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1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed

1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed

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Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Eric Cline's 1177 B.C. tells the story of one of history's greatest mysteries: what caused the ancient civilisations of the...
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History

Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History

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Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party

A Little History of the Australian Labor Party

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Author: Nick Dyrenfurth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Acclaimed historians Nick Dyrenfurth and Frank Bongiorno tell the story of the Australian Labor Party's rich history of more than 130...
Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world

Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world

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Author: Brett Mason Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 ** Shortlisted, 2023 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award ** Two Australian scientists played a vital yet largely unknown role in...
As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West

As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West

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Author: Guido Alfani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didn't help) their...
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World

The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World

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Author: Karl Schloegel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly...
The Snowy: A History

The Snowy: A History

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Author: Siobhn McHugh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The Snowy: A History tells theextraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of theworld's engineering marvels. The Snowy...
Wedded Wife: A Feminist History of Marriage

Wedded Wife: A Feminist History of Marriage

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Author: Ms. Rachael Lennon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and accessible examination of the history of...
The Secret Life of John le Carre

The Secret Life of John le Carre

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Author: Adam Sisman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive...
Lives of Houses

Lives of Houses

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Author: Kate Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate...
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

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Author: Tiya Miles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR...
Wedded Wife: A Feminist History of Marriage

Wedded Wife: A Feminist History of Marriage

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Author: Ms. Rachael Lennon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and accessible examination of the history of...
The Secret Life of John le Carre

The Secret Life of John le Carre

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Author: Adam Sisman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive...
God's Generals: The Military Lives of Moses, the Buddha, and Muhammad

God's Generals: The Military Lives of Moses, the Buddha, and Muhammad

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A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States

A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States

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Author: Eric D. Weitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 **Finalist for the PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers** Once dominated by vast empires, the world is...
Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most

Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most

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Author: Marcel Gauchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy. Maximilien Robespierre (17581794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory...
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher

Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher

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Author: John Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 600 Waterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when...
The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture

The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture

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Author: Professor Jason Koenig Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquity. The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor...
Cheerfulness - A Literary and Cultural History

Cheerfulness - A Literary and Cultural History

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Author: Timothy Hampton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A timely story of a forgotten emotion Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History tells a new story about the cultural imagination...
Einstein in Bohemia

Einstein in Bohemia

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Author: Professor Michael D. Gordin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 Physics Today, Notable Books of 2020 A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in Prague In the spring...
Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative

Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative

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Author: Konrad H. Jarausch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe. Is the European...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

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How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
Our Troubles with Food: Fears, Fads and Fallacies

Our Troubles with Food: Fears, Fads and Fallacies

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Madness Rules the Hour: Charleston, 1860, and the Mania for War

Madness Rules the Hour: Charleston, 1860, and the Mania for War

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The Society for Useful Knowledge: How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America

The Society for Useful Knowledge: How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America

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Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups : Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain

Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups : Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain

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Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

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Lindbergh: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Lindbergh: Pulitzer Prize Winner

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Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris

Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris

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This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason

This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason

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Things I Have Withheld

Things I Have Withheld

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Truth Is Trouble: The strange case of Israel Folau, or How Free Speech Became So Complicated

Truth Is Trouble: The strange case of Israel Folau, or How Free Speech Became So Complicated

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Gallipoli: a Battlefield Guide: A Battlefield Guide

Gallipoli: a Battlefield Guide: A Battlefield Guide

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Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s

Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s

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Actas de La Comision Mista de Senadores I Diputados Encargada de Informar Sobre El Proyecto de Codigo de Procedimiento Penal...

Actas de La Comision Mista de Senadores I Diputados Encargada de Informar Sobre El Proyecto de Codigo de Procedimiento Penal...

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Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

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Author: David Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who,...
The Great Divide

The Great Divide

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Author: Cristina Henriquez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST 'One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE...
Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the 20th Century

Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the 20th Century

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The Land Before Avocado

The Land Before Avocado

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Author: Richard Glover Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Australia used to...
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world

On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world

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Author: Sean Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ON EVERY TIDE is a wide-ranging and challenging reassessment of the Irish diaspora. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research, and his...
The Clumsiest People in Europe: A Bad-Tempered Guide To The World

The Clumsiest People in Europe: A Bad-Tempered Guide To The World

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Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate Volume 1

Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate Volume 1

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Sailing: A Course of my Life

Sailing: A Course of my Life

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Crescent Moon: Islamic Art & Civilisation in Southeast Asia

Crescent Moon: Islamic Art & Civilisation in Southeast Asia

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The Image of the Black in Western Art: From the American Revolution to World War I (Two-Volume Set) Part 1 - Slaves and Liberators, Part 2 - Black Models and White Myths

The Image of the Black in Western Art: From the American Revolution to World War I (Two-Volume Set) Part 1 - Slaves and Liberators, Part 2 - Black Models and White Myths

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The Passionate Bibliophile: The Story of Walter Stone - Australian Bookman Extraordinaire

The Passionate Bibliophile: The Story of Walter Stone - Australian Bookman Extraordinaire

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My Years with the Woodpeckers

My Years with the Woodpeckers

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Turkey Ancient Miniatures

Turkey Ancient Miniatures

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