Black Death at the Golden Gate - The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague by David K. Randall
$41.95 AUD
Category: American
A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress.For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn't noticed a swolle ...Show more
Fight of the Century - Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman
$45.00 AUD
Category: American
A unique collaboration between the American Civil Liberties Union and authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, Fight of the Century features original essays by the most influential writers at work today--including Jennifer Egan, Neil Gaiman, Marlon James, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Salman Rushdie, Jesmyn Ward ...Show more
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America by Philip Rucker; Carol D. Leonnig;
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
Rucker and Leonnig have deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington DC, and for the past three years have chronicled in depth the ways President Donald Trump has reinvented the presidency in his own image, shaken foreign alliances and tested American institutions. It would be all too easy to mistak ...Show more
The Historical Atlas of New York City, Third Edition - A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History by Eric Homberger
$55.00 AUD
Category: American
Now in its third edition, The Historical Atlas of New York City, takes us, neighborhood by neighborhood, through four hundred years of Gotham's rich past, from the city's initial settlement of 270 people in thirty log houses; to John Jacob Astor's meteoric rise from humble fur trader to the richest, mos ...Show more
American Passage by Vincent J Cannato, PH.D.
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. "American Passage" ...Show more
Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump by Neal Katyal; Sam Koppelman
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
What is impeachment? How does it work? And why is it so urgent to impeach Donald Trump? In this clear and direct book, celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal explains what impeachment is, why it's in the U.S. constitution and why Donald Trump has left Congress an ...Show more
How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS by David France
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
One of The New York Times "100 Notable Books of 2016" KOBO "Best of the Year" From the creator of the seminal documentary of the same name, an Oscar finalist, the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful, heroic stories of the gay activists who refu ...Show more
One Day - The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America by Gene Weingarten
$45.00 AUD
Category: American
On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day-chosen completely at random-turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next ...Show more
All the President's Women - Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator by Monique El-Faizy; Barry Levine
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
Based on groundbreaking original reporting, an extensive new look at Donald Trump's relationships with women, revealing new accusations of sexual misconduct, exploring the roots of his alleged predatory behaviour, and illustrating how Trump's presidency has helped catalyse the #MeToo movement and revita ...Show more
Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Change by Jones Doug
$42.99 AUD
Category: American
"Sometimes, down here, it seems like we slide backwards in time. We have traded Jim Crow for immigration laws that target, again, the most vulnerable. But there are good men and women here determined to stop that slide. Doug Jones is one of them." Book jacket.
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
Susan Orlean's bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is "a sheer delight...as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library" (USA TODAY)--a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. "Everybod ...Show more
Fall and Rise - The Story of 9/11 (H/B) by Mitchell Zuckoff
$55.00 AUD
Category: American
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The farewell calls from the planes... the mounting terror of air traffic control... the mothers who knew they were witnessing their loved ones perish... From an author who's spent 5 years reconstructing its horror, never has the story been told with such devastating, human ...Show more