The Rival Queens: Catherine De' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite De Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom by Nancy Goldstone
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
Set in Renaissance France at the magnificent court of the Valois kings, THE RIVAL QUEENS is the history of two remarkable women, a mother and daughter driven into opposition by a terrible betrayal that threatened to destroy the realm. Catherine de' Medici, the infamous queen mother of France, was a cons ...Show more
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran by Ramita Navai
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
Lying in Tehran is about survival. Welcome to Tehran, a city where survival depends on a network of subterfuge. Here is a place where mullahs visit prostitutes, drug kingpins run crystal meth kitchens, surgeons restore girls' virginity and homemade porn is sold in the sprawling bazaars; a place where or ...Show more
Waterfront: Graft, Corruption and Violence - Australia's Crime Frontier from 1788 to Now by Duncan McNab
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Ever since the First Fleet dropped anchor, Australia's ports have been our opening to the world. They are also the breeding ground for many of Australia's most notorious criminals, and a magnet for local and overseas criminal syndicates. WATERFRONT is the story of the crimes, the politics, the character ...Show more
Lasseter's Gold by Warren Brown
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
When Harold Bell Lasseter disappeared in late 1930 it could have been the end of a mystery. Thirty-three years earlier he had staggered out of the desert, almost dead, his pockets bulging with gold, claiming to have found a 15 kilometre gold reef. The mystery deepened when he and a surveyor returned to ...Show more
Operation Chowhound : The Most Risky, Most Glorious US Bomber Mission of WWII by Stephen Dando-Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
Beginning with a crazy plan hatched by a suspect prince, and an even crazier reliance on the word of the Nazis, Operation Chowhound was devised. Between May 1 and May 8, 1945, 2,268 military units flown by the USAAF, dropped food to 3.5 million starving Dutch civilians in German-occupied Holland. It too ...Show more
The World of the First Australians: Aboriginal Traditional Life Past and Present by Ronald M. and Catherine H Berndt
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This is the ninth printing of this classic book by Ronald and Catherine Berndt. Topics covered include social organisation, economic life, relationship with land, life cycle, religious beliefs, law and order, art, death, politics and an analysis of current developments in both Aboriginal studies and Abo ...Show more
Madness In Civilization by Andrew Scull
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
This hugely ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it. In twelve chapters organized chronologically from the Bible to Freud, from exorcis ...Show more
Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Late Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World by Noel Malcolm
$65.00 AUD
Category: European
In the sixteenth century, the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding and corsairing to large-scale warfare, but there were also many kinds of peaceful interaction across the surpri ...Show more
Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia by Dominic Lieven
$55.00 AUD
Category: European
The Russian decision to mobilize in July 1914 may have been the single most catastrophic choice of the modern era. Some articulate, thoughtful figures around the Tsar understood Russia's fragility, and yet they were shouted down by those who were convinced that, despite Germany's patent military superio ...Show more
Certain Admissions: A Beach, A Body and a Lifetime of Secrets by Gideon Haigh
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Who killed Beth Williams? On a warm evening in December 1949, two young people met by chance under the clocks at Flinders Street railway station. They decided to have a night on the town. The next morning, one of them, twenty-year-old typist Beth Williams, was found dead on Middle Park Beach. When polic ...Show more
End of Plenty: the Race to Feed a Crowded World by Bourne Joel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Introducing a new generation of farmers and scientists on the frontlines of the next green revolution. When Malthus famously outlined the brutal relationship between food and population, he never imagined the success of modern agriculture. New seeds, chemicals and irrigation, coupled with free trade, dr ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of Australia: How a great nation lost its way by Nick Bryant
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A forensic look at the Lucky Country, from the inside and outside. Never before has Australia enjoyed such economic, commercial, diplomatic and cultural clout. Its recession-proof economy is the envy of the world. It's the planet's great lifestyle superpower. Its artistic exports win unprecedented accla ...Show more