The Times Compact History of the World and The Times World Atlas by Editors of the Times
$24.95 AUD
Category: General History
Carrying the authority of The Times and its unrivalled reputation for accurate and current information, these two books are an authoritative guide to the world - past and present. The Times Compact History of the World is the most comprehensive small-format single-volume illustrated history of the wor ...Show more
Not So! - Myths about America from Columbus to Clinton by Paul F. Boller Jr.
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Category: General History
In sailing westward in 1492, did Columbus defy the prevailing belief that the Earth was flat? Was Thomas Paine an atheist? Was Truman plucked from obscurity to be FDR's running mate in 1944? Are presidential campaigns nowadays far dirtier than they were in the past? Is Hillary Clinton the mostactive or ...Show more
Cambridge Commemorated - An Anthology of University Life by Laurence Fowler (Editor); Helen Fowler (Editor)
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Category: General History
Cambridge Commemorated is an illustrated anthology of passages of prose and poetry describing life at the University of Cambridge from its foundation to the present day. The daily lives of dons and students, town and gown relations, change and continuity are unfolded in letters, diaries, memoirs, novels ...Show more
Unquiet Souls - The Indian Summer of the British Aristocracy, 1880-1918 by Angela Lambert
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Category: General History
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro
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Category: General History
Ten years ago James Shapiro won the Samuel Johnson Prize for his best-seller 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. Now, to mark the forthcoming 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, comes a compelling look at a no less extraordinary year in his life: 1606. 1606 is an intimate portrait of ...Show more
Culture of Complaint - The Fraying of America by Robert Hughes
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Category: General History
Secondhand. The best-selling author of The Shock of the New, The Fatal Shore, and Barcelona here delivers a withering polemic aimed at the heart of recent American politics and culture.Culture of Complaint is a call for the re-knitting of a fragmented and over-tribalized America--a deeply passionate bo ...Show more
The Waning of the Middle Ages - A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought, and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries by Johan Huizinga
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Category: General History
Brilliant study of art, life, and thought in France and the Netherlands during 14th- 15th centuries explores the period's splendor and simplicity, courtesy and cruelty, religious, artistic, and practical life; much more. 14 illustrations.
Letters by Arthur Plantegenet Lisle; Muriel St Clare Byrne (Editor); Birdget Boland (Editor)
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Category: General History
America's Black Congressman by Maurine Christopher
$7.95 AUD
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