Daffodil - Biography of a Flower by Helen O'Neill
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A beautifully illustrated, visually lush and intriguing book about the world's most popular and most powerful flower. The daffodil is the beautiful first flower of spring, the inspiration of poets, a treasure-trove to scientists and a symbol of everything from unrequited love, rebirth, eternal life and ...Show more
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
$55.00 AUD
Category: Political
Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate tha ...Show more
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson (University of Oxford)
$79.95 AUD
Category: Political
The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papers No American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as Super K the indispensable man whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama he has also been ...Show more
The Brothers by Stephen Kinzer
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Ag ...Show more
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