Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine by Jason C. Anthony
$39.95 AUD
Category: American | Series: At Table
Antarctica, the last place on Earth, is not famous for its cuisine. Yet it is famous for stories of heroic expeditions in which hunger was the one spice everyone carried. At the dawn of Antarctic cuisine, cooks improvised under inconceivable hardships, castaways ate seal blubber and penguin breasts whil ...Show more
Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court by Sandra Day O'Connor
$49.95 AUD
Category: American
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER "I called this book "Out of Order" because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court. Most people know the Court only as it exists between bangs of the gavel, when the Court comes to order to hear arguments or give opinions. But the stories ...Show more
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray
$39.95 AUD
Category: American
From the bestselling author of Lo"sing Ground" and "The Bell Curve," this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that historically have joined our classes. In "Coming Apart," Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anyth ...Show more
The American Civil War by John Keegan
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. It is also one of the most mysterious. It has captured the imagination of writers, artists and film-makers for decades but the reality of it confuses and divides historians even today. In this magisterial history of the first mo ...Show more
The Future by Al Gore
$34.95 AUD
Category: American
In "The Future", former US Vice President Al Gore, explores the political, social and economic forces that are shaping what America and the world will become in ensuing decades. From demographics to democracy, Gore explores what he calls the 'Drivers of Global Change', framing the international conversa ...Show more
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (PB) by Walter Isaacson
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
During his 84-year life Benjamin Franklin was America's best scientist, inventor, publisher, business strategist, diplomat, and writer. He was also one of its most practical political thinkers. America's first great publicist, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public and polished it ...Show more
The Thief Fleet by James Talbot
$39.95 AUD
Category: American
Fourteen hundred and twenty men, women, and children - naval, military, civilians free and in chains - are shipped halfway around the world from England to the South Pacific. Months later, at the end of the longest voyage of its kind in the Age of Sail, the Thief Fleet casts anchor on a shallow bay wher ...Show more
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S Herman; Noam Chomsky
$34.45 AUD
Category: American
First published in 1988 and never out of print, this seminal analysis of how the media serve corporations that control and finance them is being reissued with a new Introduction by the authors.
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky
$39.95 AUD
Category: American
This is an essential introduction to the "propaganda model" of media analysis. Chomsky offers a message of hope, reminding us that resistance is possible, necessary and effective.
The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution by Richard Slotkin
$39.95 AUD
Category: American
In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy - one that committed the nation to all-out war. The centrepiece of that new strategy was the Emancipation Proclamation. In The Long Road to Antietam, Richard Slotkin, a renowned cultural h ...Show more
The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War by Halik Kochanski
$45.00 AUD
Category: American
The Second World War gripped Poland as it did no other country in Europe. Invaded by both Germany and the Soviet Union, it remained under occupation by foreign armies from the first day of the war to the last. The conflict was brutal, as Polish armies battled the enemy on four different fronts. It was o ...Show more
Lincoln's Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union by Louis P. Masur
$45.00 AUD
Category: American
"The time has come now," Abraham Lincoln told his cabinet as he presented the preliminary draft of a "Proclamation of Emancipation." Lincoln's effort to end slavery has been controversial from its inception--when it was denounced by some as an unconstitutional usurpation and by others as an inadequate h ...Show more