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
On Bunyah by Les Murray
32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
oMurray is a brash but also breathtakingly brilliant and often both at onceo -The AustralianBunyah has been my refuge and home place all my life. This book concentrates on the smallest habitats of community, the scattered village and the lone house, where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illuso ...Show more
Australia and the Monarchy by David Hill
34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Australia and the British monarchy have always made for an odd couple: the young, rebellious, egalitarian nation wed to an ancient symbol of power and social inequality. Even today for most Australians an invitation to meet with royalty remains a pinnacle of social achievement and recognition. What is t ...Show more
When We Were Young (and Foolish): A Memoir of My Misguided Youth with Tony Abbott, Bob Carr and Kevin Rudd by Greg Sheridan
32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
By chance, Greg Sheridan's early life saw him become intimate friends and colleagues with a fascinating list of people who now make up Australia's political leadership. At university Tony Abbott was his best friend; he became close to Peter Costello as well as Labor figures Michael Danby and Michael Eas ...Show more