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The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of
In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of modernists, traditionalists, reformists, Shias and Sunnis attempted to modify the laws relating to their places...
Reinventing Australia: The Mind and Mood of Australia in the 90s
Monumental changes in the Australian way of life are making the present into one of the most challenging periods in our history. Such issues as the "new woman", a record...
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
In the eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams greatly admired the Persian Empire, while Iranians regarded America as an ideal their own government might emulate. Beginning there, how...
Doolittle: Aerospace Visionary
Lt. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle was both a daring military pilot and an aeronautical pioneer. Daso examines Doolittle's innovations in both the civilian and military fields of aviation and also provides...
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That
A TLS , TIMES, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and...
Turning to Stone
WINNER OF THE 2025 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED NATURAL HISTORY WRITING 'Vast and arresting' SPECTATOR 'A remarkably human take on the geological world' NEW STATESMAN Rocks are the record...
Melbourne's Mercy
The book titled Melbourne's Mercy by the author Susan Priestley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Dark Eagles: The History of Top Secret U.S.Aircraft
In this book Curtis Peebles tells the story of the ''Dark Eagles''. These were planes which were developed, tested and operated in deepest secrecy and pushed aviation technology to its...
Grave of Alice B Toklas
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The book titled Grave of Alice B Toklas by the author Otto Friedrich. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Under the Southern Cross: Brief History of Astronomy in Australia
The book titled Under the Southern Cross: Brief History of Astronomy in Australia by the author Bhathal Ragbir. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
The Battle Of Britain: The Fight for Survival in 1940
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Clear blue skies laced white with vapour trails of fighting aircraft... petrol-filled beer bottles in the garden shed to repel the panzers... streets deserted when the Prime Minister was on...
The Ross Gregory Story
At 20 years of age, Ross Gregory was selected to play cricket for Australia. He went on to play alongside Bradman before enlisting in the RAAF and serving in England...
The Voice of War: Poems of the Second World War
The Salamander Oasis Trust was founded in 1976 from among those who served in the Middle East during the Second World War, and took part in compiling the original Oasis...
Alien Justice : Wartime Internment in Australia and North America:
Representing the work of key international scholars in the field, this important work chronicles the suffering of the non-combatants, or enemy aliens as officials described them, who were interned by...
Making the Legend: The War Writings of C.E.W. Bean
The book titled Making the Legend: The War Writings of C.E.W. Bean by the author C.E.W. Bean. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
The House at the Bridge
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The book titled The House at the Bridge by the author Katie Hafner. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Hollywood: The Oral History
Hollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century. What makes this book unique from any other survey of Hollywood's history...
The Millionaire's Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great
In 1916, just thirteen years after the Wright brothers' first flight, a group of twenty-eight college students, nearly all of them from Yale, decided to try the new sport of...
Speed: How it Explains the World
Prepare to view the world through a new lens - SPEED - a groundbreaking exploration that challenges your perceptions of life's driving force, from the internationally bestselling author Explore how...
Clever Girl
Communists vilified her as a raging neurotic. Leftists dismissed her as a confused idealist. Her family pitied her as an exploited lover. Some said she was a traitor, a stooge,...
Infantry Warfare: The Theory and Practice of Infantry Combat in the
From the German stormtroopers of 1918 to the jungles of Vietnam, the role of the infantry soldier has developed and evolved. This book describes the changes in the way that...
Scarlet Woman of Wall Street
The book titled Scarlet Woman of Wall Street by the author GORDON. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
"Everyone knows the old saying "necessity is the mother of invention," but if you do a paternity test on many of the modern world's most important ideas or institutions, you...
A History of the World in the 20th Century (Obee) (Cloth)
In 1980, the first part of the Collins History of the World in the 20th Century was published, covering the years 1900-1945. This is a revision of and extensive expansion...
It's Not Cricket: Skullduggery, Sharp Practice and Downright Cheating
An eye-opening survey of cricket, from the crowd violence and blatant match-rigging of the eighteenth century, down to the twentieth century's glaring abuses of the spirit of the game. Written...
Selected Letters
It has been Gorky's great misfortune to be remembered mostly for the wrong things - for his apparent support of the Stalin regime; for his direct involvement in the foundation...
History and Value
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In this work, the author returns to the literature of his youth to ask why we appear to have forgotten how powerful it seemed in a time of economic crisis...
First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea
Americans have an unwavering faith in democracy and are ever eager to import it to nations around the world. But how democratic is our own "democracy"? If you can vote,...
The Mammoth Book of Combat: Reports from the Frontline
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From the Battle of Bull Run to current-day Iraq, war has fascinated some of the finest writers of the past two centuries, and now over a hundred of their vivid...
Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes and the Immigrant Menace
Amid concerns over use of TB and AIDS to exclude immigrants, this book looks at how earlier generations grappled with such problems, from the Irish immigrants of New York wrongly...
The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age
The disintegration of Europe's post-Cold War consensus in the face of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression Once the world's bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to...
Great Tales from New Zealand History
Who really did 'discover' New Zealand?; Why history has turned its back on the timid Abel Tasman; The burning of the sailing ship Boyd sets back European settlement by a...
The Second World War: v. 4: Hinge of Fate
The book titled The Second World War: v. 4: Hinge of Fate by the author Winston S. Churchill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
The Botanic Garden: The world's greatest botanical sanctuaries
This rich and beautiful guide from bestselling garden writer Ambra Edwards explores the most magnificent botanic havens from every continent across the world. There has never been a better time...
Whisky Opus: The Definitive Guide to the World's Greatest Whisky
A definitive 21st-century reference guide to the world's greatest distilleries and their whiskies No other spirit is as complex as whisky; its appeal is timeless and its fans can spend...
Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2868
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Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2868 Eighteen memoirs and biographies as varied as the lives they describe — athletes and comedians, journalists and explorers, including a signed copy...
Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2899
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Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2899 From Harold Evans in Fleet Street to the Prince of Wales writing to his married mistress — eighteen lives at full volume,...
Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2892
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Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2892 A.J.P. Taylor appears twice — on Bismarck and on Hitler — and the company is equally serious: Dayan's memoir, Gorky's wartime diary,...
Ritual
Italian-born, Canadian-based documentary photographer Vincenzo Pietropaolo has made it his life's mission to photograph the immigrant experience, working class culture and social justice issues. Considered "one of Canada's pre-eminent documentary...
The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest
A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit. The more you delve into the stories behind history's greatest...
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
Humans have been on the move for most of history. Even after the great urban advancement lured people into the great cities of Uruk, Babylon, Rome and Chang'an, most of...
The Unlikely Duke: Memoirs of an eclectic life - from rock 'n' roll to
'Beaufort chronicles his unusual and rarified world with flashes of Wodehousian genius'. --- Jools Holland 'So funny ... bristling with glamorous but eccentric characters'. --- Jilly Cooper 'Very funny and...
The History of the World: The Story of Mankind from Prehistory to the
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Humankind has come a long way since our ancestors first stood up on two feet, but how did we get to where we are today? This book tells our story,...
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of
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A brilliant and revealing biography of the two most important Americans during the Cold War era--written by the grandson of one of them Only two Americans held positions of great...
The Seekers
The Seekers is a history of our great Western heritage of ideas, told through the lives of the speakers from Moses and Aristotle and Plato through Thucydides, Machiavelli, Marx, Carlyle...