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Author: Dusko PopovBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards in good condition with slightly faded spine. Light...
The Sister's Faithful Companions Of Jesus In Australia
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Author: M. Clare. O'CONNOR,Binding: HardbackPublished: The Sisters, Faithful Companions of Jesus, 1982Condition:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Foxing on title page and rear end papers.A...
Man & Work: Literature And Culture In Industrial Society
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Author: David MeakinBinding: HardbackPublished: Methuen, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly work examines the profound interplay between human labor and the cultural landscape...
1913: The Year before the Storm
A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched documentary traces and biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate cultural portrait of a world that is about to change forever. The...
Exit Through the Fireplace: Great Days of the Rep
A nostalgic and humorous evocation of the days of local rep through the memories of those who worked in it. Many of today's best known actors pay tribute to rep...
Wagner Nights: An American History
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As never before or since, Richard Wagner's name dominated American music-making at the close of the nineteenth century. Europe, too, was obsessed with Wagner, but - as Joseph Horowitz shows...
A Method to Their Madness: History of the Actors Studio
For decades, in one small room on West Forty-fourth Street in Manhattan, Lee Strasberg ran the Actors Studio, where dozens of acclaimed actors absorbed a technique that became known as...
History'S Worst Crimes: And the People Who Solved Them
From the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the Watergate burglary, the most infamous crimes continue to hold public attention long after they were committed. History's Worst Crimes takes you...
Ring of Ice: Adventure, Exploration and Life in the Arctic
Well into the nineteenth century, Arctic explorers believed that they need only their ships through a ring of ice circling the top of the globe, and from there they would...
Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two
Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the post-war Establishment. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft....
Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto
After surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide, followed by years of confinement to international refugee camps, as many as 10,000 Southeast Asian refugees arrived in the Bronx during the 1980s and...
A History of the Wife
From Eve to breadwinner, this title traces the history of the wife in Western society, charting the change in the status of women from mere chattels to equal partners in...
Living Indigenous Leadership: Native Narratives on Building Strong
Indigenous scholars strive to produce research to improve Native communities in meaningful ways. They also recognize that long-lasting change depends on effective leadership. Living Indigenous Leadership showcases innovative research and...
Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys
Tales of brave and selfless deeds used to be part of every boy's education. We grew up sharing stories with our fathers, uncles and grandfathers of how other men had...
Detroit's Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism
Detroit's Cold War locates the roots of American conservatism in a city that was a nexus of labor and industry in postwar America. Drawing on meticulous archival research focusing on...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
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This critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach--and the moment it began to topple. September 29, 1923. Once the...
Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat
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The definitive history of women in war, revealing how women have always been an essential part of combat From Boudicca's rebellion to the war in Ukraine, battlefields have always contained...
The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped
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A "magisterial" ( Sunday Times ) history of how books were used in war across the twentieth century--both as weapons and as agents for peace We tend not to talk...
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
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An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world's leading economists: this "magisterial history" offers a grand narrative of the century that made us...
The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It
A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in...
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
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A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian Justinian is a radical reassessment of an emperor and his times. In the sixth century CE, the emperor Justinian presided over...
The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020
**Winner of the 2020 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS for Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian** A Times Political Book of the Year 'An entertaining, thorough and informative canter through the characters...
Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged
The Sunday Times bestsellerTHE STORY OF BRITAIN during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Find out how Britain changed in this entrancing, lively portrait of Britain's Elizabethan Age by...
Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World
NEW EDITION - FEATURING UPDATED INTRODUCTION AND NEW CHAPTERS The giant characters of history - from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare to Einstein, Henry VIII to Hitler, Catherine the Great to...
Civilization: The West and the Rest
How the West's six 'killer apps' transformed the history of the world Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2013 If in the year 1411 you had been...
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change
A New York Times bestseller and recommended by Bill Gates- Jared Diamond's visionary exploration of how nations cope with trauma and crisis, why some recover, and others don't. In his...
The Story of the World Cup: The Essential Companion to Japan 2002
The only comprehensive history of the world's top football tournament, fully updated to include the 1998 competition in France. As well as vivid accounts of individual games (from the first...
Rethinking History
This introductory text is written for students faced with the question "what is history?' Polemical in tone, the book argues against a skills-based approach to history in favour of a...
Shake Puppies
The highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling book Shake, Shake Puppies also features 61 dogs caught mid-shake-only this time they're even more adorable and laughter inducing. Shake Puppies features two...
Full Astern!: An Illustrated History of New Zealand Shipwrecks
The sea may be our highway, but it can charge appallingly high tolls. Our ancestors rightly feared death and destruction at sea. In the last 200 years over 2000 ships...
Domino Effect
Shows how Domino's Pizza has achieved success through its innovative delivery system and the personnel policies that support it.
1923: The Crisis of German Democracy in the Year of Hitler's Putsch
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How Germany's fledgling democracy nearly collapsed in 1923--and how pro-democracy forces fought back In 1923, the Weimar Republic faced a series of crises, including foreign occupation of its industrial heartland,...
Collection: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
A book about the permanent collection at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
United States Coastguard in World War II
Originally published in 1957, this intimate view of the Coast Guard's dramatic World War II record has long been considered a classic. Out of print for years, it is once...
The Dead Sea Scrolls: the Riddle Debated
The book titled The Dead Sea Scrolls: the Riddle Debated by the author Leonie Star. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Never Had it So Good 1956-63: A History of Britain from Suez to the
In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for the tumultuous changes of the decades to come. In NEVER HAD...
The Concept of Race in South Asia
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South Asia has always played a part in the European imagining of race, but has not been much considered in the scholarly literature of the present generation. Nor, recently, have...
The Private World of the Last Tsar, 1912-17
The Private World of the Last Tsar, 1912-17 is a 1984 photo album compiled by Paul Grabbe from his father, General Count Alexander Grabbe's, private collection of notes and photographs...
Reefer Ships: The Ocean Princesses
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A celebration of a century and a quarter of refrigerated transport by sea, and some of the world's most beautiful ships -- the pure reefers and fruit carriers.
They Were Never Told: Tragedy of HMS "Dasher"
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Containing material never before seen They W ere Never Told includes original statements from those caugh t up in the disaster, a full examination of the Board of Enq uiry''s...
Australia's Frontline: The Northern Territory's War
Australia’s Frontline: The Northern Territory's War is a historical book by Frank X. Alcorta, first published in 1991 by Allen & Unwin. It was commissioned by the Northern Territory government...
A Child at Arms
A narrative of a young officer's fears and triumphs, of the discomforts and tragedies attendant on battle, the terrors and confusion in the midst of action against a fanatically tenacious...
Amphibious Warfare: The Theory and Practice of Amphibious Operations
A full history of the theory and practice of amphibious operations in the 20th century. The text takes the reader through a stage-by-stage account of amphibious tactical operations, and includes...
Ships without Names: Story of the Royal Navy's Tank Landing Ships of
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This is an illustrated account of these remarkable vessels which played a crucial role in the Allied offensives of the 1939-45 war. The American-built landing ship was a vessel of...
Elders & Fyffes: A Photographic History
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Ubiquitous in ever supermarket and corner shop, it is hard to imagine a world without bananas. But it was once so! Britain's love affair with the humble banana is as...