America: the Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges
$27.00 AUD
Category: American
Is America in a state of irrevocable decline? In this provocative and disturbing examination of our country, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges argues that the United States shows unmistakable signs of a dying culture. America's social fabric is unraveling, while at the same time we face glo ...Show more
Blood Legacy - Reckoning with a Family's Enslaving Past by Alex Renton
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compen ...Show more
New York, New York, New York - Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation by Thomas Dyja
$55.00 AUD
Category: American
A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City's transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city's future.Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its streets and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble; New York's terrifying, if liberating, state of nature ...Show more
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
The definitive history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the bestselling author of Chernobyl - History of a Tragedy For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, fami ...Show more
The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Vol 1) by CARO ROBERT A
$52.00 AUD
Category: American | Series: The\Years of Lyndon Johnson Ser.
The story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill country. Reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy and ambition that set LBJ apart.
Black Bodies Swinging by Robin Kelley
$55.00 AUD
Category: American
The police killing of George Floyd in May 2020 triggered a wave of protests like no other in history. Millions took to the streets in over forty US cities and across the globe in a multiracial, militant, and mobile uprising, calling not only for justice for all Black victims but for vast and visionary c ...Show more
Burr by Gore Vidal
$25.00 AUD
Category: American | Series: Narratives of Empire
In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. Gore Vidal, romping iconoclastically through American hist ...Show more
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness by Michelle Alexander
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement. The New Jim Crowis such a book. Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander offers a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, ...Show more
Smile Or Die by Barbara Ehrenreich
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
A brilliant, savagely funny attack on the cult of positive thinking - Ehrenreich's most compelling book since Nickel and Dimed. In this highly original and hugely entertaining account, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the cult of positive thinking in America. She examines the impact of positive thinking on ...Show more
Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage America by Barbara Ehrenreich
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
A contemporary classic that has changed the way we see America.
The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage by Mara Hvistendahl
$28.00 AUD
Category: American
A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near a field where a ...Show more
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. GrantThe Complete Annotated Edition by Ulysses S. Grant; John F. Marszalek; David S. Nolen; Louie P. Gallo; Frank J. Williams
$65.95 AUD
Category: American
"This fine volume leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War. The book is deeply researched, but it introduces its scholarship with a light touch that never interferes with the reader's enjoyment of Grant's fluent narrative."--Ron Ch ...Show more