Always Was, Always Will Be: The Campaign for Justice and Recognition Continues by Thomas Mayo
19.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Studies
RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2024 - PRE-ORDER NOW! In Always Was, Always Will Be, bestselling author Thomas Mayo investigates ‘what's next?’ for reconciliation and justice in Australia after the failed October 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum. Since the referendum, supporters and volunteers have been asking ...Show more
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple
39.99 AUD
Category: World
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. Major religions that rose to dominate Earth's largest con ...Show more
Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People by Darren Rix, Craig Cormick
34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Studies
For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans Both 250 years late and extremely timely, this is an account of what First Nations people saw and felt when James Cook navigated their shores in 1770. We know the Eur ...Show more
Knowing What We Know: How we acquire, retain and communicate knowledge from ancient times to the era of big data by Simon Winchester
24.99 AUD
Category: World
Named a Best History Book for 2023 From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--this is award winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how ...Show more
Bina: First Nations Languages, Old and New
37.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Studies
Australia's language diversity is truly breathtaking. This continent lays claim to the world's longest continuous collection of cultures, including over 440 unique languages and many more dialects. Sadly, European invasion has had severe consequences for the vitality of these languages.Amid devastating ...Show more
The Spirit of the Dreaming: 12 Postcards by Rhonda Collard-Spratt
11.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Studies
The Spirit of Th e Dreaming is artwork by Indigenous artist Aunty Rhonda Collard-Spratt, that honours our First Nations people, their, lore and their kinship with our bush animals and this sacred land.
Teutoburg to Witta - How European Settlement Helped Make Maleny by Dale Lorna Jacobsen (Designed by, Cover Design by, Created by, Interviewer, Original Author); Steve Chaddock
27.50 AUD
Category: Australian
On the forestry road to Mount Delusion, on the edge of the Victorian High Country, stand two old huts known as Strobridge's huts.This story is based on the life of Lucy Strobridge from Brookville in the Gippsland mountains of Victoria.Some said she was mad, others said she was brave. She was simply bein ...Show more
Cunning Folk - Life in the Era of Practical Magic by Tabitha Stanmore
36.99 AUD
Category: World
A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic. Imagine: it's the year 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing a trial. Maybe you're looking for ...Show more
Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story by Serhii Plokhy
36.99 AUD
Category: World
What if Chernobyl was just the beginning? The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war. On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear po ...Show more
Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones
34.99 AUD
Category: World
Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was remembered as the acme of kingship, a model to be closely imitated by his successors. William Shakespeare de ...Show more
Dive! Australian Submariners at War by Mike Carlton
45.00 AUD
Category: Military
Submariners are a special breed. Not for them a life on the ocean wave, the fresh air and sunshine of other naval sailors. With stealth and daring they go deep and dark, alone and unseen, in often dangerous waters. They sometimes call themselves the Silent Service, with good reason. Australian submarin ...Show more
The Soul: A History of the Human Mind by Paul Ham
49.99 AUD
Category: World
The Soul is a history of the human mind, from the earliest expression of self-consciousness to its unshakeable belief in the great religions and political systems. Everyone thinks they have one, but nobody knows what it is. For thousands of years the soul was an 'organ', an entity, something that was p ...Show more