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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added First Man In NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNo one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life’s challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he’s learned over... RRP: $25.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Tobruk 75th Anniversary Edition The definitive account of when Australia's famed Rats of Tobruk they took on General Erwin Rommel, The Desert Fox. The classic story of 1941's Battle of Tobruk, in which more than 15,000 Australian troops - backed by British artillery - fought in... RRP: $30.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Shackleton's Epic A new edition to mark the centenary Ernest Shackleton's epic 1916 journey across 1300 kms of hostile ocean in a tiny, leaking boat and unmapped ice and snow to reach a rescue station by British-Australian explorer Tim Jarvis,... RRP: $35.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Great Australian Outback Police Stories Yarns and memories that capture the experience of policing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, bestselling author of GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLYING DOCTOR STORIES and GREAT AUSTRALIAN CWA STORIES. 'I tell you, you meet some... RRP: $35.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Nancy Wake The gripping true story of the woman who became the Gestapo's most wanted spy In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a naïve,... RRP: $28.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Nothing to Envy WINNER OF THE 2010 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION What if the world imagined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-four was real? What if everything around you was black and white except for the red letters on propaganda signs? Where spies like... RRP: $28.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Kidman The Forgotten King the true story of the greatest pastoral landholder in modern history As a barely literate youth of thirteen, Sidney Kidman ran away from home and worked as an odd-job boy in a grog shanty in outback Australia. He went on to become the greatest pastoral... RRP: $35.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added All Hell Let Loose A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen;... RRP: $25.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added From the Holy Mountain The third book from the most gifted young travel writer at work today, author of the best-selling In Xanadu (‘one of the best travel books produced in the last twenty years’ – Scotland on Sunday) and City of Djinns (‘the best travel book I have ever... RRP: $25.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added They Hosed Them Out They Hosed Them Out is a classic Australian war novel, inspired by the author's experiences as an airgunner in the Second World War.This new, revised and annotated edition includes chapters never before published, a fascinating biography of John Bede... RRP: $39.60 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Bullies and Saints John Dickson gives an honest account of the mixed history of Christianity, the evil and the good. He concedes the Christians' complicity for centuries of bullying but also shows the myriad ways the beautiful teaching of Christ has enriched our world and... RRP: $35.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Paradise of the Blind Paradise of the Blind is an exquisite portrait of three Vietnamese women struggling to survive in a society where subservience to men is expected and Communist corruption crushes every dream. Through the eyes of Hang, a young woman in her twenties who... RRP: $30.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Murder in the Colony When South Australia was first established in December 1836, it was meant to be the perfect colony. Barely six months after proclamation, the state's first murder was recorded.Murder in the Colony presents the details of all 391 reported murders in... RRP: $82.50 $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Freedom of speech, 1500-1850 This collection offers bold reappraisals of the history of freedom of speech in the pre-modern Anglophone world. It addresses the aims and effectiveness of official policies, the thorny issues with which contemporaries grappled and the claims that were... RRP: $62.69 $56.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Doctoring the Black Death This engrossing book provides a comprehensive history of the medical response to the Black Death. John Aberth has translated plague treatises that illustrate the human dimensions of the horrific scourge, including doctors’ personal anecdotes as... RRP: $90.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Yura and Udnyu Yura and Udnyu tells a fascinating history of a resourceful people.The beautiful, rugged north Flinders Ranges is the home of the Adnyamathanha. Their creation stories tell of their physical and cultural longevity in the region. However, their lives... RRP: $24.95 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Trials of Billy Freeman Of all the Australian states, South Australia has most loudly perpetuated the historic myth that it was convict-free. But although it was not a destination for transportees, convicts and ex-convicts arrived in their thousands and helped build the new... RRP: $32.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. "So smart and entertaining it should come with its own popcorn"--PeopleCoinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the film version of Truman Capote's Breakast at Tiffany's, the acclaimed, New York Times bestseller that is the definitive account of... RRP: $27.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Gough and Me When Gough Whitlam moves into her street in Cabramatta in 1957, eight-year-old Christine has little idea how her new neighbour, one of the most visionary and polarising political leaders of Australia, would shape the direction of her life. Born to... RRP: $32.99 $32.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Power and the Passion The Power and the Passion highlights the urgent need for the repatriation of ancestral remains, and for the return of all precious cultural material to its rightful owners. Taking the 1985 landmark reburial of ancestral remains in Melbourne's Kings... RRP: $34.99 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Flying Life The flying career of John Robertson Duigan spanned just a decade from 1908 to 1918. 100 years ago he built and successfully flew the first aeroplane made in Australia using only photographs, journal articles and an unreliable textbook as his guides. He... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Excellencies of Musick Enter the musical world of Stuart and Georgian Britain, of concert-going, music makers and thinkers, printers and publishers. Written to accompany the upcoming collections-in-focus exhibition at the National Library of Australia, this book invites you... RRP: $17.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Our Streets The modernist RSL club, the Art Deco cinema, the stilted Queenslander or the elaborate Edwardian. The iconography of Australia's regional towns is familiar to many of us, whether we live, work and play in these places, or just journey through. A... RRP: $39.99 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added How to Trace Your Convict Ancestors In this revised and expanded edition of Janet Reakes's bestselling guide, comprehensive listings of convicts sent over on the First, Second and Third Fleets make the task that much easier of establishing convict ancestry. In this useful book, the author... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Country Women and the Colour Bar Country women and the colour bar is a timely corrective to established ideas about race relations in rural New South Wales by revealing the untold story of grassroots efforts by Aboriginal and white women, working together.In the 1950s and 1960s, in... RRP: $39.95 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Record in Bone Bone and tooth tools and ornaments have been made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for at least 46,000 years some of the oldest organic technologies in the world. Despite their beauty, sophistication, and ubiquity, archaeologists and... RRP: $54.95 $53.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Talking Strong By the late 1960s, Indigenous education in Australia was in crisis. When Whitlam swept to power in 1972, his Labor government reached out to Indigenous people to guide change at a national level. The National Aboriginal Education Committee was the result... RRP: $39.95 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Yijarni On 23 August 1966, approximately 200 Gurindji stockmen and their families walked off Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory, protesting against poor working conditions and the taking of their land by pastoralists. Led by Vincent... RRP: $39.95 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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