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  • Australian Desperadoes

    The Incredible Story of How Australian Gangsters Terrorised California

    by Terry Smyth ...
    The Coves – San Francisco's first organised-crime gang – were Australians: men and women with criminal careers in Australia who had come to the US, mostly illegally, during the gold rush. The Coves had come not to dig for gold but to unleash a crime wave the likes of which America had never seen. Robbery, murder, arson and extortion were the Coves' stock-in-trade, and it was said that the leader ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Napoleon's Australia

    by Terry Smyth ...
    'A fascinating insight into French ambition and amity in Australia, bursting with joie de vivre' – David Hunt, bestselling author of GirtIn the northern winter of 1814, a French armada set sail for New South Wales. The armada’s mission was the invasion of Sydney, and its inspiration and its fate were interwoven with one of history’s greatest love stories – that of Napoleon and Josephine.The ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Captive Fathers, Captive Children

    Legacies of the War in the Far East

    by Dr Terry Smyth ...
    Series series New Directions in Social and Cultural History
    Why are the daughters and sons of Far East prisoners of war still captivated by the stories of their fathers? What is it that compels so many of the children, after so many years, to search for the details of their fathers' captivity? And how, over the decades, have they come to terms with their childhood memories? In his book Terry Smyth treads new ground by examining the processes through which ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

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    Denny Day

    The Life and Times of Australia's Greatest Lawman – the Forgotten Hero of the Myall Creek Massacre

    by Terry Smyth ...
    Narrated by Robert Meldrum ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours

    Once there was a wilderness: Australia's frontier, a dangerous and unforgiving place where outlaws ruled the roads and killers were hailed as heroes. It was here, in 1838, that one man's uncompromising sense of justice changed history and shocked the world. Denny Day was a vicar's son from Ireland. A member of the Anglo-Irish ruling class, as a young man Day joined the British Army before ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    44 Days

    75 Squadron and the Fight for Australia

    by Michael Veitch ...
    Narrated by Michael Veitch ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 49 min

    In March and April 1942, RAAF 75 Squadron bravely defended Port Moresby for 44 days when Australia truly stood alone against the Japanese. This group of raw young recruits scrambled ceaselessly in their Kittyhawk fighters to an extraordinary and heroic battle, the story of which has been left largely untold. The recruits had almost nothing going for them against the Japanese war machine, except ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • Would You Kill the Fat Man?

    The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong

    by David Edmonds ...
    From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, a fascinating tour through the history of moral philosophyA runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing next to you: if you push him off ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Biography of Loneliness

    The History of an Emotion

    by Fay Bound Alberti ...
    'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.' Terry Eagleton, The Guardian Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Wounded Leaders

    British Elitism and the Entitlement Illusion: A Psychohistory

    by Nick Duffell ...
    Political leaders in Britain are consistently drawn from a class born to be educated away from their families in institutions - elite boarding schools. This has a direct effect on their ability to love, to relate, to make good judgments and to develop the necessary leadership qualities for today's world. In this controversial and highly acclaimed book, the author guides the reader along the elite ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Creativity

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Vlad Glăveanu ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For thousands of years humanity has engaged in creative expression, allowing us to relate to other people, contribute to shared culture, build an identity, and give meaning to our existence. From the painted caves in Lascaux and the invention of the first tools to modern day advertising campaigns and inventors' labs, creativity has a long past ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Education

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Gary Thomas ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Since the early Egyptians human beings have formalised the business of learning, setting up a designated environment of some form to pass knowledge and learning on to groups of students. In this second edition of his Very Short Introduction, Gary Thomas explores how and why education has evolved as it has, examining the ways in which it has responded over the centuries to various influences in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research

    by David Silverman ...
    Series series Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books
    The Second Edition of Qualitative Research provides a refreshing introduction to doing and debating qualitative research. The author uses updated content, ranging from photographs to novels and newspaper stories, to demonstrate how getting to grips with qualitative methods means asking ourselves fundamental questions about how we are influenced by contemporary culture.Conceived by Chris Grey as an ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Childhood Studies

    A Reader in Perspectives of Childhood

    Edited by Jean Mills, Richard Mills ...
    The nature of childhood, the consideration of whether a certain age denotes innocence or not, and the desire to teach good citizenship to our children are all issues commonly discussed by today's media. This book brings together a variety of perspectives on the study of childhood: how this has been treated historically and how such a concept is developing as we move into the next century.The book ... Read more

    $63.99 USD