Churchill's Challenges, 1918-1940 by JOHN HARTE
$75.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Why do bad things happen to good people? The current battle between superstitious and prejudiced forces from the past, against more enlightened modern ones, began when Winston Churchill was appointed colonial secretary in 1920\. With the defeat of the shadowy Turkish Empire in 1918 by the Allies, he was ...Show more
Napoleon's Library: The Emperor, His Books and Their Influence on the Napoleonic Era by LOUIS SARKOZY
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Napoleon Bonaparte held absolute political power in France and his influence stretched across Europe and beyond. Yet he remained between leading his armies and ruling over a vast empire an indefatigable reader who even carried libraries into battle. Bonaparte's love of the written word, birthed in ...Show more
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House by Adrian Tinniswood
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend- a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with aristocratic values. From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend- a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the Engl ...Show more
Very Bad People - The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World's Network of Corruption by Patrick Alley
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
The gripping and untold story of how Global Witness have uncovered a worldwide network of highly organized criminality, kleptocracy and corruption and exposed the people behind it. Arms trafficking, offshore accounts and luxury property deals. Super-yachts, private jets and super-car collections. Blood ...Show more
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up by Mary Beard
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Series: Sather Classical Lectures
"Superbly acute and unashamedly complex."-The Telegraph "Rich and provocative."-Times Literary Supplement "An engaging exploration."-The New Yorker "The phenomenal Ms. Beard has written another cracking book, one of her best."-The Independent What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, fil ...Show more
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World by Roger Crowley
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reac ...Show more
NATO: A New History by Sten Rynning
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day--published for the alliance's seventy-fifth anniversary For seven decades, NATO's stated aim has been the achievement of world peace--but playing great power politics always involves conflict. Russia's war on Ukraine and on Euro ...Show more
The Privileged Few by Clive Hamilton, Myra Hamilton
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down to the distortions in the labour mark ...Show more
Mortal Secrets - Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind by Frank Tallis
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented era of creativity that shaped his ideas Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and they bur ...Show more
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
The final work of Robert Fisk, following on from the authoritative and highly acclaimed The Great War for Civilisation, which charted his 30-year career as a reporter in the war zones of the Middle East. An extraordinary chronicle of Fisk's trademark rigorous journalism, historical analysis and eyewitne ...Show more
In Hot Water: Inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef by Paul Hardisty
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
A searing, candid and personal account from inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef from the recent CEO of Australia's lading coral research institute (who also happens to be a widely published thriller writer). In the ongoing climate wars, the Great Barrier Reef has become a symbol of everythi ...Show more