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1787: The Lost Chapters of Australia's Beginnings by Nick Brodie
$34.99 NZD
Category: H
For over 200 years Australia's official history has focused on English colonisation and 'discovery', with tales of British explorers and first generation white Australians navigating the vast and unfriendly land. But what of the millennia before the English claimed Australia as their own and wrote the h ...Show more
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead
$30.00 NZD
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A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in "The Resistance Quartet": the astonishing story of the aristocratic Italian family who stood up to Mussolini's fascism, and whose efforts helped define the path of ...Show more
Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death by Anthony Everitt
$50.00 NZD
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What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait. More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built an empire that s ...Show more
An Underground Guide to Sewers by Stephen Halliday
$45.00 NZD
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Lose yourself in the vast sewer networks that lie beneath the world's great cities - past and present. Let detailed archival plans, maps and photographs guide you through these subterranean labyrinths - previously accessible only to their builders, engineers and, perhaps, the odd rogue explorer. This ex ...Show more
Catching the Light: A Journey Across Myanmar by Birgit Neiser
$69.99 NZD
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Much has changed in Burma since Birgit Neiser first visited in 1981.The country is now known as Myanmar, and military rule - which lasted nearly half a century - has given way to a tentative democratic process. Returning in 2010, at the cusp of this groundbreaking shift, Neiser began spending two months ...Show more
DK Reference World Atlas by Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
$65.00 NZD
Category: H
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Godless by Paul Ham
$40.00 NZD
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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
Great State: China and the World by Timothy Brook
$55.00 NZD
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China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at ...Show more
Holocaust: Nazi persecution and the murder of the Jews by Peter Longerich
$57.99 NZD
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A comprehensive history of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews, paying detailed attention to an unrivalled range sources. Focusing clearly on the perpetrators and exploring closely the process of decision making, Longerich argues that anti-Semitism was not a mere by-product of the Nazis' po ...Show more
Judo Formal Techniques - A Guide to Throwing and Grappling by Donn F. Draeger; Tadao Otaki; Neil Ohlenkamp (Foreword by)
$33.00 NZD
Category: H
Judo Formal Techniques is "The most detailed explanation of Judo that has ever been published" (The Japan Times). A comprehensive training manual to the basic "free practice" forms of Kodokan Judo (the Randori no Kata), the book provides essential instruction in the throwing and grappling kata (Nage no ...Show more
Napoleon and Betsy: Recollections of Napoleon at St Helena by Lucia Elizabeth Abell
$49.99 NZD
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The story of Napoleon and Betsy Balcombe is an unusual and fascinating tale. A fallen Emperor who once controlled most of Europe makes friends with an impudent, pretty and spirited young English girl, just about the celebrate her thirteenth birthday. Betsy produced a book full of interest, but notwithst ...Show more
Phonographica - The Early History of Recorded Sound Observed by Timothy C. Fabrizio; George F. Paul
$50.00 NZD
Category: H | Series: A\Schiffer Book for Collectors Ser.
The early history of recorded sound, Mr. Edison's most marvelous achievement, brimmed with graphic imagery - elegant, dazzling and delightful! Follow these award-winning authors on a bewitching tour of visual artifacts from the phonograph's first fifty years. There are colorful advertising placards, cha ...Show more
