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The New Penguin History of the World
One of the most extraordinary history bestsellers on the Penguin list, John Roberts' book has now been completely updated to the end of the last century and revised throughout to...
Letters: A New Selection
General and students of nineteenth-century English literature and history.
The Team That Wouldn't Die: Story of the Busby Babes
The 6 February 1998 marks the 40th anniversary of the Munich air disaster. Twenty three people died as the plane carrying Manchester United home from a Euopean Cup tie crashed...
The Tyrannicide Brief
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as an incomparable politician, deal-maker and uniter Franklin D. Roosevelt is a...
The Menzies Era
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The Lives Of John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert & Robert Sanderson
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Few works in the English biographical tradition carry the quiet authority and intimate grace of Izaak Walton's collected Lives....
The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution
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The Roberts Court, seven years old, sits at the center of a constitutional maelstrom. Through four landmark decisions, Marcia Coyle, one of the most prestigious experts on the Supreme Court,...
A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the
The first full-scale biography of Robert Welch, who founded the John Birch Society and planted some of modern conservatism's most insidious seeds. Though you may not know his name, Robert...
Devil Been Walkabout Tonight: The Death Of Burke & Wills At Cooper's
This book focuses on the last three months of Robert O'Hara Burke, William John Wills, and John King on Cooper's Creek. The original expedition which set out in August 1860...
Classic Welsh Short Stories
The story-teller has always been an important figure in Welsh society, and this collection draws on a rich and varied literature to present twenty-five of the finest Welsh short stories...
Character Matters: And Other Life Lessons from George Herbert Walker
Former Chief of Staff to President George H.W. Bush and New York Times bestselling author of THE MAN I KNEW, Jean Becker shares touching and pivotal life lessons from a...
Russia And America: Dangers And Prospects
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, when the fate of the world balanced on a...
Sabres on the Steppes: Danger, Diplomacy and Adventure in the Great
Back in the day when men were men and Britain ruled the world, the two great world powers went head to head over control of central Asia - from the...
A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman
'[A] penetrating biography . . . While the book posits Newman as a writer of sociopolitical import, its emotional narrative is driven by the more personal aspects of his story:...
Ian Fairweather: A Life in Letters
A self-portrait by one of Australia's greatest artists, a man mistakenly portrayed as a hermit. When he died in 1974 after a long period of self-imposed austerity and improvisation on...
Sabres on the Steppes: Danger, Diplomacy and Adventure in the Great Game
Author: John Ure Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Back in the day when men were men and Britain ruled the world, the two great world powers went head to head...
Eminent Churchillians
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 This highly praised book by the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of SALISBURY tackles six aspects of Churchilliana and uncovers a plethora...
Bolingbroke & Harley
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Author: Sheila BiddleBinding: HardbackPublished: Alfred a Knopf, New York, 1974Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling historical biography chronicles the intertwined lives of Henry St. John,...
Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War
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Robertson Davies: Man of Myth
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Brave Enemies
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John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life 1917-1963
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The Long Dark Night Of Baron Samedi
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Author: John WyllieBinding: HardbackPublished: Robert Hale, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards with light bumping on corners. Clean and sturdy copy. This gripping thriller immerses readers...
From Curtin To Menzies And After
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsFrom Curtin To Menzies And After chronicles a pivotal era in Australian political history, meticulously detailing the transitions and transformations...
The Life Of William Robertson Smith
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Author: John Sutherland Black And George ChrystalBinding: HardbackPublished: Adam and Charles Black, 1912Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks:...
Rather His Own Man
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John Graham, Convict 1824
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: One chip on bottom left of jacket - otherwise usual aging. A richly illustrated...
Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of
Shortlisted for the BSHS Hughes PrizeWhat if Isaac Newton had never lived?Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, were...
For Your Eye Alone: The Letters of Robertson Davies
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A collection of letters by one of the nation's greatest writers and poets includes Davies's correspondence with John Gielgud, Margaret Atwood, and Salvador Dali, among many others.
Republics of the Mind: New and Selected Stories
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Author: James Robertson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The republic of the mind... It might have been a drug, it might have been something you scored in pub toilets,...
A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman
'[A] penetrating biography . . . While the book posits Newman as a writer of sociopolitical import, its emotional narrative is driven by the more personal aspects of his story:...
Lawfare
Author: Geoffrey Robertson, QC Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them. 'ESSENTIAL' Amal Clooney...
The Silver Snarling Trumpet
Discovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s-a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of 'the scene'...
The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
A renowned scholar argues that liberal hegemony-the policy America has pursued since the Cold War ended-is doomed to fail Named a Financial Times Best Book of 2018 "Idealists as well...
History and Christian Apologetic
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The Triumph Of The West
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Author: J.M. RobertsBinding: HardbackPublished: BBC, 1985Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe monumental work The Triumph Of The West chronicles the complex trajectory of Western civilization, examining the multifaceted...
The Bad Circle
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Author: John Newton ChanceBinding: HardbackPublished: Robert Hale, UK, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis gripping mystery, The Bad Circle, plunges readers into a labyrinthine plot where a seemingly...
I, Claudius: Popular Penguins
Regarded as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. Regarded as little more than...
Wide Domain
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Author: Bruce Bennettb & William GronoBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, 1979Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dull spine. Tight pages. Fading on dustjacket.The...
The Great Commanders of the Ancient World 1479BC - 453AD
Which was the most brilliant of Hannibal's three crushing defeats of Roman armies? What tactics did Julius Caesar employ to defeat Pompey at Pharsalus? How was Alexander the Great able...
Nine Musings on Time: Science Fiction, Science Fact, and the Truth
Time travel is a familiar theme of science fiction, but is it really possible? Surprisingly, time travel is not forbidden by the laws of physics - and John Gribbin argues...