Christian Dior - Christian Berard: A Cheerful Melancholy by LAURENCE BENAIM
$70.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Christian Dior and Christian Bérard met at the end of the 1920s. They immediately became friends, nourished by elective affinities and an incredible complementarity. If Christian Dior marks his time with his architectural work as a couturier who will redesign the silhouette of women for a long time, Chr ...Show more
George VI and Elizabeth by Sally Bedell Smith
$37.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A revelatory account of how King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's loving marriage saved the monarchy during World War II, and how they raised their daughter to become Queen Elizabeth II, based on exclusive access to the Royal Archives From the bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen and Prince Charles ...Show more
Endgame by Omid Scobie
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The new book from bestselling author Omid Scobie shedding light on the Royal Family, with unique insight and exclusive access. On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family, and ...Show more
Growing up Getty - The Story of America's Most Unconventional Dynasty by James Reginato (Contribution by)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Oil magnate J. Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, is the patriarch of an extraordinary cast of sons, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. While some have been brought low by mental illness, drug addiction, and one of the most sensational kidnapping cases of the twentieth century, many of ...Show more
Koresh The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco by Stephan Talty
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In the Spring of 1993, federal agents raided the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. A 51-day standoff ensued. Known as the Waco Siege, it has become a founding myth of the extreme wing of American conservatism, invoked by militiamen, gun rights advocates, and the alt-right.The leader of the evange ...Show more
The Memory Keeper - A Journey into the Holocaust to Find My Family by Jackie Kohnstamm
$40.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The compelling story of Jackie Kohnstamm's search for the truth about her grandparents' deaths in the Holocaust
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook | Paperback by Karina Urbach
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was expropriated under the Nazi regime. Alice Urbach had her own cooking school in Vienna, but in 1938 she was forced to flee to England, like so many others. Her younger son was imprisoned i ...Show more
Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival by Karen Kirsten
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
"In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland, a Jewish child was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That child was Karen Kirsten’s mother, but she knew nothing about this extraordinary event until one day a letter arrived from a stranger. After eventually discovering the grandparents she loved dearly ...Show more
My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds by PICK-GOSLAR HANNAH
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In this never-before-seen memoir, Bergen-Belsen survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar shares incredibly powerful words on the final untold portrait of her childhood friend, Anne Frank. The inspiring and heartbreaking true story of two best friends torn apart and reunited against all odds. When Hannah Pick-Goslar ...Show more
Keynes and Marx by Bill Dunn
$55.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Progress in Political Economy Ser.
Keynes was an elitist and pro-capitalist economist, whom the left should embrace with caution. But his analysis provides a concreteness missing from Marx and engages with critical issues of the modern world that Marx could not have foreseen. This book argues that a critical Marxist engagement can simult ...Show more
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A story of science, sex and psychoanalysis by Seamus O'Mahony
$40.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A brilliantly witty book about the intertwined lives of psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, surgeon Wilfred Trotter and the guru of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.Ernest Jones was Sigmund Freud's closest associate and most fervent disciple. Clever, self-confident and intensely ambitious, Jones promoted psychoana ...Show more
Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Times of a Black Trans Revolutionary by Tosh Miss Major; Meronek Griffin-Gracy
$23.00 AUD
Category: Historical
"Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the HIV/AIDS crisis and a world that white supremacy has built. She has shared tips with other sex workers in t ...Show more