The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century by Moisés Naím
49.99 AUD
Category: History
"An authoritative and intelligent portrait of the global spread of authoritarianism and its dangers...what sets [this] work apart from books like Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny and Michiko Kakutani's The Death of Truth is its unusually comprehensive armada of facts about the international drift over the pa ...Show more
Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson
27.99 AUD
Category: History
"A Nazi resistance story like none you've ever heard or read." --Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground"Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for the ages!" --Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot A Sto ...Show more
We Slaves of Suriname by Anton de Kom; David McKay (Translator)
32.95 AUD
Category: History
Anton de Kom's We Slaves of Suriname is a literary masterpiece as well as a fierce indictment of racism and colonialism. In this classic book, published here in English for the first time, the Surinamese writer and resistance leader recounts the history of his homeland, from the first settlements by Eur ...Show more
AOC and the Rise of a New American Left by Raina Lipsitz
34.99 AUD
Category: History
A new progressive generation is on the rise in the United States, reflected in the mushrooming rolls of the Democratic Socialists of America (90,000 mostly twentysomething members), Marxist explainers in Teen Vogue, and perhaps most famously of all, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, Alexandri ...Show more
Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London by Caroline Knowles
55.00 AUD
Category: History
London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. But what do we really know about London's super-rich, and the lives they lead? To find out more, sociolo ...Show more
No Ordinary Time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt by Doris Kearns Goodwin
59.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of "The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys" and "Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream" comes a compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created. Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, Doris Kearns ...Show more
How Things Fall Apart - The Slow Death of the Cuban Revolution - an Oral History by Elizabeth Dore
39.99 AUD
Category: History
A powerful account of the decline of the Cuban Revolution, told through the lives of five ordinary Cuban citizens. Cuba is not the country it used to be. The regime is disintegrating, and unprecedented protest marches are challenging the gerontocratic Communist Party leadership. How Things Fall Apart re ...Show more
Breach of Peace - Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
79.99 AUD
Category: History
Breach of Peace is a photo-history told in images old and new. The book includes the mug shots of all 329 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, along with contemporary portraits of 99 Riders, supplemented by interviews and brief bios. (The 2008 edition featured 84 Riders.) In the spring an ...Show more
Solferino 21 - Warfare, Civilians and Humanitarians in the Twenty-First Century by Hugo Slim
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Warfare is at a tipping point today as it passes from the age of industrial warfare to a new era of computerized warfare and a renewed risk of "big war" between global powers. Humanitarian response is also developing fast as "big aid" demands more and more money and tries to digitalize andprepare for ne ...Show more
The Case for a Job Guarantee by Pavlina R. Tcherneva
20.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Case For Ser.
One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is both unavoidable and necessary for the smooth functioning of the economy. This assumption has provided cover for the devastating social and economic costs of job insecurity. It is also false. In this book, leading expert Pavlina R. Tch ...Show more
War of Shadows by Gershom Gorenberg
29.99 AUD
Category: History
In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far, but espionage can stop them--if Washington wakes up to the danger. As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel was guid ...Show more
Two French Sisters in Australia 1881-1922 - Berthe Mouchette and Marie Lion, Artists and Teachers by John Drury
39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Culture in Melbourne was changed in 1881 when two French women, Berthe Mouchette and Marie Lion, came to Australia. The sisters were artists and teachers who had exhibited at the Paris Salon and soon established studios in Collins Street.Berthe and Marie spent forty-one years in Australia. They began b ...Show more