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Who Cares Wins by Lily Cole
$35.00 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naïve and it is not impossible. We are living in an age of turmoil, destruction and uncertainty. Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human expansion has caused the extinction of countless species, and Neolibera ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
$24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from o ...Show more
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
#1 New York Times Bestseller From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thou ...Show more
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
$19.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge was frustrated with the way that discussions of race and racism are so often led by those blind to it, by those willfully ignorant of its legacy. Her response, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has transformed the conversation both in Britain ...Show more
Voices of History: Speeches That Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
VOICES OF HISTORY celebrates the great speeches of world history and cultural life. In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some speeches are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious; some a ...Show more
Ten Rogues by Peter Grose
$29.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
From the grim docks of nineteenth-century London to the even grimmer shores of the brutal penal colony of Norfolk Island, this is a roller-coaster tale. It has everything: defiance of authority, treachery, piracy and mutiny, escape from the hangman's noose and even love. Peopled with good men, buffoons, ...Show more
The Convict Valley: The Bloody Struggle on Australia's Early Frontier by Mark Dunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
In 1790, five convicts escaped Sydney by boat and were swept ashore near present day Newcastle. They were taken in by the Worimi people, given Aboriginal names and started families. Thus began a long and at times dramatic series of encounters between Aboriginals and convicts in the second settlement in ...Show more
Batavia by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Bataviais the greatest story in Australia?s history and history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons.The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mu ...Show more
Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan
$34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
George Pell is the most recognisable face of the Australian Catholic Church. He was the Ballarat boy with the film-star looks who studied at Oxford and rose through the ranks to become the Vatican's indispensable 'Treasurer'. As an outspoken defender of church orthodoxy, 'Big George's' ascendancy within ...Show more
Me and White Supremacy - How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F Saad
$29.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
'White supremacy is a violent system of oppression that harms Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. And if you are a person who holds white privilege, then you are complicit in upholding that harm, whether you realise it or not. This is not my opinion. This is fact. And if you are person who holds whi ...Show more
Pauline: In Her Own Words by Pauline Lee Hanson
$29.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Pauline: In Her Own Words tracks the seminal speeches and contributions of one Australia's most provocative political figures. The book comprises Pauline Hanson's speeches through the years as she takes back the leadership of One Nation, articulates the policy positions designed to voice concerns of a p ...Show more
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia by David Vine
$37.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is one of the most strategically important and secretive U.S. military installations outside the United States. Located near the remote center of the Indian Ocean and accessible only by military transport, the little-known base has been instrument ...Show more
