Teenage by Jon Savage
27.99 AUD
Category: History
A reissue of Jon Savage's landmark cultural history of youth, with a new introduction from the author.
Burning Man: The Ascent of D. H. Lawrence by Frances Wilson
49.99 AUD
Category: History
'Frances Wilson writes books that blow your hair back. She makes Lawrence live and breathe, annoy and captivate you - she conjures the past with such clarity and wit and flair that it feels utterly present' Katherine Rundell 'A brilliantly unconventional biography, passionately researched and written w ...Show more
Northern Mythology: Tales From Norse, Sámi, Finnish & Baltic Traditions by Tim Rayborn
39.99 AUD
Category: Mythology
Discover the complex mythology of the legendary Nordic people who inspired Hollywood films, epic novels, and more. Beautiful goddesses, fierce warriors, formidable beasts, and Ragnarok itself--these magical tales have enthralled audiences for centuries. This classic collection of tales offers fascina ...Show more
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz - The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington
34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - mainly Jewish women and girls - were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas c ...Show more
Conflict - The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus; Andrew Roberts
55.00 AUD
Category: History
Two leading authorities--an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time--collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin's invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analysis ...Show more
Poison - The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners by Ben Hubbard; Sophie Hannah (Foreword by)
24.99 AUD
Category: History
"As every amateur toxicologist knows, the difference between a poison and medicine is often simply the dose." There is no weapon as insidious, as seductive or as mysterious as poison. In this terrifying account of history's silent assassin, discover the gripping tales of users, abusers and victims of t ...Show more
The Kidnapping Club - Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War by Jonathan Daniel Wells
39.99 AUD
Category: History
In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well, and the abolitionists fighting for freedom. We often think of slavery as a southern phenomenon, far removed from the booming cities of the North. But even ...Show more
Crisis of Conscience - Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud by Tom Mueller
24.99 AUD
Category: History
"A call to arms and to action, for anyone with a conscience, anyone alarmed about the decline of our democracy." -- New York Times-bestselling author Wendell Potter "Powerful...His extensively reported tales of individual whistleblowers and their often cruel fates are compelling...They reveal what it ca ...Show more
Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace by Sophia Rose Arjana
39.99 AUD
Category: History
From jewelry to meditation pillows to tourist retreats, religious traditions--especially those of the East--are being commodified as never before. Imitated and rebranded as "new age" or "spiritual," they are marketed to secular Westerners as an answer to suffering in the modern world, the "mystical" and ...Show more
Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage America by Barbara Ehrenreich
22.99 AUD
Category: History
A contemporary classic that has changed the way we see America.
New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front by Wright Matthew
49.95 AUD
Category: History
In The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front, historian Matthew Wright goes to the heart of how the First World War affected the lives of ordinary New Zealanders. The book analyses what it was like for New Zealand soldiers at the two main battle fronts where they fought, and frames i ...Show more
Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells & the Hunt for Putin's Agents by Gordon Corera
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The urgent, explosive story of Russia's espionage efforts against the West from the Cold War to the present - including their interference in the 2016 presidential election. Like a scene from a le Carre novel or the TV drama The Americans, in the summer of 2010 a group of Russian deep cover sleeper age ...Show more