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Tracks the violent history of the first years of British settlement in the Port Phillip District, now the state of Victoria. It illuminates the underlying free-settler rhetoric that advocated and abetted violence on the frontier. For the first time, we hear the settlers tell us in their own words what the civilisation of Port Phillip really involved.

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An incredible account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close.

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A thrilling tale of power, obsession and betrayal at the edge of the world.

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A thrilling tale of power, obsession and betrayal at the edge of the world.

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Examines how the technical and conceptual advances that occurred during World War I transformed Australian society. It traces the evolving role of universities and their graduates in the 1920s and 1930s, the increasing government validation of research, the expansion of the public service, and the rise of modern professional associations and international networks.

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From the co-authors of the New York Timesbestselling Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle comes the highly anticipated follow-up, The Genius of Israel, breaking down the defining factors behind Israel's successful trajectory of innovation and explaining how other nations can learn from its development.

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A gripping exploration of the worst single incident of racial violence in American history, timed to coincide with its 100th anniversary.

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A gripping exploration of the worst single incident of racial violence in American history, timed to coincide with its 100th anniversary.

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Think you know where the English language came from This work seeks to destroy the cherished national myths of the English, the Scots, the Welsh, the Irish and the French. It shows that: most of the entries in the Oxford English Dictionary are wrong; the whole of British place-name theory is misconceived; Latin is not what it seems; and more.

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A unique, illustrated book that will change the way you see medieval history.

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July 1945. Eighteen young British, Australian and New Zealand special forces from a top-secret underwater warfare unit prepare to undertake three audacious missions against the Japanese.

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A unique history of the soldier which looks at the politics, emotions and psychology behind soldiering and reveals a disturbing image of the true nature of war.

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The official Australian casualty statistics for the men of the Australian Imperial Force in the First World War are seriously wrong, with significant inaccuracies and omissions. The startling findings in this study, which began when author David Noonan first read the letters written by his grandfather from the Western Front, rewrite Australia's casualty statistics of the First World War.

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Rear-Admiral Dumont d'Urville, the French James Cook, was a brilliant sailor who made two great scientific and exploratory voyages to the Pacific and the Antarctic. D'Urville possessed enormous vitality, curiosity, perseverance and scepticism.

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A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historians

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366 quotations - one for every day of the (leap) year - each with a fascinating historical story

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366 quotations - one for every day of the (leap) year - each with a fascinating historical story.

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For the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of war in 1939, a new history of the 'Phoney War'.