King of Spies by Blaine Harden
18.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
In King of Spies, prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden, reveals one of the most astonishing -- and previously untold -- spy stories of the twentieth century.Donald Nichols was "a one man war", according to his US Air Force commanding general. He won the D ...Show more
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The sensational Sunday Times #1 Bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.'An urgent clarion call.' The Financial TimesIn his massive Number One bestselling memoir, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of h ...Show more
#MeToo: Stories From the Australian Movement by Miriam Sved, Christie Nieman, Maggie Scott and Natalie Kon-yu
32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
#MeToo is not just about famous people ... If #MeToo is going to ultimately make the big difference we all want to see, it's got to mean something for [any] woman who gets harassed. - Julia Gillard This is the first collection that aims to make sense of the #MeToo movement in Australia. A collection th ...Show more
On Violence by Natasha Stott Despoja
14.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
Every two minutes, police are called to a family violence matter. Every week, a woman is killed by a current or former partner.This is Australia's national emergency.Violence against women is preventable. It is not an inevitable part of the human condition. It's time to create a new normal. It is time t ...Show more
The Tailor and The Shipwright by Robert Westphal
29.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: Historical Convict History in Sydney | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Sydney, Australia 1800s. Thomas O'Neil, an Irish convict and tailor, arrives in Sydney having left his two daughters on the shores of Dublin. Appointed as Governor King's tailor, O'Neil establishes a successful business in Upper Pitts Row and soon finds a wife, Anne Kennedy. They are to be among the f ...Show more
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Patterns of Life) by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: Patterns of Life | Reading Level: very good
Yuval Noah Harari's bestselling phenomenon now in a beautifully packaged new special edition. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What ma ...Show more
Troll Hunting Inside the World of Online Hate and its Human Fallout by Ginger Gorman
29.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
In 2013, journalist Ginger Gorman was trolled online. She received scores of hateful tweets, including a death threat. A picture of Ginger heavily pregnant alongside her husband and two-and-half year old daughter appeared on a fascist website. Understandably she was terrified, but once the attack subsid ...Show more
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee
32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: 4
This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it. If you had told Roger McNamee three years ago that he would soon be devoting h ...Show more
Pilgrim Spy by Tom Shore
32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Colditz Castle is famous as the German prisoner of war camp, subject of a popular TV series in 1980s. It was supposed to impossible to escape from this castle set high on a rocky escarpment, and yet a series of daring, even foolhardy escape plans involving tunnels cut into solid rock and a glider led to ...Show more
Shade - A Tale of Two Presidents by Pete Souza
49.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
From Pete Souza, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait, comes a potent commentary on the Presidency--and our country. As Chief Official White House Photographer, Pete Souza spent more time alongside President Barack Obama than almost anyone else. His years photograp ...Show more
By Sea and Stars: The Story of the First Fleet by Trent Dalton
24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Dazzling, poetic and vivid storytelling from one of Australia's greatest writers, which tells the bloody, brutal and enthralling story of the epic journey of the First Fleet. Originally published as a multi-part serial in The Australian, By Sea and Stars tells the story of the epic voyage which led to t ...Show more
The Second World War in 100 Objects - The Story of the World's Greatest Conflict Told Through the Objects That Shaped It by Julian Thompson; Allan R. Millett
50.00 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
See the history of World War II in an entirely new light through 100 carefully chosen items, from the public to the deeply, poignantly personal. Selected by two specialists in military history, the objects in this book offer a unique perspective on the Second World War. Ranging from iconic items like t ...Show more