Bold Types: How Australia’s First Women Journalists Blazed a Trail by Patricia Clarke
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
In Bold Types, Patricia Clarke recounts the chequered journey of women journalists in the fight for gender equality from 1860 to the end of World War II. These were independent, adventurous women who ventured far and wide in search of news, relevance and equality.Together, stories of women from Anna Bla ...Show more
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith
$27.99 AUD
Category: Culture & History
'Essential ... endlessly fascinating ... to read Sixsmith is to want to read more Sixsmith' ForbesMore than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in our politi ...Show more
August in Kabul: America's last days in Afghanistan by Andrew Quilty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & History
Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut publication offers a remarkable record of this historic moment As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United Stat ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & History | Reading Level: very good
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more
The March on Autocracy; Australia's Fateful Choices; Australian Foreign Affairs 11 by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & History
The March of Autocracy examines the rise of authoritarian and illiberal leaders, whose growing assertiveness is reshaping the Western-led world order. It explores the challenge for Australia as it enters a new era, in which China's international sway increases and democracies compete with their rivals f ...Show more
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took On the West by Catherine Belton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
ASunday Timesbestseller | ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors' ChoiceNamed a best book of the year byThe Economist|Financial Times |New Statesman | TheTelegraph"[Putin's People]will surely now become the definitive account of the rise of Putin and Putinism."--Anne Applebaum,The Atlantic"This riveting, im ...Show more
Making Australian History by Anna Clark
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & History
Australian history has been revised and reinterpreted by successive generations of historians, writers, governments and public commentators, yet there has been no account of the ways it has changed, who makes history, and how. Making Australian History responds to this critical gap in Australian histori ...Show more
The Rag and Bone Shop: How We Make Memories and Memories Make Us by Veronica O'Keane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
'A must read' Philippa Perry 'Rich, revelatory and, in the best way, unsettling . . . the mixture of scientific curiosity, bookish thoughtfulness and medical compassion is reminiscent of Oliver Sacks' Sunday Times A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the ...Show more
Future Superhuman: Our Transhuman Lives in a Make-or-Break Century by Elise Bohan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
In breathtakingly original prose, Elise Bohan argues that we’re hurtling towards a superhuman future – or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from global warming to the risks posed by nuclear weapons, novel and bioengineered pathogens and unaligned AI, is up. We’ll ne ...Show more
Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life by Brian Clegg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & History
The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet.
The Upside-Down History of Down-Under by Alison Lloyd; Terry Denton (illus)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & History
By the acclaimed creators of Wicked Warriors, Evil Emperors and Dragons, Devils and Rebels. The true story of Australia starts with a piece of land that went for a swim. Millions of years ago it floated away from Africa. Very, very, slowly. It was home to dinosaurs and giant animals, until the first Aus ...Show more
Monash and Chauvel: How Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history by Roland Perry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & History | Series: How 2 Aust Greatest Generals Changed the World History
Monash and Chauvel is a gripping narrative history that follows the extraordinary campaigns of the two most outstanding battlefield commanders of the First World War across all the Allied armies: John Monash and Harry Chauvel. Monash commanded the Australian forces on the Western Front at the most crit ...Show more