Berlin - Imagine a City by Rory MacLean
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century. A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams real ...Show more
Fulfillment: winning and losing in one-click America by Alec MacGillis
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
.An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon's impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States. In 1937, the famed writer and activist Upton Sinclair published a novel bearing the subtitle A Story of Ford-America. He blasted the callousness of a company worth 'a billion ...Show more
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
William Smith was not rich or well-connected, but his passion for rocks and fossils, and his 20-year obsession with single-handedly mapping the geology of Britain made him one of the most significant men of the 19th century. But his vision cost him dear
French Connection - Australia's Quest to Become a Cosmopolitan Nation by Alexis Bergantz
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The French have long been part of the Australian story. From talented gold fields photographer Antoine Fauchery and infighting in the upper echelons of Melbourne society as to who should run Alliance Française to the Playoust family whose Australian-born sons enlisted with the French army in the First W ...Show more
Time for Socialism - Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021 by Thomas Piketty
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
As a correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty has documented the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Emmanuel Macron's ascendance to the French presidency, the unfolding of a global pandemic, and much else besides, always from the perspective of h ...Show more
Kill the Major by Paul Malone
$36.00 AUD
Category: History
In March 1945 British Major Tom Harrisson and 42 Australian, New Zealand and British guerrillas dropped behind enemy lines in Borneo in an operation designed to assist the Australian Imperial Force's (AIF) landings on the island, the largest amphibious operation in Australia's history.In a matter of mon ...Show more
A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues by Peter Hughes
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Travelling through time from Ancient Egypt to today, A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues unpicks the past, illuminates the present and offers a new perspective on the future through these controversial symbols of our identity.
The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street: a Russian Adventure by Pieter Waterdrinker
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
'History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes.'One day in 1988, an enigmatic priest knocks on Pieter Waterdrinker's door with an unusual request- will he smuggle seven-thousand bibles into the Soviet Union. Pieter agrees, and soon finds himself living in the midst of one of the biggest social and cultural r ...Show more
Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other by John Richens
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A study of culture, colonialism, and an epidemic in New GuineaWhen the Dutch government moved to stop headhunting by the Marind people of New Guinea in 1902 their actions unleashed new epidemics among a population already suffering from low fertility. Donovanosis (Tik Merauke in Marind), a rare, newly r ...Show more
Poland: A History by Adam Zamoyski
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation. In 1797, Russia, Prussia and Austria divided Poland amon ...Show more
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's First Mass-Murder Programme by Charlie English
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary, little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art. In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn gathered a remarkable collection of works by schizophrenic patients that would astonish and delight the world. The Prinzhorn collection, as it was called ...Show more
The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from Heyday to Reckoning by Stuart Macintyre
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The long awaited second volume in Stuart Macintyre's definitive history of the Communist Party of Australia. Communism was unlike any other political movement Australia has ever seen. At its peak in the 1940s, unions led by communists could call a strike that paralysed the nation, and communists influen ...Show more