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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
$24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from o ...Show more
Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy by Bill Browder
$24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I?m killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know.Reads like a classic thriller, with an everyman hero alone and in danger in a hostile ...Show more
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow
$29.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership, by the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and devel ...Show more
Queens of Jerusalem - The Women Who Dared to Rule by Katherine Pangonis
$32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Debut by an exciting young narrative historian - a revisionist history of Medieval Palestine In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by an un ...Show more
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry
$22.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths Ser. | Reading Level: very good
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. ...Show more
Macquarie by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australia's destiny, transforming a harsh, foreboding penal colony into an agricultural powerhouse and ultimately a prosperous society.He also helped shape Australia's national character. An egalitarian at heart, Macquarie saw boundless potential in Britain's r ...Show more
Ruby Princess by Duncan McNab
$34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
In the early hours of Thursday 19 March 2020, the luxury cruise liner Ruby Princess docked at Sydney's Circular Quay, the gateway to Australia. Hours later, 2700 passengers disembarked. Yet in the middle of a pandemic sweeping the planet, there were no health checks. Over the next few days, the passenge ...Show more
The Golden Maze: A Biography of Prague by Richard Fidler
$39.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is back with a personally curated history of the magical city that is Prague. In 1989, Richard Fidler was living in London as part of the provocative Australian comedy trio The Doug Anthony All Stars when revolution b ...Show more
The Catalpa Rescue: The Most Dramatic & Successful Prison Break in Australian History by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history. New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote prison in the ...Show more
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
$32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The never-before-told story of three women who courageously reported from the frontlines of the Vietnam War. One spent twenty-three days in captivity. Another jumped off planes to get the perfect aerial shot. The other reported from war-torn slums and villages. Catherine Leroy, Frankie Fitzgerald and Ka ...Show more
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky; Marv Waterstone
$32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society.'Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything ...Show more
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
$24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz--an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis One of Chicago Tribune's Best Books of the Year So Fa ...Show more
