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Alice ™: The biggest untold story in the history of money by Stuart Kells
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
In the 1980s and 90s, amid an explosion in international money flows, a handful of people saw a new financial future and staked claims in it, triggering a battle to control the world's money markets. With phenomenal profits at stake, the conflict would go all the way to the United States Supreme Court, ...Show more
Argyle: The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds by Stuart Kells
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
'Fascinating and lucid ... a valuable insight into an industry once widely praised but now undervalued by a nation that relies on it so strongly.' GEOFFREY BLAINEY The remote Kimberley region of Western Australia has a rich history and unique geography. In the 1960s De Beers, the world's largest diamon ...Show more
Ashurst: The story of a progressive global law firm by Stuart Kells
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The definitive history of a leading, global law firm charting the evolution of legal practiceAshurst is one of the world's foremost commercial law firms, and one of the oldest. The firm's foundational moments span cities and continents. One of its first matters involved the estate of Melbourne's founder ...Show more
Penguin and the Lane Brothers: The Untold Story of a Publishing Revolution by Stuart Kells
$39.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
A ground-breaking counter-history of Penguin Books - both amusing and and with a strong new Australian aspect. How did the three Lane brothers enter publishing and build Penguin into a global powerhouse? As this new book shows, their innovation and the creative opposition among them would prove to be t ...Show more
Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature by Stuart Kells
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world's most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare's library, is a mystery. For four centuries people have searched for it: in mansions, palaces and libraries; in riverbeds, sheep pens and partridge coops ...Show more
Sold Down the River: How Robber Barons and Wall Street Traders Cornered Australia's Water Market by Scott Hamilton, Stuart Kells
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia's greatest environmental asset. The story of water in Australia is written into its ancient rivers, creeks and wetlands. It's home to more than forty Indigenous nations, and it covers an area bigger than France. It is the beating heart of our regions and sustains 40 ...Show more
The Convent: A City Finds Its Heart (Abbotsford) by Stuart Kells
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
What was behind the wall and the wire? The local people knew ... fine courtyards ... an old swimming pool ... dilapidated tennis courts and a remnant garden, now wild and sprawling. The Abbotsford Convent was this haunted place, left to languish for years after the last of the Sisters of the Good Sheph ...Show more
The Library : A Catalogue of Wonders by Stuart Kells
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
"Excellent . . . Tracks the history of that greatest of all cultural institutions." --The Washington Post Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve. Some still exist to ...Show more
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