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A picture of life in the year 1000. Set in England, it follows the Julian Calendar month by month, revealing amazing details of a mainly agrarian life.

Some 50,000 young people were brought to Australia under the youth migration scheme. Its aim was simply to fill Australia's empty space with young people of white, essentially Angol-Saxon stock. This book tells their collective story.

The history of the sucessful 1970s campaign to end whaling in Australia by closing the last whaling company operating out of Albany, Western Australia, told from the point of view of both whalers and anti-whaling activists.

Authoritative account of one of the most famous battles in military history.

Stories of childhood, and growing up in North Qld in the early 1900s

After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil's most famous explorer, Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it.

Through interviews with surviving Hitler Youth members as well as those who resisted the movement, explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people that by the time he became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler Youth.

Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/?11 hijackers. It is a modern state, driven by contemporary technology, and yet its powerful religious establishment would have its customs and practices rolled back to match those of the Prophet Muhammad over a thousand years ago.

Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This now-classic book, fully updated to 2009, follows the historic struggles of the region over the last two hundred years, from Napoleon's assault on Egypt, through the slow decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire, to the painful emergence of modern nations, the Palestinian question and Islamic resurgence.