Breakdown: The Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme by Taylor Downing
22.99 AUD
Category: History
Paralysis. Stuttering. The 'shakes'. Inability to stand or walk. Temporary blindness or deafness. When strange symptoms like these began appearing in men at Casualty Clearing Stations in 1915, a debate began in army and medical circles as to what it was, what had caused it and what could be done to cure ...Show more
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama long before he began his campaign for president. As director of campaign operations, she made Hope and Change happen through blood, sweat, tears, and lots of briefing binders. But for every historic occasion-meeting the Queen of England, tussling with Presiden ...Show more
Survivor: A Portrait of the Survivors of the Holocaust by Harry Borden
49.99 AUD
Category: History
Over the course of five years, acclaimed photographer Harry Borden has travelled the globe photographing survivors of the Holocaust. The people featured vary in age, gender and nationality, but are all tied together by their experience and survival of one of the darkest moments in human history. Each ph ...Show more
Naples '44 A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy by Norman Lewis
29.99 AUD
Category: History
As a young intelligence officer stationed in Naples following its liberation from Nazi forces, Norman Lewis recorded the lives of a proud and vibrant people forced to survive on prostitution, thievery, and a desperate belief in miracles and cures. The most popular of Lewis’s twenty-seven books, Naples ’ ...Show more
Lawrence of Arabia's War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI by Neil Faulkner
37.99 AUD
Category: History
A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War One in the Middle East, providing essential background to today's violent conflicts Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbre ...Show more
The Art of Philosophy: Visual Thinking in Europe from the Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment by susanna berger
117.00 AUD
Category: History
Delving into the intersections between artistic images and philosophical knowledge in Europe from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, The Art of Philosophy shows that the making and study of visual art functioned as important methods of philosophical thinking and instruction. From fro ...Show more
The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion by Professor Peter Jackson
66.00 AUD
Category: History
An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and devastated much of Iran. Distingu ...Show more
All the Kremlin's Men by Mikhail Zygar
39.99 AUD
Category: History
"Charting the transformation of Vladimir Putin from a passionate fan of the West and a liberal reformer into a hurt and introverted outcast, All the Kremlin's Men is a historical detective story, full of intrigue and conspiracy. This is the story of the political battles that have taken place in the cou ...Show more
A Wary Embrace: What the China-Russia Relationship Means for the World by Bobo Lo
9.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Lowy Institute Paper
With Western countries consumed by domestic problems, will it be Russia and China who now define the rules of global politics? From Syria to the South China Sea, each has become much more assertive, and their partnership has emerged from relative obscurity to acquire a new prominence in world affairs. Y ...Show more
The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens
49.99 AUD
Category: History
In a sweeping narrative, Peter Cozzens tells the gripping story of the wars that destroyed native ways of life as the American nation continued its expansion onto tribal lands after the Civil War, setting off a conflict that would last nearly three decades. By using original research and first-hand sour ...Show more
Putin Country by Anne Garrels
26.99 AUD
Category: History
More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels began to visit the region of Chelyabinsk, an aging military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow that is home to the Russian nuclear program. Her goal was to chart the social and political aftershocks of the USSR's coll ...Show more
Way We Civilise Aboriginal Affairs The Untold Story by Rosalind Kidd
29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A history of government intervention in the lives of Australian Aboriginal people living in Queensland over a 150-year period to 1988. Reveals conflicts between state and federal politicians over Aboriginal affairs, struggles between churches and government, and the activities of vested interests th