Reds Under the Bed - ASIO and an unusual bunch of suspects by Michael KOMESAROFF
25.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
ASIO maintained a vast library of files on half a million citizens, most of whom were never a threat to Australia's security. Through meticulous research, Michael Komesaroff has been able to sift through a multitude of records which were kept on his family, and discover why. This is not only an account ...Show more
Adani and the War over Coal by Quentin Beresford
34.99 AUD
Category: History
Coal is the political, economic and cultural totem for debates about climate change. Yet Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock our politics--and our country--into the fossil fuel age. This searing book takes apart the pivotal role of the Adani Carmichael mine in ...Show more
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright
49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory--and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle--thro ...Show more
The Fifth Risk - Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
45.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out- Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed abo ...Show more
A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace by Jonathan Holslag
45.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Pelican Bks.
A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peace In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent ...Show more
Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens by Alison Weir
24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: England's Medieval Queens Ser.
Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian Alison Weir, bringing five of England's medieval queens to life.A Daily TelegraphBook of the YearLove, murder, war, betrayalThis is the story of the five extraordinary queens who helped the No ...Show more
Behind the Throne - Five Centuries of Life in the Royal Household by Adrian Tinniswood
55.00 AUD
Category: History
Behind the Throneis a history of family life. The families concerned were royal families. But they still had to get up in the morning. They ate and entertained their friends and worried about money. Henry VIII kept tripping over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back ...Show more
D-Day: The Soldiers' Story by Giles Milton
35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis Almost seventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the day of the greatest seaborne invasion in history. The outcome of the Second World War hung in the balance on that chill June morning. If Allied force ...Show more
The Almighty Dollar - Follow the Incredible Journey of a Single Dollar to See How the Global Economy Really Works by Dharshini David
22.99 AUD
Category: History
The dollar is the lifeblood of globalisation: China holds billions in reserve for good reason. Greenbacks, singles, bucks or dead presidents, call them what you will, $1.2 trillion worth are floating around right now - and half the dollars in circulation are actually outside of the USA. But what is real ...Show more
The Skripal Files by Mark Urban
32.99 AUD
Category: History
'Engrossing . . . Urban tells the story of Skripal's undercover career well, much of it previously unknown and gleaned from around 10 hours of conversations with him at his Salisbury home' Guardian Who is Sergei Skripal? Agent. Prisoner. Target. The Skripal Files tells the story of Sergei Skripal, the ...Show more
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit
24.99 AUD
Category: History
In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, "with so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursui ...Show more
The Cryotron Files - How the Inventor of the Microchip Put Himself in the KGB's Sights by Douglas Buck; Iain Dey
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged 32 of a mysterious heart attack, just after a hig ...Show more