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In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.1901 was the year of Australia's Federation, a year that marked the birth of a new nation. For white Australians it was a time of optimism and patriotism, of certainities of race, culture and identity. Australia's destiny seemed clear - as an outpost of anglo-celtic civilisation amidst the brown and yellow hordes of Asia.Yet beneath the celebrations that heralded Federation lay darker under-currents of bitter industrial unrest, racial fear and political divisiveness. Almost 100 years on, we can see that the hopes and fears, beliefs and prejudices that dominated Australia at the turn of the century were forces that would continue to shape our own present and future.As the centenary of Federation draws closer, 1901 - Our Future's Past was commissioned by the National Australia Day Council. The four authors, based in the History Department of the University of Queensland, have combined their… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.On 12 October 2010, the world's attention was fixed on a remote copper mine in the Atacama desert in Chile. Final preparations were underway for a daring rescue to bring to an end the longest underground entrapment in human history.Sixty-nine days earlier, thirty-three miners were midway through a routine shift, deep in the San José mine. They stopped for lunch at the tiny safety shelter 688 metres below the surface. Ten minutes later they heard an almighty crack and a deep rumbling sound. Clouds of dust and debris poured down on the choking men. The bombardment lasted for five hours. When it finally cleared, the men discovered they were trapped under tonnes of collapsed rock.Seventeen days after the collapse, a drill finally reached them. They sent a note back to the surface: 'We are all right inside the shelter, the thirty three of us'.Building on the exclusive access he was given by… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights for books the postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This is an illustrated notebook on the life of Australians in the Middle Eastern theatre of war. Almost all of the contents are the work of men on active service. Reports are included on most of the actions in which Australian forces have so far taken part. It has been possible to include in these reports much detail which has not hitherto been available to the public. Similarly among the photographs, there are some which have already been published and many which now emerge from military and other official sources for the first time. They have been selected primarily for their value as graphic records of fact. It is hoped that the result, in text and photography, may be a more intimate if still fragmentary understanding of the campaigns. The balance and perspective of true history cannot yet be brought to bear on events.The contributions published are necessarily a very small… Read More

In good condition - has marks on cover, has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Photographs and descriptions of Aircraft-Carriers.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights for books the postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A book highlighting the armour through the years

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.ATLAS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS, paradoxically enough, is essentially a book about modern men and women - about people seeking to better themselves, planning for the future, following and creating fashions, improving their technologies, improvising art forms and stretching out for a better understanding of their world. The paradox is unavoidable, for innovation, creativity and forward planning, far from being the exclusive preserves of our own time, were the major driving forces behind the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Greece and Rome.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.'They start out confident enough. They lose their puff, fall into ravines, double back, drop their compasses, go bush mad, and that has been the way since the colony was framed, when a line was drawn, and everyone stayed inside it. In the main, they still do. It is such a vast ocean of land they cannot imagine it, and when they do try, do not get far.'In the early 1800s, out of the prison society of governors, redcoats, gaolers, convicts and the few free settlers of Botany Bay, none ventured much farther inland than a few dozen miles from Sydney. Those who tried came back saying it could not be done, or did not come back at all.Or so it was believed until the brazen escape of Desmond Kale after the final vengeance of his rival, the wildly eccentric 'flogging parson' magistrate Matthew Stanton: 'Kale marched a vicious mile, changed shape over a ridgeline and was gone. His face… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights for books the postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A battle is an awe-inspiring and a terrible event, no matter whether it be fought with sword, lance, pike and cross-bow; musket, sabre and cannon; or machine-gun, high velocity shells and tanks and aircraft. In battle a large number of men fight each other to the death; many are killed, many wounded. War is ugly, battle is brutal.Yet there is another side to it, which does not alter the main fact that war and battle are horrible. In battle men willingly risk death or mutilation for what they believe to be right. One would not say that every soldier who has fought in battle went voluntarily, or even understood what he was fighting for. Yet there are always some, often many, who fight and kill for what they believe to be a just cause. Ordinary men become inspired to unexpected heights of courage and become selfless. Many a man has fought willingly, and died without complaining, because… Read More

This book has an inscription dated April 28th 1879 to Miss Snell. In good condition, has markings due to age.The advice for how to treat your Husband from the middle to late 19th century.

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The Black Obelisk (German: Der schwarze Obelisk) is a novel written in 1956 by the German author Erich Maria Remarque. This novel paints a portrait of Germany in the early 1920s, a period marked byhyperinflation and rising nationalism.
Ludwig, the protagonist, is in his mid twenties; just like most of his friends, he is a World War I veteran. Although aspiring to be a poet, he works for a friend, Georg, managing the office of a small tombstone company. He tries to earn some extra money as a private tutor to a son of a bookstore owner, and by playing the organ at the chapel of a local insane asylum.
Thanks to this diversity of activities, Ludwig interacts with a wide cross-section of the German population of his town and the surrounding villages and we are allowed to witness those interactions. We see, for example, businessmen – some trying to stick to the old… Read More

Quality Book Club Edition - in very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights for books the postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This is a true story of the sea, possibly unique in the annals of steam-shipping. It is a story of superb courage and endurance, savage discipline, hardship and danger; of brutal foul-mouthed men, rising to heights of heroism and selflessness under appalling conditions.A bug-infested, fever-ridden ship, adrift in mid Atlantic, faces the full fury of a winter's gale. Dead, dying, and sick, lying in bunks - or even where they fell - with no one able to distinguish them and no one with sufficient strength to lift a dead body and cast it into the sea. The heroic rescue performed in stormy , wintry seas, by men in an open boat from U.S.S. Sherman, another American ship, Antigone, and by a letter from the Admiralty describing the part played by H.M.S. Discoverer. All these documents are included in the story.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This book is in every sense a master piece. As a study of animal behaviour it has great importance, and as an example of a near perfect relationship between man and animal it is unique.The story begins when George Adamson, a Senior Game Warden in Kenya, brings back three motherless lion cubs to his wife Joy. One of them, Elsa, was destined to become the heroine of a modern classic on wildlife.Reared by Adamson in an atmosphere of mutual respect and never treated as a pet. Elsa the lion cub shared the Adamson's lives for three years. Then the couple attempted an experiment which had never before succeeded - they decided that Elsa ought to return to the freedom to which she was born. It took infinite skill and patience but eventually Elsa learned to live independently as a wild lioness. Her return to the wild in no way diminished her affection for the Adamsons: when for a few days they came… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - personal inscription inside - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Australian horse-breaker and balladist Harry Morant was executed in South Africa in 1902 after service in the Boer War. Breaker Morant shows that Morant's shooting of Boer prisoners was probably the result of a command inciting his patrol to vengeance. Lord Kitchener, who signed Morant's death warrant, was possibly appeasing the German Emperor, since a German missionary also died...but Morant had advised this missionary to defend himself from the dangerous Boers. Undoubtedly the brave Morant suffered questionable British justice.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.American, Muslim, and Proud - One's Family's StoryFor many Americans, the words "American" and "Muslim" simply do not marry well. For many, the combination is an anathema, a contradiction in values, loyalties, and identities. This is the story of how, through the lives, their schools, their friends, and their neighbours, one American Muslim family ended up living the challenges, myths, fears, hopes, and dreams of all Americans.In this moving memoir, Ranya Tabari Idliby explores what it means to be Muslim in America today and reveals the obstacles she faces as she tries to raise her children and teach them about their heritage and religious legacy. She discusses life in a world where hostility toward Muslims runs rampant, where there is an entire industry of anti-Muslim sentiment financed and supported by think tanks, authors, film makers, and individual vigilantes whose sole… Read More

Quality Book Club Edition - in good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This is not a history of medicine but a study of the doctor himself and of the varying esteem in which he has been held in the community. It begins in the days when he was beginning to shake himself free from soothsayers, philosophers and theologians. It describes the furious quarrels between physicians, surgeons, apothecaries and quacks, in which the patient tended to be forgotten, and traces the emergence of the General Practitioner with his jars of leeches and his stethoscope in his top-hat. It deals with the royal doctor (nervously performing with operation which may end his career or bring him a baronetcy), the fashionable London doctor (charging a guinea a mile for visits outside the metropolis), the country doctor riding up the endless lanes and glens asleep on his horse, the spa doctor, the lackey doctor in the rich hypochondriac's entourage, the 'penny… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - has slight yellowing to page ends - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Excerpt"The images of Catherine that have spanned three centuries testify to the strong emotions her life aroused at the time and long afterwards. On the one hand, the title and surtitle added to her Russian name - Empress Catherine the Great - conjure up notions of imperial splendor, military glory, political genius, territorial advance, and intellectual brilliance. Challenging such praise, on the other hand, are the attacks of an army of critics and moralists who brand her an adultress, usurper, murderess, tyrant, conqueror, oppressor, hypocrite, egotist, bad mother, nymphomaniac, and worse. One favourite label, applied by friend and foe, is "the Semiramis of the North" - after the mythical Queen of Babylonia who used charm and religion to usurp the throne and rule over her contentious subjects. Another comparison was with Messalina, the lustful third… Read More

Quality Book Club edition - in good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights for books the postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This is the drama of 24 hours of war, the revealing story of the sensational breakout of the German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau from Brest, their passage through the Straits of Dover and eventual arrival in German waters. Terence Robertson, who served in the Navy during the war, tells an amazing story and examines the events which led up to a climax which shocked the British public who had hitherto regarded the Channel as ours. He describes the superb courage of Esmonde, v.c. who led his squadron of obsolete Swordfish in a gallant but hopeless attack on the cruisers.Channel Dash will arouse keen controversy in the Services and among the general public.

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The Scottish clans and the tartans which are their symbol both grew out of the Celtic past and flourished in the late Middle Ages. Decimated first by inter-clan warfare, then by the brutal repression of the English and finally by the Highland Clearances, the clans have nevertheless survived. The clans still provide a real sense of identity for their members and their tartans have become very fashionable. This fascinating account traces their stories right up to the present day and lavish illustrations show the wonderful variety of the tartans.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A phenomenally popular film star for thirty years, Clark Gable projected the image of the rugged, virile man who "frankly," didn't "give a damn" for women's wiles, danger, or the false trappings of civilization. Yet he was a much more complex actor and personality than is commonly believed. In the profusely illustrated book, René Jordan offers a brilliantly original appraisal of Gable, and of the more than sixty films in which he reigned as "king of the movies" for three decades.

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The Listeners' Edition of the Coronation service of King George & Queen Elizabeth 12 May 1937. Rare item.