Fins: Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit by William Knoedelseder
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Brew chronicles the birth and rise to greatness of the American auto industry through the remarkable life of Harley Earl, an eccentric six-foot-five, stuttering visionary who dropped out of college and went on to invent the profession of automobile styling ...Show more
Derrick VC: in His Own Words - Australia's Most Famous Fighting Soldier of World War II by Mark Johnston
$39.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Tom 'Diver' Derrick VC DCM was Australia's most famous fighting soldier of World War II. Derrick fought in five campaigns, won the highest medals for bravery, and died of wounds sustained while leading his men in the war's last stages. His career reached its climax on the jungle-clad heights of Sattelbe ...Show more
Cruel Conflict: The Triumph and Tragedy of HMAS Perth by Kathryn Spurling
$32.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The story of the men who served in HMAS PERTH in the early years of the second World WarCruel Conflict is the story of the men who served in HMAS Perth between 1939 and 1942. The courage and humour of those who were taken as prisoners of war, who endured the hardships of the camps and laboured on the Bu ...Show more
Great Bush Stories - Colourful Yarns and True Tales from Life on the Land by Graham Seal
$36.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The tradition of yarns from the bush goes back to the earliest days in Australia. Colorful rural characters and dramatic incidents parade through Australian history and folklore, entertaining and appalling in equal measure. Graham Seal has gathered classic and little-known stories from the time when mos ...Show more
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia by Bill Gammage
$45.00 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far ...Show more
Hell Ship by Michael Veitch
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken sailing ship Ticonderoga that left England for Victoria with 800 doomed emigrants on board.
Silk Roads: A New History of the World: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
$27.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed- where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more
Affinity, That Elusive Dream - A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution by Mi Gyung Kim
$32.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Ser.
In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public science. Chemical affinity played an important role in this process as a metaphor, a theory domain, and a subject of investigation. Goethe's Elective Affinities, which was based on the current understanding of chemical affiniti ...Show more
Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle by Douglas J. Emlen; David J. Tuss (Illustrator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
In Animal Weapons, Douglas J. Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles to explain the processes behind the most intriguing and curious examples of extreme animal weapons-fish with mouths larger than their bodies and bugs whose heads are so packed with muscle they don't have r ...Show more
A Gambling Man: Charles II and The Restoration by Stephen Raw (Cover Design by); Jenny Uglow
$29.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: near fine
Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no going back, no way he could 'restore' the old. Certainty had vanished. The divinity of kingship fled wi ...Show more
We Have the War upon Us - The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861 by William J. Cooper
$27.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
In this carefully researched book William J. Cooper gives us a fresh perspective on the period between Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860 and the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861, during which all efforts to avoid or impede secession and prevent war failed. Here is the story of the men whose ...Show more