The History Wars by Stuart MacIntyre, Anna Clark
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The nation's history has probably never been more politicised than it is today. Politicians, journalists, columnists, academics and Australians from all walks of life argue passionately-and often, ideologically-about the significance of the national story- the cherished ideal of the 'fair go', the much ...Show more
What If?: Australian History as it Might Have Been by Stuart Mcintyre
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
What if key episodes in Australia's past had turned out differently? If France had colonised part of Australia in the eighteenth century? If the ANZACS had played only a minor role in the Gallipoli landing in World War I? If Gough Whitlam's Labor government had been re-elected after its dismissal in 197 ...Show more
Advance Australia...Where? by Hugh Mackay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
"What will the next generation of children be like? Why have we lost interest in politics? Why are our houses getting bigger while our households are shrinking? How serious is the surge of interest in 'values' and 'spirituality'? Is multiculturalism dead? Has our egalitarian ideal collapsed under the we ...Show more
A Concise History of Australia by Stuart Macintyre
$37.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technolog ...Show more
Search for Stability - Boyer 2006 by MACFARLANE Ian
$22.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
AUSTRALIAS HISTORY THEMES AND DEBATES by Lyons & Russell
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
This landmark volume will be created to coincide with the 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences which the University of New South Wales in Sydney will be hosting in 2005. Sponsored by the Australian Historical Association, the book will commission leading historians of Australia to present ...Show more
How to be a Megalomaniac: Or Advice to a Young Politician by Mungo MacCallum
$22.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Upon hearing that his nephew had chosen to enter politics, Mungo decided to impart his advice on how to succeed in politics, from choice of party through media manipulation and back-stabbing, to elevation to the prime ministership. Mungo's tongue-in-cheek advice is by turn wise and cynical, and always v ...Show more
Poll Dancing: The Story of the 2007 Election by Mungo MacCallum
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
When a god-botherer with a penchant for answering his own questions became the Labor leader in late 2006, it put the wind up the coalition government. Australians, it seemed, were seriously contemplating turfing a jaded John Howard out of Kirribilli House, and the fresh-faced upstart, Kevin Rudd, was ma ...Show more
Eye Contact - Photographing Indigenous Australians by Jane Lydon
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Reading Level: good-very good