On the Edges of History: A Memoir of Law, Books and Politics by Michael Sexton
$32.95 AUD
Category: Political
Michael Sexton has taken part in and recorded some of the most interesting history of Australia's post-war years. He tells the story here of his major cases as a lawyer, many of them as Solicitor General for New South Wales, and of his long involvement with politics and public administration. He recount ...Show more
The Forgotten People: Liberal and conservative approaches to recognising indigenous peoples by Damien Freeman, Shireen Morris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
" The Forgotten Peoplechallenges the assumption that constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians is a project of the left in Australia. It demonstrates that there may be a set of reforms that can achieve the change sought by indigenous leaders, while addressing the critical concerns of consti ...Show more
The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom by Peter Popham
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
She was a heroine of our time, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, a symbol of supreme courage in the face of tyranny. Then, in 2010, Burma's generals opened the door a chink: Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest, and her country began to change. Suu Kyi's acclaimed biographer, Peter Popham, d ...Show more
Australian History in 7 Questions by John Hirst
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'If there are genuine questions about Australian history, there is something to puzzle over. The history ceases to be predictable - and dull.' From the author of The Shortest History of Europe, acclaimed historian John Hirst, comes this fresh and stimulating approach to understanding Australia's past an ...Show more
Blood Year: Islamic State and the Unravelling of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
We're now in the fifteenth year since 9/11 and, horrible though it is to contemplate, we may be nowhere close to the end of the War on Terror. For a while, it looked like things were improving: we were getting on top of the threat. But that was before ISIS began crucifying children, before the Taliban s ...Show more
Embarrassed Colonialist by Sean Dorney
$9.99 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
Forty years after independence, Papua New Guinea is the largest single recipient of aid from Australia. Yet Australians seem to be largely ambivalent about the country. Few Australians know the history of our colonial rule in PNG and our long ties to the country are quickly being forgotten. PNG expert S ...Show more
The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy by Masha Gessen
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
An important story for our era: How the American Dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted. On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt, Tamerlan Tsar ...Show more
Witches of America by Alex Mar
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
"Witches are gathering."When most people hear the word "witches," they think of horror films and Halloween, but to the nearly one million Americans who practice Paganism today, witchcraft is a nature-worshipping, polytheistic, and very real religion. So Alex Mar discovers when she sets out to film a doc ...Show more
Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance by Robert Gildea
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. 'La Resistance francaise' was not simply a national effort to free the country from German occupation, but a wider struggle, filled with conflicts and division. It included Spanish republicans, Italian an ...Show more
The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze
$28.00 AUD
Category: War
On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Deluge is a powerful explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world - from Adam Tooze, the Wolfson Prize-winning author of The Wages of Destruction Financial Times and New Statesman Books of the Year 2014. In the depths of the Gr ...Show more
Albion's Seed - Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer
$70.00 AUD
Category: American
Eighty percent of Americans have no British ancestors. According to David Hackett Fischer, however, their day-to-day lives are profoundly influenced by folkways transplanted from Britain to the New World with the first settlers. Residual, yet persistent, aspects of these 17th Century folkways are indent ...Show more
Realpolitik: A History by John Bew
$37.95 AUD
Category: History
Realpolitik is approaching its 160th birthday, though it has existed as a form of statecraft for centuries and is arguably as old as the conduct of foreign affairs itself. Associated with great thinkers from Machiavelli to Kissinger, it is deeply rooted in the history of diplomacy yet also remains strik ...Show more