This is the story of Jean Galbraith, one of Australia's most influential botanists and writers on nature, plants and gardens. During a writing care...

This is the story of Jean Galbraith, one of Australia's most influential botanists and writers on nature, plants and gardens. During a writing care...

After growing up on a remote South Australian property, and having seen her mother taken by a shark when she was two, Jean Primrose Whyte went on t...

In 1830, at the age of forty, Jean-Claude Colin accepted the call of his colleagues to take charge of the Society of Mary (Marists). He had joined ...

In 1830, at the age of forty, Jean-Claude Colin accepted the call of his colleagues to take charge of the Society of Mary (Marists). He had joined ...

As a founder member of the world's most successful instrumental group, the Shadows, and a chart-topper in his own right, bassist Jet Harris scaled ...

In this new historical investigation, German historian Jens Weste-meier portrays the rise and fall of an SS war criminal, and demolishes persistent...

Joan Martin was born in the country town of Morawa, Western Australia, in 1941. She was a proud Widi woman whose traditional territory extended fro...

Few individuals in the annals of world history have had so lasting an impact as Joan of Arc, who rallied a country behind her and continues to insp...

Johan Nicolai Madvigs dannelsestanker: en kritisk humanist i den danske romantik (Johan Nicolai Madvig's Thoughts on Cultural Education: A Critical...

Johann Adolph Scheibe (1708–1776) must be considered the most important composer and Kapellmeister in Denmark in the eighteenth century. Although h...

This is an excellent full length biography of America's second president who was the ‘Colossus of Independence' arguing for the passage of the Decl...

In March 1967 South Australian AttorneyGeneral Don Dunstan appointed his state's most outstanding barrister as Chief Justice. In public, Bray's app...

John Mayall is an icon in the world of blues music and the Godfather of British blues. A pioneering musician, blues promoter and talent scout for o...

John Rae is best known today as the first European to reveal the fate of the Franklin Expedition, yet the range of Rae's accomplishments is much gr...

John Randolph of Roanoke -- Roanoke being the name of his home in Charlotte County, Virginia -- is unique in American political history. Only twent...

Since women started working in the trades in the 1970s, very little has been published about their experiences. In this provocative and important b...

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Mormon tradition is revealed as no real religion but a cult invented by a charlatan, a disguise for a subversi...

The Kabbalist is based on the true story of Yehuda Ashlag, the mysterious 20th Century Kabbalist whose life and works inspired The Matrix, and many...

Kath Williams, who emerges as a feisty and quietly determined woman, was the major force behind the struggle for equal pay for women. She was elect...

Beginning in 1946, Elizabeth Hawley worked for Fortune magazine as a researcher. Shortly thereafter, she left both her job and the United States it...

Dick Reynolds was regarded by many as Australian Rules football’s greatest player. However, unlike other well-known contemporaries he has never had...

You’re going on a journey to a strange new country where you will look different, act different, even feel different. It’s like you’re becoming a w...

This book is the first in a new series profiling the Knight's Cross holders of the Wehrmacht in World War II. Concise biographies, rare photographs...

This book is the second in a new series profiling the Knight's Cross holders of the Wehrmacht in World War II. Concise biographies, rare photograph...