: Alice Von HildebrandBinding: HardbackPublished: George Braziller, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Board in good condition. Minor surface wear on DJ. Clean text. This volume presents...
Men And Tendencies

Men And Tendencies

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Author: E. I. WatkinBinding: HardbackPublished: Sheed & Ward, 1937Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a series of insightful analyses concerning influential figures and their intellectual movements....
Psychiatry And Its History: Methodological Problems In Research

Psychiatry And Its History: Methodological Problems In Research

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Author: George Mora, M.D. And Jeanne L. Brand, Ph.D.Binding: HardbackPublished: Charles C Thomas, Publisher, 1970Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis volume addresses the historical development within...
Social Problems On The Home Front

Social Problems On The Home Front

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Author: Francis E. MerrillBinding: HardbackPublished: Harper & Brothers, 1948Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Reading copy with markings. This book presents a constructive study of the urgent...
Jews In British India: Identity In A Colonial Era

Jews In British India: Identity In A Colonial Era

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Author: Joan G. RolandBinding: HardbackPublished: Brandeis University Press by University Press of New England, 1989Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ remnant on black cloth....
The Master Mariner (Two-Volume Set)

The Master Mariner (Two-Volume Set)

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Author: Nicholas MonsarratBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical novel continues the saga of a master mariner. The narrative follows the protagonist through further seafaring...
Modern Australia In Documents (Two-Volume Set)

Modern Australia In Documents (Two-Volume Set)

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Author: Fk CrowleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Wren Publishing Pty Ltd, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Black boards in good condition. Worn DJs with small tears. Clean text. Volume...
Sea Of Dreams (Two-Volume Set)

Sea Of Dreams (Two-Volume Set)

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Author: Jane Alexander (Project Manager)Binding: SoftbackPublished: Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2011Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Sea of Dreams series explores the rich history and cultural significance...
Martin Buber's Life And Work (Three-Volume Set)

Martin Buber's Life And Work (Three-Volume Set)

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Author: Maurice FriedmanBinding: SoftbackPublished: Wayne State University Press, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsMaurice Friedman's Martin Buber's Life and Work is a comprehensive three-volume biography that meticulously explores...
The Bradman Albums (Two-Volume Set)

The Bradman Albums (Two-Volume Set)

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Author: Sir Donald BradmanBinding: HardbackPublished: Lansdowne Press, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded spines. This two-volume set compiles a comprehensive visual history of one of cricket's...
A Brief History of the First World War: Eyewitness Accounts of the War

A Brief History of the First World War: Eyewitness Accounts of the War

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Even 100 years on from the First World War it haunts us still. No other conflict has revealed so dramatically the senselessness of war, and none has shaped the modern...
Who's Who in Early Hanoverian Britain, 1714-1789

Who's Who in Early Hanoverian Britain, 1714-1789

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Of the notable artists and craftsmen of the time, Laurence Sterne, author of the mock-heroic novel Tristram Shandy, makes an appearance here, as do the furniture maker Thomas Chippendale, painter...
William Johnson's Natchez: The Ante-Bellum Diary of a Free Negro

William Johnson's Natchez: The Ante-Bellum Diary of a Free Negro

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The discovery in 1938 of the diary and personal papers of William Johnson ( ca. 1809-1851), a free Negro of Natchez, Mississippi, made possible the publication of this fascinating volume....
Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas

Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas

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This text provides an account of Cook's South Sea voyages, in which Cook plunged south to discover Antarctica and then veered north to discover Hawaii. In Anne Salmond's narrative, Cook's...
Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany

Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany

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A great deal of Holocaust survival stories revolve around disguise--many Jews were forced into impersonation by the desperateness of their plight. Imagine if a person, by the accident of birth,...
Fifties, the

Fifties, the

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The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits...
Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from

Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from

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Many of the academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten her? This is the story of Esther Simpson, a...
Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior

Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior

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A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution-leading to the violent attack on the Capitol...
Unredeemed Captive

Unredeemed Captive

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Nominated for the National Book Award, this book is set in colonial Massachusetts where, in 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a...
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

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In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with...
Spare Parts

Spare Parts

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In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix,...
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the

American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the

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From the prizewinning author of the bestselling Founding Brothers and American Sphinx comes this masterly and highly ironic examination of the founding years of our country.
Lincoln's Bishop: A President, a Priest, and the Fate of 300 Dakota

Lincoln's Bishop: A President, a Priest, and the Fate of 300 Dakota

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It is hard to recall what powerful moral voices Protestant church leaders had in the formative years of the nation. Gustav Niebuhr travels back to the Minnesota frontier of 1862...
Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular

Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular

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This work focuses on English cultural attitudes toward Jews during what is known as the "longer" 18th century, from roughly 1660 to 1830. Frank Felsenstein describes the persistence through the...
Civil War Newspaper Maps: A Historical Atlas

Civil War Newspaper Maps: A Historical Atlas

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Bull Run - Ball's Bluff - Chickamauga - Antietam - Secessionville - Champion's Hill. To the Northern public during the Civil War, they were exotic names of unfamiliar places where...
Architects of the Information Society: Thirty-five Years of the

Architects of the Information Society: Thirty-five Years of the

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) has been responsible for some of the most significant technological achievements of the past few decades. Much of the hardware...
Return to Diversity

Return to Diversity

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Now updated to cover events since 1989, this highly acclaimed text offers a complete political history of East Central Europe from World War II to the present by one of...
The Cult of Youth: Anti-Ageing in Modern Britain

The Cult of Youth: Anti-Ageing in Modern Britain

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In this major new study, James F. Stark provides the first historical account of the most dominant ideas, practices, and material cultures associated with anti-ageing and rejuvenation in modern Britain....
The Truth About French Women

The Truth About French Women

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The Truth About French Women shows us that French women really are fascinating, but not for the reasons you think. The Truth About French Women shows us that French women...
Australia's Flying Doctor

Australia's Flying Doctor

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Celebrating the people involved in the organization, the landscape they have flown over for 50 years and the spirit of the outback, this text by prize-winning author Robert McDonald and...
The Patchwork Nation

The Patchwork Nation

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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...
Somewhere To Lay My Head

Somewhere To Lay My Head

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We left Robert a long way from home, a sixteen-year-old recruit in the RAF. Now, we follow his escape from the Forces (until National Service a few years later!), his...
Colour: Travels through the Paintbox

Colour: Travels through the Paintbox

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On a journey that takes her from Afghanistan, to the Australian outback, to ancient caves in China, and the saffron harvest in Spain, Victoria Finlay gives an account of the...
Canberra

Canberra

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A pictorial history of Canberra from settlement to the present day.
How Fat Was Henry VIII?: And Other Questions on Royal History

How Fat Was Henry VIII?: And Other Questions on Royal History

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. Intriguing questions about our monarchs, with surprising answers Ever wondered how fat Henry VIII really was? Or what made Mary I 'Bloody'? Over many hundreds of years royalty has...