The Age of Unpeace - How Globalisation Sows the Seeds of Conflict by Mark Leonard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, global leaders have been integrating the world's economy, transport and communications, breaking down borders in the hope that it would make war impossible. In doing so, they have unwittingly created a formidable arsenal of weapons for new kinds of con ...Show more
The Resilient Society by Markus Brunnermeier
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
People in a resilient society are able to bounce back from shocks, such as pandemics and economic crises. The Resilient Society, by Princeton University economist Markus Brunnermeier, describes how individuals, institutions, and nations can successfully navigate a dynamic, globalized economy filled with ...Show more
Black Earth - The Holocaust As History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE The essential new book by the author of Bloodlands - 'The most important work of history for years', Antony Beevor A radical reframing of the Holocaust that challenges prevailing myths and draws disturbing parallels with the present. We have come to see th ...Show more
Autopsies for the Armchair Enthusiast by MERYL BROUGHTON
$28.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Intimate interactions with complete strangers, faithful customers and everything in between, form a regular component of the professional work as a country doctor. Within the sanctity of the medical consulting room however, confidentiality is king and privacy rules supreme.For over 35 years Meryl Brough ...Show more
Always Remember Your Name: The Children who Survived Auschwitz by Andra & Tatiana Bucci
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
A haunting WWII memoir of two sisters who survived Auschwitz that picks up where Anne Frank's Diary left off and gives voice to the children we lost. On 28 March 1944, six-year-old Tati and her four-year-old sister Andra were roused from their sleep and arrested. Along with their mother, Mira, their au ...Show more
The Bridge: The epic story of an Australian icon - the Sydney Harbour Bridge by Peter Lalor
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A special 90th anniversary edition of the definitive story of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, one of the world's most amazing engineering feats - a structure that has become a national icon.
The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from Heyday to Reckoning by Stuart Macintyre
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
The long awaited second volume in Stuart Macintyre's definitive history of the Communist Party of Australia. Communism was unlike any other political movement Australia has ever seen. At its peak in the 1940s, unions led by communists could call a strike that paralysed the nation, and communists influen ...Show more
Chasing Shadows: The untold and deadly story of terrorism in Australia by Kristy Campion
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From Irish revolutionaries to the Christchurch massacre, Chasing Shadows uncovers the long and brutal history of terrorism in Australia. Australia likes to assume that extremists and their dark ideas can be stopped at the border. But Fortress Australia, and the sense of security it provides, is an illu ...Show more
Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age by Ed Coper
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts', a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era. Would your younger self, even from a few years ago, believe the news of today? An entire block of a major city blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers s ...Show more
Thinking In Time by Neustadt, Richard Elliott, May, Ernest R.
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
The Soul of America - The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
$36.00 AUD
Category: American
With clarity and purpose, Meacham explores contentious periods and how presidents and citizens came together to defeat the forces of anger, intolerance, and extremism. Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called "the better ...Show more
Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other by John Richens
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A study of culture, colonialism, and an epidemic in New GuineaWhen the Dutch government moved to stop headhunting by the Marind people of New Guinea in 1902 their actions unleashed new epidemics among a population already suffering from low fertility. Donovanosis (Tik Merauke in Marind), a rare, newly r ...Show more