World Order by Henry Kissinger
$65.00 AUD
Category: Political
Walter Isaacson, Time: “Dazzling and instructive... [a] magisterial new book.” Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era—advising presidents, traveling t ...Show more
The Cost of Courage by Charles Kaiser
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
In 1943, Andre Boulloche became de Gaulle's military delegate in Paris, coordinating all the Resistance movements in the nine northern regions of France only to be betrayed by one of his associates, arrested, wounded by the Gestapo, and taken prisoner. His sisters carried on the fight without him until ...Show more
Iraq: A History by John Robertson
$33.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Short Histories
In this insightful analysis, highly-respected expert John Robertson canvases the entirety of Iraq's rich history, from the seminal advances of its Neolithic inhabitants to the aftermath of the American-led invasion and Iraq today. Grounded in extensive research, this balanced account of a country and it ...Show more
Hardball How Politics Is Played Told By One Who Knows The Game by Chris Matthews
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
How politics is played by one who knows the game...host of MSNBC's Hardball, Chris Matthews.Chris Matthews has spent a quarter century on the playing field of American politics—from right-hand man of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill to host of NBC's highest rated cable talk show Hardball. In this revise ...Show more
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America's most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America's favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that br ...Show more
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland s enthralling account tells the story of Caesar s generation, witness to the twilight of the Republic and its bloody ...Show more
Zola and the Victorians: Censorship in the Age of Hypocrisy by Eileen Horne
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
London, 1888: Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of Whitechapel; national strikes and social unrest threaten the status quo; a grave economic crisis is spreading across the Atlantic ...Yet Her Majesty's government is preoccupied with "a mere book" - or rather, a series of books: new translations of the ...Show more
The Beach : An Australian Passion by Robert Drewe
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From an Indigenous food source to a hedonistic playground, the beach has long been a national obsession. Robert Drewe's lyrical examination of Australian beach culture combines imagery from some of Australia's most celebrated photographers with his personal anecdotes of a favourite boat, a capsicum-stre ...Show more
A History of Life in 100 Fossils by Paul D. Taylor
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
This is the epic story of life on Earth, uniquely retold through some of the most significant fossils ever found. A History of Life in 100 Fossils travels through 3.5 billion years of Earth's history and across all seven continents, showcasing the unusual and wonderful forms of life that have played a p ...Show more
The Pepys Library: And the Historic Collections of Magdalene College Cambridge by M. E. J. Hughes
$80.00 AUD
Category: History
Samuel Pepys's Library, as famous in his own lifetime as it is now, was willed by Pepys to Magdalene, the college he had attended in the 1650s. It finally arrived in 1724 to be housed in a handsome new building. A remarkable collection of some 3,000 items, the library includes medieval manuscripts and ...Show more
Captain Cook's Merchant Ships: Free Love, Three Brothers, Mary, Friendship, Endeavour, Adventure, Resolution and Discovery by Stephen Baines
$43.00 AUD
Category: History
While the story of Endeavour is widely known, Captain Cook sailed with eight ships, which began their lives as merchant vessels. This detailed illustrated history tells the story of these vessels and the people who sailed in them. In placing these ships and people in the personal, political, social, fin ...Show more
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
$59.99 AUD
Category: War
With a gripping tale that transforms our understanding of the Second World War, The Battle of the Atlantic was - though often overlooked - crucial to victory in the Second World War. If the German U-boats had prevailed, the maritime artery across the Atlantic would have been severed. Mass hunger would h ...Show more