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This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion.

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This is a history of St Josephs Mori Girls College, which has become the second oldest Mori boarding school and was started by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions in 1867. The college has given rise to numerous Mori trailblazers in a variety of fields.

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This book is about technology and how it has changed the lives of people on three continents over the last three hundred years.

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Gordon McLauchlan continues his bestselling Short History series with an in-depth look into the history of the farming industry in New Zealand.

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The aerial operations during the Revolutions of 1922 and 1947 in Paraguay, covering all the recce, light bombing missions, as well as the few dogfights.

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A keepsake collection of maps depicting legendary and real places for lovers of literature, history, and cartography!

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A most unusual and fascinating atlas of extraterrestrial encountersa map to the places where portals open up between our world and theirs!

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Thoroughly documented, a worldwide selection of places representing many attempts made by mankind through the ages to re-create a paradise on Earth

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This new title in this bestselling series relates 37 stories of shipwrecks, great discoveries, mysteries, and disappearances still thrilling adventure seekers.

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Azules versus Colorados is the name given to a series of armed confrontations between two factions of the Argentine Armed Forces in 1962 and 1963, during the de facto presidency of Jose Maria Guido.

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"Features some of the fiercest women of all time--the famous, the infamous, and the ones you haven't even heard of yet. Explore the notable works, impressive feats, and striking portraits of these wild women from around the globe who challenged the status quo"--

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An authoritative, richly illustrated summary on the major confrontation of four superpowers over the city of Berlin, including the Berlin Airlift, in 1945-1949.

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For many in East Germany, Walter Ulbrichts Workers & Peasants State was not the Communist paradise he had promised. His population was leaving in their droves and he demanded radical action.

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Cold War Berlin: An Island City Volume 3, US Forces in Berlin - Preparing for War, 1945-1994 examines how the American Berlin Brigade prepared for war: the units that made up the brigade, how it trained, how it was equipped, how it planned to defend the city, and also looks the Special Forces units that served alongside it.

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This book tells the story of how Fletcher, in its many manifestations over the decades, has transformed New Zealand's built environment by constructing such renowned structures as the Auckland University Clock Tower and the Museum of New Zealand: Te Papa Tongarewa.

In the past two decades, cuisine and culinary history have attracted increasing attention, with both popular and academic books reflecting the growth of interest. Recipes are both sensitive markers of the socioeconomic conditions of their times and written representations of a culture's culinary repertoire.This book is a first in its field.

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The 1980s in New Zealand were choice, despite some things that happened which were really stink. Good As Gold looks back fondly on the decade that fashion forgot.

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In her long-awaited book, Barbara Brookes, drawing on a wide variety of sources, traces the narratives of women's lives throughout New Zealand's history

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This book sets out the case for decolonisation by illuminating - through anecdotal, real life examples - what decolonisation might look and feel like.

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Raising wild silk meets social and environmental challenges facing the textile industrythe second-largest global polluterhead-on by providing a sustainable occupation that maintains social bonds and a connection with the land.