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Glimpses of Life in Victoria By 'a Resident'
$60.00 AUD
John Hunter Kerr emigrated to Port Phillip from Scotland in 1839. He took up land, became a successful pastoralist and a prominent citizen of Melbourne. The story of the Kerrs'...
The Plastics Revolution: The Story Of Nylex
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA compelling work of Australian business and industrial history, this volume chronicles the remarkable rise of Nylex, one of Australia's...
The Gilded Age: The Super-rich of the Edwardian Era
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The book titled The Gilded Age: The Super-rich of the Edwardian Era by the author Alexis Gregory. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Michael Jackson's Malt Whisky Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide To The Malt Whiskies Of Scotland
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark reference work in the world of spirits writing, Michael Jackson's Malt Whisky Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide to the Malt Whiskies...
Fascinating Paris
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly illustrated travel and cultural guide, Fascinating Paris presents the French capital through a lens of curiosity and wonder, uncovering...
8 Rules Of Love: How To Find It, Keep It, And Let It Go
A compelling blend of self-help wisdom and ancient philosophy, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go presents a transformative framework for understanding romantic...
Money: Know More, Make More, Give More
A bold and practical guide to personal finance and wealth-building, this work by entrepreneur and investor Rob Moore argues that the traditional education system has fundamentally failed to teach people...
Disobedience
A gripping work of literary fiction, Disobedience chronicles the return of Ronit Krushka to the insular Orthodox Jewish community in North London she fled years before, following the death of...
Nothing Is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated And Other Sweeping Statements About Pop
A sharp and irreverent work of pop music criticism, Nothing Is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated And Other Sweeping Statements About Pop presents a collection of bold, opinionated essays from...
Rome-Amsterdam: Two Growing Cities in Seventeenth Century Europe
In the seventeenth century, Catholic-aristocratic Rome and Protestant-bourgeois Amsterdam were expanding rapidly, both in a political and in a cultural way. In a multifaceted comparison of these two contrasting cultural...
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
"Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government." - The New York Times Book Review * "Well researched and eloquently presented." - The Atlantic...
Rust: One woman's story of finding hope across the divide
When Eliese Goldbach was nine years old, she decided to become a Catholic nun. Twenty years later, with a Master's degree, she found herself making steel in the Rust Belt...
Elders: Wisdom from Australia's Indigenous Leaders
This is an important book, whose content is unlike any other. It is about indigenous peoples and their traditional and contemporary ways of living. Elders is a series of chapters...
Yesterdays: v. 1: Yesterdays Way We Were, 1919-39
Yesterdays recreates the often overlooked period between the 2 World Wars. From home to work, education to leisure, the blurring of the class-based society and the inventions that came along,...
The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin
A radical work of history that re-centers the American story around El Paso, Texas, gateway between north and south, center of indigenous power and resistance, locus of European colonization of...
Wurnan: Sharing on Ngarinyin Country
In the Kimberley region of Western Australia, a group of Ngarinyin people have been engaging with archival material and travelling back to Country to remember and record traditional harvesting and...
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
A New Scientist Book of the Year Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan Jose Millas has always felt like he doesn't quite...
Ethnography & the Production of Anthropological Knowledge: Essays in
Professor Nicolas Peterson is a central figure in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia. This volume honours his anthropological body of work, his commitment to ethnographic fieldwork as a source of...
Longford Castle: The Treasures and the Collectors
Longford Castle is a fine Elizabethan country house, home to a world-class collection of art built up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the Bouverie family and still owned...
Celtic Myths and Beliefs
The book titled Celtic Myths and Beliefs by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason
'Gin took London by storm in the first half of the 18th century. It 'was the original urban drug,' says Warner in this intriguing slice of social history. 'Cheap, potent,...
The Age of the Gunfighter: Men and Weapons on the Frontier, 1840-1900
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The book titled The Age of the Gunfighter: Men and Weapons on the Frontier, 1840-1900 by the author Joseph G Rosa. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
A History of Smoking
The book titled A History of Smoking by the author Egon Caesar,Count Corti. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Sorry! The English and Their Manners
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Most of us know a bit about what passes for good manners - holding doors open, sending thank-you notes, no elbows on the table. We certainly know bad manners when...
On Freedom
An urgent and masterly exploration of freedom - by the acclaimed, bestselling author of On Tyranny A brilliant exploration of freedom - what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and...
The Cultural Values of Europe
What is the cultural identity of Europe? Are there specifically European values? Questions like these are at the centre of a considerable number of political and scholarly debates in contemporary...
Alan Marshall: His Best Stories
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Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Library stamp on blockA celebrated collection of Australian short fiction, Alan Marshall His Best Stories...
Regional Ecology: The Study Of Man's Environment
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Usual aging. Pages clean and binding firmA foundational work in geographic and ecological thought, Regional Ecology: The Study of Man's...
Five Patients: The Hospital Explained
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of narrative nonfiction, Five Patients chronicles Michael Crichton's firsthand observations as a medical student...
The Drums Go Bang!
$35.00 AUD
Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA warm and witty memoir, The Drums Go Bang chronicles the early years of two of Australia's...
Lord Of The Flies - 50th Anniversary Edition
$120.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark of twentieth-century British literature, Lord of the Flies is a chilling allegorical novel that chronicles the rapid descent...
Convicts & The Colonies: A Study Of Penal Transportation From Great Britain & Ireland To Australia & Other Parts Of The British Empire (SIGNED)
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Some tears and foxing on DJ....
The Harp In The South
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Edition: rep.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsSet in the gritty, vibrant slums of Surry Hills in post-World War II Sydney, The Harp in...
The Future Of Man
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of philosophical and theological thought, The Future of Man presents Pierre...
Class And Class Structure
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, pencil underlining throughout, spine crackedA foundational work in Marxist sociology and political theory,...
The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith
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Edition: A & R Classics EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Jacket showing usual aging signs but still in very good conditionSet against the turbulent...
Daniel De Leon: The Man And His Work; A Symposium
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Edition: Third EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some wear and chipping along spine of jacket - jacket protected by...
Tourmaline
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Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Jacket showing signs of usual aging but still intact and vibrant with cover art. Light foxing...
Aboriginal Place Names Of South-East Australia And Their Meanings
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Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Acceptable Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, binding loose around middle - pages still intact. A rich work...
The Heart To Artemis: A Writer's Memoirs
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Condition remarks:Book: Poor , ex-libraryJacket: DamagedPages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Exterior of binding ok, binding coming loose on FEP but pages are still firmly intact. Damage to...
How M'Dougall Topped The Score
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA classic of Australian comic verse, How M'Dougall Topped the Score presents one of the most beloved and humorous tales in...
The Confessions Of A Beachcomber
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Tear on back left corner of jacket. Stains on block that do not bleed through to pages underneithA...
Power Without Glory
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: usual aging, still in good conditon. A landmark of Australian fiction, Power Without Glory chronicles the rise of John...
Poor Man's Orange
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Top corner of FEP torn away, otherwise pages intact, structural and clean. One tear...
1967: Israel, the War and the Year That Transformed the Middle East
A vivid account of the year 1967 and what impact it made on the Middle East and the rest of the world. 1967 did not mark the beginning of the...
Alien Son
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Some moisture damage Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Tide marks on top pages, otherwise flat and clean.. A landmark work of Australian immigrant fiction,...
The Expense of Glory
The life of John Reith is a classical tragedy, but one of baroque proportions. Reith founded, and for its first 14 years directed, the BBC, imbuing it with that Reithian...