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Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal People by Josephine Flood

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The Original Australians tells the story of Australian Aboriginal history and society from its distant beginnings to the present day. From the wisdom and paintings of the Dreamtime, to the first contacts between Europeans and indigenous Australians, right through to modern times, it offers an insight in ...Show more

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Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature by Stuart Kells

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Category: History

From acclaimed author and ardent bibliophile Stuart Kells comes an exploration of the quest to find the personal library of the world's greatest writer Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world's most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare' ...Show more

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The Invention of Melbourne: a Baroque Archbishop and a Gothic Architect by Jaynie Anderson; Max Vodola; Shane Carmody

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Category: History

The Invention of Melbourne defines the relationship between an architect of genius, William Wardell, and the first Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, James Goold, an Irishman educated in Risorgimento, Italy. Their partnership produced St Patrick's, the largest cathedral of the 19th century anywhere in th ...Show more

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Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present by Christopher Harding

$24.99 AUD

Category: History

Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th century to the present, through the eyes of people who always had their doubts about modernity - who greeted it not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's familiar mode ...Show more

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Godless by Paul Ham

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Category: History

IN FEBRUARY 1534 a radical religious sect whose disciples were being persecuted throughout Europe seized the city of M nster, in the German-speaking land of Westphalia. They were convinced that they were God's Elect, specially chosen by the Almighty to be the first to ascend to Paradise on Judgement Da ...Show more

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Mr Guilfoyle's South Sea Islands Adventure on HMS Challenger by Diana Hill

$49.99 AUD

Category: History

Discover the inspiration for the famed redesign of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. It was the young William Guilfoyle's botanical tour of the South Sea Islands in 1868 that provided his vision for the one of the world's great public parks. Share his excitement of discovering and collecting tropic ...Show more

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Nelson - The Battle of the Nile by Sam Willis

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Not Bad Thanks by Graeme Willingham

$29.99 AUD

Category: History

Absurd, theatrical and comical, the curiously-named team Not Bad Thanks, born of London seed in 1980, takes 70 seasons to crawl from lowest F Grade in the open-age Victorian Business Houses Basketball Association in Melbourne to play at the A level. The Club grapples with tragedy, authority, an outing, ...Show more

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The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler

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Category: History

From the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive change Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011. He wante ...Show more

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In Search of Lost Books - The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes by Giorgio Van Straten; Simon Carnell (Translator); Erica Segre (Translator)

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Category: History

The gripping and elegiac stories of eight lost books, and the mysterious circumstances behind their disappearances. They exist as a rumour or a fading memory. They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace, lost to fire, censorship, theft, war or deliberate destruction, yet those who seek them are ...Show more

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The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance by Anders Rydell (Contribution by)

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Category: History

While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. As they ransacked Europe's libraries and book-shops, they began to compile a library of their own-one that they could use to wage an intellectual w ...Show more

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Enchantment of the Long-Haired Rat: A Rodent History of Australia by Tim Bonyhady

$32.99 AUD

Category: History

The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat tells the story of a small Australian rodent known for its fast and prodigious spread after big rains: plagues for the European colonists who feared and loathed all rats; an abundance of food for the indigenous peoples who feasted with delight in these times of ple ...Show more

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Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal People by Josephine Flood

$34.99 AUD

Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature by Stuart Kells

$34.99 AUD

The Invention of Melbourne: a Baroque Archbishop and a Gothic Architect by Jaynie Anderson; Max Vodola; Shane Carmody

$54.99 AUD

Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present by Christopher Harding

$24.99 AUD

Godless by Paul Ham

$34.99 AUD

Mr Guilfoyle's South Sea Islands Adventure on HMS Challenger by Diana Hill

$49.99 AUD

Nelson - The Battle of the Nile by Sam Willis

$19.99 AUD

Not Bad Thanks by Graeme Willingham

$29.99 AUD

The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler

$34.99 AUD

In Search of Lost Books - The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes by Giorgio Van Straten; Simon Carnell (Translator); Erica Segre (Translator)

$19.99 AUD

The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance by Anders Rydell (Contribution by)

$27.99 AUD

Enchantment of the Long-Haired Rat: A Rodent History of Australia by Tim Bonyhady

$32.99 AUD

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