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prettycityparis: Discovering Paris's Beautiful Places
Go beyond the French capital's famous landmarks and discover the hidden gems. From secluded mews and undiscovered cafes to flower markets and tree-lined streets, prettycityparis champions the quiet, gentle moments...
On Offence: the politics of indignation
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A lively and passionate defence of reasoned debate. Everyone has taken and given offence; anyone who claims otherwise is lying or uniquely tolerant. Yet in recent years, offence has become...
Twilight Years with the Totterings
Annie Tempest's wonderful cartoon strip about a fictitious English village, with the eccentric Lord and Lady Tottering and their family who reside at Tottering Hall is much lauded and internationally...
1945: A World at the End of War
A vivid portrait of a world at the end of war, told through 12 months from around the globe. 1945 is a fresh look at the last year of the...
Shelf Life: A Journey Through the Past, Present & Future of
Embark on a captivating journey through the ages with Shelf Life, a meticulously crafted exploration of bookselling and publishing spanning two millennia. This engaging narrative, designed for book lovers of...
The Story of the Big Four Railway Companies
Looking back at the impact of Britain's Big Four railway companies, 100 years later. GWR, LMS, LNER and SR: these initials arouse memories of the Cornish Riviera Express, the streamlined...
Dreams of Leaving and Remaining: Fragments of a Nation
In March 2019, the UK will leave the EU, facing an unpredictable future. Since the referendum in 2016, the nation has been split into two dreams of leaving and remaining....
Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It
Alice Vernon often wakes up to find strangers in her bedroom. Ever since she was a child, her nights have been haunted by nightmares of a figure from her adolescence,...
Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and
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From the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed , Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better. A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new...
Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing
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New York Times Bestseller Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman's work changes the national dialogue. Beyond their bestselling books, you know them from commentary and features in the New York Times...
Secrets from the Agatha Christie Archives
Dame Agatha Christie reigns supreme as the 'Queen of Crime.' Numerous books have been written about the legendary crime writer, focusing on nearly every aspect of her craft. But until...
Social Support and Motherhood: The Natural History of a Research
Drawing on her expertise as an academic researcher and as a writer of both non-fiction and fiction, Ann Oakley here tells the story of a research project. Moving far beyond...
Blood Rich: When Oil Billions, High Fashion, and Royal Intimacies are
The book titled Blood Rich: When Oil Billions, High Fashion, and Royal Intimacies are by the author Jane Wolfe. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is
Diana West sees a US filled with middle-age guys playing air guitar and thinks "No wonder we can't stop Islamic terrorism." She sees Moms Who Mosh and wonders "Is there...
A Traveller's History of London
'...dip into Richard Tames's literary, lyrical A TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF LONDON' THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'This volume is not so much a guide as a supremely civilised companion' EASTERN DAILY PRESS...
The Courage to Raise Good Men: You Don't Have to Sever the Bond with
A psychotherapist and a mother attack ancient mythology, modern society and the men's movement - in defence of mothers and sons. Provocative in parts, this book looks at popular culture,...
Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy - Lark Rise; Over to Candleford;
The book titled Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy - Lark Rise; Over to Candleford; by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
A Bit of a Struggle: Coping with Family Life in Australia
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The book titled A Bit of a Struggle: Coping with Family Life in Australia by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Gnar Country: Growing Old, Staying Rad
The New York Times bestselling author and human performance expert tests his knowledge and theories on his own aging body in a quest to become an expert skier at age...
How To Have A XXX Sex Life: The Ultimate Vivid Guide
The biggest names in adult entertainment lend their erotic experience and knowledge to a comprehensive guide to 'making love like a star'. Who is better qualified to share their sexual...
A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War
In the First World War, Australian reactions to death were defined by distance, a circumstance that impelled mourners towards communal responses to their loss. It drove them to create and...
Bedlam: London and its Mad
'Bedlam!' The very name conjures up graphic images of naked patients chained among filthy straw, or parading untended wards deluded that they are Napoleon or Jesus Christ. We owe this...
The Crest of the Wave: A History of Waverley College 1903-2003
Waverley College is the largest and best known Christian Brothers school in Australia. Founded in 1903, with fewer than 20 pupils, on part of the prominent site in Waverley that...
The Oscars: The Secret History of Hollywood's Academy Awards
The book titled The Oscars: The Secret History of Hollywood's Academy Awards by the author Anthony Holden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Light Blue Down Under
The social history of one of Australia's best known public schools, this volume traces the founding of Geelong Grammar School, its early failure and subsequent revival under John Bracebridge Wilson,...
The Far-Right in Contemporary Australia
This book is the first to elaborate on radical and extreme right movements in contemporary Australia. It brings together leading scholars to present cutting edge research on various facets and...
The History and Natural History of Spices: The 5,000-Year Search for
An illustrated study into the dramatic search for spices through history, and how the pursuit of rare flavours changed and opened up our world. Spices have been highly valued since...
The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
An instant New York Times bestseller, this "profound book" ( Wall Street Journal ) charts how and why some societies chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar...
Historic Pub Crawls Through London, Vol. 1: 12 Guided Walks Around
'Britain is full of amazing pubs and this man will guide you to the very best,' Phil Carr After spontaneously hosting a birthday pub crawl through London's finest alehouses, Thomas...
Inside The House of Lords
Derry Moore's exclusive colour photographs and Clive Aslet's authoritative text provide a sumptuous architectural and historical appreciation of the Upper House. INTRODUCTION A perspective from different peers, for example, Lord...
One Family's War
Features the real-life saga of the experiences of the Pushman family in the Second World War. Illustrated with family photographs, this book gives the reader a personal glimpse into both...
The Margraten Boys: How a European Village Kept America's Liberators
Harrowing and redeeming, this is the history of a unique 'adoption' system. For generations, local families, grateful for the sacrifice of their liberators from Nazi occupation, have cared for not...
Together, Closer: The Art and Science of Intimacy in Friendship, Love,
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"Frazzetto uses psychology, neurology and biological information to explore the ways in which intimacy manifests in different types of relationships. He recounts the stories of eight relationships. . . ....
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Written by Harriet Ann Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent," Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an in-depth chronological account of Jacobs's life as a slave,...
Gay Life Stories
A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what we recognize as today's varied gay culture. This book...
Between the Dances
The start of World War 2 changed women's lives and their place in Australian society forever. Thousands of women ventured where few had gone before - into the services and...
Blackbirding: A reckoning with the Australian slave trade
An important reckoning with Australia's unspoken history of slave trade. From the author of the bestselling books The Ballad of Abdul Wade and The Bravest Scout at Gallipoli As Australia...
The MGM Story
The book titled The MGM Story by the author John Douglas Eames. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Jews in South Africa: An Illustrated history
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Spanning the past two centuries, this book explores the fascinating role played by this small but highly significant community in the economic. political, social and cultural life of this country....
Jobshift
The book titled Jobshift by the author William Bridges. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity
The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism is a global phenomenon. Yet the reactions of Pacific peoples to this Western hegemony are diverse...
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gikuyu and Mumbi
A dazzling, feminist novel in verse that reimagines the origin story of the Gikuyu people of Kenya, from the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls 'one of the greatest writers of...
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds when Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George...
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...
A Fresh Map of Life: The Emergence of the Third Age
The prospect of spending long years in reasonable health and scarcely impaired activity, far beyond the convenient landmark of retirement, has already become the norm-without anybody really noticing it, let...
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...
The Unfair Advantage: BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD-WINNER: How You
This ground-breaking book exposes the myths behind startup success, illuminates the real forces at work and shows how they can be harnessed in your favour. The world isn't a level...
Skulls: Portraits of the Dead and the Stories They Tell
Take an eerie journey through history as you meet over 180 human skulls and discover the stories behind them. It is said that the skull is the only human body...