Worldmaking - The Art and Science of American Diplomacy by David Milne
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
A new intellectual history of U.S. foreign policy from the late nineteenth century to the presentWorldmaking is a compelling new take on the history of American diplomacy. Rather than retelling the story of realism versus idealism, David Milne suggests that U.S. foreign policy has also been crucially di ...Show more
Where Spirits Dwell by Karina Machado
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A captivating exploration of haunted-house stories from around Australia. It will unearth the creaking, spine-chilling moments when ghosts appear in suburbia. Karina Machado spins a web of wonder and often the interviewees' lives prove just as fascinating as the spooky experiences they're sharing. She w ...Show more
Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada by Elizabeth Drayson
$65.00 AUD
Category: European
Lost Paradise is a book about a unique and pivotal European city. Although there are a number of interesting biographies of major cities such as London, Rome, Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Barcelona, this is the first narrative history of the city of Granada for English-speaking readers, which celebrates and ...Show more
South Flows the Pearl - Chinese Australian Voices by Mavis Gock Yen; Siaoman Yen (Editor); Richard Horsburgh (Editor); Sophie Loy-Wilson (Introduction by)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: China and the West in the Modern World Ser.
South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth, Cairns, Darwin, Bendigo and beyond, it explores the struggles and successes of Chinese people in Australia since the 1850s, as told in thei ...Show more
Class in Australia by Threadgold Steven
$39.95 AUD
Category: Political
Two decades since it was claimed that class is dead, social, economic and cultural inequalities are rising. Though Australia is often described as a ‘lucky country’ with a strong economy, we are witness to intensifying inequality with entrenched poverty and the growth of precarious and insecure labour. ...Show more
1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year by Nick Rennison
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 100 years later.Empires fell. The Ottoman Empire collapsed after more than six centuries. The British Empire had reached its greatest extent but its heyday wa ...Show more
Leo and Mina Fink: For the Greater Good by Margaret Taft
$34.95 AUD
Category: Political
During the darkest days of the Holocaust, Europe’s Jews faced annihilation. In faraway Melbourne, immigrants Leo and Mina Fink rallied to rescue the survivors. It was a massive task. Undaunted, they battled bureaucrats, public opinion and at times the Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell. Marshalling ...Show more
China Unbound: A New World Disorder by Joanna Chiu
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
As the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the political aspects of its multi-billion-dollar 'New Silk Road' global investment project to its gro ...Show more
Big: The Role of the State in the Modern Economy by Richard Denniss
$19.95 AUD
Category: In the National Interest | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Scott Morrison wants to spend a lot more money on defence, the business community wants more spending on infrastructure and education, an ageing population wants better health and aged care, and young Australians want more action on climate change and affordable housing. Each problem requires more publi ...Show more
Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics by Jo Dyer
$19.95 AUD
Category: In the National Interest | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The Morrison government’s moral decline happened first slowly and then all at once. We suffered through ‘Sports rorts’ and ‘Watergate’ and an MIA PM, before the dissembling response to allegations of sexual abuse at the very heart of federal politics threw into stark relief the cynicism and moral bankru ...Show more
Cadre Country How China became the Chinese Communist Party by John Fitzgerald
$40.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Since the founding of the Communist Party in China just over a century ago, there is much the country has achieved. But who does the heavy lifting in China? And who walks away with the spoils? Cadre Country places the spotlight on the nation’s 40 million cadres – the managers and government officials em ...Show more
The Boy in the Dress by Jonathan Butler
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
On a balmy Townsville night in 1944, a young serviceman, Warwick Meale, is found murdered. The army and police do not, or will not, conduct a proper investigation and history forgets the killer - until now. Nearly eighty years on, Warwick's descendant Jonathan Butler dusts off the case and chases the le ...Show more