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Virtual History
Author: Niall Ferguson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780330351324

This collection explores what would have happened if nine momentous events in history had turned out differently. The answers are strictly based on the alternatives which we know contemporaries... [view more]

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From Sydney Cove to Duntroon
Author: Hugh Falkus; Joan Kerr
ISBN: 9780575030398

This unique volume of 19th-century Australiana is based on the legacy of two remarkable women, both married into the Campbell family. Sophia is Australia's earliest known woman artist and her... [view more]

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The Genius of China
Author: William Watson (Text by); Kuó Mo-Jo; Royal Academy Staff (Contribution by); Great Britain-China Committee Staff (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780723001072

An exhibition of archaeological finds of the People's Republic of China, held at the Royal Academy, London by permission of the President and Council from 29 September 1973 to 23 January 1974.... [view more]

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Mythology
Author: Edith Hamilton; Steele Savage (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780316341516

Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world and established itself as a perennial bestseller in... [view more]

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A Month at the Front The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
Author: Introduction by John Pinfold
ISBN: 9780522854138

Discovered at the bottom of a box of books recently donated to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this war journal vividly tells the story of a young World War I soldier and his experiences at the Front... [view more]

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Coca-Cola Superstar
Author: F. S. Palazzini
ISBN: 9780862879532

The most famous drink in the world was invented in May 1886 by a pharmacist named Pemberton. Today it is a living legend and a $9 billion industry. This book shows how the original syrup, intended... [view more]

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The age of Anne
Author: Edward E. Morris
ISBN: 0001000001363

(Epochs of modern history) 14th impr., 1906, Longmans, Green and Co. London. Hard cover: burnt orange cloth with tooling to front and back boards, fine. No Dust Jacket. Endpapers: intact, low... [view more]

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Virgile's Vineyard
Author: Patrick Moon
ISBN: 0001000001338

a Year in the Languedoc Wine Country. Published by John Murray: London in 2003. First edition signed by author. Indented line/fault along whole length of front cover board and dust jacket.... [view more]

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History of the Conquest of Mexico
Author: William H. Prescott
ISBN: 0001000001330

with a preliminary view of the ancient Mexican civilization, and the life of the conqueror, Hernando Cortes in two volumes. 1857, New ed., G. Routledge and Co. London. This set comprises two volumes.... [view more]

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A Time to Die
Author: Robert Moore
ISBN: 9780553813852

At 10.30am on Saturday August 12, 2000, two massive explosions in rapid succession shook the icy Arctic waters of the Barents Sea. The Kursk, one of the largest and most technologically advanced... [view more]

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Streetwalking on a Ruined Map
Author: Giuliana Bruno
ISBN: 9780691086286

Emphasizing the importance of cultural theory for film history, Giuliana Bruno enriches our understanding of early Italian film as she guides us on a series of inferential walks through Italian... [view more]

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The Penguin History Of The Church 2. Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages
Author: Richard W. Southern
ISBN: 9780140205039

This is the story of the birth and decay of a great Western ideal. The concept of an ordered human society, both religious and secular, as an expression of a divinely ordered universe was central to... [view more]

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The Reformation
Author: Owen Chadwick
ISBN: 9780140137576

The beginning of the sixteenth century brought growing pressure within the Western Church for Reformation. The Popes could not hold Western Christendom together and there was confusion... [view more]

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Island on the Edge of the World : the Story of St Kilda
Author: Charles Maclean
ISBN: 9781841957555

For more than 2000 years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Its society was viable, even Utopian; but in the nineteenth century the island was discovered by missionaries,... [view more]

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Farewell Britannia
Author: Simon Young
ISBN: 9780297852261

War in Focus
Author: Paul Brewer
ISBN: 9781741828146

Stunning collections of photographs from the front-lines, beautifully presented in large format paperback. PAUL BREWER began working as a picture researcher specializing in military photographs in... [view more]

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Ground Truth - 3 Para Return to Afghanistan
Author: Patrick Bishop
ISBN: 9780007317417

In April 2006 the elite 3 Para Battle Group was despatched to Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on a tour that has become a legend. All that summer the Paras were subjected to relentless Taliban attacks... [view more]

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Longitude
Author: Dava Sobel
ISBN: 9781857025491

The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest, and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect time-keeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery,... [view more]

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Endless Path Celtic Myth
Author: Kevin Eyres
ISBN: 9781844517435

Enter the mysterious and romantic world of Celtic mythology in this beautiful giftbook. Through accessible, bitesize text and evocative illustration, whet your appetite for the many gods, heroes... [view more]

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White Coolies
Author: Betty Jeffrey
ISBN: 9780207196287

An account of the true story which inspired the film Paradise Road.In 1942, a group of Australian Army nursing sisters was evacuated from Malaya a few days before the fall of Singapore. Two days... [view more]

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