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The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe
'Full of gems ... Angela Kelly is a jewel in the crown' Daily Telegraph 'Entertaining and beautifully illustrated' The Sunday Times 'For real intel, [The Crown] can't come close to...
Born in 1964?: What Else Happened?
.... But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and they died...
Fatal Deception: How Big Business is Still Killing Us with Asbestos
Reveals an ongoing prevalence of toxic asbestos throughout America, tracing the poisoning rates in the vermiculite mining town of Libby, Montana, and exposing how corporations are successfully covering up their...
The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in
By the time of the Calvinist Reformation, the cities of Holland had established a very long tradition of social provision for the poor in the civic community. Calvinists however intended...
Covid By Numbers: Making Sense of the Pandemic with Data
A vital and concise data-driven analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world How many people have died because of COVID-19? Which countries have been hit hardest by the virus?...
To Deny Our Nothingness: Contemporary Images Of Man; A Survey And Critique Of Modern Thought
$40.00 AUD
Author: Maurice FriedmanBinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz,, London, 1967Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book presents a comprehensive examination of contemporary perspectives on humanity. It offers a critical...
Intellectual Movements And Australian Society
$45.00 AUD
Author: Brian Head And James WalterBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford U. P. Melbourne, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book examines the significant intellectual currents that have shaped Australian...
What Next?: Surviving The Twenty-First Century (SIGNED)
$45.00 AUD
Author: Chris PattenBinding: HardbackPublished: Allen Lane, 2008Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis book offers a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing the world...
Madness In Society: Chapters In The Historical Sociology Of Mental Illness
$40.00 AUD
Author: George RosenBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Chicago Press, 1968Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book delves into the historical context of mental illness within societal...
Prison: A Symposium
$60.00 AUD
Author: George MikesBinding: HardbackPublished: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a collection of discussions and perspectives on the subject of prisons....
Forms, Textures, Images: Traditional Japanese Craftmanship In Everyday Life
$90.00 AUD
Author: Takeji Iwamiya, Mitsukuni Yoshida, Richard L. GageBinding: HardbackPublished: Weatherhill/Tankosha, New York, 1982Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis volume presents an insightful exploration into the aesthetic principles...
Australia
$60.00 AUD
Author: Arnold HaskellBinding: HardbackPublished: William Collins for Penns in the Rocks Press, London, 1941Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book presents a comprehensive account of...
The Appointed Hour: Death, Worldview And Social Change In Brittany
$75.00 AUD
Author: Ellen BadoneBinding: HardbackPublished: University of California Press, 1989Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book examines the intricate relationship between death, cultural worldview, and societal transformation within...
The Victorians (Three-Volume Set) (SIGNED)
$200.00 AUD
Author: Tony Dingle, Richard Broome, and Susan PriestleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Fairfax, Syme, & Weldon Associates, 1984Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: SignedThe Victorians: Arriving, Making Their Mark, Settling is a...
Sunken Lands: A Journey Through Flooded Kingdoms and Lost Worlds
From Stone Age lands that slipped beneath the English Channel to the rapid inundation of New Orleans, Gareth E. Rees journeys through drowned forests, shrinking wetlands, vanishing islands and sinking...
A History of the Indians of the United States, A
The Apaches, Arapahos, Blackfeet, Cherokees, Cheyennes, Choctaws, Comanches and Crows... the Shawnees, Shoshonis, Sioux, Wichitas and Zunis. This comprehensive, compassionate and vivid study provides an unrivalled history of American Indians...
Trustees on Trial: Recovering the Stolen Wages
Details the Qld government's nearly 100 year stranglehold on Aboriginal people's lives and earnings. Lays bare its (mis)management, and its conditional offer of up to $4000 compensation, representing for some...
The Way We are
From the author of "Much Depends on Dinner" and "The Rituals of Dinner" comes a collection of essays in which Visser, a self-described "anthropologist of everyday life", analyzes the patterns...
The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War
'Entertaining and vivid... This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment' OBSERVER 'Reads like a thriller' THE SUN The astonishing story of the ten million...
The Kindness of Strangers: The History of Lort Smith Animal Hospital
The poignant story behind the Lort Smith Animal Hospital, and the women who were its driving force. Based on a desire to alleviate the suffering of animals irrespective of profits,...
Mining and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia
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This work reviews in detail the relations between mining and indigenous peoples in diverse national, political, and cultural settings. With case studies from five nations and covering gold, uranium, diamonds,...
Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court
The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark,...
Company Man
This work tells the story of the evolution of the social phenomenon of the 20th century - company man. The business corporation has become not only the engine of economic...
Dying: A Memoir
One of President Barack Obama's top ten reads of 2017 Cory Taylor wrote this remarkable book in the space of a few weeks before her death from cancer in July...
Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for
In this unique book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his 75-year struggle with China to save Tibet and its people. Instant New York Times Bestseller...
The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea
An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water 'Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.' Roddy Doyle 'Remarkable. Lively ... Gower writes beautifully [and] the book is profoundly popular.' Times...
Uncomfortable Questions For Comfortable Jews
$200.00 AUD
Author: Rabbi Meir KahaneBinding: HardbackPublished: Lyle Stuart, 1987Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis book confronts readers with challenging questions about their beliefs. It pushes people to...
Social Life Of Early Christians
$80.00 AUD
Author: J.G.DaviesBinding: HardbackPublished: Lutterworth Press, London , 1964Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book examines the lives of early Christians. It provides insights into their...
The Bonfire Of The Vanities
$85.00 AUD
Author: Tom WolfeBinding: HardbackPublished: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis novel satirizes the excesses and absurdities of 1980s New York City. It...
Tapestries: A Collection Of Family Histories From Presbyterian Ladies' College
$45.00 AUD
Author: Presbyterian Ladies' College.Binding: HardbackPublished: Ashwood House, Surrey Hills, Vic, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book compiles family histories originating from Presbyterian Ladies' College. The pages...
The Red Centre: Man And Beast In The Heart Of Australia
$30.00 AUD
Author: H. H. FinlaysonBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1943Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book details the experiences and observations within Australia's Red Centre. It provides...
As We Are
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Author: E. F. BensonBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, Green and Co, 1934Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsE. F. Benson reflects upon his life and the people he has encountered....
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,...
Paths to Parenthood: Emotions on the Journey through Pregnancy,
This interdisciplinary book explores the affective dimensions of becoming a parent, traversing the life-cycle journey of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting. Bringing together researchers from sociology, history, feminist studies, cultural...
Victoria's Children of the Dark
Victoria's Children of the Dark tells the story of Queen Victoria's invisible subjects - women and children who laboured beneath her 'green and pleasant land' harvesting the coal to fuel...
History of the British Cavalry Vol.3 1872-1898
The British Empire was at its height during this period, which saw the cavalry in many colonial engagements, such as the Moonlight Charge at Kassassin and the Charge of the...
Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliament's Working Women
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Crime Scene Investigations: More Great Forensics Stories from the Australian Police Files
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Time for Change
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Female Innovators Who Changed Our World: How Women Shaped STEM
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The 'New' Rules of Engagement: a Guide to Understanding and Connecting with Generation Y
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Life in Plastik
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Bioethics: All That Matters
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