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The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s
$15.00 AUD
The 1990s was a decade of extreme change. Shifts in culture, politics, and technology radically altered the way Americans did business, expressed themselves, and thought about their role in the...
The Histories
One of the great books in Western history and the very first work of non-fiction, in Tom Holland's compelling new translation The Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half...
In Search Of The Trojan War
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work in ancient history and archaeology, In Search...
Rethinking History
This introductory text is written for students faced with the question "what is history?' Polemical in tone, the book argues against a skills-based approach to history in favour of a...
Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades
Over a remarkable career Bernard Bailyn has reshaped our understanding of the early American past. Inscribing his superb scholarship with passion and imagination honed by a commitment to rigor, Bailyn...
The Territory of the Historian
$40.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description...
One Passion, Two Loves: The Schliemanns Of Troy
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Author: Lynn And Gray PooleBinding: HardbackPublished: VICTOR GOLLANCZ LTD, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling historical biography chronicles the intertwined lives of Heinrich...
Troy H. Middleton: A Biography
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Author: Frank James PriceBinding: HardbackPublished: Louisiana State University Press, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrank James Price's Troy H. Middleton: A Biography...
The Progressive Historians: Turner/Beard/Parrington
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears; clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: unmkd. Binding condition: Intact. At the crossroads of history and intellectual biography, Richard Hofstadter's...
History Matters
In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays-many published here for the first time-Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and bestselling author David McCullough affirms the value of history, how we can be guided...
Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2848
$120.00 AUD
Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2848 Eighteen books on the big questions facing the modern world — climate change, globalisation, the future of the internet, the emptying oceans,...
The Pursuit Of Excellence: A History Of The Professor Harry Hessel International Science School
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Author: Trevor DanosBinding: PaperbackPublisher: UWAP CUSTOM, 2017Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical account, The Pursuit Of Excellence:...
The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags - Hope and
Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands...
Seventeen and Oh: Miami, 1972, and the NFL's Only Perfect Season
The 1972 Miami Dolphins had something to prove. Losers in the previous Super Bowl, a ragtag bunch of overlooked, underappreciated, or just plain old players, they were led by Don...
Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting
Christopher Neve's classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as...
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound
Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could offer by...
Immortal Thoughts
A remarkable, heartfelt, beautifully written analysis of the late work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as 'completely and utterly marvellous'. 'Painting ... exists and exults in immortal...
Jonas Kaufmann: In Conversation With
'The most sought-after tenor in the world', the greatest tenor of today', 'the new king of tenors' - for years Jonas Kaufmann has occupied a unique status among the world's...
Karama!: Journeys Through the Arab Spring
Johnny West has lived in this area for the past decade and speaks fluent Arabic, and so has the skills and ability to talk to everyone from security guards to...
Halo: Last Light
An original novel set in the Halo Universe and based onthe New York Times bestselling video game series! It is 2553, and the three-decade long Covenant War that defined a...
Chrysalis
The 64 members of Fire Lake's sophomore class have managed to survive the first two phases of the Program - and each other. Now, they alone have emerged into the...