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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...
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...
Letters: A New Selection
General and students of nineteenth-century English literature and history.
The Great Wall of China
Recent discoveries suggest that construction of defensive walls in northern China began about 688 BC. Today, the dragon-like walls that follow the mountain ridges and valleys north of Beijing were...
The Menzies Era
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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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution
$15.00 AUD
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,...
John Graham Convict
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor foxing and tears to DJ - encased in plastic slipcase.Top-edge discoloured from tanning....
The Pelican History of the World
The book titled The Pelican History of the World by the author J. M. Roberts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
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...
Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
John Keats
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Robert Gittings' John Keats stands as one of the most authoritative and...
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...
Brave Enemies
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Robert Morgan Format: Paperback...
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'...
John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life 1917-1963
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Wish I Was Here: 'The best writer you've never heard of' - Sunday
'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk'It will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed' Jonathan Coe, author of...
Sand
Renowned novelist and creative non-fiction writer, Robert Drewe, teams up with internationally acclaimed poet, John Kinsella, to explore a common geography in poetry and prose. Sand is quintessentially Australian. It...
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...
John Keats
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few poets have burned as brightly — or as...
Portrait Of Canterbury
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Author: John BoyleBinding: HardbackPublished: Robert Hale., 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCanterbury has a place in English history quite out of proportion to its...
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...
The Wild Abyss
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA pistol on the title page signals the mood: cool, dangerous, and unrelenting. The Wild Abyss...
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...
Robin Hood: Hacking, Heists & Flaming Arrows
Author: Robert Muchamore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A town. A forest. A hero. You can't go far without a quick brain and some rule-bending in a...
Johnny Cash: The Life
'Johnny Cash ... Every man could relate to him, no man could be him, and only one man could get inside his head - Robert Hilburn' BONO People don't just...
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:...
Paradise of Cities: Venice and Its Nineteenth-century Visitors
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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...
The Beggar's Opera
Penguin Classics relaunch. The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century....
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:...
Science: A History
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The Hiller Weapon
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Author: John Newton ChanceBinding: HardbackPublished: Robert Hale, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: name on fep and book block. The Hiller Weapon presents a gripping narrative of...