The USA Between the Wars 1919-1941 Student's Book - Discovering the Past Series by Terry Fiehn & Rik Mills
$51.50 AUD
Category: History | Series: Discovering the Past for GCSE S.
This text is a comprehensive study of the United States from 1919 to 1941. It is based around the authors' narrative which is combined with source material which seeks to give students a deep insight into the boom years of the 1920s and the harsh Depression of the 1930s. Full syllabus coverage is provid ...Show more
The Great Depression: A Diary by Benjamin Roth
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depre ...Show more
The Great Depression by Lionel Robbins; Murray L. Weidenbaum (Introduction by)
$79.99 AUD
Category: History
This book examines the nature and the causes of the 1929 depression, tracing its background and the broad conditions from which the depression emerged. As an infl uence on economic activity, Robbins sees World War I, and the political changes that followed it, as a series of shifts in the fundamental co ...Show more
Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal: The USA 1890-1954 by Peter Clements
$47.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Access to History
The Access to History series is the most popular and trusted series for AS and A level history students. The new editions combine all the strengths of this well-loved series with a new design and features that allow all students access to the content and study skills needed to achieve exam success. This ...Show more
The Last Stone: A Gripping Account of a Cold Case Criminal Investigation by Mark Bowden
$33.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
From the bestselling author of Killing Pablo, a haunting and gripping account of the true-life search for the perpetrator of a hideous crime-the abduction and likely murder of two young girls in 1975-and the skilful work of the cold case team that finally brought their kidnapper to justice. On March 29, ...Show more
The Deep by Alex Rogers
$33.00 AUD
Category: History
There's so much we don't know about what lies deep beneath the ocean's surface - and the time to find out is growing increasingly precious . . . Professor Alex Rogers is one of the world's leading experts in marine biology and oceanology, and has spent his life studying the deep ocean - and in particul ...Show more
The Suicide Bride: A Mystery of Tragedy and Family Secrets in Edwardian Sydney by Tanya Bretherton
$33.00 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: The\Australian Crime Vau Ser.
From the author of the acclaimed THE SUITCASE BABY - shortlisted for the Ned Kelly and Nib awards - comes the chilling story of a charlatan, a murder-suicide, and a family tree so twisted that it sprouts monsters. Whenever society produces a depraved criminal, we wonder: is it nature or is it nurture? W ...Show more
The Catalpa Rescue: The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history. New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote prison in the ...Show more
Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Eureka Stockade - The Unfinished Revolution In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. Henry Lawson wrote poems about it, its symbolic ...Show more
Wonks Dictionary by James Jeffrey Jon Kudelka
$20.00 AUD
Category: Political
What is a democracy sausage? Where is Antony Green? Why is a prime minister? And what on earth is that big, shiny golden club on the table in the House of Reps? Discover the answers to all these and more as Jon Kudelka and James Jeffrey take the definitive journey through Australian democracy from A to ...Show more
Advancing Australia by John Watson; Amanda Dunn
$20.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: The Conversation
Politics in Australia is in a dire state. The Coalition government is led by its third prime minister in four years, two of whom were toppled by their own party. Before that, the Labor government ousted two prime ministers. Voters' trust in politicians is at an all-time low, there is policy inertia on k ...Show more
The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes
$23.00 AUD
Category: History
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of the Obama presidency from perhaps his closest collaborator, and a political memoir about the power of words to change our world This is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Obama ...Show more