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A Woman In A Man's World
$35.00 AUD
Author: Helen MoyesBinding: HardbackPublished: Alpha Books., 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Slight chips, bumps and...
Men And Affairs: A Modern Miscellany
$75.00 AUD
Author: Colin BinghamBinding: HardbackPublished: Funk and Wagnalls., 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight rubs and chips to DJ, some minor...
The Australians
$15.00 AUD
Author: Peter LuckBinding: HardbackPublished: Lansdowne Press., 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe acclaimed work The Australians by Peter...
Rape Of The Fly: Explorations In New Guinea
$30.00 AUD
Author: John GoodeBinding: HardbackPublished: Thomas Nelson., 1977Condition:Book: Good, ex-libraryJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThis compelling non-fiction work chronicles an in-depth exploration...
Portrait Of A Village
$30.00 AUD
Author: Francis Brett YoungBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann Ltd, 1937Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded and discoloured cloth. Light...
The National Trust Research Manual
This guide to researching Australian history, designed to be easy to follow and informative, shows the beginner how to research and trace the history of houses, public buildings, industrial sites,...
Courage in a Hostile World: The Story of FamilyVoice Australia
David Phillips' account of the rise and reach of FamilyVoice Australia is a compelling history of a 40 year-long battle for the heart and soul of Australian society. "Courage in...
Who's Looking Out for You?
$12.00 AUD
From the mega-bestselling author of The O'Reilly Factor and The No Spin Zone , a no-holds-barred expose of the people and institutions who are letting Americans down - and what...
Sound Tracks: A Musical Detective Story
A History of the World in 100 Objects meets Sapiens- the first archaeological history of humanity's musical heritage Wonderfully engaging, expansive and ambitious, Sound Tracks tells the history of our...
Tugs and Towing: A Worldwide Survey of the Vessels, Techniques and
$15.00 AUD
Tugs and their development over the past 150 years are described in this book and it particularly looks at the past 20 years with emphasis on the use of tugs...
Everybody Lies: What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind...
What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An odyssey through 1950s suburbia
$12.00 AUD
Michele Hanson grew up an 'oddball tomboy disappointment' in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s - a suburban Metroland idyll of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials....
Extraordinary Pools
A visual feast of 50 weird, wonderful and architecturally astounding swimming pools from around the world. Swimming pools are no longer simply places to swim, they are versatile sites of...
Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One
In 1914 the world changed forever. When World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, bestselling author Kate Adie shows how women emerged from...
Out of Love for My Kin: Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the
In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries....
The Family: Love it and Leave it
Each of us belongs to a family and that belonging has different stages - we live with our parents, we move out on our own, we may form a partnership...
An Island Out Of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake
$12.00 AUD
Smith Island is a marshy archipelago in mid-Chesapeake Bay, nine miles from the mainland, home to 150 watermen and their families. This book is a portrait of a people who...
How to Be Human: The Manual
A practical and inspiring new book by the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled It took us 4 billion years to evolve to...
Chosen Few HB
$12.00 AUD
In A Chosen Few, Mark Kurlansky explores the many reasons why Jews have returned to Germany and Poland, and why Jews remain in Europe, how they have managed not only...
An Illustrated Guide to Samurai History and Culture: From the Age of
The ultimate visual guide to Samurai history and culture! The Samurai are continuously celebrated as the greatest warriors the world has ever seen. They ruled Japan for centuries, finally uniting...
Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara
Blue-veiled nomads, camels crossing infinite dunes, oases shimmering on the horizon: ready-made images of the Sahara are easy to conjure. But they can never truly capture a region that crosses...
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Two Volumes in One
Two volumes in one! This is a complete, two-volume set of one of the greatest books on 19th century Japanese history and culture. Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write...
A Brief History Of Bali: Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of
This book tells the story of Bali the "paradise island of the Pacific" its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world. Bali is a perennially popular...
Korea: The Impossible Country: South Korea's Amazing Rise from the
In just fifty years, South Korea has transformed itself from a failed state, ruined and partitioned by war and decades of colonial rule, into an economic powerhouse and a democracy...
A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The
Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest Archipelago Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and one of the largest countries in the...
Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies
A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies. It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and...
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History, Second Edition
A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture. Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from...
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in...
How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others
The hard work required to make god real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith How do gods and...
Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
How deadly germs and pandemics have shaped history - and why they are products of our success as a species. Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans...
Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early
A definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-state The Greek polis , or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on...
Religion of Sports: Navigating the Trials of Life Through the Games We
From the sports documentarian and executive producer of the docuseries The Religion of Sports , a memoir-meets-manifesto about the overwhelming power of sports and how they provide meaning and purpose...
The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate
A timely, revelatory first look into the impact climate change has on children-the greatest moral crisis humanity faces today-by a pediatrician in the fastest warming city in America. Wildfires, hurricanes,...
Rough Crossings
Set against the backdrop of the American Revolution and its aftermath, ROUGH CROSSINGS is the gripping, astonishing epic of the struggle for freedom by tens of thousands of slaves who...
Friend
Contains more than 20 full colour photographs, along with a carefully chosen collection of beautiful words about friends and friendship. The selection includes quotes, proverbs, nursery rhymes, and extracts from...
Britain's Ghosts: A spine-chilling tour of our most haunted places
Discover the stories of Britain's greatest ghosts and ghouls with this spooky supernatural page turner, the perfect gift this Halloween. Supported by the National Trust, who look after many of...
Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture is Ruling Our Lives
A hardhitting expose of the overwork culture and modern management techniques which seduce millions of people to hand over the best part of their lives to their employer. The British...
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture
$12.00 AUD
History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong. In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long...
The Unity Of Religions: A Popular Discussion Of Ancient And Modern Beliefs
$80.00 AUD
Author: J. Herman Randall And J. Gardner SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: E. W. Cole, 1910Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Bumping on...
The Mildmays Of The Wheatbelt: A Novel On The Struggle Of A Wheatbelt Family
$50.00 AUD
Author: M. V. PeacockBinding: HardbackPublished: PATERSONS PRINTING PRESS LTD., 1935Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded and yellowed boards. Bumping...
Mud, Sweat & Snow: Memories Of Snowy Workers 1949 - 1959 (SIGNED)
$30.00 AUD
Author: Noel GoughBinding: HardbackPublished: The author Tallangatta, 1994Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Previous owner's on intro page. Mud, Sweat &...
Countries Of The World (I-II & V-VI)
$250.00 AUD
Author: Robert Brown, M.A.Binding: HardbackPublished: CASSELL, PETTER, GALPIN & CO., 1876Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Brown boards...