History's Naughty Bits: Sex, Lust and Perversion from Ancient to Modern Times by Karen Dolby
24.95 AUD
Category: History
With each new generation we all tend to think of our predecessors as 'old-fashioned', 'conservative', 'prim', 'proper' - and downright dull. The sexual revolution happened in the 1960s, right? Wrong. History's Naughty Bits is full of incredible stories that would curl the hair of the most liberal-minded ...Show more
Traditional Healers of the Central Desert: Ngangkari by NPY Women's Council Aboriginal Corporation
49.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Traditional Healers of the Central Desert contains unique stories and imagery and primary source material: the ngangkari speak directly to the reader. Ngangkari are senior Aboriginal people authorised to speak publicly about Anangu (Western Desert language speaking Aboriginal people) culture and practic ...Show more
Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia's lost generation by Ross McMullin
45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
For Australia, a new nation with a relatively small population, the death of 60,000 soldiers during World War I was catastrophic. It is hardly surprising, then, that Australians evaluating the consequences of the conflict have tended to focus primarily on the numbing number of losses -- on the sheer qua ...Show more
Badlands: Penguin Special by Paul French
9.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Specials
An evocative account of the infamous nightlife district of pre-communist Beijing, from the internationally acclaimed author of the book Midnight in Peking. The Badlands, a warren of narrow hutongs in the eastern district of pre-communist Peking, had its heyday in the 1930s. Home to the city's drifters, ...Show more
The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects by Richard Kurin
59.99 AUD
Category: History
The Smithsonian Institution is America's largest, most important, and most beloved repository for the objects that define our common heritage. Now Under Secretary for Art, History, and Culture Richard Kurin, aided by a team of top Smithsonian curators and scholars, has assembled a literary exhibition of ...Show more
Alexander the Great: The Truth Behind the Myth by Paul Cartledge
24.99 AUD
Category: History
At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty and by twenty-six he had made himself master of the once mighty Persian Empire. By the time of his death, aged only thirty-three, in 323BCE he was ruler of the known world and was being worshipped as a god by th ...Show more
Taking God to School by Marion Maddox
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Fewer Australians now practise a religion or believe in God than ever. Yet our governments increasingly push conservative Christianity on our children. Nearly forty per cent of secondary students attend a private school, which are overwhelmingly Christian. Canberra funds them heavily, and sends evangeli ...Show more
No Man's Land: Writings from a World at War by Pete Ayrton
45.00 AUD
Category: History
The Great War gave birth to some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writing; from Brooke to Sassoon, the poetry generated by the war is etched into collective memory. But it is in prose fiction that we find some of the most profound insights into the war's individual and communal tragedies, the ...Show more
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
19.99 AUD
Category: History
From William Dalrymple--award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer--a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West's greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time.With access to newly d ...Show more
First World War: Still No End in Sight by Frank Furedi
35.00 AUD
Category: History
That the conflicts unleashed by Great War did not end in 1918 is well known. World War II and the Cold War clearly constitute key moments in the drama that began in August 1914. This book argues that the battle of ideas which crystallised during the course of the Great War continue to the present. It cl ...Show more
Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend by Alistair Thomson
34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Anzac Memories was first published to acclaim in 1994 (OUP), and has achieved international renown for its pioneering contribution to the study of war memory and mythology. In this new edition Alistair Thomson explores how the Anzac legend has transformed over the past quarter century, how a 'post-memor ...Show more