La Passione - How Italy Seduced the World by Dianne Hales
42.99 AUD
Category: History
From the New York Times bestselling author knighted by the President of Italy for her writing, a jubilant exploration of how Italy transformed the Western world's most vibrant passions -- from literature to art, music to movies. No country has matched Italy's impact on culture. Just think of painting wi ...Show more
Revolutionary - George Washington at War by Robert L. O'Connell
52.99 AUD
Category: History
From an acclaimed military historian, a bold reappraisal of young George Washington, an ambitious if reckless soldier destined to become the legendary general who took on the British and, through his leadership, came to define the American character How did George Washington become an American icon? Ro ...Show more
What it is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes
24.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined military objective other than kill ratios and body counts, what he experienced over the next thirteen months in ...Show more
Team of Vipers - My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House by Cliff Sims
39.99 AUD
Category: History
The first honest insider's account of the Trump administration. After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy. He soon found himself pulled into the President's inner ci ...Show more
Gulf Country Story of the People of Outback Queensland by Richard J. Martin
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The story of the resilient people who make their home in Australia's far north, from the 'wild time' of the frontier days to the present.
Europe's Fault Lines - Racism and the Rise of the Right by Elizabeth Fekete
22.99 AUD
Category: History
An expansive investigation into the relationship between contemporary states and the far-rightIt is clear that the right is on the rise, but after Brexit, the election of Donald Trump and the spike in popularity of extreme-right parties across Europe, the question on everyone's minds is: how did this ha ...Show more
Let Me Finish by Chris Christie
32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The famously candid two-term governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie was the first major official to endorse Trump for president. Christie quickly became one of Trump's most trusted advisors, tapped with running Trump's transition team and nearly being named vice president. Within days of Trump's surpris ...Show more
Rebel Women Who Changed Australia by Susanna De Vries
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Visionaries, pioneers, activists and artists - women who made a difference to Australia An updated and condensed edition of Susanna de Vries' Great Australian Women, this is a celebration of women who broke the mould, crashed through the ceilings, and shaped the nation in the fields of medicine, law, t ...Show more
The House of the Pain of Others - Chronicle of a Small Genocide by Julián Herbert
23.99 AUD
Category: History
A brilliant work of historical excavation with profound echoes in an age redolent with violence and xenophobiaEarly in the twentieth century, amid the myths of progress and modernity that underpinned Mexico's ruling party, some three hundred Chinese immigrants--close to half of the Cantonese residents o ...Show more
The Australian War Memorial: A Century on from the Vision by Steve Gower
60.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The Book of Humans - A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us by Adam Rutherford
22.99 AUD
Category: History
WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? Waging war?Sex for pleasure?Creating art?Mastery of fire? In this thrilling tour of the animal kingdom, Adam Rutherford tells the story of how we became the unique creatures we are today. Illuminated by the latest scientific discoveries, THE BOOK OF HUMANS is a dazzling compendium ...Show more
Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires by James Walvin
32.99 AUD
Category: History
In this timely and readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on the resistance of the enslaved themselves--from sabotage and absconding to full-blown uprisings--and its impact in overthrowing slavery. He also looks that whole Atlantic world, inc ...Show more