History
A Concise History of Australia (Stuart MacIntyre) |
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Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new...
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A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (Diarm |
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Christianity has had an incalculable impact on human history, not just spiritual beliefs and the organization of religion, but in politics, war and human society. Diarmaid MacCullough takes the story of Christianity back to its origins...
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A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty |
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In May 1835 in a Sydney courtroom, a slight, prematurely balding man was charged with forgery. The prisoner claimed he was...
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Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Di |
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Amazing Rare Things is enthralling, with elegant natural history drawings from the British Royal Collection married to beautiful prose...
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Australians (Thomas Keneally) |
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The first volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, from bestselling author Thomas Keneally...
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Beersheba (Paul Daley) |
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It was a glorious triumph of arms for Australian forces, a romantic moment of dash and bravura that stood out in the tragedy of World War I. Yet it barely registers in Australia's national consciousness...
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Cast Away (Joesph Cummins) |
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Cast Away recounts the epic tales of the survivors of shipwreck, mutiny and marooning through the ages and around the globe, focusing on the age of sail and steam...
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Churchill's Wizards (Nicholas Rankin) |
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By June 1940, most of Europe had fallen to the Nazis and Britain stood alone. So, with Winston Churchill in charge, the British bluffed their way out of trouble, drawing on the trickery...
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Commando to Colditz (Peter Stanley) |
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Commando to Colditz is an unusual, perhaps unique, war story. It is centred around a most unusual war hero: Michael 'Micky' Burn, soldier, poet and novelist, whose ...
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Conquest (Juliet Barker) |
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Author of the best-selling AGINCOURT, Juliet Barker now tells the equally remarkable, but largely forgotten, story of the dramatic years when England ruled France at the point of a sword...
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Crooks Like Us (Peter Doyle) |
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In the 1920s, Sydney police began quietly assembling a gallery of the city's most light-fingered, fleet-footed, silver-tongued rogues - con artists, magsmen, housebreakers, thugs, gunmen, shoplifters...
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D-Day (Antony Beevor) |
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Even Stalin was awed by D-Day. The very scale of the undertaking and its meticulous planning were unprecedented, but although the beachheads...
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Darwin's Armada: How Four Voyagers to Australasia Won the Battle |
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Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle, 1831-36 Sent to Cambridge to join the clergy, the young Darwin emerged with a passion for naturalism and an invitation to sail on a naval survey vessel to South America, New Zealand and Australia...
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Desperate Romantics (Franny Moyle) |
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Their Bohemian lifestyleandintertwined love affairs shockinglybroke19th Century class barriersandbent the rules that governed the roles of the sexes. They became defined by love triangles, played out against the austere moral climate...
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Eating With Emperors (Jake Smith) |
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The world jeered when the Emperor of Iran served roast peacock to celebrate the anniversary of his Empire; the White House chef threw a tantrum...
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Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led t |
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For almost five hundred years the Jews of Europe lived in enforced segregation, sequestered in tiny rural villages, locked away at night inside ghettos. Then, in one remarkable act of the French Revolution, the ghetto gates were opened. The Jews of France
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Finest Years: Churchill As Warlord 1940-45 (Max Hastings) |
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Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940, the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But thereafter, argues Max Hastings, there was a deep divide between what Churchill...
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First Encounters (Joseph Cummins) |
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First Encounters is a book of first contact moments drawn from over 500 years of human exploration, adventure and discovery. Divided into sections such as...
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Flower Hunters (John & Mary Gribbin) |
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The flower hunters were intrepid explorers - remarkable, eccentric men and women who scoured the world in search of extraordinary...
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Golden Miles: Sex, Speed and the Australian Muscle Car (Clinton |
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A book about cars, people and Australia in the late 60s and early 70s...
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