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A Short History of the World in 50 Books by Daniel Smith
27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A\Short History of the World Ser.
The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilization. It is a vessel for sharing stories, dispersing knowledge, examining the nature of our extraordinary species and imagining what lies beyond our known world. Books ultimately provide an invaluable and comprehensive record of what ...Show more
A White Hot Flame: Mary Montgomerie Bennett, Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice by Sue Taffe
34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Australian History Ser.
"A white hot flame indeed - here is an important contribution to our national story." --Kim Scott *** Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881-1961) is an important but under-recognised figure in Australian history. A member of a successful squatting family, she became a voice for reform at a time when Aboriginal ...Show more
American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000 by Joshua Freeman
24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Penguin History of the United States Ser.
A landmark history of postwar America and the second volume in the Penguin History of the United States series In this momentous work, acclaimed labor historian Joshua B. Freeman presents an epic portrait of the United States in the latter half of the twentieth century, revealing a nation galvanized by ...Show more
Australia - Modern Architectures in History by Harry Margalit
59.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: Modern Architectures in History Ser.
This book tells the story of the architects and buildings that have defined Australia's architectural culture since the founding of the modern nation through Federation in 1901. That year marked the beginning of a search for better city forms and buildings to accommodate the changing realities of Austra ...Show more
Australian Magpie: Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird by Gisela Kaplan
29.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Australian Natural History Ser. | Reading Level: Very Good
The warbling and carolling of the Australian magpie are familiar to many although few of us recognize that it ranks among the foremost songbirds of the world. Its impressive vocal abilities, its propensity to play and clown, and its willingness to interact with people, make the magpie one of our most we ...Show more
Barney and the Secret of the French Spies (Secret History #4) by Jackie French
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: The\Secret History Ser.
The new title in the critically acclaimed series that explores Australia's early Colonial secret history In 1798 orphaned Barney Bean now has a flourishing farm in the New SouthWales colony and everything he ever dreamed of ... except his childhood friendElsie. Butwhen Elsie falls ill and Barney rushes ...Show more
Barney and the Secret of the Whales (Secret History #2) by Jackie French
12.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: The\Secret History Ser.
What is the sailor's secret about the treasure of Australia's colony? The second book in a series that explores little-known history about Australia's fascinating past. Barney Bean is keen to make his fortune and he hears a secret; a sailor's secret about the treasure of the colony. But how can chasin ...Show more
Battle Cry of Freedom the Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
30.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Oxford History of the United States Ser.
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that ...Show more
Battling the Plantation MentalityMemphis and the Black Freedom Struggle by Laurie B. Green
75.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: The\John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture Ser.
African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the ass ...Show more
Black Saturday - That's Not the End of the Story by Peg Fraser
29.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: History of Australia Ser.
The Victorian bushfires of February 2009 captured the attention of all Australians and made headlines around the world. One hundred and seventy-three people lost their lives, the greatest number from any bushfire event in this nation's history. In the wake of this tragedy much media and public commentar ...Show more
Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland by Jack Jacobs
120.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Modern Jewish History Ser.
In the years between the two world wars, the Jewish community of Poland--the largest in Europe--was the cultural heart of the Jewish diaspora. The Jewish Workers' Bund, which had a socialist, secularist, Yiddishist, and anti-Zionist orientation, won a series of important electoral battles in Poland on t ...Show more
Daily Life in Ancient Rome by Jerome Carcopino
27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin History Ser.
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