Queer Wars by Dennis Altman & Jonathan Symons
$28.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The claim that 'LGBT rights are human rights' encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used resistance to 'LGBT rights' to cast themselves as defenders of traditional values against neo-colonial interference and western decadence. Queer Wars expl ...Show more
Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places by Anna Pavord
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. In spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land. In the eighteenth century, artists first s ...Show more
How to Make a Nation - A Monocle Guide - from how to build the perfect parliament to polishing your soft-power potential - a handbook for ambitious nation-builders and citizens by Monocle
$99.50 AUD
Category: History
Monocle's books with Gestalten have shown you how to build a better life, business, and home. But now Monocle raises the bar: how do you run a great country? They are not talking about might, muscle, or nationalism -although you need a bit of a swagger every now and then. They are talking about a countr ...Show more
Bruce Postle: Women of Australia by Bruce Postle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
For more than five decades, multi-award-winning press photographer Bruce Postle captured significant moments in Australian life. His collection of over 60,000 images is a national treasure chronicling the highs and lows, tragedies and triumphs, heroes and villains of Australian life through the golden a ...Show more
A Kim Jong-Il Production: Kidnap. Torture. Murder. Making Movies North Korean Style by Paul Fischer
$27.00 AUD
Category: Asian
It opens with a double kidnapping...Madame Choi, South Korea's most famous actress, is lured to Hong Kong, drugged and smuggled out on a ship. When her ex-husband, Shin Sang-Ok, Korea's most acclaimed director, goes to look for her, he vanishes too. The pair wake to find themselves in North Korea. There ...Show more
Seneca - A Life by Emily Wilson
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and eventually committing suicide. This definitive biography reveals a life lived perilously in the gap betw ...Show more
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World by Jerry Brotton
$55.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
In 1570, when it became clear she would never be gathered into the Catholic fold, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. On the principle that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', this marked the beginning of an extraordinary English alignment with the Muslim powers who were fighting Catholic Spain in ...Show more
Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia by Dominic Lieven
$30.00 AUD
Category: European
'As much as anything, World War I turned on the fate of Ukraine'. The decision to go to war in 1914 had catastrophic consequences for Russia. The result was revolution, civil war and famine in 1917-20, followed by decades of communist rule. Dominic Lieven's powerful and original book, based on exhaustiv ...Show more
The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives by Helen Pearson
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The remarkable story of a unique series of studies that have touched the lives of almost everyone in Britain today In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world, gro ...Show more
My Journey into the Heart of Terror: Ten Days in the Islamic State by Jurgen Todenhofer
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
An alarming and enlightening first-hand account of what's really going on behind the borders of the Islamic State. ISIS, IS, the Islamic State. The name is chilling. The images are horrific. This is a group that chops the heads off journalists - and yet one, the German Jurgen Todenhofer, went out of his ...Show more
Generation Less: How Australia is Cheating the Young by Jennifer Rayner
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A country that makes no room for the young is a country that will forfeit a fair future. This must not become Australia. Today's young Australians are the first generation since the Great Depression to be worse off than their parents. And so, just as we have seen the gap between rich and poor widen ...Show more
The Lucky Country? Reinventing Australia by Ian Lowe
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
"Can we reinvent The Lucky Country? In 1964, Donald Horne described Australia as 'a lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck' in his iconic book.a Now, more than five decades later, internationally respected scientist and environmentalist Ian Lowe shows that little has changed a ...Show more