Gandhi: the Years That Changed the World by Ramachandra Guha
26.99 AUD
Category: History
Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and delighted many million men and women around the world. He lived almost entirely in the shadow of the British Raj, which for much of his life seemed a permanent fact, but which he did more than anyone else to destro ...Show more
The Last Palace: Europe's Extraordinary Century Through Five Lives and One House in Prague by Norman Eisen
24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture. From that discovery unspooled the captivating, twisting tale of the remarkable people who lived in the ...Show more
In the Name of God: A History of Christian and Muslim Intolerance by Selina O'Grady
49.99 AUD
Category: History
Christianity is tolerant, Islam is not. Islam is an inherently violent, ossified religion which can never come to terms with the Enlightenment. How right or wrong are these assumptions? In this groundbreaking new book, Selina O'Grady asks how and why our societies came to be as tolerant or intolerant as ...Show more
New World, Inc - The Story of the British Empire's Most Successful Start-Up by John Butman; Simon Targett
25.00 AUD
Category: History
In the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it had begun to face a daunting array of social, commercial and political problems. Struggling with a single export - woollen cloth - a group of merchants formed arguably the world's fi ...Show more
Proof of Conspiracy by Seth Abramson
32.99 AUD
Category: History
The dramatic and meticulously researched new book from former criminal defence attorney and criminal investigator Seth Abramson into the complex web of ties surrounding Donald Trump, showing how Proof of Collusion was only the beginning of the story. In late 2015, international dealmaker and current c ...Show more
Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944 by Paddy Ashdown
19.99 AUD
Category: History
A riveting three-way spy story set in occupied France. 'Game of Spies' tells the story of a lethal spy triangle between 1942 and 1944 in Bordeaux - and of France's greatest betrayal by aristocratic and right-wing Resistance leader Andre Grandclement. The story centres on three men: one British, one Fren ...Show more
Project Rainfall: The Secret History of Pine Gap by Tom Gilling
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Pine Gap is a top secret American spy base on Australian soil, but how much do we really know about it?
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank . . . erudite and fascinating' Paul Collier, Guardian, on Why Nations Fail By the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains h ...Show more
Stranded Nation - White Australia in an Asian Region by David Walker
39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
For well over a century Australias place in Asia has been at the forefront of public discussion and controversy. Stranded Nation is a searching examination of how a white nation, harbouring deep anxieties about rising Asia, sought to convince both itself and its neighbours that it belonged within the As ...Show more
Convict Colony: The Remarkable Story of the Fledgling Settlement That Survived Against the Odds by David Hill
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for granted that the first colony was the basis of one of the most successful nations in the world today. But in truth, the New World of the 18th century was dotted with failed colonies, and New South Wales nearly joined them. ...Show more
The Ice at the End of the World - An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future by Jon Gertner
39.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Greenland: a remote, mysterious, ice-covered rock with a population of just 56,000, has evolved from one of earth's last physical frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory. Locked within that vast 'white desert' are some of our planet's most profound secrets. As the Arctic climate warms, and Gr ...Show more