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  • Discovering Australia
    Sarah Cloete Jones
    Embark on a captivating journey through the diverse landscapes, rich cultures, and unique experiences that define the enchanting continent of Australia. 'Discovering Australia: A Traveler’s Guide' invites you to explore the extraordinary tapestry of this vast and vibrant land, providing an expertly crafted companion for both first-time visitors and seasoned travelers seeking ne...
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    12,78 €

  • IN THE COMPANY OF OUTLAWS
    TONY SQUIRE
    In the rugged Australian bush, young Ned Kelly forges an unlikely friendship with a young Aboriginal man, a bond that seems destined to be a guiding light. However, as he navigates the challenges of adolescence, Ned is drawn into a life of crime, skilfully concealing his actions from his well-intentioned friend. Amidst the breathtaking landscapes and moral crossroads, a grippin...
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    20,07 €

  • Knocking The Top Off
    Knocking The Top Off: A People’s History of Alcohol in Australia explores the changing nature of drinking in Australia and the role it has played in social and economic life over several generations. From the early days of colonisation through to the contemporary moment this heavily illustrated collection chronicles the ways in which alcohol consumption has impacted on, and bee...
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    51,92 €

  • NO COUNTRY FOR IDEALISTS
    Boris Frankel
    This book is a dramatic account of the making of a family of ’subversives’ in Australia and the USSR during the Cold War. It also captures the texture of everyday life in Australia and Russia, with humour and insight. Importantly, it is much more than a tale of dreams and deceptions. It is an unflinching chronicle of love and courage in the face of concerted opposition by both ...
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    27,29 €

  • Australia’s Grand Slam Tennis Champions
    John Coomer
    Australia has a proud history on the world tennis stage. From pioneers like Jack Crawford, Nancye Wynne (Bolton) and Frank Sedgman, through the golden era of champions like Ken Rosewall, Roy Emerson, Rod Laver, Margaret Smith (Court) and John Newcombe, and on to more recent success stories like those of Ash Barty and Dylan Alcott.This book highlights the achievements of every A...
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    66,03 €

  • An Illustrated Journey of Cookie & Co
    Michael owen Perkins / Michael Perkins
    Embarking on an incredible adventure as we traverse the world in celebration of the By-Centenary of Australia 1788-1988, in a mere 152 days, accompanied by COOKIE. Our vehicle of choice. A vibrant yellow 1924 14/40 Vauxhall roadster that goes on to inspire the beloved Pixar/Disney animated film 'CARS,' captivating audiences worldwide and achieving remarkable box office success....
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    24,42 €

  • Battle of Hearts
    Tania Roberts
    Springtime brings new life to the Canterbury farm where Betsy has stayed to train the next intake of land girls. Desperate for news of her fiancé, Roland, a World War II soldier missing in action, Betsy’s life remains in limbo, until letters from near and far bring news, both good and bad.Returning home, battle-scarred and weary, William must find a way to feel whole again. No ...
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    21,39 €

  • The Langlands
    Edward (Ted) Stephens K.S.J.
    IN 1840 ROBERT LANGLANDS, A YOUNG SCOTTISH MAN, TOOK A HUGE STEP FOR LOVE AND LEFT HIS FAMILY TO EMBARK ON A ROMANTIC ESCAPADE ACROSS THE OCEAN...He shocked his family by deciding to pursue his lady friend who had been deported to Australia for a minor misdemeanour.After arriving in Melbourne, Robert immediately set off to Sydney to ask his girlfriend, Agnes, to marry him.Rober...
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    17,53 €

  • DOCTOR REDFERN
    Annegret Hall
    William Redfern is Australia’s first medical graduate. His pioneering work in public health medicine is acknowledged with the William Redfern Oration given at the annual congress of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.Redfern was a surgeon’s mate aboard HMS Standard during the 1797 Nore mutiny. For his involvement he was sentenced to death and spent three years in Cold...
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    17,00 €

  • The Anarchy Engine
    Ken Gratton
    THE WORLD COPES WITH CASCADING ECONOMIC DISASTERS, WAR, GLOBAL PANDEMICS AND CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE...Now right-wing populist politicians are throwing further chaos into the mix.The Anarchy Engine breaks down the discrete challenges faced by the Australian voting public over the past fifteen years, focusing particularly on the four years of the Morrison coalition governmen...
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    14,90 €

  • The Wild North
    Ion Idriess
    In these pages Ion Idriess has brought together stories gathered and lived in his happy battling years in the wild lands of Australia’s Far North and the islands beyond. Stories of gold and pearls, of land and cattle, of the search for wealth in dangerous and lonely places. Stories of unnamed men and women, white and brown and black, of primitive passions unleashed far beyond t...
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    18,95 €

  • Prison Hulk to Redemption
    Gerard Charles Wilson
    SECOND EDITION Revised 2022A history of colonial Australia, not of the famous and heroic, but of the small people, the anonymous people who were the heartbeat of a growing nationIn this first book of the series, A HISTORY OF A CATHOLIC FAMILY, the author sets out on a journey through Australia’s colonial history with his ancestors, who gradually take on flesh and blood from th...
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    26,94 €

  • Filipinas: História E Artes Marciais
    Tales De Azevedo
    Filipinas: História e Artes Marciaisé uma obra revisada e expandida que oferece um panorama rico e detalhado sobre a história das Filipinas e a evolução de suas tradicionais artes marciais. Este livro se destaca como uma referência valiosa para todos os praticantes de Artes Marciais Filipinas (FMA), independentemente do nível de experiência, pois aprofunda não apenas as técnica...
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    20,17 €

  • Aliens & Savages
    Andrew Enstice / Janeen Webb
    Aliens & Savages is a hands-on historical record of the racism that underpins Australia’s growth as a nation. First published twenty-five years ago, this new and revised edition asks: what has changed? As we approach the referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament, Aliens & Savages is still the only publication of its kind - a survey of racism and...
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    24,20 €

  • Indigenous Liberation & Socialism
    Jordan Humphreys
    Australia is a profoundly racist society: the cops continue to murder Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, land rights are trod on to dig up fossil fuels, far-right vigilantes whip up attacks on Indigenous youth, and the gaps between Indigenous and non-indigenous people endure in income, health, education and housing.As the Liberal Party runs vile, racist campaigns aga...
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    25,04 €

  • The Nugget Finders
    Horatio Alger
    The Nugget Finders: A Tale of the Gold Fields of Australia by Horatio Alger is a captivating literary work that transports readers to the rugged and untamed landscapes of the Australian Gold Rush era. Alger masterfully weaves a narrative that encapsulates the exhilarating quest for wealth, the resilience of the human spirit, and the triumph of perseverance amidst the challengin...
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    18,87 €

  • There’s Glory For You
    Frances Gibson
    The business of the historian, is to remember what others forget: the history of the early community legal centres is not yet forgotten-but it soon may be. Legal centres are not good at recording their past: they are understaffed, resources are stretched, the demands of the work seem urgent and unrelenting, and there’s no time for looking back, reflecting on experiences, honour...
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    33,39 €

  • There’s Glory For You
    Frances Gibson
    The business of the historian, is to remember what others forget: the history of the early community legal centres is not yet forgotten-but it soon may be. Legal centres are not good at recording their past: they are understaffed, resources are stretched, the demands of the work seem urgent and unrelenting, and there’s no time for looking back, reflecting on experiences, honour...
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    51,65 €

  • No Longer Silent
    Australian College of Nursing
    No longer silent: Voices of 21st century nurses is a celebration of the diversity of nursing practice in modern times.It is a far cry from the Nightingale style of nursing Lucy Osburn brought to these shores more than 150 years ago. The authors featured in this book are very aware of nursing history as they celebrate the voices of nurses in the 21st century.The chapters are wri...
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    37,81 €

  • The Corruption Of New Zealand
    Perce Harpham
    Everybody belongs to a minority of some sort so there is sympathy for removing "The tyranny of the majority". But this results in the "tyranny of a minority or minorities" and the destruction of democracy. This book explores Government’s obsession for giving Maori different legal rights from all other citizens.A pattern of events and vested interest moves have corrupted our dem...
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    14,03 €

  • 75 Years of Christian Witness
    Laurence F Rowston / Maurice French
    In 1984 Maurice French began the journey of capturing the remarkable history of a baptist church in the Northern Suburbs of Hobart. Maurice and his wife Chris, have been constants in the 75-year journey of the Lenah Valley congregation, which is reflected in the words he wrote back then:'This is the history thus far of the Lenah Valley Baptist Church. It is a resumé of a people...
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    13,03 €

  • The Van Diemen Anthology 2023
    Chris Champion
    The best of the VAN DIEMEN HISTORY PRIZE 2022-2023 selected by Dr Kristyn Harman, Kirstie Ross, Tony Fenton and Chris Champion.The idea for The Van Diemen History Prize came out of a conversation with Associate Professor Kristyn Harman, of the University of Tasmania. Her idea was then honed to fit the underlying philosophy of Forty South Tasmania - high-quality writing on a Tas...
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    22,72 €

  • Diary of a Young Boy
    Barry Revill
    ’In unaffected prose, Barry Revill takes us back to the Australia of his childhood, a time of simple pleasures and caring communities ready to heal each other’s wounds. He shows us that, while some of the ties that bind drag us down, others offer liberation through the grace of small mercies.’ - Paul Mitchell ...
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    15,30 €

  • Crossing the Dead Heart
    C.T. Madigan
    This book is a classic narrative of modern exploration; a story of adventure, enterprise and patient scientific exploration, illustrated by photographs taken on the expedition.The Simpson is a sand-ridge desert extending 200 miles (322 km) west to east, the ridges running parallel from north to south at roughly quarter-mile (0.4 km) intervals, some reaching as high as 100 feet ...
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    22,40 €

  • Socceroos - A World Cup Odyssey, Volume 1 1965 to 2002
    John Maynard
    The first of two magnificent volumes from Emeritus Professor of History, John Maynard, on the Socceroos journey through World Cup qualifying campaigns. Volume 1 starts with the campaign to make the 1966 World Cup in England, which ended for Australia in Phnom-Penh in 1965; includes the first time Australia qualified for the World Cup held in West Germany in 1974; and ends with ...
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    24,56 €

  • Socceroos - A World Cup Odyssey, Volume 2 2006 to 2022
    John Maynard
    The second of two magnificent volumes from Emeritus Professor of History, John Maynard, on the Socceroos journey through World Cup qualifying campaigns. Volume 2 starts with a ’new era’ for the Socceroos with the first of five consecutive successful World Cup qualifying campaigns starting with Germany in 2006 through to Qatar 2022.In that time, the team had five coaches, four c...
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    25,82 €

  • MENZIES vs EVATT
    Anne Henderson
    A fascinating story of a personal rivalry that shaped Australian politics.- Professor Geoffrey Blainey ACMenzies and Evatt are painted in their strengths and flaws, with their shared endeavours and their irreconcilable differences and with their competing views of Australia and the world. Anne Henderson’s account is fresh and compelling, a study in the triumphs, tribulations an...
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    24,24 €

  • The Clark Brothers
    Garry Moore
    'This trio of brothers, whose names are almost unknown to the present generation, are deserving of a monument to their memory in each of the respective towns in which they resided, and so liberally assisted to establish as centres in the north-eastern part of Victoria.'North Eastern Ensign, Friday, 30 June 1893, p. 3. ...
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    50,48 €

  • The imperial Commonwealth
    Wm. Matthew Kennedy
    The Imperial Commonwealth examines what empire meant to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australian settler colonists, how it seemed to entail special obligations for white settlers of British heritage, and how, in developing settler colonial categories of empire, Australian itself became an empire. ...
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    157,28 €

  • Bully Hayes the Blackbirder
    Larry W Jones
    William Henry 'Bully' Hayes (1827 or 1829 - 31 March 1877) was a notorious American ship’s captain who engaged in blackbirding in the 1860s and 1870s. Hayes operated across the breadth of the Pacific Ocean from the 1850s until his murder on 31 March 1877. He has been described as a South Sea pirate and 'the last of the buccaneers'. It is almost impossible to separate fact from ...
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    43,32 €


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