The Forever War by Nick Bryant
36.99 AUD
Category: History
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American experiment is failing. Division, mistrust and misinformation are now its defining characteristics. The storming of the Capitol, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the increasing spotlight on Second Amendment rights rai ...Show more
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby
26.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A "fascinating and very moving" (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network) chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most interesting countries in the world--Israel.Israel. The small strip of arid land is 5,700 miles awa ...Show more
The Mountains Are High: a year of escape and discovery in rural China by Alec Ash
39.99 AUD
Category: History
What is it like to radically change your life? Writer Alec Ash meets the Chinese who are doing just this, 'reverse migrating' from the cities to the remote countryside of southwest China - and joins them himself, in an extraordinary and inspiring journey of self-discovery. In 2020, Alec Ash left behind ...Show more
Girt by Sea: Re-Imagining Australia's Security by Rebecca Strating, Joanne Wallis
36.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A clear-eyed examination of how Australia should approach the complex security challenges at play in its maritime domain Security starts at home ... Australia has drawn closer to many of its Asia-Pacific neighbours in recent years, but 'when push comes to shove, it continues to look well beyond the oce ...Show more
Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the New Fight for the Future of Russia by Mark Galeotti, Anna Arutunyan
36.99 AUD
Category: History
The compelling, first-to-market story of the rise, fall and death of the Wagner Group's Evgeny Prigozhin, and what this tells us about the chaotic new direction of late Putinism, by the acclaimed author of A Short History of Russia. Evgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the most dangerous warlords in the w ...Show more
Operation Biting by Max Hastings
37.99 AUD
Category: History
Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones propos ...Show more
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph Stiglitz
36.99 AUD
Category: History
A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more ...Show more
Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking by Tyson Yunkaporta
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The award-winning author of Sand Talk returns with a formidably original yarn with Indigenous thought leaders from around the globe. Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta's bestselling debut, cast an Indigenous lens on contemporary society. It was, said Melissa Lucashenko, 'an extraordinary invitation into the w ...Show more
Love Across Class by Eve Vincent, Rose Butler
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Explore how people from different class backgrounds meet, live with and love one another. What does it mean to partner across class difference? This lucid and original book is the first to explore cross-class relationships in contemporary Australia, a society long-invested in the myth of egalitarianism ...Show more
A Very Secret Trade: The dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony w ...Show more
The Shortest History of Japan by Lesley Downer
27.99 AUD
Category: History
Everyone who has ever visited Japan says it feels 'different'. It is a small island nation with few natural resources, limited space and a history of swinging between isolation and openness to the outside world. This past has produced an extraordinary aesthetic culture that has inspired artists, archite ...Show more
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins
34.99 AUD
Category: History
From a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with ancient treasures, a Viking warship made for King Cnut himself, Henry VIII's spectacular Mary Rose and the golden age of the Tudor court, to the exploration of the Arctic, the tragic story of HMS Terror and tales of bravery a ...Show more