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This new edition of the most influential book about pirates ever written presents twenty action-packed biographies of the likes of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd along with the celebrated female pirates Mary Reed and Anne Bonny. A classic from 1724 brought back to life with extra material from the Library collections.

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Travelling through time from Ancient Egypt to today, A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues unpicks the past, illuminates the present and offers a new perspective on the future through these controversial symbols of our identity.

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A history of the university grounds, their design, management and landscape evolution. It is also a reminder of the very rich educational resource the grounds can offer in botany, ecology, landscape design and social history. It includes sections on areas of special interest such as the Sunken Garden, Somerville Auditorium and Japanese Garden.

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Eric Graham traces the development of the Scottish marine and its institutions during a formative period, when state intervention and warfare at sea in the pursuit of merchantilist goals largely determined the course of events.

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Objects found on the banks of the Thames tell the stories of Londoners through the centuries.

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An illustrated history of witchcraft. It includes an analysis of the importance of the Internet and films in the dissemination of witchcraft, and the potential tensions as a movement that was originally a closed, secretive cult becomes an open, recognized public religion.

(Paperback, 3rd edition)

Presents aboriginal history. This book includes chapters on: The Assimilation Era 1937-1960s; The Rise of Self determination 1960s-1990s; Mabo, Wik and Reconciliation.

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In 1883 pastoralists began to drive great herds of cattle into Victoria River District of Australia's Northern Territory. They entered a vast tropical land of big rivers, wide plains, and rugged ranges. It was a cattleman's paradise, but also a paradise for the Aboriginal people who had lived there for thousands of years.

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A bestselling 1930s' cookbook by the author's Jewish grandmother was published for decades under a false name after the Nazi takeover of Austria

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A classic account of the fall of Saigon and other South East Asian conflicts.

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The surprising tale of the first American Protestant missionaries to proselytise in the Muslim world.

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A niece of Jane Austen and a novelist herself, Catherine Hubback wrote regularly to her eldest son John and his wife Mary. Her letters offer an articulate, detailed commentary on life in California by a gentlewoman managing a household and finding her place in a new world

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What secrets lie beneath the wrappings of an ancient Egyptian mummy

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Cover subtitle: The Australian Inland Mission: a century of service to the outback.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

Before women even got the vote, this novel prophesied women presidents, prime ministers and leaders of the opposition. Before the Wright Brothers or Richard Pearse flew, it predicted global air travel.

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This book tells the story of every one of Australia's 25 prime ministers.

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The desperate weeks of desert warfare that gave the Allies hope that they could put Nazi Germany on the run

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Here Timothy Tackett tests some of the diverse explanations of the origins of the French Revolution by examining the psychological itineraries of the individuals who launched it--the deputies of the Estates General and the National Assembly. Based on a wide variety of sources, notably the letters and diaries of over a hundred deputies, the book ass

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A globe-spanning, different and vital new history of gender.

(Hardback, Bilingual edition)

A groundbreaking volume offering the most comprehensive overview of GDR visual culture. From fashion photography to secret police surveillance equipment, this unrivaled catalogue features more than 2,500 artifacts, design pieces, and everyday objects, gathered from the extraordinary collections of the Wende Museum, Los Angeles. Never before has...

(Hardback, Main)

One man's personal discovery of his family's involvement in transatlantic slavery leads to his call for a wider reckoning among the descendants of slave owners.