History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind every great monarch stands a figure of equal brilliance, and in King Without a Crown, Daphne Bennett...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor over a millennium, the towering edifice of Greco-Roman civilisation cast its long shadow across the intellectual and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Minor staining to fore-edge.In the sweltering summer of 1914, the great powers of Europe stumbled — with catastrophic certainty — into the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of law, medicine, and social conscience stands Prostitution and Morality, a landmark work that examines one of humanity's most...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt just twenty-four years of age, William Pitt the Younger became Britain's youngest Prime Minister, and Robin Reilly's authoritative biography chronicles the extraordinary life of...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind every scandalous Hollywood headline of the mid-twentieth century, there stood one man: Jerry Giesler, the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a pivotal crossroads in Australian academic life, The Future of Higher Education in Australia presents a rigorous...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhat if the abstract world of mathematics could feel as wondrous and boundless as the universe itself? Mathematics...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the height of the personal computer boom, one Wall Street analyst dared to ask the question no one else would: who would survive when...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBetween the wars, a generation of Australian women put pen to paper and carved out literary identities in a cultural landscape that was rarely welcoming...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the gold rushes of the nineteenth century to the industrial powerhouse of the modern era, Australia's economic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the crossroads of empire and commerce, The Ottoman City between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul presents a groundbreaking comparative study of three of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: FEP missingIn the golden haze of political retrospection, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, opens a window onto the defining moments and remarkable personalities...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedIn the frozen grip of the Arctic, an entire Royal Navy expedition vanished without trace — and the desperate quest to find it became one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of two of Western music's most transformative eras stands Friedrich Blume's authoritative Classic and Romantic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the vivid and richly imagined world of Tudor England, Rosemary Sutcliff's The Queen Elizabeth Story chronicles the life...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBefore the age of the computer, there was Ada — a woman of breathtaking intellect born into the shadow of literary legend, whose genius would...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to be Australian? The Australian Dream, edited by the historian Ian Turner, confronts this...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most incisive works of political science ever written, Samuel Edward Finer presents a sweeping,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most explosive political documents of the twentieth century, Khrushchev Remembers grants an unprecedented window into...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the earliest colonial settlements to the modern era, An Outline of American History presents a comprehensive and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of national prosperity and global commerce, The Pattern of Australia's International Payments by J. O....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most consequential works of twentieth-century economic thought, John Kenneth Galbraith dismantles the myth of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the dawn of human civilization to the modern age, Sex in History by Reay Tannahill presents one of the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore the guns of August shattered the old world forever, there existed a civilisation of breathtaking complexity, contradictions,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBetween the armistice of 1918 and the outbreak of the Second World War lay two turbulent decades that...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the twilight of the Tokugawa shogunate to the turbulent decades of the twentieth century, The Modern History...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the gilded courts and sun-drenched piazzas of Quattrocento Italy, a quiet revolution in human vision was taking...