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An Illustrated History of UFOs by Adam Allsuch Boardman
41.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: An\Illustrated History Ser.
A deep dive into the world of Ufology--the study and search for extraterrestrial life--with a fun, informative, humorous look at the history of this strange world of conspiracy. Throughout history people have witnessed a dizzying show of mysterious lights in the sky. Whether they are the devices of alie ...Show more
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: ReVisioning American History Ser.
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the U.S. settler-colonial regimen has largel ...Show more
Antipodean Perspective - Selected Writings of Bernard Smith by Rex Butler (Editor); Sheridan Palmer (Editor); Bernard Smith (Editor)
29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Art History Ser.
Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was unquestionably one of Australia's greatest humanist scholars and its finest art historian. His European Vision and the South Pacific, 1768-1850 (1960) was a foundational text of post-colonialism, and in Australian Painting (1962) he set out the definitive history of Austral ...Show more
Australia - Modern Architectures in History by Harry Margalit
59.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Architectures in History Ser.
This book tells the story of the architects and buildings that have defined Australia's architectural culture since the founding of the modern nation through Federation in 1901. That year marked the beginning of a search for better city forms and buildings to accommodate the changing realities of Austra ...Show more
Barney and the Secret of the French Spies (Secret History #4) by Jackie French
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: The\Secret History Ser.
The new title in the critically acclaimed series that explores Australia's early Colonial secret history In 1798 orphaned Barney Bean now has a flourishing farm in the New SouthWales colony and everything he ever dreamed of ... except his childhood friendElsie. Butwhen Elsie falls ill and Barney rushes ...Show more
Barney and the Secret of the Whales (Secret History #2) by Jackie French
12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Secret History Ser.
What is the sailor's secret about the treasure of Australia's colony? The second book in a series that explores little-known history about Australia's fascinating past. Barney Bean is keen to make his fortune and he hears a secret; a sailor's secret about the treasure of the colony. But how can chasin ...Show more
Battle Cry of Freedom the Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
30.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Oxford History of the United States Ser.
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that ...Show more
Black Saturday - That's Not the End of the Story by Peg Fraser
29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: History of Australia Ser.
The Victorian bushfires of February 2009 captured the attention of all Australians and made headlines around the world. One hundred and seventy-three people lost their lives, the greatest number from any bushfire event in this nation's history. In the wake of this tragedy much media and public commentar ...Show more
Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland by Jack Jacobs
120.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Modern Jewish History Ser.
In the years between the two world wars, the Jewish community of Poland--the largest in Europe--was the cultural heart of the Jewish diaspora. The Jewish Workers' Bund, which had a socialist, secularist, Yiddishist, and anti-Zionist orientation, won a series of important electoral battles in Poland on t ...Show more
Dark History of Gin by MIKE RENDELL
59.99 AUD
Category: Food | Series: A\Dark History Ser.
A Dark History of Gin looks at the origins and development of a drink which seems to have a universal and timeless appeal. Historian Mike Rendell explores the origins of distilling in the ancient world and considers the how, when, where and why of the 'happy marriage' between distilled spirits and berri ...Show more
Debs at War: 1939-1945 by Anne de Courcy
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Women in History Ser.
An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the War Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most ...Show more
Devil Been Walkabout Tonight: The Death Of Burke & Wills At Cooper's Creek: April - July 1861 by David W. Cameron
29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A\Shot of History Ser.
This book focuses on the last three months of Robert O'Hara Burke, William John Wills, and John King on Cooper's Creek. The original expedition which set out in August 1860 was to explore the centre and northern reaches of the Australian continent. The expedition essentially concluded with the death of ...Show more