Pacific: The Ocean of the Future by Simon Winchester
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world's largest body of water, and - in matters economic, political and military - the ocean of the future. The Pacific is a world of tsunamis and Magellan, of the Bounty mutiny and the Boeing Company. It ...Show more
The Luck of Politics: True Tales of Disaster and Outrageous Fortune by Andrew Leigh
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
A delightful look at chance and outrageous fortune. In 1968, John Howard missed out on winning the state seat of Drummoyne by just 420 votes. Howard reflects- 'I think back how fortunate I was to have lost.' It left him free to stand for a safe federal seat in 1974 and become one of Australia's longest- ...Show more
Two Futures: Australia at a Critical Moment by Clare O'Neil & Tim Watts
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
Beset by spin and the battle to win each news cycle, contemporary politics is mired in short-term thinking. Too little time is given to considering creative ways in which we could tackle key issues - a lagging education system, the destruction of our coastlines, Asia's economic ascendancy - in the decad ...Show more
Australian Women War Reporters : Boer War to Vietnam by Jeannine Baker
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Why do Australians know the names of Charles Bean, Alan Moorehead and Chester Wilmot, but not Agnes Macready, Anne Matheson and Lorraine Stumm? This is the hidden story of Australian and New Zealand women war reporters who fought for equality with their male colleagues and filed stories from the main ...Show more
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. 'Augustus', their new mas ...Show more
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. 'Augustus', their new mas ...Show more
Condemned to Crisis: A Lowy Institute Paper by Ken Ward
$10.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Penguin Specials
It is often said that no country is more important to Australia than Indonesia. Yet the execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran is just the latest in a long line of crises that have marred relations between Canberra and Jakarta. Does Australia really need to do more to strengthen its ties with Ind ...Show more
Advanced Australia the Politics of Ageing by Mark Butler
$27.99 AUD
Category: Political
Advanced Australia explores the politics of ageing in Australia. The addition of 25 years to average life expectancy in Australia over the past century is a monumental achievement, but many commentators are greeting the prospect of Australians living longer with horror. The ageing of Australia's baby bo ...Show more
On Stalin's Team the Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$60.00 AUD
Category: War
This a new approach to Stalin's rule in the Soviet Union, focused on the political team he formed in the second half of the 1920s that was still in existence (though in modified form) thirty years later. This book spans the whole period from the mid 1920s to the mid 1950sandmdash;an intensely dramatic t ...Show more
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German c ...Show more
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45 by Nicholas Stargardt
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE. The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building the first gas chambers. Over its course, th ...Show more