Sydney Royal Celebrating 200 Years of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales 1822-2022 by GAVIN FRY
$75.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A Celebration of 200 years of the RAS of NSW
The Secret of Emu Field: Britain’s forgotten atomic tests in Australia by Elizabeth Tynan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the south. But Emu Field has its own secrets, and the fact that it was largely forgotten makes it more intriguing. Only at Emu Field did a terrifying black mist speed across the la ...Show more
An Uncommon Hangman: The life and deaths of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard by Rachel Franks
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Executioners were once a critical component of the justice system in New South Wales. In an era when judges handed down death sentences as easily as they toasted the good health of the monarch, someone had to do the dirty work of the authorities.Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard used to be a household name. Tod ...Show more
No Enemies, No Friends: Restoring Australia's Global Relevance by Allan Behm
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
How can Australia recalibrate its national security settings to meet future demands amid global disruption? Plicy expert Allan Behm offers practical ideas, imbued with optimismIs increased defence spending all that Australia needs to ensure its national security? How well placed are we to deal with glob ...Show more
Astronomy: Sky Country (First Knowledges) by Karlie Noon, Krystal De Napoli
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the oldest scientists in human history.Many First Peoples regard the land a ...Show more
Men Without Country: The true story of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas by Harrison Christian
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me happily captive to the very last page.' Dava Sobel, author of LongitudeA mission to collect breadfruit from Tahiti becomes the most famou ...Show more
Made in Chinatown - Australia's Chinese Furniture Factories, 1880-1930 by Peter Charles Gibson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: China and the West in the Modern World Ser.
Made in Chinatown delves into a little-known aspect of Australia's past: its hundreds of Chinese furniture factories. These businesses thrived in the post-goldrush era, becoming an important economic activity for Chinese immigrants and their descendants and a vital part of Australia's furniture industry ...Show more
Dismal Diplomacy, Disposable Sovereignty: Our Problem with China & America by Carrillo Gantner
$19.95 AUD
Category: In the National Interest | Series: In the National Interest
As ‘America’s shoeshine boy in the South Pacific’, Australia is accustomed to being told what to do. In the space of a mere five years, the subjugation of Australia’s national interest to that of the United States in provoking China under president Trump led us very quickly into a hostile relationship w ...Show more
Now More than Ever: Australia's ABC by David Anderson
$20.00 AUD
Category: In the National Interest | Series: In the National Interest
Disregard the critics. Australia’s ABC, at ninety years of age, is demonstrably more valuable to Australians now than it has ever been. The ABC’s home-grown Managing Director, David Anderson, gives us a rare insight into the ABC he knows intimately: a cultural powerhouse where Australian identity is cel ...Show more
The Opera House: The extraordinary story of the building that symbolises Australia the people, the secrets, the scandals and the sheer genius by Peter FitzSimons
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'The sun did not know how beautiful its light was until it was reflected off this building.' - Louis Kahn, US architect If only these walls and this land could talk ... The Sydney Opera House is a breathtaking building, recognised around the world as a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj Ma ...Show more
The Kelly Hunters by Grantlee Kieza
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brave policemen in a remote mountain camp in 1878, they sparked the biggest and most expensive manhunt Australia had seen. The desperate search would end when Kelly and his gang, wearing suits of armour, tried to derail a train bef ...Show more