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Reginal Birch remembers his childhood years growing up in the remote east Kimberley town of Wyndham. He captures many bittersweet experiences of his family as he brings to life the...

In the 1950s and 1960s, Keith Smith interviewed a number of "old timers", people whose living memories then stretched as far back as the 1880s, the gold-rush days and the...

An account of the battle for the Siegfried Line in the final year of World War II, which raged for six, long, bloody months along a front of 350 miles...

Augustus Hervey was born into the wildly eccentric family of the Earls of Bristol, a lineage so different from ordinary folk that it was said there were three sexes: men,...

In the pages of this encyclopaedic book is everything anyone could ever want to know about the World Cup, from the first finals in Uruguay in 1930 to the last...

Fascinating biographies of high-profile and influential figures of the 20th century.

'Harpy is a tonic; a tongue-in-cheek manual for dealing with Spanish Inquisition-style questioning about saying pass to procreation and building an enriching life beyond the nuclear family' - VOGUE 'Harpy...

Call The Midwife is the BBC's most popular drama ever - that is what viewing figures tell us with over ten million viewers per episode. The Christmas edition is always...

Traces the progress and regress of the world's civilizations over the past thousand years and shows how the capacity of one people to influence another has shifted geographically.

John wrote, refined and combined the essays and poems in this collection over several years, crafting into them his thoughts on consciousness, life, history, the universe, everything. They reflect his...

This text gives an overview of a single day in World War II - 25th October 1944, as it was seen on all fronts. Through a succession of vignettes, showing...

The world is full of women we don t know whose stories have been overlooked or airbrushed from history. Often faced with limited life choices, this book proudly showcases those...

From the beginning of war (10,000 BCE) to the Arab Spring (2010) in 100 bite- size entries. How did we get from clubs and spears to machine guns and drone...

Scene I. Enter Simo and Sosia, followed by Servants carrying provisions. Simo (to the Servants.) Do you carry those things away indoors; begone. (Beckoning to Sosia.) Sosia, just step here;...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there...

During World War II in Europe, the author's Field Artillery Forward Observer's telescope provided a unique view of American battles from Normandy to final victory in Germany.

A biography of the 18th century revolutionary Edward Fitzgerald, the son of Emily Lennox, one of the sisters featured in ARISTOCRATS. The book naturally follows on from ARISTOCRATS and is...

This is a fascinating and moving portrait of the people who are suffering in a more divided and less egalitarian Australian society. Based on the author's conversations with hundreds of...

This is the third collection of the author's historical essays containing 15 essays ranging from an account of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci's mission in China in the 16th century to...

When Benjamin Franklin, the 18th-century American statesman and scientist, watched the calming effect of a drop of oil on the waves and ripples of a London pond, he was observing...

How far would you go to survive? These thirty gripping tales explore how people can endure horrific circumstances and survive against overwhelming odds. Chock-full of hair-raising accounts, readers will discover...

The 40-year story of the creation and demise of one of the pioneering companies of the computer age, explaining in detail how a particular culture can become so embedded that...

A harrowing true story of the modern Ku Klux Klan and an act of grace that shook a community in the Deep South. The true events that inspired the film,...

Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well The advertising industry tells us the answer lies in the vineyards and olive groves of Tuscany...

A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France. As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many...

What is leadership? What are the secrets of the phenomenon by which one person can lead millions - sometimes to salvation, sometimes to destruction? Is leadership innate, or can it...

Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency...

Essex, the witch hunting county, is especially rich in traditions, legends, dialect and stories. This book explores the origins and meanings of its traditions to create a sense of the...

BROADCAST WARS is an explosive look at a tumultuous period (2003-2011) in Australian television as the Nine and Seven networks traded blows, new technologies emerged and old personalities and management...

Moral and citizenship education are again at the forefront of educational attention with the recent governmental announcements about revisions to the National Curriculum frameworks to 2000 and beyond. This book...

History will always remember the Edisons, Einsteins and Darwins: they succeeded in changing the world, and the world has repaid them by enshrining their names. But what of those others...

A gloriously colourful and compact tribute to Melbourne's famous and iconic trams - one of the city's most enduring symbols. More than 130 photographs and illustrations show the trams in...

100 years, the popes have spoken about women on more than 40 occasions. This book is the first study, in any language, of that teaching. From speeches to encyclicals, Richard...

This book recounts for the first time the tragic loss of more than 1,000 American soldiers in 1943 when their troopship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean.

Analyzes the Persian Gulf War, describes the strengths and weaknesses of the Coalition forces, and evaluates the strategies and weapons used in the war.

Towboats have been a part of British Columbia's history since 1836, when the Hudson's Bay Company's ungainly side-wheeler SS Beaver made the first powered tow up the coast. Over the...

Long George Francis: Gentleman Outlaw of Montana, is the fascinating account of the life of a little-known outlaw and latter-day Robin Hood of Montana. Author Gary A. Wilson captures the...

Confronted with a declining jobs base, deepening social problems and apparent indifference on the part of central government, many British cities made an "entrepreneurial turn" during the 1980s and 1990s....

Lightning never strikes twice, but Steve Jobs has, transforming modern culture first with the Macintosh and more recently with the iPod. He has dazzled and delighted audiences with his Pixar...