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By: Alexandra Villing

ISBN: 9780714127927
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
Publisher: British Museum Press
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This tour of the classical city of Athens takes the reader from the Acropolis to the theatre, from the political, civic and commercial centres, to the harbour and surrounding countryside.


(Paperback)

By: Barry Unsworth

ISBN: 9780792255581
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2007
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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Moving and artful, Crete gives readers a comprehensive picture and rich understanding of this complexand indeed, almost magicalworld of Mediterranean wonders.


(Hardback)

By: Walter Cronkite

ISBN: 9781426210198
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book.


(Paperback)

Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2005
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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(Hardback)

By: Alex Christofi

ISBN: 9781399401883
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 9th May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Thomas B. Allen

ISBN: 9781426202223
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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The public interest in state secrets and espionage has been piqued by our current international conflicts, and this engrossing book - engagingly written for the general reader - will definitely feed that fascination.


(Hardback)

By: Russell Baker

ISBN: 9780792261445
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2003
Publisher: National Geographic Books
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Essays by historians, commentators, and writers--including Stan Katz, Sam Roberts, Anna Quindlen--in a celebration of America that combines more than 300 exquisite photos and illustrations with unsurpassed prose.


(Hardback)

Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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This is the most extensive and comprehensive dictionary of battles and sieges ever published in English, with more than 8500 meticulously researched entries. It offers easy-to-find A-Z entries that cover conflicts from practically every era and place of human history.


By: Paul R. Bartrop

ISBN: 9780313329678
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Over 600 terms identify and explain the history and suffering of ethnic and religious groups experiencing genocide throughout the world. The people, places, governments, agencies, documents, legal terms, and all other aspects of genocide are defined for new students and scholars alike.


(Hardback)

Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Skira
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Tibetan culture and artistic tradition were virtually unknown in the West until the eight major expeditions led by Giuseppe Tucci between 1926 and 1948. This catalogue retraces his travels through period photographs and his contributions to the study of Tibetan art.


(Paperback)

By: Robert Macklin

ISBN: 9780733634031
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from before Captain Cook to the present day.


(Paperback)

By: Jasper Becker

ISBN: 9781426201165
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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No nation on Earth is as newsworthy as 21st-century Chinaand no book could be timelier than Dragon Rising


By: Junius P. Rodriguez

ISBN: 9780313332715
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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African slaves living in the Americas resisted subhuman treatment in myriad ways, from passive resistance to armed insurrection. This encyclopedia provides historical detail of how slaves struggled against bondage. It highlights key revolts and examines important cultural and religious currents that nurtured and fed slaves' hunger for freedom.


By: Carl C. Hodge

ISBN: 9780313334047
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Offers information on the major world powers of the nineteenth century and their global empires, as well as on the people, events, and ideas, both European and non-European, that shaped the Age of Imperialism. This encyclopedia also offers entries on important figures, places, movements, and events.


(Paperback)

By: Peter Pringle

ISBN: 9781408831069
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A wonder drug, a disputed Nobel Prize, and a patent that shaped modern medicine


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By: Eric H. Cline

ISBN: 9781426202087
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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Eric H. Cline uses the tools of his trade to examine some of the most puzzling mysteries from the Hebrew Bible and, in the process, to narrate the history of ancient Israel.


(Hardback)

By: Peter FitzSimons

ISBN: 9781741666595
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Random House Australia
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(Paperback)

By: Robert Aldrich

ISBN: 9780500292310
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Gives a voice to more than eighty people from every major continent and from all walks of life. This book includes poets and philosophers, rulers and spies, activists and artists.


(Paperback)

By: Owen Matthews

ISBN: 9781408833995
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An untold chapter of America's past, a fascinating insight into a centuries-old love story, Glorious Misadventures is an expansive history of Russian colonization from Guardian Award-shortlisted author Owen Matthews.


(Paperback)

By: Michele Cunningham

ISBN: 9780733629891
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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The heart-rending story of the Australians brutally imprisoned in Sandakan, the Japanese POW camp in North Borneo, whose very name came to symbolise cruelty and ill-treatment.


(Paperback)

By: Donald Cameron Watt

ISBN: 9781845951726
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Panoramic in scope, flawless in presentation, this book is a monument of international history. Having amassed all that is known of the kaleidoscopic blunders, deceptions and fateful games of secret intelligence, Donald Watt cogently explains how Europe's leaders were influenced and misled by Hitler's demonic drive for power.


(Paperback)

By: Catherine E. McKinley

ISBN: 9781408822364
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A richly-told, personal quest across the ancient trade routes of West Africa, and the unforgettable story of a rare, luminuous colour


(Hardback)

By: Peter FitzSimons

ISBN: 9780733641275
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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(Hardback)

By: Rudy Abramson

ISBN: 9781426203039
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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Along the 175-mile stretch from Monticello to Gettysburgdesignated by Congress as the official birthplace of Americaintriguing details of our nations past emerge from every town and byway. This beautiful book spotlights key places and personalities o

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