The Clean Industrial Revolution: Growing Australian Prosperity in a Greenhouse Age by Ben McNeil
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The world is in the midst of a seismic shift in the way we generate energy. Since the first industrial revolution we've been burning carbon to run our lives, but climate change and dwindling supplies of oil are now forging a new clean industrial revolution which will end our reliance on carbon for good. ...Show more
Porn Book, The by Catharine Lumby
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Draws on wide-ranging empirical research to show the production, distribution and consumption of pornography, its content, its consumers and the public debates within which people make sense of it. This title provides insight into the everyday uses of pornography by ordinary consumers, and the place of ...Show more
Looking for Blackfella's Point: An Australian History of Place by Mark McKenna
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
A history for every Australian who is interested in the story of settler-Australia's relations with Indigenous people--what happened between us, how we learnt to forget and, finally, how we came to confront the truth about our past and build a movement for reconciliation.
Going Back: Australian Veterans Return to Vietnam by Gary McKay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Gary McKay will take a group of Vietnam veterans back to Vietnam and record their reactions when confronting the past and meeting their former enemy.
That'd be Right : A Fairly True History of Modern Australia by William McInnes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Both funny and insightful That'd Be Right is part memoir, part personal history of Australia over the last thirty years. It's a biographical trip told through sport, and families and William's own experiences. He weaves in and around the events that have held a fascination for Australia. Some of these e ...Show more
Shipwrecks: Australia's Greatest Maritime Disasters by Evan McHugh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
From the first wreck in 1622 off Western Australia to the tradegy of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race this book captures all the drama of Australia's maritime history. McHugh has made extensive use of first-hand accounts and contemporary records and also delves into the mysteries & controversies ...Show more
Bypass - Story of a Road by Michael McGirr
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
"All the dirt on the Hume Highway" (Shane Maloney)The Hume Highway runs from Sydney to Melbourne. Like all the great roads of the world, it is longer than it is wide. Flabby, unfit and forty, Michael McGirr decided to ride a pushbike from one end to the other. For most of his life, he had regarded the H ...Show more
Outback Pioneers by Evan McHugh
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
In Outback Pioneers, Evan McHugh gathers the enthralling stories of the men and women who opened up the Australian outback and in the process discovered the beauty and terror of this extraordinary country.