Making Australian History by Anna Clark
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Australian history has been revised and reinterpreted by successive generations of historians, writers, governments and public commentators, yet there has been no account of the ways it has changed, who makes history, and how. Making Australian History responds to this critical gap in Australian histori ...Show more
A Witness of Fact: the peculiar case of chief forensic pathologist Colin Manock by Drew Rooke
$33.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
The compelling story of South Australia's disgraced former chief forensic pathologist and the legal scandals in which he became implicated.For nearly three decades, Dr Colin Manock was in charge of South Australia's forensic pathology services, and played a vital role within the state's criminal justice ...Show more
Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labour by Anna Qu
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A young Chinese girl forced to work in a New York sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful memoir about labour and self-worth, economic revolution, and cultural dislocation. As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is ...Show more
Contest for the Indo-Pacific: Why China Won't Map the Future (Updated Edition) by Rory Medcalf
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Updated edition covering the strategic impacts of Covid-19, China's economic coercion against Australia, the Afghanistan withdrawal, Joe Biden, the Quad and US-China rivalry.The Indo-Pacific is both a place and an idea. It is the region central to global prosperity and security. It is also a metaphor fo ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: Europe Before the Holocaust - Jewish Quarterly 247 by Jonathan Pearlman
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
This issue of The Jewish Quarterly examines the efforts to recover and remember the Jewish world of Europe before the Holocaust. In Search of Lost Time brings to light recent discoveries of hidden troves of documents and artefacts, and the attempt to retrieve them and preserve the memory of the lives an ...Show more
Guilty Pigs: The Weird and Wonderful History of Animal Law by Katy Barnett, Jeremy Gans
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
An illuminating and entertaining history of the law's treatment of animals Trespassing bees, murderous zebras, reasonable cows ... Ever since Biblical times, animals have been clashing with human laws.What to do with animals that injure or kill people, in particular, has long troubled humans. In medie ...Show more
Europe's 100 Best Cathedrals by Simon Jenkins
$65.00 AUD
Category: European
Europe's cathedrals are magnificent. They outstrip palaces and castles. They are the most sensational group of structures anywhere in the world - which everyone should 'see before they die'. They are also hugely popular, most of them absolutely packed. They are humankind's greatest creations.In Europe's ...Show more
The Western Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd
$27.00 AUD
Category: War
'A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration . . . Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War' Lawrence James, The Times'This well-researched, well-written and cogently argued new analysis . . . will undoubtedly now take its rightful place as the standard ...Show more
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower
$70.00 AUD
Category: European
'A masterful portrait of a historic watershed' Publishers Weekly'Elucidating, indispensable' KirkusA thrilling history of the revolutionary birth of modern Greece from 'the preeminent historian of a generation' (Misha Glenny)In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, the ...Show more
The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty by Joseph Sassoon
$65.00 AUD
Category: European
The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East' The Sassoons were one of the great commercial dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds were as bankers. In this rich and nuanced po ...Show more
Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
Luminous, illuminating - lose yourself in the lives and stories of a woodland village in Sweden, at the quiet edge of a turning worldNear the river Klar lven, snug in the dense forest landscape of northern V rmland, lies the secluded village of Osebol. It is a quiet place- one where relationships take r ...Show more
The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and its People by Michael Wood
$23.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' - Tom Holland ... 'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced, eminently readable and well-timed. A must-read for those who want - and need - to know about the China of yesterday, today and tom ...Show more