Plain Tales From The Raj - Images of British India in t...
The Raj was, for 200 years, the jewel in the British imperia...
The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighte...
The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth ...
The Grand Designers: The Evolution of the Airplane in t...
The Grand Designers: The Evolution of the Airplane in the 20...
Science in the 20th Century and Beyond
Science in the 20th Century and Beyond - University textbook...
Belonging: Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century
Belonging: Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century - Univ...
Norton Anthology of English Literature 9E Volume F the ...
Norton Anthology of English Literature 9E Volume F the 20th ...
Hyderabad, British India, and the World: Muslim Network...
Hyderabad, British India, and the World: Muslim Networks and...
Tales from the Hood (The Sisters Grimm #6) - 10th Anniv...
More in the New York Times bestselling series! More than 500...
Seriously...You Have to Laugh - Great Yarns and Tall Ta...
Putting his unique spin on our sporting life, Peter FitzSimo...
Plain Tales From The Raj - Images Of British India In The 20th Ce
Tales From Outer Suburbia
Do you remember the water buffalo at the end of our street, or the deep-sea diver we found near the underpass? Do you know why dogs bark in the middle of the night?A new picture book from the international award-winning illustrator Shaun Tan, Tales from Outer Suburbia is a unique and inspiring collection of original stories and illustrations.Shaun Tan, creator of The Arrival, The Lost Th...
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm - The Complete First Edition
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Childrens and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Cinderella would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would...
Murphy's Lore - Tales From The West
Bob Murphy footballer, music fan, dog walker, coffee drinker, hand shaker, train traveller and tree lover has been a favourite of footy followers for many a year. Now captain of his beloved Western Bulldogs, hes showing the young pups at the Kennel how to play the great game the right way. Collected here for the first time are the best of Bobs much-loved weekly ne...
Tales from a Bondi Vet - An international hit TV series
As the son of a country vet, animals have been a part of Dr Chris Browns life for as long as he can remember so its not surprising that he has followed in his fathers veterinary footsteps. But Chriss life has one twist his dad never had to deal with
a TV camera crew following him around to capture the day-to-day life of an urban vet. Tales from a Bondi Vet is based on the hit Australia...
Devil's Day - From the Costa winning and bestselling author of The Loney
The second novel from the Costa winning and bestselling author of The LoneyThe new master of menace Sunday TimesIn the wink of an eye, as quick as a flea, The Devil he jumped from me to thee. And only when the Devil had gone, Did I know that he and Id been one . . .Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter. V...
Pretty Gentlemen - Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World
The term macaroni was once as familiar a label as punk or hipster is today. In this handsomely illustrated book devoted to notable 18th-century British male fashion, award-winning author and fashion historian Peter McNeil brings together dress, biography, and historical events with the broader visual and material culture of the late 18th century. For thirty years, macaroni was a highly...
Two from the Heart
From the bestselling author of Sundays at Tiffanys, two heart-warming tales about the power of a good story to open our eyes to lifes possibilities. Anne McWilliams has lost everything. After her marriage falls apart and a hurricane destroys her home she realises that her life has fallen out of focus. So she takes to the road to ask long lost friends and strangers a simple question- Whats...
Business Adventures - Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street: The New York Times bestseller Bill Gates calls...
The best business book Ive ever read. Bill Gates, Wall Street Journal The Michael Lewis of his day. New York Times What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular ...
Plain Tales From The Raj - Images of British India in the 20th Century
The Raj was, for 200 years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called benign autocracy the government of many by few, with the active collaboration of most Indians in recognition of a desire for the advancement of their country. Charles Allens classic oral history...
Asia's Reckoning - China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century
A history of the combative military, diplomatic, and economic relations among China, Japan, and the United States since the 1970sand the potential crisis that awaits them Richard McGregors Asias Reckoning is a compelling account of the widening geopolitical cracks in a region that has flourished under an American security umbrella for more than half a century. The toxic rivalry between China...
Good Losers Die Broke - A Lifetime of Tales from the Track
Melbourne Mick Bartley wasnt big noting when he described $6000 in 1976 as toilet paper. To call him a punter wasnt sufficient. Nobody played horses better in roles as a commission agent, SP bookmaker and master architect of betting coups. But the punt giveth and the punt taketh away
From copy boy at the Sydney Sun to his current weekly column for Fairfax, Max Presnell has lived, breathed a...
Tales From Watership Down
Tales From Watership Down is the enchanting sequel to Richard Adamss bestselling Watership Down, the enduring classic of contemporary literature that introduced millions of readers to a vivid and distinctive world. Here, he returns to the delightful characters we know and love including Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig, Dandelion, and the legendary rabbit hero El-ahrairah and presents new heroes as th...
History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps
The twentieth century was a golden age of mapmaking; an era of cartographic boom. Maps proliferated and permeated almost every aspect of daily life; not only chronicling geography and history but also charting and conveying myriad political and social agendas. Here Tim Bryars and Tom Harper select one hundred maps from the millions printed; drawn; or otherwise constructed during the twentieth cent...
Art of the 20th Century
Who could possibly have forecast on New Years Eve 1899 that, one hundred years later, painting and sculpture would be only options, not prerequisites? The term art has been defined and redefined so many times over the last 100 years that it has gained entirely new social, political, and technological meanings.Ranging across the full spectrum of disciplines available, including photography an...
Tales from the Hood (The Sisters Grimm #6) - 10th Anniversary Edition
More in the New York Times bestselling series! More than 500,000 copies of the series in print! The Grimms defend Mr. Canis in Ferryport Landings trial of the century! This book sees Mr. Canis, dear friend and protector of the Grimm family, put on trial for past crimes. Considering that hes really the Big Bad Wolf, he has a lot to answer for. Is there any truth to the story told by Little Red ...
Teachers' Strangest Tales - Extraordinary but true tales from over five centuries of teaching
A fascinating collection of bizarre tales from classrooms throughout history. A hilarious assortment of the weirdest and wackiest tales ever to come out of the classroom and theyre all true. Featuring the flamboyant swimming teacher who spent his spare time fighting bears, the story of how a fight with his teacher paved the way for Al Capones infamous crime empire, and the bizarre tale o...
The Violent Century
John le Carre meets Alan Moores The Watchmen in this stunning novel by one of science fictions most original voices. For seventy years they guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound together by a shared fate. Until one night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart. But there must always be an account
and the pas...
Fashion. A History from the 18th to the 20th century
Clothes define people. A persons attire, whether its a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, personality, even faith. Founded in 1978, the Kyoto Costume Institute recognizes the importance of understanding clothes from sociological, historical, and artistic perspectives. With one of the worlds most extensive clothing collections, the KCI has amass...
On Tyranny - Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten Observer History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claime...
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu - The Quest for This Storied City and the Race to Save its Treasures
Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the worlds most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. To Westerners, the name `Timbuktu long conjured a tantalising paradise, an African El Dorado where even the sla...
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
Ten illustrated stories following the adventures of Simon Lewis, star of the #1 New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments, as he trains to become a Shadowhunter. Simon has been a human and a vampire, but after the events of City of Heavenly Fire left him stripped of his memories, he isnt sure who he is any more. When the Shadowhunter Academy reopens, Simon throws himself into this...