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The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975 (HB) by John Blaxland
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Official History of ASIO Ser.
By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests over women's rights, Aboriginal land rights and the Vietnam War, and unprecedented student activism. With the Cold War lingering, ...Show more
The Secret of the Black Bushranger (Secret History #3) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Secret History Ser.
The third in a series that explores our secret history By the 1790s orphaned Barney Bean finally has his own farm in the early NSW colony. All his dreams are coming true But now we are to learn of Barney's biggest secret yet: how he helped Australia's first bushranger escape. Was Black Caesar a wronge ...Show more
The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963 by David Horner
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Official History of ASIO Ser.
For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia's domestic intelligence organization, from shaky beginnings to the expulsion of Ivan Skripov in 1963. From the start, ASIO's mission was to ...Show more
The Urban Question by Richard Harris
$28.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Elements in Global Urban History Ser.
They Shaped Australia: contributing to society by Aisling Marlor; Australian Geographic Staff
$24.95 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Aust Geographic History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 06
Meet some of the key individuals who contributed to the development and growth of Australia in the fields of politics, arts, law, science, sports and many others.Australian Curriculum: History - Historical Knowledge And Understanding Australian Curriculum Correlation: (Year 6) ''Australia as a ...Show more
Thrilling Thieves - Thrilling Thieves: Liars, Cheats, and Cons Who Changed History by Brianna DuMont
$27.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Changed History Ser.
Dramatic True Tales of Thomas Edison, Catherine the Great, Boss Tweed, Queen Elizabeth I, and More What do Mother Theresa, Honest Abe, and Mahatma Gandhi have in common? They're all too upstanding to be included in Thrilling Thieves: Liars, Cheats, and Cons who Changed History. Sure, you'll find some ...Show more
To Constitute a Nation - A Cultural History of Australia's Constitution by Helen Irving
$35.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Studies in Australian History Ser.
This imaginative and resonant book looks at the constitution as a cultural artifact. Irving looks beyond the well-known events, places and figures to locate federation and the constitution in the context of broader social, political and cultural changes. Despite its paradoxical construction, there is so ...Show more
Tropic of Serpents (Memoir by Lady Trent #2) by Marie Brennan
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A\Natural History of Dragons Ser.
Three years after her fateful journeys through Vystrana, the widowed Mrs. Camherst defies convention to embark on an expedition to the savage, war-torn continent of Eriga, home of the legendary swamp-wyrms of the tropics. Accompanied by an old associate and a runaway heiress, Isabella must brave heat, f ...Show more
Victory over Death - The Art of Colin McCahon by Rex Butler; Laurence Simmons
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art & Photography | Series: Art History Ser.
Perhaps at the origin of all thinking about culture lies the question of the afterlife. The artist makes their work hoping that it will live on after their death. The critic reads or looks at the work wondering whether a future audience will engage with it. Victory over Death: The Art of Colin McCahon t ...Show more
Visions of a Nation - the Campaign for Federation by Scott Brodie; Australian Geographic Staff
$24.95 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Aust Geographic History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 06
The story of the campaign to join the Australian colonies into a single nation. The six colonies had existed as separate entities, but a powerful group of individuals gathered to push the idea of federation through to its conclusion.Australian Curriculum: History - Historical Knowledge And Understand ...Show more
Warrior of Kokoda : A Biography of Brigadier Arnold Potts by Bill Edgar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: The\Armed Military History Ser.
Brigadier Arnold Potts was in command of the Australian brigade which fought the Japanese on the Kokoda Trail. The high point of his career, it is the main focus of this biography of Brigadier Potts.
Why Australia Prospered - The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth by Ian W. McLean
$48.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Princeton Economic History of the Western World Ser.
This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Why Australia Prospered is a fascinating historical examination of how Aus ...Show more