21 Lessons for the 21st Century: 'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian by Yuval Noah Harari
24.99 AUD
Category: World
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What ...Show more
Macquarie (PB) by Grantlee Kieza
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
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
Songlines Tracking the Seven Sisters by Margo Neale (Editor)
49.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous Studies
This stunning companion to the National Museum of Australia's blockbuster Indigenous-led exhibition, Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, explores the history and meaning of songlines, the Dreaming or creation tracks that crisscross the Australian continent, of which the Seven Sisters songline is one ...Show more
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey by Grantlee Kieza
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The cross-dressing horse thief who became Australia's first female business tycoon In 1791, teenage runaway and sometime horse thief Mary Reibey narrowly escaped the English gallows with transportation to the brutal new penal colony at Sydney Cove. It was the beginning of a 60-plus year story of bravery ...Show more
Egyptian Book of the Dead by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
49.99 AUD
Category: Mythology | Series: Egypt Ser.
The Ancient Egyptians continue to fascinate people from all walks of life, and of all the knowledge we have of their culture, the rituals connected to death and the afterlife are the most compelling. This stunning edition contains images of Ani's Book of the Dead in its entirety, alongside the translati ...Show more
Space: The Human Story by Tim Peake
24.99 AUD
Category: World
The first human history of space travel - from the Apollo missions to our journey to Mars - by Britain's beloved astronaut From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake, an inspirational human history of space travel, from the Apollo missions to our future forays to Mars. The Right Stuff for a ...Show more
The Savage Storm by James Holland
24.99 AUD
Category: Military
The most pivotal, brutal and shattering campaign the Allies faced in World War II by bestselling historian James Holland. 'Holland knows his stuff when it comes to military matters' Daily Mail 'James Holland is the best of the new generation of WW2 historians' Sebastian Faulks With the invasion of Franc ...Show more
Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson by Ferdinand Mount
26.99 AUD
Category: World
'Wry, informative but deadly - a great book'Will Hutton'Fast-paced and impassioned'Sunday TelegraphWho said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. A fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seized power and why they fell.There is a comforting illusio ...Show more
A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon's Australia by Tessa Morris-Suzuki
35.00 AUD
Category: History
In a life that spanned more than a century - 1882 to 1989 - Monte Punshon witnessed crucial events in Australia's history. She was a pioneer radio broadcaster, travelled the country with children's theatrical troupes and defied convention with her active involvement in the underground world of queer Mel ...Show more
The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe by Martyn Rady
32.99 AUD
Category: World
An essential new history of Central Europe that "deftly unravels the strands of a long and complex past" (Wall Street Journal) Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady offers the definitive hi ...Show more
Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking by Tyson Yunkaporta
24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Studies
SAND TALK, Tyson Yunkaporta's bestselling debut, cast an Indigenous lens on contemporary society. It was, said Melissa Lucashenko, 'an extraordinary invitation into the world of the Dreaming'. RIGHT STORY, WRONG STORY extends Yunkaporta's explorations of how we can learn from Indigenous thinking. Along ...Show more
Revolutionary Spring - Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark
42.99 AUD
Category: World
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward "Refreshingly original . . . Familiar characters are given vibrancy and previously unkn ...Show more