The End of Poverty: How we can make it happen in our lifetime by Jeffrey Sachs
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today. Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis, he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the world economy and explains why, over the past 200 ...Show more
The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt
$29.95 AUD
Category: War
For centuries, civilisation has been defined by epoch-making cycles of war and peace. But now our world has changed irrevocably. What faces us in this era of uncertainty? How do we protect ourselves against war machines that can penetrate the defences of any state? Is it too late to try? Visionary and p ...Show more
Sydney's Aboriginal Past: Investigating the Archaeological and Historical Records by Val Attenbrow
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australian
This edition of Sydney's Aboriginal Past draws on the latest historical, archaeological, geological, environmental and linguistic research, as well as oral evidence of present-day Aboriginal people, to reveal the diversity of Aboriginal life in the Sydney region before, during and for the first 30 years ...Show more
Telegram from Guernica: The extraordinary life of George Steer, War Correspondent by Nicholas Rankin
$22.95 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary life of George Steer, war correspondent. Who was the Special Correspondent whose report shocked the world, galvanised Picasso into painting his black-and-white mural Guernica, and earned himself a place on the Gestapo Special Wanted List? On 26 April 1937, amid the rubble of the bo ...Show more
The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933 by Amos Elon
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
The Pity of It All is the compelling, moving story of the German-Jewish people from the eighteenth century until the eve of Third Reich, tracing their journey from a persecuted clan of outcasts and peddlers into a dazzling community of writers, philosophers and scientists. From Moses Mendelssohn, who e ...Show more
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
$23.00 AUD
Category: History
We all have dreams things we fantasise about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discus ...Show more
Natasha's Dance - A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
This tremendously attractive, ambitious, dizzying book is in every way a worthy successor to Figes' bestselling "A People's Tragedy". The whole panorama of Russia's mighty culture is conjured up in a way that is fresh, intimate and immediate. Whether talking about music or novels, buildings or paintings ...Show more
The Victorians by A. N. Wilson
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
People, not abstract ideas, make history and in this volume A.N. Wilson has pieced together hundreds of different lives to tell a story - one that is still unfinished in our own day. The "global village" is a Victorian village and many of the ideas we take for granted, for good or ill, originated with t ...Show more
Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine by Raja Shehadeh
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
This is an extraordinary and moving memoir by the award-winning author of "Palestinian Walks" - updated with a new foreword. Raja Shehadeh was born into a successful Palestinian family with a beautiful house overlooking the Mediterranean. When the state of Israel was formed in 1948 the family were drive ...Show more
1421: The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
On 8 February 1421 the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, 500 foot long junks made from the finest teak and mahogany, were led by Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from ...Show more
White Mughals - Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair-un-Nissa
Salt - A World History by Mark Kurlansky
$28.00 AUD
Category: History
"Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilization from the beginning, and its story is a glittering often surprising part of the history of mankind. So valuable that it has often served as c ...Show more