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Of The People, By The People: A New History of Democracy
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.' * Churchill had more reason than most to rue...
This Land Was Theirs: A Study Of The North American Indian
$30.00 AUD
Author: Wendell H. OswaltBinding: HardbackPublished: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Yellowed and worn DJ. This book provides a study...
The People's Rights
$30.00 AUD
Author: Winston S. Churchill M.PBinding: HardbackPublished: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded DJ with minor abrasionThis book presents a compelling exploration into the...
An account of the arrangements and procedure in Westminster Hall, Friday 7 May 1937 on the occasion of the luncheon of the Empire Parliamentary Association at which H.M. King George VI
$60.00 AUD
Author: (Empire Parliamentary Association)Binding: HardbackPublished: Empire Parliamentary Association, 1937Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light peeling on leather cover. Chemise and slipcase included. This book recounts the...
Animals In Archaeology
$20.00 AUD
Author: A. Houghton BrodrickBinding: HardbackPublished: Barrie & Jenkins,, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Aged endpapersThis book explores the intricate relationship between animals and archaeology, offering insights...
Prince Rupert: Portrait of a Soldier
This is a romantic and colourful story of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, an extraordinary military commander. General Kitson discusses Rupert's boyhood study of fortifications, the early campaigns, his military...
Swap: A Secret History of the New Cold War
From the Wall Street Journal 's award-winning international investigations team comes a spellbinding account of a spy war between the U.S. and Russia that transformed into a ruthless game of...
The Specter of Munich: Reconsidering the Lessons of Appeasing Hitler
Informed by the supposed grand lesson of Munich - namely, that capitulating to the demands of aggressive dictatorships invites further aggression and makes inevitable a larger war - American presidents...
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of
From the 10th to 15th centuries the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwide-a preview of today's global warming. In some areas, including much of Western...
A Short History of the World
A superb history of the world's people during the last four million years, beginning before the human race moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents. Mr....
The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin
The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with the mother country--be it antagonistic or far too chummy.The...
Queen Mary
The official biography of Queen Mary, grandmother of the current Queen, originally commissioned in 1959 - with a new foreword by Hugo Vickers. When Queen Mary died in 1953, James...
Bloodlust: On the Roots of Violence from Cain and Abel to the Present
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THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND ACROSS CULTURES, the most common form of violence is that between family members and neighbors or kindred communities--in civil wars writ large and small. From assault to...
The Ruling Elite: a Study in Imperialism, Genocide and Emancipation
Lincoln's war, the North's attack on the South, took the life of 622,000 citizens and altered the government's structure. Marx and Engels watched the war from afar and applauded his...
Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America
Born in Blood investigates one of history's most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world over consider violence in the United States as measurably different than that...
The Light of Day: the moving true story of the first man to come out
* A Guardian Audiobook of the Week * 'Your book is the "really good book. Just one" that Roger Butler would have wanted' - Sir Ian McKellen 'Absorbing and often...
The Light of Day: the moving true story of the first man to come out
* A Guardian Audiobook of the Week * 'Your book is the "really good book. Just one" that Roger Butler would have wanted' - Sir Ian McKellen 'Absorbing and often...
A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World: The hilarious and
'Superb ... entertaining ... Phillips traverses this sprawling terrain with energy and charm' Telegraph 'Exceptionally funny from cover to cover, it is not only an entertaining read but also deeply...
History of Punishment
$15.00 AUD
Crime has always been apart of human society. It has been punished in many ways: from banishment to flogging and the death penalty." The History of Punishment "reviews the penalties...
Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
'Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this very personal story of the place that one can't find on...
A Shorter History of Australia
A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most renowned historians A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most...
Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy, 1300-1600
$20.00 AUD
Why did Italy produce so much art in the Renaissance? In this book, historian Richard Goldthwaite finds new answers to this question by focusing on the demand for art as...
SBS
The men of the SBS are the maritime equivalent of their counterparts in the SAS; they are the elite of the British Special Forces and also the most secretive. Although...
Ritual Sacrifice: Blood and Redemption
The principle of sacrifice is as old as human life itself. This book provides an overview of sacrificial practices around the world since prehistoric times. It also examines the reasons...
The Building Of Castle Howard
'A fine analysis of the process of making a building in the early 18th century and of the beliefs behind it' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A STORY OF UTMOST FASCINATION. CHARLES SAUMAREZ...
Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Award Winner of the US-Russia Relations Book Prize "The achievement of a lifetime." -Stephen Kotkin,...
The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide
From January 1945, in the last months of the Third Reich, about 250,000 inmates of concentration camps perished on death marches and in countless incidents of mass slaughter. They were...
Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation
We commonly think of marriage as a private matter between two people, a personal expression of love and commitment. In this pioneering history, Nancy F. Cott demonstrates that marriage is...
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
This book tells you everything you ever wanted to know about what happens to bodies after they die. From a plastic surgeon's convention, where the doctors test out the latest...
Books Do Furnish a Painting
What should you do at Christmas? In Edvard Munch's Christmas in the Brothel , the artist depicts himself sleeping off the effects of drink, but the Madame reads a book....
English Architecture: A Concise History
Is it possible to conduct a concise survey on the immense subject that is English architecture? David Watkin proves that it is: from Saxon times to the present day, Watkin...
Timetables of History
$12.00 AUD
Timetables of History offers information on over 10,000 major events, from ancient times to the present. It serves as a historical outline from the first civilizations to today. It is...
The Weather Factor: How Nature Has Changed History
Despite major improvements in collecting information and forecasting the weather, the 'factor of the unpredictable' is as real today, as it was in days when Noah was forced to set...
Heroic Failure and the British
From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British...
Building Renaissance Venice: Patrons, Architects, and Builders
This book brings to life the story of the construction of some of the most outstanding early Renaissance buildings in Venice. Through a series of individual case studies, Richard J....
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went
The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before Decades ago, the historian...
Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and
An urgent follow-up to international bestseller How Democracies Die, by two world-leading experts on democracy In this razor-sharp analysis of one of the most important issues facing us today, leading...
The Oxford Companion to Military History
The Oxford Companion to Military History is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how our world has been shaped, and continues to be shaped, by conflict. It is...
Nefarious: A life in crime - my life with Joey Pyle, the Krays and
A Daily Mail Book of the Week Prolific armed robber. Close ally of Joey Pyle. Friend and fellow inmate of the Kray twins. Last man to stand trial with a...
The Great Divide
'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST ' One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE SEFTON 'I didn't want it to end' SARA...
The Queer Bible
'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' A powerful, joyous, stunningly illustrated collection of essays by queer icons about the LGBTQ+ trailblazers throughout history who...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 'Gripping ... remarkably wide-ranging' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...
The End Is Always Near: Humanity vs the Apocalypse, from the Bronze
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And...
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us
A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020 'Inspired ... Lowe's sensitive, disturbing...