Candidates Disease by Peter Breen
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
In Candidates Disease, Peter Breen examines the 44th Australian Parliament (2013-2016) and the 45th Parliament (2016-2019) in light of the controversial 2018 leadership spill. He looks at the sickness in Australian politics that gave rise to boatloads of independents and minor parties three million prim ...Show more
NEIN! Standing up to Hitler: 1935 - 1944 by Paddy Ashdown
$54.00 AUD
Category: War
From bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler. 'Ashdown has a great gift for narrative history. He unearths little known stories and places them in context with great dexterity. His new book throws fresh and important light on a crucia ...Show more
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel
$41.00 AUD
Category: History
One of the most spectacularly reviewed books of 2011, LOVE AND CAPITAL reveals the rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon previously unpublished material, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel tells the story of Karl and J ...Show more
Dunera Lives A Visual History by Ken Inglis; Seumas Spark; Jay Winter; Carol Bunyan
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: History Ser.
"When scholars of such rigorous and refined erudition engage with a topic of such critical importance it is a cause for celebration, as are the lives themselves, painstakingly recorded so movingly herein. And all of it comes into the world not a moment too soon."--Elliot Perlman *** In July 1940, around ...Show more
Origins: How the Earth Made Us by Lewis Dartnell
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Why do so many of us eat cereal for breakfast?Is it because we like the taste? Or because 20 millions years ago, a certain species of plant colonised the same hospitable land that humanity did?Why is the world the way it is?If we follow chains of explanation as far back as they go - and keep asking, lik ...Show more
The Ripples Before the New Wave : Drama at the University of Sydney 1957-63 by DALTON ROBYN
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Australia's Vietnam - Myth vs History by Mark Dapin
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
When Mark Dapin first interviewed Vietnam veterans and wrote about the war, he swallowed (and regurgitated) every misconception. He wasn't alone. In Australia's Vietnam, Dapin reveals that every stage of Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War has been misunderstood, misinterpreted and shrouded in myt ...Show more
World War Noir: Home Front Sydney by Michael Duffy; Nick Hordern
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
It seems that not even world war could stop crime in Sydney. In fact, World War Noir confirms that war and crime - in the form of sex, drugs, alcohol, racketeering and other illicit activities - go hand in hand. A companion book to the later glory days of the Sydney underworld from Sydney Noir, here Mic ...Show more
Americana - A 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
An absorbing and original narrative history of American capitalism NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE ECONOMIST From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on ...Show more
The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age and Terror of Trump (HB) by Andrew G. McCabe
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
This program is read by the author. On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position as deputy director of the FBI. President Donald Trump celebrated on T ...Show more
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow
$24.99 AUD
Category: American
US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development are bleeding out after deep budget cuts; the diplomats who make America's deals and protect its citizens around the world are walking out in droves. Offices acr ...Show more