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In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.On 12 October 2010, the world's attention was fixed on a remote copper mine in the Atacama desert in Chile. Final preparations were underway for a daring rescue to bring to an end the longest underground entrapment in human history.Sixty-nine days earlier, thirty-three miners were midway through a routine shift, deep in the San José mine. They stopped for lunch at the tiny safety shelter 688 metres below the surface. Ten minutes later they heard an almighty crack and a deep rumbling sound. Clouds of dust and debris poured down on the choking men. The bombardment lasted for five hours. When it finally cleared, the men discovered they were trapped under tonnes of collapsed rock.Seventeen days after the collapse, a drill finally reached them. They sent a note back to the surface: 'We are all right inside the shelter, the thirty three of us'.Building on the exclusive access he was given by… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights for books the postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This is an illustrated notebook on the life of Australians in the Middle Eastern theatre of war. Almost all of the contents are the work of men on active service. Reports are included on most of the actions in which Australian forces have so far taken part. It has been possible to include in these reports much detail which has not hitherto been available to the public. Similarly among the photographs, there are some which have already been published and many which now emerge from military and other official sources for the first time. They have been selected primarily for their value as graphic records of fact. It is hoped that the result, in text and photography, may be a more intimate if still fragmentary understanding of the campaigns. The balance and perspective of true history cannot yet be brought to bear on events.The contributions published are necessarily a very small… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The Currency is Fame and it's Bigger than Money, More Desired than Power.American Idol is a cultural force like no other. Over the last ten years, the show has offered up high-stakes drama outside the competition that has swept up millions of viewers in its wake. And now, for the first time, a veteran journalist with deep access to the judges, contestants, and crew enlightens readers with a fascinating and insightful look into ten years of America's most popular television show.The Inside Story of America's Biggest Dream Factory

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.From unswerving scorn to unreserved admiration, the attitude of press and public to the Royal Family frequently swings from one extreme to the other. And in recent years, no-one has felt the full breadth of opinion more than Princess Anne.But her own admission, the role of princess is not one she would have assumed through choice; but to it she has brought grace, a disarming sense of humour and her unique stamina.Anne: The Working Princess investigates every facet of a remarkable person. As wife, mother and champion horsewoman, she combines a hectic personal life with her unswerving dedication to official duties. Not satisfied with anything less than an active involvement in the countless organisations she supports, the Princess Royal undertakes over five hundred official engagements every year.And nowhere is her support more evident than in her capacity as President of the Save The… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Monday's child is fair of face,Tuesday's child is full of grace,Wednesday's child is full of woe ...What happened to Azaria Chamberlain, Wednesday's Child, became the most publicised mystery in Australian history. For the first time, all the elements of that mystery have been brought together in this gripping book beginning with the night Mrs Lindy Chamberlain screamed at an Ayers Rock camping site that a dingo had taken her baby and ending with the verdict of the trial of Mrs Chamberlain and her husband Michael in Darwin. The book is the definitive account of the drama.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights for books the postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A battle is an awe-inspiring and a terrible event, no matter whether it be fought with sword, lance, pike and cross-bow; musket, sabre and cannon; or machine-gun, high velocity shells and tanks and aircraft. In battle a large number of men fight each other to the death; many are killed, many wounded. War is ugly, battle is brutal.Yet there is another side to it, which does not alter the main fact that war and battle are horrible. In battle men willingly risk death or mutilation for what they believe to be right. One would not say that every soldier who has fought in battle went voluntarily, or even understood what he was fighting for. Yet there are always some, often many, who fight and kill for what they believe to be a just cause. Ordinary men become inspired to unexpected heights of courage and become selfless. Many a man has fought willingly, and died without complaining, because… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.What do young Aboriginal women talk about when they get together? You'll be surprised...Black Chicks Talking sets out to overturn the old sterotypes and showcase ten spirited young black women making their mark in contemporary Australia.Meet the new generation of Aboriginal women, as Leah Purcell speaks with nine black chicks froma diverse range of backgrounds. All of them share a passionate often humourous approach to the highs and lows of life and a strong determination to succeed.From Barbie and netball to demos and addressing the UN, from reading the seasons to nights on the town, from mothers and fathers to lovers and loves, the chicks open up about their lives in conversations which are moving, entertaining and enlightening.When the chicks get together over dinner at the end, you can be certain there will be some passionate debate, a few soul-searching moments and a lot of laughs.… Read More

Quality Book Club Edition - in very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights for books the postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This is a true story of the sea, possibly unique in the annals of steam-shipping. It is a story of superb courage and endurance, savage discipline, hardship and danger; of brutal foul-mouthed men, rising to heights of heroism and selflessness under appalling conditions.A bug-infested, fever-ridden ship, adrift in mid Atlantic, faces the full fury of a winter's gale. Dead, dying, and sick, lying in bunks - or even where they fell - with no one able to distinguish them and no one with sufficient strength to lift a dead body and cast it into the sea. The heroic rescue performed in stormy , wintry seas, by men in an open boat from U.S.S. Sherman, another American ship, Antigone, and by a letter from the Admiralty describing the part played by H.M.S. Discoverer. All these documents are included in the story.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This book is in every sense a master piece. As a study of animal behaviour it has great importance, and as an example of a near perfect relationship between man and animal it is unique.The story begins when George Adamson, a Senior Game Warden in Kenya, brings back three motherless lion cubs to his wife Joy. One of them, Elsa, was destined to become the heroine of a modern classic on wildlife.Reared by Adamson in an atmosphere of mutual respect and never treated as a pet. Elsa the lion cub shared the Adamson's lives for three years. Then the couple attempted an experiment which had never before succeeded - they decided that Elsa ought to return to the freedom to which she was born. It took infinite skill and patience but eventually Elsa learned to live independently as a wild lioness. Her return to the wild in no way diminished her affection for the Adamsons: when for a few days they came… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.What did Billy and Pamela do next?Billy, the ground-breaking biography of the nation's favourite iconoclast, gave millions of readers a fascinating insight into the personal and professional life of the genius that is Billy Connolly. Now, in the sequel to that bestselling book, the award-winning Pamela Stephenson celebrates life with the Scottish beastie as he hits the big six-0.Witty, insightful and intimate, Stephenson's frank and funny portrait of an epically eventful year draws the reader into two very different worlds: hers of international sexology and the serious psychology of humourists, his of incontinence pants, being married to a shrink - and the finer points of banjo playing.

In good condition - has markings from use - personal inscription inside - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Australian horse-breaker and balladist Harry Morant was executed in South Africa in 1902 after service in the Boer War. Breaker Morant shows that Morant's shooting of Boer prisoners was probably the result of a command inciting his patrol to vengeance. Lord Kitchener, who signed Morant's death warrant, was possibly appeasing the German Emperor, since a German missionary also died...but Morant had advised this missionary to defend himself from the dangerous Boers. Undoubtedly the brave Morant suffered questionable British justice.

In good condition - has markings from use - has slight yellowing to page ends - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Excerpt"The images of Catherine that have spanned three centuries testify to the strong emotions her life aroused at the time and long afterwards. On the one hand, the title and surtitle added to her Russian name - Empress Catherine the Great - conjure up notions of imperial splendor, military glory, political genius, territorial advance, and intellectual brilliance. Challenging such praise, on the other hand, are the attacks of an army of critics and moralists who brand her an adultress, usurper, murderess, tyrant, conqueror, oppressor, hypocrite, egotist, bad mother, nymphomaniac, and worse. One favourite label, applied by friend and foe, is "the Semiramis of the North" - after the mythical Queen of Babylonia who used charm and religion to usurp the throne and rule over her contentious subjects. Another comparison was with Messalina, the lustful third… Read More

Quality Book Club edition - in good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights for books the postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This is the drama of 24 hours of war, the revealing story of the sensational breakout of the German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau from Brest, their passage through the Straits of Dover and eventual arrival in German waters. Terence Robertson, who served in the Navy during the war, tells an amazing story and examines the events which led up to a climax which shocked the British public who had hitherto regarded the Channel as ours. He describes the superb courage of Esmonde, v.c. who led his squadron of obsolete Swordfish in a gallant but hopeless attack on the cruisers.Channel Dash will arouse keen controversy in the Services and among the general public.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A phenomenally popular film star for thirty years, Clark Gable projected the image of the rugged, virile man who "frankly," didn't "give a damn" for women's wiles, danger, or the false trappings of civilization. Yet he was a much more complex actor and personality than is commonly believed. In the profusely illustrated book, René Jordan offers a brilliantly original appraisal of Gable, and of the more than sixty films in which he reigned as "king of the movies" for three decades.

In good condition - dust jacket has slight wear - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The French would say that a crime of passion is 'to kill for love.' They believe - and rightly - that any human being, driven to the limits of endurance by uncontrollable feelings, is capable of committing an act as bloody, brutal and savage as any in history. Many crimes are motivated by passion, and are not merely versions of the eternal triangle, the killing for love or lust. Anger, frustration, greed, resentment and despair all play their part.In Crimes of Passion you will read about the shooting of the distinguished American architect Stamford White; Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain; the murder in the Red Barn - the killing of Maria Marten by the son of a local landowner; Edith Thompson, the suburban housewife whose passion led to her husband's death in a London street; good-time girl, Starr Faithful, whose last fling led to her… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Behind the closed doors and net curtains in perfectly ordinary cities, towns and villages something goes on... MURDERReconstructed in graphic detail, here are the true stories of twenty horrific killings - baffling murder cases with strangely obscure motives. The victims were wives, grandparents, children...the murderers were the sort of people that you meet every day...

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Dr Jaynat Patel started work at Bundaberg Base Hospital in Queensland in 2003. In the years that followed he was linked to the death's of over 100 patients and was dubbed 'Dr Death'. He then fled to the US and escaped prosecution.Virginia Walker, a qualified registered nurse, worked closely with Dr Patel in the years he worked at the hospital and Dancing With Doctor Death is her personal account of this period.She catalogues the day-to-day stresses and horrors of working in a health system that seemed more obsessed with money and budgets than people and their health.This is a startling story of one of the saddest periods in the history of the health system in Australia.

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.An all-new collection of gene-pool belly flopsMost people don't need a PHD to know that doing chin-ups off the edge of a seventh-floor balcony is a recipe for disaster. Or that it's a bad idea to put a paintball gun in your mouth and pull the trigger. Or to think twice before joyriding in a shopping cart strapped to a four-wheel drive. Darwin Award winners lack this basic sound judgement.Named for Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, The Darwin Awards celebrate those who have dived headfirst into the shallow end of the gene pool. From offering a bear a beer to self-testing a Taser to jumping a drawbridge on a bike, The Darwin Awards V: Next Evolution honours these macabre and entertaining feats of hapless misjudgement.Fully illustrated and with over a hundred new awe-inspiring tales, including science essays from guest writers and answers to FAQs about evolution in action, The… Read More

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Based on the true story of the Nazi massacre of a French village in 1944, an unforgettable tale of love and redemption from the bestselling author of The German Girl.
Inspired by one of the most shocking atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis, the 1944 massacre of all the inhabitants of the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in the south of France, The Daughter's Tale is a beautifully crafted family saga of love, survival and hope against all odds.

In good condition - has slight markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Dear DadSo, you're still dead. It's been 31 years and every day I have to remind myself of that fact, and every day I am shocked. I'm not 19 any more and so many things have happened that you haven't known, so I have decided to write this book for you. I want to remember our time together and I want to tell you about lots of stuff since. So far, it's been better than expected...With a sharp eye for comic detail and a wicked ear for the absurdities of life, Dawn French shows just how an RAF girl from the West Country with dreams of becoming a ballerina/air hostess/bridesmaid/thief rose to become one of the best-loved comedy actresses of our time.Here Dawn French invites us into her most personal relationships with, among others, her mum and dad, her husband, her daughter and her friend Jennifer.Dawn reveals the people, experiences and obsessions that have influenced her and that… Read More