Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
$23.00 AUD
Category: American | Series: Trump
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time. The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely m ...Show more
The Squatters: The Story of Australia's Pastoral Pioneers by Barry Stone
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
For the early settlers who came from crowded cities and long established villages, it must have been extraordinary to find you could pack your belongings onto a bullock dray and head off to rural grasslands out of the reach of meddlesome authorities. They could just mark out a parcel of land, bring in s ...Show more
Russia Without Putin by Tony Wood
$30.00 AUD
Category: European
It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the outside world, and dominates Western media coverage of it to an extraordinary extent. In Russia itself, he is likewise the centre of atte ...Show more
Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
$35.00 AUD
Category: War | Series: Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Bks.
" More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNEHistorian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to lif ...Show more
Barbara Tuchman: The Guns of August & the Proud Tower by Margaret MacMillan
$75.00 AUD
Category: War | Series: Library of America
Writing with a clarity, grace, and novelistic sweep rare among historians, Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) distilled the complex interplay of personalities and events into gripping narratives that fuse rigorous scholarship with elegant literary art. An astute portraitist, she brilliantly laid bare the al ...Show more
How Fascism Works - The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
"Reveals how the liberties of the people wither when voters embrace politicians who promote the divisive politics of us versus them."--David Cay Johnston, author of The Making of Donald Trump and It's Even Worse Than You Think "This is an important and essential book."--Errol Morris, filmmaker and ...Show more
Aboriginal Stories of Australia by Reed A W
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Aboriginal Library Ser.
A collection of traditional Aboriginal tales, myths and legends. Learn how Yhi the sun goddess introduced life to the world, why the emu cannot fly and how the kangaroo got its tail. This new edition includes a glossary, giving the English translation for many Aboriginal words used in the text.
Lost Kingdom: - A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin by Serhii Plokhy
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this violation of national sovereignty was in fact only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom,award-winn ...Show more
America vs the West: Can the Liberal World Order Be Preserved? by Kori Schake
$13.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
"The rules-based international order is being challenged... not by the usual suspects, but by its main architect and guarantor, the US." --European Council President Donald Tusk, 8 June 2018 Under President Donald Trump, the United States has burned like a wildfire through the goodwill it accrued in 70 ...Show more
The Tango War - The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds, and Riches of Latin America During World War II by Mary Jo McConahay
$40.00 AUD
Category: American
One of WW2 Reads "Top 20 Must-Read WWII Books of 2018" - A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of September"Fascinating...In McConahay's telling, wartime Latin America is a hotbed of skullduggery, violence, and cinematic propaganda straight out of Hollywood." --Christian Science Monitor"A long-overdue h ...Show more
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
$23.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
A New York Times bestseller to be adapted into a film with Jennifer Lawrence to star. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup 'unicorn' promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would ...Show more
A Shrink in the Clink by Tim Watson-Munro
$33.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
From the author of the extraordinary memoir, Dancing with DemonsDRUG LORDS. DEVIANTS. BLACK WIDOWS. HIT MEN. RIOT GIRLS. MASS MURDERERS. PSYCHOS.No one gets closer to Australia's craziest characters than 'Doc' Tim Watson-Munro, a criminal psychologist with 40 years' experience assessing the mad, bad and ...Show more