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On Platform One of Paddington Station in London, there is a statue of an unknown soldier; hes reading a letter. On the hundredth anniversary of the declaration of war everyone in the country was invited to take a moment and write that letter. A selection of those letters are published here, in a new kind of war memorial one made only of words.

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An extraordinary group portrait of London today: a book as rich, dynamic, lively, and diverse as the city itself.

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Australias favourite newsreader presents an anthology of stories, people and products that are uniquely Australian.

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This book reveals the significant role Aboriginal men, and some women, played in Australia's early maritime history. Theirs was a canoe culture and they called foreign ships 'mari nawi', meaning 'large canoes'. They sailed the Australian coast, to sealing and whaling grounds in Bass Strait, the icy sub-Antarctic and to international destinations.

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A New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventually made their way to the UK, Africa and beyond.

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Lifeboats occupy a particular place in peoples hearts as unpaid volunteers regularly take to their boats often in extremely adverse conditions to rescue others from the sea.

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Full of misadventure and mystery, Men Without Country is a sweeping history of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas told by a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, the man who led the infamous mutiny on the Bounty

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Memoir of escape from slavery by someone who hid inside a crate shipped from Richmond to Philadelphia. "Just as relevant now as it was 150 years ago." - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Tour the United States in all its kaleidoscopic glory. Following on from the acclaimed National Geographic: Around the World in 125 Years, this new photographic collection presents a distinctly American story from the magazine's illustrious archives, curating more than 700 captivating images to chart a century of growth and change state by...

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How the Farm Security Administration introduced America to Americans

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As President Obama's time in the White House draws to a close, this celebratory book documents his transformative accomplishments.

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With original blueprints, never-before-seen photos and new digital recreations, this book tells the fascinating story of the Olympic Class, revealing new insights that continue to be uncovered about the shared history of these magnificent ships.

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The Sunday Times bestseller One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings DAILY MAIL

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In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing an art without a history. No-one, it went on, has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing. Until now.

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How many of us today can accurately identify the stars and constellations, the phases of the moon, or the hour and position of the sunrise Few modern city-dwellers can, but for our forebears such knowledge was crucial. This book explores the history of mankind's intimate relationship with the sky.

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In Reading on the Farm, Lydia Wevers uses the library on Brancepeth Station in the Wairarapa, its staff and users as the ground for an extended reflection on the meaning of books, reading and intellectual life in colonial New Zealand.

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Joe Mulhall uncovers how music has shaped resistance movements across the globe, from Irish protest songs to Apartheid South Africa to the artists in Ukraine today.

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Tells the story of the National Library of Australia's extraordinary collections, assembled over the last 100 years. This publication features 270 illustrations, most in full colour, accompanying fascinating chapters about the aspects of the Library's history and collections, by leading Australian scholars and historians.