Big History: Our Incredible Journey, from Big Bang to Now by DK
49.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
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The Dismissal by Troy Bramston; Paul Kelly
24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
"Forty years on, the dismissal remains one of the most damaging and controversial events in Australian politics. This groundbreaking book by two of our leading journalists provides a startling reinterpretation of events. It tells the story of the clash between extraordinary personalities- two political ...Show more
True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
First there was Girt. Now comes . . . True GirtIn this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chi ...Show more
Paul Keating by Troy Bramston
49.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
"Drawing on extensive interviews with Keating, coupled with access to his personal files, this book tells the story of a political warrior's rise to power, from the outer suburbs of Sydney through Young Labor and into parliament at just 25 years of age, serving as a minister in the last days of the Whit ...Show more
Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the English Language by Peter Jones
29.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
In this original and highly accessible book, Peter Jones takes the reader on a fascinating journey along the highways and byways of Roman life and culture, telling the amazing stories behind the original Latin meanings and uses of hundreds of our everyday words. Taking in every aspect of the ancient wor ...Show more
Keating by Kerry O'Brien
34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Paul Keating is widely credited as the chief architect of the most significant period of political and economic reform in Australia's history. Twenty years on, there is still no story from the horse's mouth of how it all came about. No autobiography. No memoir. Yet he is the supreme story-teller of poli ...Show more
The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO, 1975-1989 (HB) by John Blaxland
49.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: Official History of ASIO 3
The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Bloc didn't end with detente in 1975: it just went underground. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, tensions between the superpowers continued to play out across the world...Until now, few would have known of the surprising extent of clandestine operat ...Show more
Under Full Sail by Rob Mundle
45.00 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
How the mighty clipper ships transformed Australia from convict outpost to a nation. The story of the Clipper ships, and the tens of thousands of migrants they bought to the Australian colony of the nineteenth century, is one of the world's great migration stories. For anyone who travelled to Australia ...Show more
Victoria: The Woman Who Made the Modern World (HB) by Julia Baird
49.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen--a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of d ...Show more
Bolshoi Confidential - Secrets of the Russian Ballet - from the Rule of the Tsars to the Age of Putin by Simon Morrison
34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Sergei Filin. The crime, organized by a lead soloist, dragged one of Russia's most illustrious institutions into scandal. Under Vladimir Putin, the Bolshoi Theatre has been called on ...Show more
The Witches: Salem, 1692 - A History by Stacy Schiff
24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ...Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMES It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a ...Show more
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
35.00 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: good
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by ...Show more