Forgotten War: new edition by Henry Reynolds
29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Studies
‘We are at war with them,’ wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. ‘What we call their crime is what in a white man we should call patriotism.’Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. So why are there no official memorials or commemorations of the wars that were fought on A ...Show more
Finding the Heart of the Nation 2nd edition: The Journey of the Uluru Statement from the Heart Continues by Thomas Mayo
34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Studies
In this updated edition of the bestselling book, Finding the Heart of the Nation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander author Thomas Mayo gets behind the politics and legal speak to explain why the Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invitation to all Australians. Australia is set to vote on a refer ...Show more
Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Studies | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more
First Knowledges Country: Future Fire, Future Farming by Bruce Pascoe, William Leonard Gammage
24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Studies | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmen ...Show more
Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego
29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Studies
In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of 'the Aboriginal problem', she theorises a strategy for living in a social world that has only ...Show more
Aboriginal Campsites of Greater Brisbane by Dr Ray Kerkhove
32.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Studies
This is the first book of its kind in Australia: a history of Aboriginal campsites. This is also the first guidebook to the location and features of the numerous Aboriginal camps that flourished in and around Brisbane from convict times to in some cases as late as the 1950s. Many of Brisbane’s suburbs t ...Show more
X Marks the Spot: The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries by Michael Scott
34.99 AUD
Category: World
'If you love Indiana Jones, this is the real thing. Michael Scott celebrates the fusion of scholarship and adventure in a book full of both.' DAN SNOWUncovering the physical remains of our past is a quintessential human itch; the pursuit of every society from the ancients through to today. But the stori ...Show more
Viking Women: Life and Lore by Lisa Hannett
34.99 AUD
Category: World
Let's travel in time together, a thousand or so years back, and meet Viking women in their hearth-lit world.How did these medieval viragoes live, love and die? How can we encounter them as flesh-and-blood beings with fears and feelings - not just as names in sagas or runes carved into stone? In this gro ...Show more
An Ungodly Generation: The Irish National Schools Era in Colonial Australia 1848-1866 by Maxwell N. Waugh
35.00 AUD
Category: World
An Ungodly Generation is a fascinating history of the impact on the great educational debates of England, and in particular, Ireland in early Australia, and of how the educational decisions of Bourke and Gipps, formed by the Old World experience, resonated within the Australian context. This is a fine p ...Show more
The Shortest History of War by Gwynne Dyer
27.99 AUD
Category: World
War has always been a defining feature of human society. This pacy, lively history explains why we do it - and how we can stop. Acclaimed historian and military expert Gwynne Dyer tells the story of war from its earliest origins up to the present age of atom bombs and algorithms. In this arresting addit ...Show more
The Shortest History of Europe: Revised and Updated by John Hirst
24.99 AUD
Category: World
Celebrated historian John Hirst offers a fascinating exploration of the qualities that made Europe a world-changing civilisation, from Ancient Greece and Rome to the two World Wars. The Shortest History of Europe begins with a rapid overview of European civilisation, describing its birth from an unlikel ...Show more
The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz
39.99 AUD
Category: World
In 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a decree inscribed in three different scripts. So begins one of the most familiar tales in Egyptology — that of the Rosetta Stone and the decipherment of Egy ...Show more