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Match the Mermaids: A Memory Game by Emily Hawkins
24.99 AUD
Category: Games & Puzzles | Series: A\Natural History Ser.
Mermaid matching game: Can you reunite the merfolk with their friends in this fun and easy-to-learn game? Sturdy gift box contains: 40 cards, each measuring 8.8 x 6.6 cm and a 28-page booklet; box size is 10 x 14.4 x 4.7 cm 20 diverse mermaid species: With merfolk from all parts of the world, match the ...Show more
'Me Write Myself' - The Free Aboriginal Inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47 by Leonie Stevens
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Australian History Ser.
Exiles, lost souls, remnants of a dying race ... The fate of the First Nations peoples of Van Diemen's Land is one of the most infamous chapters in Australian, and world, history. The men, women and children exiled to Flinders Island in the 1830s and 40s have often been written about, but never allowed ...Show more
Modern China by Wasserstrom, Jeffrey
58.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Oxford Illustrated History Ser.
This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the present day. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China promises to be essential reading for anyone who w ...Show more
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 by Paul Stephenson
49.99 AUD
Category: Popular History | Series: The\Profile History of the Ancient World Ser.
Three hundred action-packed years of Roman history, encompassing the fall of Rome and the rise of a new empire in the East. Long before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique empire, the glittering Constantinople: New Rome.In ...Show more
Paris - A Short History by Jeremy Black
34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A\Short History Ser.
Once described as "that metropolis of dress and debauchery" by the Scottish poet David Mallet, Paris has always had a reputation for a peculiar joie de vivre, from art to architecture, cookery to couture, captivating minds and imaginations across the Continent and beyond. In Paris: A Short History, his ...Show more
Personal History by Katharine Graham
26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Women in History Ser.
As seen in the new movie The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep, here is the captivating, inside story of the woman who piloted the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media. In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katha ...Show more
Problems of Dostoyevsky's Poetics by BAKHTIN MIKHAIL
20.00 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Theory and History of Literature Ser.
This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky's studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle."Bakhtin's statement on the dialogical nature of artistic cr ...Show more
Professor Wooford McPaw’s History of Astronomy by Elliot Krusynski
29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Professor Wooford Mcpaw's History of Things Ser.
Take your youngsters on a voyage across the universe and ignite their passion for exploring the night sky in this fascinating and imaginative guide to astronomy for kids ages 6 to 10. This second book in the Wooford McPaw series takes on the subject of the cosmos and everything within it. In his dist ...Show more
Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Revisioning History Ser.
A Queer History of the United States is more than a “who’s who” of queer history: it is a book that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary-source documents, literature, and cultural histories, scholar and activist Michael Bronski charts the breadth of lesbian, gay, ...Show more
Recollections of a Picture Dealer by Ambroise Vollard; Violet M. MacDonald (Translator)
39.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser.
Celebrity, art merchant, socialite, publisher, and writer, Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939) was one of the most extraordinary figures in 20th-century art. He possessed an uncanny ability to recognize genius in painters -- dozens of important artists received valuable commissions and gallery space with his ...Show more
Rome Is Burning - Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty by Anthony A. Barrett
49.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Turning Points in Ancient History Ser.
Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome's Great Fire--and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and fiddled while the city burned. It's a ...Show more
Save our Sons: Women, Dissent and Conscription during the Vietnam War by Carolyn Collins
34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Australian History Ser.
Save Our Sons tells for the first time the full story of the Save Our Sons movement of Australian women who banded together to oppose conscription during the Vietnam War.In 1965, angered by the Menzies’ government’s decision to conscript young men to fight in the Vietnam War, a group of Sydney housewive ...Show more