Natives - Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
'My book of the year. It's personal, historical, political, and it speaks to where we are now. This is the book I've been waiting for - for years' Benjamin Zephaniah 'A potent combination of autobiography and political history which holds up a mirror to contemporary Britain' Independent 'A history lesso ...Show more
#MeToo: Stories From the Australian Movement by Miriam Sved, Christie Nieman, Maggie Scott and Natalie Kon-yu
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
#MeToo is not just about famous people ... If #MeToo is going to ultimately make the big difference we all want to see, it's got to mean something for [any] woman who gets harassed. - Julia Gillard This is the first collection that aims to make sense of the #MeToo movement in Australia. A collection th ...Show more
The Snowy: A History by Siobhán McHugh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The Snowy - A History tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of the world's engineering marvels. This classic, prize-winning account of the remarkable Snowy Scheme is available again for the 70th anniversary of this epic nation-building project. The Snowy Scheme was ...Show more
The Mueller Report by The Washington Post
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
The only book with exclusive analysis by the Pulitzer Prize-winning staff of The Washington Post, and the most complete and authoritative available. Read the findings of the Special Counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, complete with accompanying analysis by the Post re ...Show more
The Kabul Peace House: How a Group of Young People Are Daring to Dream in a Land of War by Mark Isaacs
$30.00 AUD
Category: Middle East | Series: Young Afghans Peace Community
A story of peace in a land of unending war. This is a story of hope and resilience in Afghanistan, a country constantly under siege from within and without. Refugee advocate, activist and acclaimed author Mark Isaacs takes us inside a remarkable and unlikely peace project established in one of the mo ...Show more
Blueprint - The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society by Nicholas A. Christakis; James H. Fowler
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
Drawing on advances in social science, evolutionary biology, genetics, neuroscience, and network science, Blueprint shows how and why evolution has placed us on a humane path -- and how we are united by our common humanity. For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological herita ...Show more
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton
$69.99 AUD
Category: European
We think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines 'western' culture today, in the arts, sciences, social sciences and politics. Yet, as Greece has been brought under repeated scrutiny during the financial crises that have convulsed ...Show more
The Story of English by Robert McCrum
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
"The Story of English" is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of north-west Europe; today, in one form or another, it is spoken by a billion people around the world. More wi ...Show more
The Fate of Rome by Kyle Harper
$38.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Princeton History of the Ancient World Ser.
How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases ...Show more
Arabs: A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
$65.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language a ...Show more
Matilda - Empress, Queen, Warrior by Catherine Hanley
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
A life of Matilda-empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown-the first woman ever to hold the position-and an able military general. This new biography explores ...Show more
Black Earth - A Journey Through Ukraine by Jens Mühling; Eugene H. Hayworth (Translator)
$40.95 AUD
Category: History
"Will someone pay for the spilled blood? No. Nobody." When Mikhail Bulgakov composed this dark and prophetic phrase in Kiev amid the turmoil of the Russian civil war, the political troubles of his native Ukraine were well underway, but far from over. In Black Earth: A Journey through the Ukraine, journa ...Show more