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Hazel Hawke is one of Australia's best-loved and most respected women. As the wife of a prime minister she brought a down-to-earth warmth to Canberra that influenced everyone she came into contact wit...$49.99
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Arrian's "Anabasis of Alexander" in seven books is the best account we have of Alexander's adult life. "Indica, " a description of India and of Nearchus's voyage therefrom, was to be a supplement.<...
publisher: Harvard University Presspublication date: 1933-12-01ISBN: 9780674992979Binding: Hardback Book$51.95 -
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The Nez Perce campaign is among the most famous in the brief and bloody history of the Indian wars of the West. Yellow Wolf was a ...publisher: Caxton Presspublication date: 1940-01-01ISBN: 9780870043154Binding: Paperback Book$23.95 -
In 1912 Edward Bach qualified as a medical doctor and embarked upon a career which not only had a profound effect on medical science, but brought to ordinary people the world over, a simple, safe and ...publisher: Ebury Presspublication date: 1940-12-01ISBN: 9780852070017Binding: Paperback Book$19.95 -
publisher: Paulist Press International,U.S.publication date: 1952-12-01ISBN: 9780809102648Binding: Hardback Book$40.95 -
The first comprehensive biography of John McMillan, who "blew the Gospel trumpet," and spread Presbyterianism west of the Alleghenies. McMillan was a missionary, minister, politician, patriarch, and a...publisher: University of Pittsburgh Presspublication date: 1952-12-15ISBN: 9780822983583Binding: Paperback Book$57.95
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Augustinus (354-430 CE), son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste in North Africa, and his Christian wife Monica, while studying in Africa to become a rhetorician, plunged into a turmoil of philosophic...
publisher: Harvard University Presspublication date: 1953-12-01ISBN: 9780674992641Binding: Hardback Book$51.95 -
A monumental project which brings the English-speaking work key selections from the remarkable literature of early Christianity -- vertiable trasures of Christian faith and theology in superb translat...publisher: Paulist Press International,U.S.publication date: 1954-12-01ISBN: 9780809102594Binding: Hardback Book$44.95
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Born into slavery, young Harriet Tubman knew only hard work and hunger. Escape seemed impossible--certainly dangerous. Yet Harriet did escape North, by the secret route called the Underground Railroad...publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKSpublication date: 1954-12-31ISBN: 9780590436281Binding: Paperback Book$8.95
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publisher: Oxford University Presspublication date: 1955-06-01ISBN: 9780195006995Binding: Paperback Book$40.95
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This fascinating book tells the incredible but true story of a Jewish family in Eastern Europe and their bitter but triumphant struggle for survival.
Meet Yente and Benjamin who, despite bitter oppo...
publisher: Friends of Israel Gospel Ministrypublication date: 1955-07-03ISBN: 9780915540150Binding: Paperback Book$15.95 -
Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of California coast where he lived for fif...publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporationpublication date: 1957-02-01ISBN: 9780811201070Binding: Hardback Book$23.95 -
publisher: Houghton Mifflinpublication date: 1958-12-01ISBN: 9780395051306Binding: Paperback Book$32.95 -
"A flavorsome re-creation of things past in the life of a generous, friendly people." New York Times Book Review "George Webb's gentle recollections of his childhood and Pima Indian lifeways will dou...publisher: University of Arizona Presspublication date: 1959-06-15ISBN: 9780816507863Binding: Paperback Book$19.95
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Isobel Miller gave up God for worldly pursuits. But as graduation approached and her engagement was broken, she questioned that decision. 'If You will prove to me that You are, and if You will give me...publisher: Moody Press,U.S.publication date: 1959-12-01ISBN: 9780802400536Binding: Paperback Book$9.95 -
publisher: Oxford University Presspublication date: 1960-12-01ISBN: 9780198217138Binding: Hardback Book$212.95 -
The honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of the Potomac. She begged to be allowed to go along, thus setting the pattern...
publisher: University of Oklahoma Presspublication date: 1961-09-01ISBN: 9780806111926Binding: Paperback Book$30.95 -
As far as is known, Theophilus's was the only treatise on almost all the major arts that was produced during the thousand years of the Middle Ages. In his preface he presents the philosophical attitud...publisher: Oxford University Presspublication date: 1961-12-01ISBN: 9780198222064Binding: Hardback Book$203.95
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Since 1966 the "Australian Dictionary of Biography" has provided Australians with concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of prominent men and women of this country who contributed their vis...publisher: Melbourne University Presspublication date: 1961-12-31ISBN: 9780522841213Binding: Hardback Book$82.50 -
publisher: The University of North Carolina Presspublication date: 1961-12-31ISBN: 9780807813867Binding: Paperback Book$33.95 -
publisher: Melbourne University Presspublication date: 1962-12-31ISBN: 9780522841947Binding: Hardback Book$82.50
