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By: Laura Thompson
ISBN: 9781788548229
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.
(Paperback)
By: Roger Strauss
ISBN: 9781667844695
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: BookBaby
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Hell Bent (with dramatic illustrations) reveals how the very biology that led to our common Ancestor coming down from the trees and on to the top of the food chain, is the very biology that will send our civilization spiraling toward extinction within the next century or two.
(Paperback)
By: Michael Veitch
ISBN: 9781760877460
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken sailing ship Ticonderoga that left England for Victoria with 800 doomed emigrants on board.
(Paperback)
By: Phillip Bradley
ISBN: 9781743317556
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The first single volume history to cover all the battles fought by the Australians against the Japanese in Papua New Guinea.
(Paperback)
By: Tony Holmes
ISBN: 9781472829740
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 24th January 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The last quality Japanese fighter, the Shiden/Shiden-Kai was tasked with holding the line against the massed squadrons of American aircraft in the dying days of the Pacific War.
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By: Will Buckingham
ISBN: 9781783785667
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2022
Publisher: Granta Books
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This timely exploration of our history of welcoming strangers offers a powerful, uplifting antidote to our increasingly atomised world.
(Paperback)
By: Leanda de Lisle
ISBN: 9781529111040
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Meredith Francesca Small
ISBN: 9781639366903
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2024
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiecetheVenetianmappamundithat revolutionized how we see the world.
(Paperback)
By: Mike Duncan
ISBN: 9781541730342
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 8th September 2022
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette's lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equality
(Hardback)
By: Mike Duncan
ISBN: 9781541730335
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2021
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette's lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equality
(Paperback)
By: Stephen Dando-Collins
ISBN: 9780143787600
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Jim Haynes
ISBN: 9781761470370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Australia's most amazing characters of the convict age.
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By: Reinhard Zachau
ISBN: 9781647930103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Margot Lee Shetterly
ISBN: 9780008201326
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
UK Publication Date: 9th February 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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#1 New York Times Bestseller NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Oscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program.
(Paperback)
By: Margot Lee Shetterly
ISBN: 9780008555375
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Oscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay
Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASAs African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in Americas space program.
(Paperback)
By: Pieter van Os
ISBN: 9781922585035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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(Paperback)
By: Tom Parfitt
ISBN: 9781472294807
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2024
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A wonderfully atmospheric memoir-cum-travel narrative about how British journalist Tom Parfitt walked a thousand miles across Russia's Caucasus mountains to lay to rest a ghost after witnessing the carnage of the Beslan school siege in 2004.
(Paperback)
By: Ed Douglas
ISBN: 9781784704483
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A magisterial history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures, and adventures among the world's highest mountains.
(Paperback)
By: John Keay
ISBN: 9781408891162
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th October 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: John Hersey
ISBN: 9780141184371
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2002
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new era in human history opened. This book presents an account of six men and women who struggled to cope with catastrophe and with often crippling disease.
(Paperback)
By: John Hersey
ISBN: 9780679721031
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Oct 1989
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The classic tale of the day the first atom bomb was dropped offers a haunting evocation of the memories of survivors and an appeal to the conscience of humanity.
(Paperback)
By: M.G. Sheftall
ISBN: 9781035422692
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A sensitive and meticulously researched account of life in Hiroshima before and after the atomic bombing, with extensive testimony from the few remaining survivors
(Hardback)
By: S.C. Gwynne
ISBN: 9780861547081
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th October 2023
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The forgotten story of Britains own Hindenburg disaster.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Dr Sam Willis
ISBN: 9781786494146
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A revolutionary and fun new book that reveals how everything, from beds and bubbles to sleep and signatures, has a history.
