1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? Here at last is an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature. First published 2005.
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
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HOW ROME FELL - Death of a Superpower by GOLDSWORTHY ADRIAN
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa, and only a shrunken Eastern Empire remained. In his account of the fall of the Roman Empire, ...Show more
Augustus - First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The dramatic story of Rome s first emperor, who plunged into Rome s violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else "created" the Roman Empire Caesar Augustus story, one of the most riveting in Western history, is filled with drama and contradi ...Show more
The Politics of Myth by Stephen Knight
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
In The Politics of Myth, Stephen Knight studies nine figures still vividly alive, all of them appearing in twenty-first century film and television. Analysing how they relate to the major themes of Power, Resistance and Knowledge, he shows how fact and fiction mix to help us explore and understand the c ...Show more
Private Lives, Public History by Anna Clark
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The past is consumed on a grand scale: popularised by television programs, enjoyed by reading groups, walking groups, historical societies and heritage tours, and supported by unprecedented digital access to archival records. Yet our history has also become the subject of heated political debate. In Pri ...Show more
Settling the Office by Paul Strangio, Paul T'Hart, James Walter
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
The prime ministership is indisputably the most closely observed and keenly contested office in Australia. How did it grow to become the pivot of national political power? Settling the Office chronicles the development of the prime ministership from its rudimentary early days following Federation throug ...Show more
Serious Whitefella Stuff: When solutions became the problem in Indigenous affairs by Mark Moran
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian
How does Indigenous policy signed off in Canberra work-or not-when implemented in remote Aboriginal communities? Mark Moran, Alyson Wright and Paul Memmott have extensive on-the-ground experience in this area of ongoing challenge. What, they ask, is the right balance between respecting local traditions ...Show more
1966 - The Year the Decade Exploded by Jon Savage
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
The pop world accelerated and broke through the sound barrier in 1966. In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas slow-cooking since the late '50s reached boiling point. In the worlds of pop, pop art, fashion and radical politics - often fueled by perception-enhancing substances ...Show more
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured by Kathryn Harrison
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Kathryn Harrison gives us a Joan of Arc for our time a shining exemplar of unshakable faith, extraordinary courage, and self-confidence on the battlefield, in the royal court, during a brutally rigged inquisition and imprisonment, and in the face of her death. In this new take on Joan s story, Harrison ...Show more
Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads - Revised Edition by Benedict Rogers
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian
This is an updated version. For more than 50 years, Burma has been ruled by a succession of military regimes which rank among the most oppressive dictatorships in the world. Accused of crimes against humanity, they have brutally mistreated their people. Yet, in the last few years, the pace of change has ...Show more
The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimistic. International communism seemed everywhere on the offensive: all of Eastern Europe was securely in the Soviet camp; America's monopoly on nuclear weapons was a thi ...Show more