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By: Jacob Burckhardt
ISBN: 9780140445343
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1990
UK Publication Date: 28th June 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This 19th-century survey of the Renaissance propounds the view that it was at this time that man became aware of himself as a spiritual individual. This concept of the Renaissance has been much discussed, as has Burckhardt's cultural pessimism.
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By: Mark Daniels
ISBN: 9781789297140
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2024
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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An entertaining and accessible introduction to the fascinating world of Greek and Roman history, covering the people, events, art and mythology that have shaped the Western world.
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By: Patrick Lindsay
ISBN: 9781742753126
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Random House Australia
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By: Ian Bradley
ISBN: 9781780277790
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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'Coffin roads' are a marked feature of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and islands many are now popular walking and cycling routes. This book journeys along eight coffin roads to discover and explore the distinctive traditions, beliefs and practices around dying, death and mourning in the communities which created and used them.
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By: Odd Arne Westad
ISBN: 9780141979915
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Professor Robert Aldrich
ISBN: 9781350092402
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Professor Keith Hopkins
ISBN: 9781846684708
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2011
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Award winning classicist, Mary Beard with Keith Hopkins, tell the story of Rome's greatest arena
(Paperback, Main)
By: Paul Simpson
ISBN: 9781781256268
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2021
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A kaleidoscopic compendium of colour cultures and meanings that will change the way you see the spectrum.
(Hardback)
By: Dan Jones
ISBN: 9781786692689
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 9th August 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A brilliant artist, working with a bestselling historian, uses digital techniques to bring vividly to life 200 photographs of the defining events and personalities of the modern world.
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By: Tim Murray
ISBN: 9781743323694
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Sydney University Press
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This groundbreaking book reports on almost three decades of excavations conducted on the Commonwealth Block the area of central Melbourne bordered by Little Lonsdale, Lonsdale, Exhibition and Spring streets.
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By: Tom Keneally
ISBN: 9780143790839
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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By: Phil Gasper
ISBN: 9781931859257
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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An authoritative introduction to history's most important political document, with the full text of the Manifesto.
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By: Andrei Soldatov
ISBN: 9781541730175
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 8th December 2022
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with the mother country---be it antagonistic or far too chummy.
(Paperback, Revised and updated)
By: Nigel McCrery
ISBN: 9781787396876
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 10th June 2021
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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The full story of the SAS, from formation in the sand dunes of Africa during World War II to present action in the Middle East, and incorporates jungle, desert and urban warfare, counter-terrorism and an insider's view at the selection and training methods employed by this usually secretive unit.
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By: Rosa Luxemburg
ISBN: 9781786635341
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Verso Books
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(Paperback)
By: Bernal Diaz del Castillo
ISBN: 9780140441239
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1963
UK Publication Date: 26th July 1973
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents a description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement at the city, the exploitation of the natives for gold and other treasures, the expulsion and flight of the Spaniards, their regrouping and eventual capture of the Aztec capital.
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By: Stuart Kells
ISBN: 9780522876598
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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What was behind the wall and the wire The local people knew. Fine courtyards. An old swimming pool. Dilapidated tennis courts and a remnant garden, now wild and sprawling. The Convent: A City Finds its Heart tells the story of a site's rich history and the efforts to preserve it. This is an uplifting tale of community activism.
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By: Mark Dunn
ISBN: 9781760528645
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The story of the second British penal settlement in Australia, where a notoriously brutal convict regime became the template for penal stations in other states. Mark Dunn explores relations between the white settlers and the local Aboriginal landholders, and uncovers a long forgotten massacre.
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By: Liao Yiwu
ISBN: 9781921656514
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Text Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Leo Africanus
ISBN: 9780241543931
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: John Dickie
ISBN: 9781473658226
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 13th May 2021
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Professor John Dickie's riveting new history of Freemasonry - an organization as mysterious as it is influential.
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By: Rita Chin
ISBN: 9780691192772
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback, 4th edition)
By: Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith
ISBN: 9781350028616
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An enhanced and expanded 4th edition of Jonathan Riley-Smith's classic single-volume history of the Crusades.
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By: Joan Healey
ISBN: 9781922979698
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
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