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By: William McInnes

ISBN: 9780733627804
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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In THE MAKING OF MODERN AUSTRALIA, bestselling writer William McInnes brings together stories from regular Australians to create a personal view of our country since WWII.


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By: Cyprian Broodbank

ISBN: 9780500292082
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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The Mediterranean has been for millennia one of the global cockpits of human endeavour. This book provides interpretive synthesis for a generation on the rise of the Mediterranean world from its beginning, before the emergence of our own species, up to the threshold of Classical times.


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By: Paul Cleary

ISBN: 9780733636608
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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The gripping story of a small force of Australian Special Forces commandos that launched relentless hit and run raids on far superior Japanese forces in East Timor for most of 1942. Now part of the HACHETTE MILITARY COLLECTION.


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By: Stephen Bourke

ISBN: 9780500294451
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 23rd August 2018
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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A profusely illustrated historical survey of a fascinating region, now available in a new format.


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By: William Eamon

ISBN: 9781426206504
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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Evokes the world of Renaissance medicine to tell the tale of surgeon Leonardo Fioravanti.


(Paperback)

Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Victoria was the first Australian colony to open a steam railway, in 1854. Railway history both reflected and made Victorian history as a whole, especially during the boom and bust of the 1880s and 1890s. This book tells the story of the early railways opened in the wake of the gold rush to Ballarat and Bendigo.


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By: Chris Scarre

ISBN: 9780500050965
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1999
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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How were the ancient wonders of the world built This text examines spectacular feats of engineering and celebrates the achievements of the builders who worked without the aid of modern technology. It includes 70 wonders, from the Great Wall of China to Inca bridges.


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By: Christopher Hibbert

ISBN: 9780714826523
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1994
UK Publication Date: 1st January 1994
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
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This introduction to England's past by Christopher Hibbert goes from the first encounter with England's Neolithic inhabitants, through the entire course of the country's political, economic and cultural history, to an expression of faith in the qualities of the English today.


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By: Anthony Brandt

ISBN: 9781426200946
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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Is there any tale more thrilling than a shipwreck


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By: Eva Mozes Kor

ISBN: 9781913183714
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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(Hardback)

By: Mark Collins Jenkins

ISBN: 9781426209338
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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Discover the epic naval story of the war that threatened to undo our nation in 1812.


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By: Michael Cathcart

ISBN: 9781921656552
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: Text Publishing
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The story of the settlement of Australia and how our culture has been shaped by the scarcity of water and by the need to fill the imagined silence of the continent with the sounds of civilisation. It's the story of who we are today as much as a history of how the country grew. It's an important work of environmental and cultural history.


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By: David Michaels

ISBN: 9780714873985
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
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An encyclopaedic, eye-catching tribute to one of the world's most popular foods - the humble hamburger


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By: Frank Walker

ISBN: 9780733637179
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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The extraordinary revelations in Traitors detail the ugly side of war and power and the many betrayals of our ANZACs.


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By: Anne Salmond

ISBN: 9780143772163
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)
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By: Gareth Williams

ISBN: 9780714123370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: British Museum Press
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In the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vikings created an unrivalled cultural network that spanned four continents. This book explores the core period of the Viking Age from a global perspective, examining how the Vikings drew influences from Christian Europe and the Islamic World and how they created a lasting historical impact on our world.


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By: Duncan McNab

ISBN: 9780733632518
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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The colourful and gripping story of the criminal exploits, larger-than-life characters, the politics and the crooks who have populated Australia's docks, wharves and ports - from the First Fleet to today.


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By: Frank Shaw

ISBN: 9781529103915
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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'I remember standing on top of our local glen with a block of wood, expecting thousands of Germans coming down from the sky.


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By: Stephen Quirke

ISBN: 9780714131436
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: British Museum Press
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In Ancient Egypt, a name did more than express ones identity; it incorporated it, forming a profound element of it. This book covers 3000 years of history from the dawn of Egyptian writing to the use of royal names under the Roman emperors in Egypt.


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By: Andro Linklater

ISBN: 9781408831717
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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On the two hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Spencer Perceval - the only British Prime Minister ever to have suffered that fate - this is the riveting untold story of the murder, the murderer and the repercussions of his act


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By: Kim Ghattas

ISBN: 9781472271105
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979


(Paperback, 4th edition)

By: Christopher Pugsley

ISBN: 9781877514654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Oratia Media
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By: Guy de la Bdoyre

ISBN: 9781408712399
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Guy de la Bdoyre's gripping narrative history gives a sense of what it was like to be a soldier in the army that brought the Romans their empire


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By: Jonathan Kaufman

ISBN: 9781408710036
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Kings of Shanghai is at once the intimate story of two families and a sweeping account of how modern Shanghai was born.

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