Trent: What Happened at the Council by John W. O'Malley
$41.95 AUD
Category: History
The Council of Trent (1545--1563), the Catholic Church's attempt to put its house in order in response to the Protestant Reformation, has long been praised and blamed for things it never did. Now, in this first full one-volume history in modern times, John W. O'Malley brings to life the volatile issues ...Show more
Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You've Heard About China is Wrong by Ben Chu
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
We think we know China. The world's most venerable and self-confident civilisation, home to the largest unified race of people on the planet, China manufactures the objects that fill our lives. We see a country peopled by docile and determined factory workers, domineering 'Tiger Mothers' obsessed with e ...Show more
Journeys on the Silk Road: A Desert Explorer, Buddha's Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World's Oldest Printed Book by Joyce Morgan; Conrad Walters
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Globe Pequot Ser.
When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900, he uncovered one of the world's great literary secrets: a time capsule from the ancient Silk Road. Inside, scrolls were piled from floor to ceiling, undisturbed for a thousand years. The gem within was the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This key Buddhist t ...Show more
From the Trenches by Mark Dapin
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Others have written the myth, but the Anzacs themselves wrote their stories. Around the country, bronze soldiers in slouch hats stand silently at attention. It is the Anzacs' remarkable writing that reveals the lives behind the national legend. In the Trenches is a collection of gripping, awe-inspirin ...Show more
Mad Marathon Mungo's 2013 Election Wrap-Up by Mungo MacCallum
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
With the 2013 race for the Lodge now run and won, who better than Mungo MacCallum to make sense of it all? With wit and insight, Mungo documents the ups and downs of this longest of campaigns. He dissects Labor's self-destructive leadership war, the Coalition's cheap and nasty Broadband Lite, and the p ...Show more
Exit Wounds: One Australian's War on Terror by John Cantwell; Greg Bearup
$17.95 AUD
Category: History
John Cantwell, Queensland country boy, enlisted in the army as a private and rose to the rank of major general. He was on the front line in 1991 as Coalition forces fitted bulldozer blades to tanks and buried Iraqi troops alive. He served in Baghdad in 2006 and saw what a car bomb does to a crowded mark ...Show more
Tales From The Political Trenches (Updated for 2013 Election) by Maxine McKew
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Not many leaders are gifted a second chance. In the short time he had before he faced the verdict of the people, Kevin Rudd had to revive respect and credibility in his governing party. Beyond that, he needed to give Australians a bit of hope, and return a sense of pride to a country that for too long ...Show more
Ned Kelly: The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend by Peter FitzSimons
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
Born in Victoria to an Irish convict father, the young Ned started his criminal career at 14 and was jailed for three years at 16 for a run-in with a policeman for stealing a horse. In 1890, Ned Kelly was hanged at 25 in the Melbourne Gaol, two years after the shooting of three policemen and the spate o ...Show more
Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Deciphering of Linear B and the Discovery of a Lost Civilisation by Margalit Fox
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerizing pull on the imagination. But, captivating as it is, this stor ...Show more
Dog Days: Australia After the Boom by Ross Garnaut
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Redback Ser.
A blueprint for the nation after the boom. Australians have just lived through a period of exceptional prosperity, but, says influential economist Ross Garnaut, the Dog Days are on their way. Are we ready for the challenges ahead? In Dog Days, Garnaut explains how we got here, what we can expect ...Show more
Cook: From Sailor To Legend by Rob Mundle
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers of all time. Over three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific in the latter part of the 18th century, Cook unravelled the centuries-old mystery surrounding the existence of Terra Australis Incognita - the great south land; became th ...Show more
History's Naughty Bits: Sex, Lust and Perversion from Ancient to Modern Times by Karen Dolby
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
With each new generation we all tend to think of our predecessors as 'old-fashioned', 'conservative', 'prim', 'proper' - and downright dull. The sexual revolution happened in the 1960s, right? Wrong. History's Naughty Bits is full of incredible stories that would curl the hair of the most liberal-minded ...Show more