Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero by Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
During Tasmania’s gruesome Black War of 1823-31, Tongerlongeter led the most effective Aboriginal resistance campaign in Australian history. His Oyster Bay Nation of southeast Tasmania and his ally Montpelliatta’s Big River Nation of central Tasmania embarked on 710 attacks, killing 182 colonists and wo ...Show more
The Brumby Wars: The battle for the soul of Australia by Anthony Sharwood
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Reading Level: near fine
It's not just a war over horses. It's a battle for the soul of Australia. This is a book about the intense culture war raging around Australia's wild horses, known as brumbies. It pits a vision of the legendary Man from Snowy River and the iconic ANZAC Light Horse against the spectre of ecosystems destr ...Show more
The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945 by Catrine Clay
22.99 AUD
Category: History
After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis - some 20 million people - tried to keep their heads down and protect their families. They moved to the country, or pretended to support the regime to avoid being denounced by neighbour ...Show more
Battle for the Big Top: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus by Les Standiford
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Millions have sat under the "big top," watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories behind the men who shaped the circus.Battle for the Big Top is the untold story of the battles of the three circus kings--James Bailey, P.T. Barnum, and John Ringling-all v ...Show more
Imperial Tragedy: From Constantine's Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy AD 363-568 by Michael Kulikowski
24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Profile History of the Ancient World Ser.
For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the definitive split, the Vandal sack of Rome, and the ...Show more
Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain's Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency by John Ferris
24.99 AUD
Category: History
You know about MI5. You know about MI6.Now discover the untold stories behind Britain's most secretive intelligence agency, in the first ever authorised history of GCHQ. For a hundred years, GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters has been at the forefront of innovation in national security and Brit ...Show more
The Case That Stopped a Nation - The Archibald Prize Controversy Of 1944 by Peter Edwell
39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A full account of the events and characters involved in the court case over the awarding of the 1944 Archibald Prize to William Dobell.
Wounded Country: The Murray–Darling Basin: A Contested History by Quentin Beresford
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The Murray–Darling Basin, Australia’s food bowl, is in crisis. For more than a century, the Basin has faced a series of environmental catastrophes: soil erosion, sand drifts and dust storms, salinity, algal blooms, the threat to native flora and fauna and the drying out of internationally recognised wet ...Show more
The Death of Politics - How to Heal Our Frayed Republic after Trump by Peter Wehner
32.99 AUD
Category: History
The New York Times opinion writer, media commentator, outspoken Republican and Christian critic of the Trump presidency offers a spirited defense of politics and its virtuous and critical role in maintaining our democracy and what we must do to save it before it is too late. "Any nation that elects Dona ...Show more
Scenes of Bohemian Life by Henri Murger; Mint Editions (Contribution by)
29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Mint Editions Ser.
Scenes of Bohemian Life (1851) is a novel by Henri Murger. Written at the beginning of his career as a popular French poet and novelist, Scenes of Bohemian Life is composed of vignettes inspired by the author's experience as a starving artist in Paris' Latin Quarter. Adapted countless times for theater ...Show more
Through The Looking Glasses: Exuberant glasses changed the world by Travis Elborough
39.99 AUD
Category: History
'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon Garfield The humble pair of glasses might just be one the world's greatest inventions, allowing millions to see a world that might otherwise appear a blur. And yet how much do many of us even really think about these things perched on the ends of our noses? In ...Show more
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman
22.99 AUD
Category: History
A profound and harrowing meditation by a descendant of slaves who journeyed to Africa to understand her past. The slave, Saidiya Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an ou ...Show more