For Valour: Australians Awarded the Victoria Cross by Aaron Pegram, Craig Blanch
$79.99 AUD
Category: Military
For Valour tells the remarkable stories of the 100 Australians who have been awarded the Victoria Cross for exceptional acts of bravery and self-sacrifice in battle. From Captain Neville Howse of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps in 1900 to Corporal Cameron Baird of the 2nd Commando Regiment in 201 ...Show more
Island Story - Tasmania in Object and Text by Ralph Crane; Danielle Wood
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
A handsome full-colour book pairing unique items from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery with selections of original writing about the southern island.Indigenous dispossession, a cruel penal history, gay-rights battles; exceptional landscapes, unusual wildlife, environmental activism; colonial archite ...Show more
The Colour of Time - A New History of the World, 1850-1960 by Marina Amaral; Dan Jones
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: New History of the World 1850 - 1960 | Reading Level: very good
The top five Sunday Timesbestseller. 'Breathtaking'Daily Mail. 'Astonishing'Sun. 'Shimmering'Spectator. 'Extraordinary'Daily Telegraph. The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of t ...Show more
The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean by Peter Burness (Editor)
$79.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Australia's official First World War correspondent Charles Bean saw more of the Australian army's activities and battles on the Western Front than anyone. Bean's private wartime diaries, held by the Australian War Memorial, form a unique and personal record of his experiences and observations throughout ...Show more
A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Judaism is by some distance the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions and, despite the extraordinarily varied forms it has taken and diverse beliefs it has contained over three millennia, it has been generally understood by both Jews and gentiles as a single entity. There have been many histories of t ...Show more
The New American Judaism - How Jews Practice Their Religion Today by Jack Wertheimer
$70.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A leading expert provides an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism todayAmerican Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent decades. Like other religions in the United States, it has witnessed a decline in the number of participants over the past forty years, and many who ...Show more
Underground - A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet by Will Hunt
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Will Hunt is an urban adventurer who has explored caves and catacombs, subway systems, and long abandoned, ghostly mines: all varieties of holes in the ground. He's tracked down people who, for one reason or another, have shared his underground fixation: each an incarnation of Hermes, who could see and ...Show more
In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter, Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace by Miranda Seymour
$22.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
'This magnificent, highly readable double biography...brings these two driven, complicated women vividly to life' The Financial Times 'A gripping saga of a double-biography' Daily Mail 'A masterful portrait' The Times 'Vastly enjoyable' Literary Review 'Deeply absorbing and meticulously researched' The ...Show more
History Day by Day by Peter Furtado
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
History Day by Day presents an original perspective on over two millennia of human history through 366 quotations, one for each day of the year, including leap years. Each quotation, tied to the anniversary of a significant historical event, captures that moment with the immediacy of an eyewitness or th ...Show more
Esther: The Extraordinary True Story of the First Fleet Girl Who Became First Lady of the Colony by Jessica North
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The little-known rags to riches love story of a convict girl who arrived in Australia on the First Fleet. Much like another, better-known colonial woman, Elizabeth Macarthur, Esther successfully managed her husband's property and became a significant figure in the new colony.
A Concise History of Japan by Brett L. Walker
$47.95 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes regarding Japan's relationships with its minoritie ...Show more
Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World by Thomas Harding
$35.00 AUD
Category: British | Reading Level: near fine
'I absolutely love this book.' TRACY ANN OBERMAN 'Endlessly fascinating and hard to put down. I read it all in one sitting, enjoying the colour and grandeur ... Full of character and characters, this is a tour de force.' JULIA NEUBERGER 'An impressively researched account of one of Britain's most well-k ...Show more