Modern Warfare: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Lessons from Ukraine by Sir Lawrence Freedman
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The foremost authority on modern war in the English-speaking world examines Europe's most important conflict since World War IIMore than any other modern war, the fight between Russia and Ukraine has been a tough testing ground for modern weapons and operational concepts.Drawing on extensive research in ...Show more
21st-Century Virtues: How They Are Failing Our Democracy by Lucinda Holdforth
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Authenticity. Vulnerability. Humility. Transparency. These are some of the 21st-century virtues proselytised by mindset gurus, paraded (if not practised) by big corporations, and lauded by professionals on LinkedIn. The quest for authenticity, for example, is central to progressive campaigns for greater ...Show more
Law: The Way of the Ancestors (First Knowledges) by Marcia Langton, Aaron Corn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
Law is culture, and culture is law. Given by the ancestors and cultivated over millennia, Indigenous law defines what it is to be human. Complex and evolving, law holds the keys to resilient, caring communities and a life in balance with nature. Marcia Langton and Aaron Corn show how Indigenous law has ...Show more
Boundary Crossers: The Hidden History of Australia’s Other Bushrangers by Meg Foster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, ‘Captain Thunderbolt’ and their bushranging brethren are famous. They’re remembered as folk heroes and celebrated for their bravery and their ridicule of inept and corrupt authorities. But not all Australian bushrangers were white men. And not all ...Show more
Plants: Past, Present and Future (First Knowledges) by Zena Cumpston, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lesley Head
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Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Plants are the foundation of life on Earth. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have always known thi ...Show more
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs. We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in t ...Show more
The Vetting of Wisdom - Joan Montgomery and the Fight for PLC by Kim Rubenstein
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
In the story of the biggest school blow-up in Australian history, The Vetting of Wisdom is a gripping tale of a revered Principal-acclaimed nationwide as the leading girls' school educator of her day-loved and admired by all - but with a determined Presbyterian Church minority bent on getting rid of her ...Show more
Adrift in Melbourne: Seven Walks with Robyn Annear by Robyn Annear
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Melbourne's streets have always been marvellous--but the proud facades of the nineteenth-century boom aren't the half of it. What about the stories behind them? The great corset scandal of Melbourne's belle epoque; The heritage-listed toilets out the back of the Rialto; The exploits of the women who ra ...Show more
Country: Future Fire, Future Farming (First Knowledges Series) by Bruce Pascoe, William Leonard Gammage
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmen ...Show more
Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary by Kel Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict.These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates b ...Show more
Power & Consent by Rachel Doyle
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The scandal involving Dyson Heydon, former justice of the High Court, confirmed that the scourge of sexual harassment in Australian workplaces was also to be found in the chambers of one of the seven most senior judges in the country. An unquestioning reliance on the calibre of the fine legal minds appo ...Show more
The Legacy of Douglas Grant by John Ramsland
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The versatile and gifted Douglas Grant was stereotyped in the media as the Black Digger with a Scottish accent. He was much more than that. Well educated by White parents who rescued him from an 1886 massacre in the frontier wars, Douglas became an engineering draftsman, woolclasser, charismatic public ...Show more