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The Great Divide: Australia's Housing...

Alan Kohler

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2023 - A Year of Consequence

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The Conversation

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My Darlinghurst

Anna Clark

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Eamon Evans

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Australia's Few and the Battle of Britain

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The Hundred Years War Vol 5

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Jonathan Sumption

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Inside Pompeii – A Financial Times Best Book of 2023...

Luigi Spina

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Darrell Lewis

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Chrischona Schmidt

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South Korea's Grand Strategy

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Ramon Pacheco Pardo

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A History of Britain in Just a Minute

Gyles Brandreth

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The Way It Was

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Matthew Engel

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Peter Foster

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Charles Spicer

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Christopher Miller

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Jake Wallis Simons

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History of the Caucasus

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Christoph Baumer

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George W. Gawrych

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Andrew Bird

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November 1942

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Ottoman Armies 1820–1914

Gabriele Esposito

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The Cimbrian War 113–101 BC

The Rise of Caius Marius

Nic Fields

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Command

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Dr István Toperczer

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The Last Ships from Hamburg

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Anansi's Gold

The man who swindled the world

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Use and Misuse of the United States Census

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Margo Anderson

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Agreeing to Disagree

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Geronimo

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Rules

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Lorraine Daston

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In Defense of Processed Food

Anastacia Marx de Salcedo

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All the Knowledge in the World

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The Salt Roads

How Fish Made a Culture

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Emperor of Rome

Ruling the Ancient Roman World

Mary Beard

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Big Caesars and Little Caesars

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Ferdinand Mount

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The Rest is History

Historys Most Curious Questions...

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Islam Issa

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Rogue Corporations

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Animal Magic

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The Consultancy Conundrum

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The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse

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Saving Lieutenant Kennedy

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Brett Mason

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The Sinking of HMAS Sydney

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The China-Australia Migration Corridor

History and Heritage

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The Man Next Door

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Mike Colman

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Normal Women

900 Years of Making History

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Once a King

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Jane Marguerite Tippett

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UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation

Yaroslav Hrytsak

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Vienna

How the City of Ideas Created the...

Richard Cockett

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Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy...

Sandy Winterbottom

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A Woman I Know

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Mary Haverstick

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A Nasty Little War

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The Wagner Group

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To the Ends of the Earth

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Philip Parker

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Love

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Edward Brooke-Hitching

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Invisible Lines

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The Loom of Time

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Robert D. Kaplan

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The Food Adventurers

How Around-the-World Travel Changed...

Daniel E. Bender

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Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines...

More Frequently Asked Questions...

Garrett Ryan

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The Book in the Ancient World

How the Wisdom of the Ages Was Preserved...

Paul Chrystal

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The Ptolemies, Apogee and Collapse

Ptolemiac Egypt 246-146 BC

John D Grainger

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Vergil

The Poet's Life

Sarah Ruden

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The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

Volume II: Athens and Attica

Robin Osborne

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English Medieval Armies

1066-1337

Gabriele Esposito

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English Cathedral and Monastic Carpentry

Cecil A. Hewett

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The Emperor and the Elephant

Christians and Muslims in the Age...

Sam Ottewill-Soulsby

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The Hundred Years War

1337–1453

Emeritus Professor Anne Curry

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