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1942 THE YEAR THE WAR CAME TO AUSTRALIA
 The story of the bombing of Darwin and the Japanese midget sub attack on Sydney Harbour in one volume from the bestselling author of An Awkward ...
View full detailsA CONCISE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA
Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands years old. For much of th...
View full detailsA CONCISE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA 5TH EDITION
Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Aust...
View full detailsA CONCISE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA 5TH EDITION eBOOK
Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Aust...
View full detailsA GLOBAL HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 3RD EDITION
The book that forever changed the way architectural history is viewed, taught, and studied, A Global History of Architecture examines 5,000 years o...
View full detailsA HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA
 This vivid, multi-dimensional history considers the key cultural, social, political and economic events of Australia's history. Deftly weaving t...
View full detailsA HISTORY WRITTEN IN METAL: COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUES AT CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY'S CASUARINA CAMPUS, 1972-2013
This book looks at the history of Charles Darwin University through an examination of the many commemorative plaques to be found at the Casuarina C...
View full detailsA LITTLE BIT OF JUSTICE
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A SHORTER HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA
 After a lifetime of research and debate on Australian and international history, Geoffrey Blainey is well-placed to introduce us to the people w...
View full detailsA SUNBURNT CHILDHOOD GROWING UP IN THE TERRITORY
For fans of Sheryl McCorry's DIAMONDS AND DUST and Sara Henderson, this is the story of Toni Tapp Coutts's extraordinary childhood on the legendary...
View full detailsA WOMAN'S EYE, HER ART REFRAMING THE NARRATIVE THROUGH ART AND LIFE
How six extraordinary women artists of the twentieth century reframed the narrative through their art and lives. When a woman makes art, what does ...
View full detailsAN ANZAC JOURNEY FROM ADELAIDE RIVER TO LEMNOS
AN AWKWARD TRUTH: THE BOMBING OF DARWIN
The bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942 is the battle Australia tries to forget. Although there was much to be proud of that day - courage, mates...
View full detailsAUSTRALIA'S MUSLIM CAMELEERS: PIONEERS OF THE INLAND 1860s - 1930s
Between 1870 and 1920, as many as 2,000 cameleers and 20,000 camels arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and northern India. Australia's Muslim Ca...
View full detailsBANG BANG HOPALONG CASSIDY
Hopalong Cassidy or Hop-along Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of popular s...
View full detailsBEGINNING EXPERIENCES
Bush nurse and wife at Batchelor, living area for Rum Jungle Mine By Janie Mason, RN Msc University Fellow & Nursing Museum Curator Charles Dar...
View full detailsBOLD AND LUCKY AUSTRALIA'S COLONIAL NAVY 1824-1831
 A prequel to his 'World's end': British military outposts in the 'ring fence' around Australia 1824-1849, this book by prize-winning historian a...
View full detailsBRIEF HISTORY OF BALI
PIRACY SLAVERY OPIUM AND GUNS:THE STORY OF A PACIFIC PARADISE This book tells the story of Bali the paradise island of the Pacific; its rulers and ...
View full detailsCLOUD LAND: THE DRAMATIC STORY OF AUSTRALIA'S EXTRAORDINARY RAINFOREST PEOPLE AND COUNTRY
A sweeping account of Australia's wet tropical rainforest country, from deep time to the legendary time of Australia's first peoples; from the kill...
View full detailsCONNECTING DARWIN AND THE EASTERN FRONT
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DARWIN & HIS CHILDREN: HIS OTHER LEGACY
While much has been written about the life and works of Charles Darwin, the lives of his ten children remain largely unexamined. Most "Darwin books...
View full detailsDARWIN 1869 IN PHOTOGRAPHS
This is the story of the birth of the city of Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory.
DARWIN 1869: THE SECOND NORTHERN TERRITORY EXPEDITION
Darwin, the unique and vibrant city in Australia's tropical north, was almost stillborn. The Northern Territory had its beginnings under the govern...
View full detailsDARWIN SPITFIRES: THE REAL BATTLE FOR AUSTRALIA
Using war diaries, combat reports, and other official correspondence and records, this fast-paced narrative reconstructs in detail the prolonged ai...
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