For a Left Populism by Chantal Mouffe
22.99 AUD
Category: History
What is the "populist moment" and what does it mean for the left?We are currently witnessing in Western Europe a "populist moment" that signals the crisis of neoliberal hegemony. The central axis of the political conflict will be between right- and left-wing populism. By establishing a frontier between ...Show more
The Surprise Party: How the Coalition Went from Chaos to Comeback by Aaron Patrick
29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Disunity is said to be death in politics - but not in 2019. In The Surprise Party, Aaron Patrick tells how the Coalition came back from the brink. Patrick interviews key insiders to reveal the story behind the scenes - the turning points and the cunning schemes. He covers the fall of Turnbull and the fa ...Show more
The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future - and Why They Should Give It Back by David Willetts
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The baby boom of 1945-65 produced the biggest, richest generation that Britain has ever known. Today, at the peak of their power and wealth, baby boomers now run our country; by virtue of their sheer demographic power, they have fashioned the world around them in a way that meets all of their housing, h ...Show more
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It by Mark B. Smith
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both European and exotic, powerful and weak, brilliant and flawed. Why are we so afraid of it? Time and again, we judge Russia by unique standards. We have usually assumed that it possesses higher levels of cunning, malevolence and bruta ...Show more
Fire Flood Plague: Australian Writers Respond to This Extraordinary Year by Sophie Cunningham ed.
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Reading Level: very good
Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a ...Show more
Underground Asia - Global Revolutionaries and the Overthrow of Europe's Empires in the East by Tim Harper
69.99 AUD
Category: History
The end of Europe's empires has so often been seen as a story of high politics and warfare. In Tim Harper's remarkable new book the narrative is very different: it shows how empires were fundamentally undermined from below. Using the new technology of cheap printing presses, global travel and the widesp ...Show more
Figuring Out the Past - The 1,073 Vital Statistics That Explain World History by Peter Turchin; Dan Hoyer
29.99 AUD
Category: History
What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever? We are used to thinking abou ...Show more
The Rock: Looking into Australia's 'Heart of Darkness' from the Edge of Its Wild Frontier by Aaron Smith
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Journalist Aaron Smith's new memoir holds up a unique mirror to Australia. What he sees is at once amazing, disturbing and revealing. The Rock explores the failings of our nation's character, its unresolved past and its uncertain future from the vantage point of its most northerly outpost, Thursday Isla ...Show more
The March on Autocracy; Australia's Fateful Choices; Australian Foreign Affairs 11 by Jonathan Pearlman
22.99 AUD
Category: History
The March of Autocracy examines the rise of authoritarian and illiberal leaders, whose growing assertiveness is reshaping the Western-led world order. It explores the challenge for Australia as it enters a new era, in which China's international sway increases and democracies compete with their rivals f ...Show more
Hitler's Third Reich in 100 Objects by Roger Moorhouse
34.99 AUD
Category: History
Hitler's Third Reich is still the focus of numerous articles, books and films: no regime of the twentieth century has prompted such interest or such a body of literature.Collated and presented by one of the world's leading historians of Nazi Germany and illustrated with photographs throughout, this book ...Show more
The Gardens Of Mars by John Gimlette
59.99 AUD
Category: History
A portrait of Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island and a place of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity (including a plethora of endemic species), as well as for its tangled and troubled history. A journey – both historical and contemporary – among the fantastical landscapes, beguiling ...Show more
On Nationalism by Eric Hobsbawm
55.00 AUD
Category: History
I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . . but recognising its enormous force, which must be harnessed for progress if possible. In the last two decades the uses of the term 'nationalism' has increased steeply with the risi ...Show more