History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the height of the Cold War, one man's words held the power to reshape the global order — and Khrushchev Speaks...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhen the plague swept through the Tuscan town of Monte Lupo in 1630, it ignited a fierce collision between the cold logic of public...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the glittering, jazz-soaked boulevards of 1920s Paris, few Americans lived with more style, generosity, and élan...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. At the intersection of literary genius and cultural identity stands Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, widely regarded...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew centuries have been as intellectually convulsed and politically transformed as the twentieth, and Karl Dietrich Bracher's The Age of Ideologies stands...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Few figures in nineteenth-century Russian history burn as fiercely as Alexander Herzen — exile, agitator, and prophet...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBefore the couch, before the theories that would rewrite the map of the human mind, there was a young Sigmund Freud — restless, ambitious,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the aftermath of World War II, one of the last surviving members of the Bloomsbury Group picked up her pen and began recording...

Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of one of the twentieth century's most powerful and enigmatic political systems, Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark chapter in Australian aviation history unfolds in this remarkable two-in-one volume, combining Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of one of the most dramatic political upheavals of the twentieth century stands a question...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMaurice Collis spent a lifetime at the intersection of art, literature, and empire, and The Journey Up: Reminiscences 1934–1968 stands as his vivid, deeply...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodLong before the age of modern chemistry, a brotherhood of secretive scholars pursued the ultimate dream — to transmute base metals into gold and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markAt the turbulent crossroads of modernity, God's Fifth Column presents a sweeping intellectual portrait of a world unraveling — chronicling the defining...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of Cold War politics and the twilight of Soviet power, Can Gorbachev Change the Soviet Union?: The International Dimensions of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of ideology and artistic expression, Soviet Literature To-Day presents a sweeping and incisive survey of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the height of the Vietnam War, celebrated German playwright and author Peter Weiss travelled to North Vietnam and returned with a...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew lives in the history of French letters have burned as brightly — or as turbulently...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to discover — to shatter the boundaries of the known world and reimagine the very fabric of human understanding?...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in Victorian literature are as maddeningly elusive as George Borrow — traveller, linguist, adventurer, and writer — a man who constructed his...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt a moment when democracy trembled under the shadow of fascism and totalitarianism, Rex Warner delivered a searing intellectual reckoning...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Minor wear on boards. Binding remains tight. Clean and bright copy. At a time when Australia's cultural identity was still being...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Small stain on book block. From the shadowy corridors of Cold War intelligence comes Tale of the Scorpion, a gripping firsthand...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew political upheavals have reshaped the modern world as profoundly as the Russian Revolution, and The Origins of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the dawn of Britain's most audacious imperial undertaking, a handful of ambitious, conflicted, and often brilliant men...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedAt the crossroads of Russian Romanticism and early realism stands Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky — philosopher, musician, writer, and eccentric polymath — whose singular life...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the sunburned colony of nineteenth-century Australia, a quiet but consequential revolution was unfolding — the hard-won struggle of Jewish settlers for...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the heart of Melbourne's storied St Kilda district, a Jewish community took root and flourished across one remarkable century...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA Golden String is a quietly luminous biography that chronicles the remarkable life of Dorothy J Ross, a woman whose personal journey illuminates the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the vast, sun-scorched outback of Australia, where the nearest neighbour might be hundreds of miles away and death can arrive swiftly...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the dark, desperate hours of February 1942, the Sunda Strait became the grave of some of the most gallant...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some marks and specks on boards. Chipped and worn dj with some...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodA landmark institution stands at the heart of Australian medicine, and The Melbourne Medical School 1862–1962 chronicles its first century with scholarly...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of diplomacy and global inequality, Third-World Diplomats in Dialogue with the First World presents...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: **FRENCH TEXT ONLY**In one of the most unflinching critical examinations of Soviet totalitarianism, Michel Heller chronicles how the Gulag — the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageTwenty years after his landmark visit to Liu Ling, a remote village in northern China's Shaanxi province, Jan...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Minor creasing on front cover. Steeped in the mystique of ancient Chinese martial tradition, 108 Movements of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the painted caves of Lascaux to the concert halls of Mozart's Vienna, The Creators presents one of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before modern science could articulate the mechanics of volcanic eruptions, floods, and earthquakes, human cultures around the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the colonial wards of the 1860s to the modern hospitals of 1990, Australian Nurses since Nightingale 1860-1990...