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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 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 - dust jacket has fading on spine - has slight yellowing to pages - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The 'birthday biography' of Sir Donald Bradman, based on his lifetime collection of personal material and on interviews with the great batsman.On 27 August 1983 it became seventy-five years since 'The Don' was born into a farming family at Yeo Yeo, New South Wales. The biography is proudly presented as a commemorative tribute to the world's most famous batsman.The book was conceived when Sir Donald consented to make his personal records - including letters, documents, photographs and scrapbooks dating back to his earliest days - available to the publishers as the basis of a new biography. He also granted interviews to the author and checked the entire text of the book.Michael Page gives a fully rounded portrait of Sir Donald's life and career, from the days when he was a youthful country cricketer, through the years when he… Read More

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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 - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Manning Clark and Kathleen Fitzpatrick were influential Australian historians; they were both also gifted writers. Their personal letters, published for the first time in Dear Kathleen, Dear Manning, form a revealing moving collection.They trace the gradual development over forty years of an unlikely, but deep and sympathetic friendship - one which became more and more important to the writers as they moved into old age.Clark's left-wing politics contrasted with Fitzpatrick's staunch liberalism; her privileged background was very different from his more austere upbringing; her stately demeanour was at odds with his studied larrikinism. Manning Clark took to the public stage, while Kathleen Fitzpatrick remained resolutely private.Yet they struck a chord in each other, seeing themselves in some way as 'outsiders'. They were both extraordinarily sensitive and reserved people;… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - has yellowing to page ends -due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his masterwork to the Prussian Academy of Sciences - a theory of gravity, matter, space and time: the General Theory of Relativity. Einstein himself said it was 'the most valuable theory of my life' and 'of incomparable beauty'. It describes the evolution of the Universe, black holes, the behaviour of orbiting neutron stars, gravitational lensing and why clocks run slower on the surface of the Earth than in space. It even suggests the possibility of time travel.And yet we think instead of 1905, the year of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and his equation E=mc2, as his annus mirabilis, even though the Special Theory is lass far-reaching. Today the General Theory is overshadowed by these achievements, regarded as 'too difficult' for ordinary mortals to comprehend.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.First published in 1962, this great book has sold continuously ever since. It has become an Australian classic. The subject of the book introduces it in his own words:My name is Waipuldanya, or Wadjiri-Wadjiri. (If they twist your tongue too much you can call me Philip Roberts. That is my white-feller name.)I'm a full-blood Aboriginal of the Alawa tribe at Roper River in the Northern Territory.My body has been through the fires of tribal initiation. I have been subjected to many taboos. As a child I was 'sung' to death by a malevolent medicine man, who wished to destroy me in order to punish my clan. I was saved by another.I have worshipped Kunapipi the Earth Mother in our pagan ceremonies. I believe in the Rainbow Serpent. I have also worshipped and believe in the Lord God and have been confused by a conflict of religions.In my youth I was taught to track and hunt wild animals, to be… Read More

In good condition - ex library - markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Khrushchev: A Political Life traces the fortunes of one of this century's most colourful and controversial statesmen, from his peasant origins through his rise to supreme power and subsequent fall. Drawing on newly available material, this biography provides the most detailed account to date of Khrushchev's early life and career. Thompson also concentrates on the many contradictions of Khrushchev's years in power, such as his desire for consumer welfare and detente and determination not to sacrifice the more traditional goals of the Soviet regime.

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Back in 1914, at the age of eighteen, Louis Bromfield took control of his grandfather's farm in Ohio after a short spell of study in scientific agriculture. Eighteen months later, he left the land for the more attractive world of journalism. Twenty-four years had passed when, as a world-famous novelist, he returned to Ohio to begin the life of a farmer where he had left off. To his considerable public Bromfield, at the time of his death in March, 1956, was as famous for his farm at Malabar as for his best-selling novels.
Between The Green Bay Tree of 1924, his first novel to be published, and The Rains Came of 1938, he devoted his entire energies to the writing of novels and short stories, but in the spring of 1939 he left his home in France for the three farms he had bought in Ohio and turned his mind to the… Read More

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In the late 80's and early 90's, Stephen Fry had, you might say, 'made it'. Loved for his roles in Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster, acclaimed for his novel The Liar and surrounded by a glamorous and glittering cast of friends, Stephen discovered that success gave him a taste for excess. Plunging into the high life, he blazed brightly in public and partied unashamedly in private - insensible of the ball which inevitably lay ahead. How had Stephen - so driven to create and entertain - lost his way?

In very good condition - has slight markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In this authorised biography, the boy from Wellington's Pukerua Bay reveals how be beat Hollywood at its own game. It is a story of passion, single-minded determination, and, above all, an artistic vision and a sense of dramatic scale.Through Jackson's eyes and own words, as well as re-tellings and memories of friends, family and associates, we are shown how the director's early life - with its obsessively pursued hobbies and first childhood attempts at film-making - were effectively one big audition for The Lord of the Rings and King Kong.The book explores the Academy Award-winning success of Heavenly Creatures, the first abandoned King Kong re-make, then the triumphant filming of The Lord of the Rings - a project that was abandoned two years into pre-production, rejected by most studios, and then picked up by New Line Cinema in the biggest gamble in film history. It takes us… Read More

In good condition, has markings from use - due to differing weight in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When The Joshua Tree topped the charts in 22 countries, U2 became the hottest band in the world.Half Catholic, half Protestant, they embody the conflict and anguish of a divided Ireland, but throughout the world their unique music is the voice of hope for the disillusioned, the oppressed and the hungry.This is the story of U2's early days in Dublin, their struggles to be heard against the anarchic sound of punk, their first recording contract with Island Records, their flirtation with fundamentalist Christianity and their breathtaking triumph at "LIVE AID" where they stole the show from the legends of rock music and established themselves as the driving musical force for worldwide political change.

Quality Book Club Edition - in good condition - dust jacket slightly worn on edges - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.According to the Admiralty statement, the Battle of the Atlantic, which raged for five and a half years, was "the most protracted and bitterly fought campaign in which the British Empire and her Allies have ever been engaged". That this battle was finally and triumphantly won was the direct result of the offensive tactics of the Navy's 'little ships', inspired by the brilliant exploits of one man who, the Admiralty stated, "did more to free the Atlantic of the U-Boat menace than any other single officer".Here is this man's story - the life and death of Captain Frederick John Walker, R.N., Companion of the Order of the Bath, and holder of the D.S.O. and three Bars. Working with the complete co-operation of Captain Walker's family and with full access to private papers and diaries, the author traces the career of this… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A dinner party in London in 1908 led to the marriage of Winston Churchill and Clementine Hozier. Neither had wished to go, but Clementine's mother persuaded her daughter to accept the invitation, while Winston's private secretary told him sternly that it was his duty to attend. By chance they sat next to each other, and the outcome was an intense and speedy courtship between a son of the Marlboroughs of England and a daughter of the Airlies of Scotland.This first dual family biography does not neglect Winston's life as a child, a soldier in India and Africa, and his astonishing rise and fall in politics. It is equally revealing about Clementine's turbulent childhood and young womanhood, when self-doubts led to broken engagements.But there was no more loyal a wife in the political arena of the first half of the century, and Winston's love was unwavering in spite of Clementine's suspicions.… Read More