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A Second Chance: The Making of Yiddish Melbourne by Andrew Markus; Margaret Taft
$36.00 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Australian History Ser.
They came from an old world to a new land. The Yiddish speakers from Eastern Europe brought few material possessions but clung to a language and a culture that defined who they were, a way of life that had endured pogroms, persecution, and a genocide that pushed them to the brink of extinction. Melbourn ...Show more
A Soldier's Soldier : A Biography of Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly by Jeffrey Grey
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Series: Australian Army History Series
Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly was a renowned soldier and one of the most influential figures in Australia's military history. As Chief of the General Staff during the Vietnam War, he oversaw a significant re-organisation of the Army as he fought a war under political and resource restrictions. In t ...Show more
Australia - Modern Architectures in History by Harry Margalit
$59.99 AUD
Category: Architecture/Home Design | Series: Modern Architectures in History Ser.
This book tells the story of the architects and buildings that have defined Australia's architectural culture since the founding of the modern nation through Federation in 1901. That year marked the beginning of a search for better city forms and buildings to accommodate the changing realities of Austra ...Show more
Australia's Empire by Deryck Marshall Schreuder
$99.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Series: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
This is the first major collaborative reappraisal of Australia's experience of empire since the end of the British Empire itself. The volume examines the meaning and importance of empire in Australia across a broad spectrum of historical issues-ranging from the disinheritance of the Aborigines to the fo ...Show more
Barney and the Secret of the French Spies (Secret History #4) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Older Readers | Series: The\Secret History Ser.
The new title in the critically acclaimed series that explores Australia's early Colonial secret history In 1798 orphaned Barney Bean now has a flourishing farm in the New SouthWales colony and everything he ever dreamed of ... except his childhood friendElsie. Butwhen Elsie falls ill and Barney rushes ...Show more
Born of Fire and Ash - Australian Operations in Response to the East Timor Crisis 1999-2000 by Craig Stockings (Editor)
$99.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Series: The\Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor Ser.
Australia's involvement in East Timor from 1999-2000 was this nation's largest mission conducted under United Nations auspices, the single largest deployment of ADF personnel since the Second World War, and an instrumental part of Timor-Leste gaining its independence. Critically, it was also one not nes ...Show more
Chevrolet Corvair Photo History by Monty Montgomery
$80.00 AUD
Category: Transport | Series: Photo History Ser.
Introduced in 1960, Chevrolet's "Beetle Fighter" looked like a sure winner. However, in 1965 the Corvair became mired in controversy, due to questions regarding its high speed handling and stability. In spite of this the Corvair has become a highly desired collectible amongst many car enthusiasts. This ...Show more
China and Capitalism: A History of Business Enterprise in Modern China by David Faure
$45.00 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business | Series: Understanding China - New Viewpoints on History and Culture Series
This book describes China's encounter with capitalism from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It poses poignant questions in simple language, guides the reader through a complex literature and presents a unique point of view.
Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men : by Jean-Jacques Rousseau with Related Documents by Jean Jacques Rousseau
$64.99 AUD
Category: Personal Development/Psychology | Series: The Bedford Series in History and Culture
A provocative essay that challenged the superiority of civilized society and modern government, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality made him an outcast among fellow Enlightenment thinkers but stands today as one of the most important political texts in Western h ...Show more
Dunera Lives A Visual History by Ken Inglis; Seumas Spark; Jay Winter; Carol Bunyan
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Series: History Ser.
"When scholars of such rigorous and refined erudition engage with a topic of such critical importance it is a cause for celebration, as are the lives themselves, painstakingly recorded so movingly herein. And all of it comes into the world not a moment too soon."--Elliot Perlman *** In July 1940, around ...Show more
Dunera Lives: Profiles by Ken Inglis; Bill Gammage; Seumas Spark; Jay Winter; Carol Bunyan
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Series: Australian History Ser.
This second volume of Dunera Lives presents the voices, faces, and lives of 20 people, who, together with nearly 3000 other internees from Britain and Singapore, landed in Australia in 1940. All over the world there were Dunera Lives, those of men and women who passed through the upheavals of the Second ...Show more
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Series: The\Princeton Economic History of the Western World Ser.
The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing th ...Show more