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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingOn the 10th of December 1941, just three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Royal Navy suffered one of its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against the full might of Nazi Germany, and the fate of the free world hinged on...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedBehind the immortal diary lies a life that extends far beyond its final entry — The Footsteps of Anne Frank by Ernst Schnabel is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFew chess openings have captivated and confounded players across centuries quite like the Ruy Lopez, and The Closed Ruy Lopez stands as an authoritative...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageCecil John Seddon Purdy was no ordinary chess player — he was a trailblazer, a wordsmith,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn 1979, Brisbane became the centre of the chess world when Queensland hosted one of its most prestigious...

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Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn 1960, the chess world witnessed one of its most electrifying upsets:...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the sweltering heat of the American Deep South during the 1930s, one sociologist ventured into the rigid...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when one man's mind reshapes an entire civilization? Freud and the 20th Century, edited by Benjamin...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of democratic idealism and Victorian intellectual rigour stands John Stuart Mill, one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a pivotal moment in Australia's technological history, The Phone Book places the nation's entire communications infrastructure under...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the information age, John Naisbitt's Megatrends arrived as a seismic cultural forecast,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Minor crease on front cover, In the dead of a dark night in June 1969, two warships...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore Afghanistan became synonymous with conflict, it was a land of breathtaking antiquity and raw, untamed beauty —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to be a family, and how did the intimate unit we take for...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an age when maps held vast blank spaces and the ocean's edge was the boundary of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the sprawling fringes of postwar Australia, a new kind of community was taking shape — raw, ambitious,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does equality truly look like when a state commands it by decree? In The End of Inequality?,...

Condition remarks:Book: NewJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: New in original plastic wrap. Pages appears yellow. Behind every modern conflict lies a shadowy supply chain, and at the center of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the crossroads of policy and human welfare, Australian Social Security Today: Major developments from 1900 to 1978 presents a sweeping chronicle of Australia's social...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA landmark work in the field of physical anthropology, The Living Races of Man presents a sweeping survey of human biological diversity...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedWhat happens when a maverick explorer stakes his reputation — and his life — on a papyrus reed boat crossing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodSet against the turbulent backdrop of the mid-nineteenth century British Empire, Badge of Glory thrusts Captain Richard Blackwood and his...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of Enlightenment idealism and Romantic revolution, the late eighteenth century witnessed one of the most dramatic reinventions...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the rugged and unforgiving Australian interior of the 1840s, explorer Ludwig Leichhardt mounted a second ambitious expedition into the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the iron grip of Paul I to the catastrophic collapse of Nicholas II's reign in 1917, Russia of the Tsars: 1796–1917 chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the height of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union remained one of the most impenetrable and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of economic theory and urban reality lies one of the most pressing challenges of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA cornerstone of architectural scholarship, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire stands as an indispensable guide to one of England's most historically layered counties, chronicling...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingStep off the beaten path and into one of England's most storied counties — Companion into Hampshire is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the turbulent decades between the Peace of Westphalia and the Glorious Revolution, Europe was remade — and Europe Unfolding 1648-1688 by John Stoye...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the cusp of modernity, a continent trembled on the edge of transformation — and Renaissance Europe 1480-1520 by J. R. Hale chronicles this...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the height of World War II, two American journalists embedded in China witnessed firsthand the catastrophic collapse of a nation torn...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the turn of the twentieth century, England basked in the last golden glow of imperial confidence — a world...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA sweeping and authoritative panorama of one of the world's most rich and misunderstood artistic traditions, Islamic Art...