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Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia by Jon Piccini
$41.95 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Human Rights in History Ser.
This groundbreaking study understands the 'long history' of human rights in Australia from the moment of their supposed invention in the 1940s to official incorporation into the Australian government bureaucracy in the 1980s. To do so, a wide cast of individuals, institutions and publics from across the ...Show more
Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe by Charles G. Nauert
$45.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New Approaches to European History Ser.
In this updated edition of his classic account, Charles Nauert charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. He traces humanism's emergence in the unique social and cultural conditions of fourteenth-century Italy and its gr ...Show more
I Wonder: The Life and Work of Ken Inglis by Peter Browne (Editor); Seumas Spark (Editor)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography | Series: Australian History Ser.
Ken Inglis was one of Australia's most creative, wide-ranging and admired historians. During a scholarly career spanning nearly seven decades, his humane, questioning approach -- summed up by the recurring query, 'I wonder...' -- won him a large and appreciative audience. Whether he was writing about re ...Show more
Insulin - A Hundred-Year History by Stuart Bradwel
$51.95 AUD
Category: World History | Series: History of Health and Illness Ser.
In 1922, an unlikely team of researchers in Toronto made one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the century: insulin. Their discovery seemed miraculous. When it was given to diabetic patients on the brink of death, their condition rapidly improved. Those present could barely believe their ey ...Show more
Jesus: Messenger of Peace! by James Buckley Jr.; Caitlin Like (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Show Me History! Ser.
The life story of Jesus of Nazareth--one of the most influential figures in world history--in graphic novel format. Jesus: Messenger of Peace tells the story of the life of Jesus of Nazareth as recounted in the Gospels. This illustrated retelling of Jesus's journey draws from the stories found in the b ...Show more
Magical History Tour Vol. 13: Marie Curie: Marie Curie by Fabrice Erre
$11.99 AUD
Category: Christmas | Series: Magical History Tour Ser.
Join Annie and Nico as they learn about Marie Curie! Who was Marie Curie? Learn about the renowned chemist and Nobel Prize winner with modern-day kids, Annie and Nico. Join them as they go back in time and roam around the globe, learning about the noble French-Polish woman that furthered the sciences ...Show more
Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening ...Show more
Martin Luther King Jr. : Voice for Equality! by James Buckley Jr.; YouNeek Studios (Illustrator); John Roshell (Letterer (comics))
$19.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Show Me History! Ser.
A graphic biography of civil rights leader and American icon Martin Luther King Jr. This graphical biography tells the story of the most prominent leader of the American civil rights movement. With full-color illustrations and a historically accurate narrative, Martin Luther King Jr.: Voice for Equality ...Show more
'Me Write Myself' - The Free Aboriginal Inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47 by Leonie Stevens
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
Exiles, lost souls, remnants of a dying race ... The fate of the First Nations peoples of Van Diemen's Land is one of the most infamous chapters in Australian, and world, history. The men, women and children exiled to Flinders Island in the 1830s and 40s have often been written about, but never allowed ...Show more
On Red Earth Walking - The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike, Western Australia 1946-1949 by Anne Scrimgeour
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia's Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour from the economically-important wool industry to demand improvements in wages and conditions. Their strike lasted three years. On Red Earth Walking is the first comprehensive account of ...Show more
On Red Earth Walking: The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike, Western Australia 1946–1949 by Anne Scrimgeour
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour from the economically important wool industry to demand improvements in wages and conditions. Their strike lasted three years. On Red Earth Walking is the first comprehensive account of ...Show more
Save our Sons: Women, Dissent and Conscription during the Vietnam War by Carolyn Collins
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
Save Our Sons tells for the first time the full story of the Save Our Sons movement of Australian women who banded together to oppose conscription during the Vietnam War.In 1965, angered by the Menzies’ government’s decision to conscript young men to fight in the Vietnam War, a group of Sydney housewive ...Show more