Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby
34.99 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
Always Was, Always Will Be: The Campaign for Justice and Recognition Continues by Thomas Mayo
19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2024 - PRE-ORDER NOW! In Always Was, Always Will Be, bestselling author Thomas Mayo investigates ‘what's next?’ for reconciliation and justice in Australia after the failed October 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum. Since the referendum, supporters and volunteers have been asking ...Show more
Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum
45.00 AUD
Category: History
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial st ...Show more
The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama by Ben Macintyre
36.99 AUD
Category: History
'Macintyre does true-life espionage better than anyone else' John Preston From the author of Sunday Times #1 bestsellers COLDITZ, SAS: ROGUE HEROES and THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR. On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London. T ...Show more
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple
39.99 AUD
Category: History
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. Major religions that rose to dominate Earth's largest con ...Show more
Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story by Serhii Plokhy
36.99 AUD
Category: History
What if Chernobyl was just the beginning? The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war. On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear po ...Show more
Charles Todd’s Magnificent Obsession: The Epic Race to Connect Australia to the World by David Dufty
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The construction of the Overland Telegraph in 1870 is an extraordinary feat of engineering and a wild gamble that nearly went terribly wrong. It was the greatest feat of engineering in nineteenth century Australia, but it very nearly collapsed in the face of monumental obstacles. The year was 1870, and ...Show more
Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People by Darren Rix, Craig Cormick
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans Both 250 years late and extremely timely, this is an account of what First Nations people saw and felt when James Cook navigated their shores in 1770. We know the Eur ...Show more
The Odd Couple: Re-configuring the America-Australia relationship by Allan Behm
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
America matters. Australia matters. They matter to each other. They matter to the world. Their institutional and structural alignments are deep and powerful. Americans believe in themselves. Australians believe in each other. They are mates. They are gregarious. Americans are single-minded and ambitious ...Show more
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia by Stephanie Baker
34.99 AUD
Category: History
An in-depth, authoritative, and timely look at the unprecedented economic war against Russia after Putin's invasion of Ukraine - written by a veteran journalist with unparalleled access to Western and Russian sources Undeterred by eight years of timid US sanctions, Vladimir Putin ordered his full-scale ...Show more
Demon Of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America's Road to Civil War by Erik Larson
37.99 AUD
Category: History
The internationally bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky ...Show more
Bina: First Nations Languages, Old and New
37.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Australia's language diversity is truly breathtaking. This continent lays claim to the world's longest continuous collection of cultures, including over 440 unique languages and many more dialects. Sadly, European invasion has had severe consequences for the vitality of these languages.Amid devastating ...Show more