The Holocaust by Thomas Cussans
59.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
During the Holocaust, the Nazis systematically murdered more than six million Jews. This commemorative volume, published in association with Mémorial de la Shoah, France's memorial museum on the Holocaust, strives to understand the historical context behind these unimaginable crimes. It extends from Jew ...Show more
The Dismissal by Paul Kelly & Troy Bramston
39.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
There is no more dramatic event in our political history than the dismissal. This book is the definitive story, filled with fresh documents, revelations and new interviews that change our understanding of this event. It is also a brilliant forensic analysis of the ruthless, proud and stubborn main playe ...Show more
The History of the World in Maps: The Rise and Fall of Empires, Countries and Cities by Times Atlases Staff; Mick Ashworth; Philip Parker
69.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
From Babylonian tablets to Google Maps, the world has evolved rapidly, along with the ways in which we see it. In this time, cartography has not only kept pace with these changes, but has often driven them. Every map tells a story and this book tells the incredible history of our world through maps, and ...Show more
The Great South Land by Rob Mundle
45.00 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
How Dutch sailors discovered New Holland and left Australia to a British pirate. For many, the colonial story of Australia starts with Captain Cook's discovery of the east coast in 1770, but it was some 164 years before his historic voyage that European mariners began their romance with the immensity of ...Show more
Eighties: the Decade That Transformed Australia by Frank Bongiorno
45.00 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Winner of the ACT Book of the Year Award It was the era of Hawke and Keating, Kylie and INXS, the America's Cup and the Bicentenary. It was perhaps the most controversial decade in Australian history, with high-flying entrepreneurs booming and busting, torrid debates over land rights and immigration, th ...Show more
The Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin's Extraordinary Adventure Aboard Fitzroy's Famous Survey Ship by Taylor, James
39.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The Beagle has become synonymous with Charles Darwin and his groundbreaking title On the Origin of Species. But how did Darwin come to be on board? Now reissued in paperback, in a single volume all the various strands of the Beagle story have been woven together to reveal the circumstances that set the ...Show more
Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the free World must be Stopped by Garry Kasparov
29.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
In this bold and important book, Garry Kasparov argues that Vladimir Putin's dangerous global ambitions have been ignored for too long - and he won't be stopped unless the West stands up to him.
Keating by Kerry O'Brien
49.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Paul Keating is widely credited as the chief architect of the most significant period of political and economic reform in Australia's history. Twenty years on, there is still no story from the horse's mouth of how it all came about. No autobiography. No memoir. Yet he is the supreme story-teller of poli ...Show more
The Silk Roads - A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
49.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: good
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east...For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more
Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy by Michael Pembroke
29.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Australians know Arthur Phillip as the first Governor of the colony of New South Wales. But few know the real story of this mercurial man. Arthur Phillip was a career soldier, a mercenary and a spy for the British Empire long before he captained the First Fleet and founded Sydney. Through meticulous res ...Show more
Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London by Mohsin Hamid
24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Discontent and its Civilizations collects the best of Mohsin Hamid's writing on subjects as diverse and wide-ranging as Pakistan; fatherhood; the death of Osama Bin Laden and the writing of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Unified by the author's humane, clear-headed and witty voice, the book makes a compe ...Show more
Map: Exploring the World (HB) by Daniel Huffman (Contribution by); Phaidon Press Editors; Laura Imaoka (Contribution by); John Hessler
75.00 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
300 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves. Map: Exploring the Worldbrings together more than 300 fascinating maps from the birth of cartography to cutting-edge digital maps of the twenty-fist century. The book ...Show more