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
The Greatest Raid: St Nazaire, 1942: The Heroic Story of Operation Chariot by Whittell, Giles
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
For the 80th anniversary, the first popular account of Operation Chariot, the most daring British raid of WW2In the darkest months of WW2, Churchill approved what seemed to many like a suicide mission. Under orders to attack the St Nazaire U-boat base on the Atlantic seaboard, British commandos undertoo ...Show more
America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger by Isaac Stone Fish
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
A timely, provocative expose of the US's political and business leadership's deep ties to China- a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing - at a profound and often hidden cost to American and Western interests.The past few years have seen a shift in the relations between China and ...Show more
The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History in Eleven Vessels by Tom Nancollas
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
A sharply poignant history of British seafaring, from the Bronze Age to the present day If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian steamship, the hull of a modest fishing vessel, the propeller of an ocean liner and an ...Show more
Iran - Five Millennia of Art and Culture by Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
$90.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A beautifully illustrated journey in time across Iran's rich artistic history. Iran: Five Millennia of Art and Culture presents 360 objects from the time of the first advanced civilizations during the third millennium BCE until the end of the Safavid Empire in the early eighteenth century. Amid sear ...Show more
In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I by David A. Yallop
$36.00 AUD
Category: History
An investigation into the murder of Pope John Paul I.
New York: An Illustrated History by Ric Burns
$120.00 AUD
Category: American
A revised and expanded edition of the landmark, ravishing history of New York City-the companion volume to the acclaimed PBS series-that begins in 1624 and brings its 400-year-long story up to the current moment.This edition of the biography of this great and ever-evolving city includes two new chapters ...Show more
Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War by Phillip Deery
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In the wake of the Second World War and the realisation that the Soviet Union had set up extensive espionage networks around the world, Australia responded by establishing its own spy-hunting agency- ASIO. By the 1950s its counterespionage activities were increasingly supplemented by attempts at counter ...Show more