No More Worlds to Conquer: Sixteen People Who Defined Their Time - and What They Did Next by Chris Wright
9.99 AUD
22.99 (56% off)
Category: History
What do you do with the rest of your life, after you've achieved brilliance at an early age? This is the question posed by celebrated-journalist Chris Wright to some of the most renowned adventurers, athletes and politicians of the twentieth century. What happens if you are an athlete or gymnast and you ...Show more
Nein!: Standing up to Hitler 1935-1944 by Paddy Ashdown
9.99 AUD
19.99 (50% off)
Category: History
From bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler. 'Ashdown has a great gift for narrative history. He unearths little known stories and places them in context with great dexterity. His new book throws fresh and important light on a crucial ...Show more
Chasing the Demon - A Secret History of the Quest for the Sound Barrier, and the Band of American Aces Who Conquered It by Dan Hampton
9.99 AUD
32.99 (69% off)
Category: History
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - At the end of World War II, a band of aces gathered in the Mojave Desert on a Top Secret quest to break the sound barrier-nicknamed "The Demon" by pilots. The true story of what happened in those skies has never been told. Speed. In 1947, it represented the difference between vic ...Show more
The Morals of the Market - Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism by Jessica Whyte
39.99 AUD
Category: History
The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalism Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society. In the wake of the Second ...Show more
The French Revolution by David Andress
14.99 AUD
35.00 (57% off)
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In this miraculously compressed, incisive book David Andress argues that it was the peasantry of France who made and defended the Revolution of 1789. That the peasant revolution benefitted far more people, in more far reaching ways, than the revolution of lawyerly elites and urban radicals that has domi ...Show more
Enemy of All Mankind - A true story of piracy, power and history's first global manhunt by Steven Johnson
32.99 AUD
Category: History
“Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die out. But every now and then, someone strikes a match that lights up the whole planet.” Henry Every was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular—and wildly i ...Show more
Traitors and Spies by John Fahey
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The history of Australia's intelligence operations in the early 20th century reveals the dark underside of Australian politics, including early infiltration by Russian agents, persecution of innocent civilians, and corruption, right up to the prime minister's office. Dozens of Russian anarchists, social ...Show more
Renniks Australian Coin and Banknote Values 30th Ed - Guide for Aust 1800-2020 (PB) by Michael Pitt (Editor)
39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Renniks Australian Coins & Banknotes Ser.
The leading guide for Australian coin and banknote values. Covers 1800-2020.Edited by Michael PittThis comprehensive guide to Australian Coin & Banknote Values contains over 3,850 images and countless thousands of valuations. This book is a must for all collectors, whether you are just beginning or ...Show more
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great by Ben Shapiro
9.99 AUD
27.99 (64% off)
Category: Sociology
Now a #1 New York Times Bestseller. Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away? In 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California-Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were require ...Show more
The Exploration Treasury by Beau Riffenburgh
39.99 AUD
59.99 (33% off)
Category: History | Series: Make It
Discover some of the great archival treasures of the Royal Geographical Society. Some of the greatest expeditions are described and illustrated with maps, photographs and illustrations by official artists and photographers, and members of the expedition teams. The book also includes the first travellers ...Show more
Truth Is Trouble: The strange case of Israel Folau, or How Free Speech Became So Complicated by Malcolm Knox
32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Why did the sacking of rugby player Israel Folau over his social media posts become one of the nation's most polarizing controversies? How could one man's religious views activate so many people in modern Australia? And what does the sides people found themselves on tell us about the kind of country we' ...Show more
Hitler's Horses: The Incredible True Story of the Detective who Infiltrated the Nazi Underworld by Arthur Brand
35.00 AUD
Category: History
The true story of a detective, two bronze horses and the dictator who set the world on fire. When detective Arthur Brand is summoned to a meeting with one of the most dangerous men in the art world, he learns that a clue has emerged that could solve one of the Second World War's unexplained mysteries- w ...Show more