Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
One of our foremost historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, makes history. We have fallen into the belief that women were absent from great events, and ineffectual in normal times. Through a radical reframing of the conventional eras of our history, Normal Women tells the story of our nation - not ...Show more
The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In this Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme poverty, he examines the progress we are making and recounts how the first edition transformed the lives ...Show more
Queen Elizabeth II: Pocket Giants by Victoria Arbiter
$17.99 AUD
Category: History
Why is Queen Elizabeth II a pocket GIANT?Because she is the longest-reigning monarch in British history.Because her rule has spanned twelve British prime ministers, twelve US presidents and seven popes.Because she heads a Commonwealth of over 2 billion citizens.Because she is the oldest serving monarch ...Show more
Telling Tennant's Story: The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence by Dean Ashenden
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
Tennant Creek and Australia's Unresolved Past The tale of a town, and a nation Returning after fifty years to the frontier town where he lived as a boy, Dean Ashenden finds Tennant Creek transformed, but its silence about the past still mostly intact.Provoked by a half-hidden account, Ashenden sets out ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
'This brilliant and heartbreaking book is a masterpiece. It reads like a novel, yet is all sadly true. I finished it in tears' - James Rebanks. A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years ...Show more
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very goo
An award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious future. The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths- to Britain, a 'barren rock' with no appreciable history; to Chin ...Show more
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein
$44.95 AUD
Category: History
"In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelstein's study stands alone."—Noam Chomsky "No one who ventures an opinion on Gaza . . . is entitled to do so without taking into account the evidence in this book." —The InterceptThe Gaza Strip is among the most densely populat ...Show more
A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja by Joost R. Hiltermann
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
In March 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, thousands were killed in a chemical attack in a remote town in Iraqi Kurdistan. In the aftermath of the horror, confusion reigned over who had carried it out, each side accusing the other in the ongoing bloodbath of the Iran-Iraq war. As the fog lifted, the respo ...Show more
Signs of Life : Why Brands Matter by Stephen Bayley
$56.99 AUD
Category: History
Nietzsche said all of life is a question of taste. And he was right. But nowadays all of life is also a question of branding. A brand is not something concocted by graphic designers and marketing consultants: it is "the intangible aspects of an intangible thing", as Massimo Vignelli (who re-branded the ...Show more
Ancient Greeks in 100 Facts by Chrystal Paul
$28.50 AUD
Category: History
Ancient Greece was never just one nation: it was a disparate collection of independent city states, often embroiled in war, with separate governments, their own armies and distinct politics, economies and societies. However, together these vibrant and diverse peoples made one of the greatest civilisatio ...Show more
COTSWOLD ARTS & CRAFTS ARCHITECTURE by GORDON CATHERINE
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Between 1890 and 1930, Arts and Crafts architecture proliferated within the Cotswolds. The range and quality of the buildings was exceptional, as the region provided the perfect environment for the Movement's ideals and principles to flourish. Arts and Crafts architects relished the robust vernacular pr ...Show more
King and Saint - The Life of Edward the Confessor by Peter Rex
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Often depicted as a virginal, pious simpleton, Edward was in fact a devious, wily king who struggled to control his violent temper. As a young man in 1016 he fought against the Danish king Canute's invasion of England; as an ageing, childless monarch he cunningly played off his potential rivals and succ ...Show more