The Edge of the World - How the North Sea Made Us Who We are by Michael Pye
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015 Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's transformation by sea. 'An utterly beguiling journey into the dar ...Show more
Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps: The Atlas of Everything you need to Know by Martin Vargic
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
EXPLORE THE WORLD AS YOU NEVER KNEW IT WITH VARGIC'S ASTONISHING MISCELLANY OF CURIOUS MAPS. This Atlas includes four fold out whole printed maps AND a double sided removable poster showing The Map of Stereotypes and The Map of Video Websites. ***Vargic's Miscellany is a collection of 64 maps and infogr ...Show more
Holding Up a Mirror: How Civilizations Decline by Anne Glyn-Jones
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
The good news is: that faith in material goods really does bring prosperity to society. The bad news is: that self-same commitment to material things leads inexorably to the destruction of the civilizations it builds. Using theatre as a measure society's health, this book shows that Ancient Greece and R ...Show more
Nemesis - One Man and the Battle for Rio by Misha Glenny
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
'Breaking Bad meets City of God' Roberto Saviano, author of GomorrahHUSBAND. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and Brazil?s most notorious criminal. FATHER. A man who tried to bring welfare and justice to a playground of gang c ...Show more
Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox by Alison Weir
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
'Alison Weir's sound scholarship and storyteller's gift for rich, telling detail constantly engages and enthrals the reader' The Times The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor reigns. Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. S ...Show more
An Improbable Friendship by Anthony David
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
"The extraordinary true story of a secret forty-year friendship between two women who should have been bitter enemies. One- the beautiful Raymonda Tawil, the mother-in-law of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The other- Ruth Dayan, widow of General Moshe Dayan, the most celebrated Jewish general since J ...Show more
Australia and the Monarchy by David Hill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Australia and the British monarchy have always made for an odd couple: the young, rebellious, egalitarian nation wed to an ancient symbol of power and social inequality. Even today for most Australians an invitation to meet with royalty remains a pinnacle of social achievement and recognition. What is t ...Show more
Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Political Blogging, Civic Engagement, and Citizen Journalism by Mohammed El-Nawawy
$49.95 AUD
Category: Middle East | Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication
This book sheds light on the growing phenomenon of cyberactivism in the Arab world, with a special focus on the Egyptian political blogosphere and its role in paving the way to democratization and socio-political change in Egypt, which culminated in Egypt's historical popular revolution on Jan. 25, 2011 ...Show more
Of Blondes, Betting, Booze and Bolshevism by Charles Marks
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
Of Blondes, Betting, Booze and Bolshevism is the ultimate male self-help manual. In Of Blondes, Betting, Booze and Bolshevism you will learn: How to meet famous pin-up girls. How to be relieved of large sums of money by famous pin-up girls. How to marry famous pin-up girls. How to win on the races. How ...Show more
Tunnel Rats vs the Taliban: How the Aussie Sappers in Afghanistan Took the Fight to the Taliban by Jimmy Thomson
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
They were young, they were tough and they were everywhere. They were both the backyard builders and the frontline troops in Australia's war against the Taliban. This is the powerful story of the sappers, the Army engineers in Afghanistan whose raw courage and skills were inspired by the original Austral ...Show more
Voyage of the Beagle: The Illustrated Edition of Charles Darwin's Travel Memoir and Field Journal by Charles Darwin
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
Enjoy the best-selling memoir of Charles Darwin's journey of discovery aboard the HMS Beagle--now fully illustrated for the first time. The Voyage of the Beagle is Darwin's fascinating account of his groundbreaking sea voyage that led to his writing On the Origin of Species. When the HMS Beagle sailed o ...Show more
Royalty Inc: Britain's Best-Known Brand by Stephen Bates
$39.99 AUD
Category: British
It is an amazing feat in the 21st century that Queen Elizabeth II, a small, elderly woman in her mid-eighties, should be one of the most recognisable people on the planet. Her voice is redolent of another era, her interests are esoteric to many of her people, her opinions on anything from the weather to ...Show more