Conspiracy Theories: A Guide to the World's Most Intriguing Mysteries by Jamie King
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Did Michael Jackson fake his own death in a bid to escape financial ruin or was he murdered? Was it aliens that helped to build the Sphinx and the Great Pyramids and what were they trying to cover up? Is the food industry colluding to make us addicted to sugar? You'll discover startling evidence on thes ...Show more
The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens by Gabriel Zucman
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
We are well aware of the rise and dominance of the one percent as the rapid growth of economic inequality has seen the majority of the world's wealth held in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at which we are taxing the wea ...Show more
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust - and has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason wonders whether today we are on the brink of a change so big, so profound, that ...Show more
The Bletchley Park: The Secret Archives by Sinclair McKay
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
This is beautifully presented collector's edition of the best selling title, The Lost World of Bletchley Park is a comprehensive illustrated history of this remarkable place, from its prewar heyday as a country estate, its wartime requisition and how it became the place where modern computing was invent ...Show more
WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by The Guardian
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
New and Updated edition - It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in North Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. ...Show more
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by ...Show more
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling by Larissa Behrendt
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
A vital Aboriginal perspective on colonial storytelling Indigenous lawyer and writer Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the local Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island off the Queensland coast in 1836. In this deep ...Show more
Fair Dinkums by Glenn McFarlane
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
FAIR DINKUM (def.): honesty, guts, directness, fortitude, courage, truth. You had to be fair dinkum to enlist after the hell of Gallipoli hit home. A new breed of warrior and patriot stepped up as Anzac's second wave. Among them were 152 men of the 7th Battalion - fruit pickers and farmers, bootmakers a ...Show more
Australian and New Zealand Voices of the First World War by SCOTT FORBES (comp)
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The First World War was an unprecedented conflict that reshaped the global political landscape and modern attitudes to warfare, valour and patriotism. And for the fledgling nations of Australia and New Zealand it was yet more: the cauldron in which their identities were forged, the international stage o ...Show more
Eyes in Gaza: 2013 by Mads Gilbert
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
During the course of Israel's twenty-two-day military offensive in 2009 on the Gaza Strip 1,300, mostly civilian, Palestinians were killed, with many thousands more injured. Once again, the Palestinian Community lay in ruins. Despite the Israeli authorities' attempt to shut out aid workers and the media ...Show more
Jihadi John: The Making of a Terrorist by Robert Verkaik
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
It was a defining moment, the first time 'Jihadi John' appeared. Suddenly Islamic State had a face and the whole world knew the extent of their savagery. Weeks later, when his identity was revealed, Robert Verkaik was shocked to realise that this was a man he'd interviewed years earlier. Back in 2010, M ...Show more