Way of the Reaper: My Greatest Untold Missions and the Art of Being a Sniper by Nicholas Irving with Gary Brozek
$9.95 AUD
Category: Military
From the legendary special operations sniper and New York Times bestselling author of The Reaper comes a rare and powerful book on the art of being a sniper. Way of the Reaper is a step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of Irving's most significant missions - none of which have ...Show more
The Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins by Alain de Botton
$4.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: he has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems. Fro ...Show more
Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins; Dominique Lapierre
$12.00 AUD
Category: General History
The subject of this book is the eclipse of the British Raj & the birth of an independent India & Pakistan; the violent transformation of that fabled India - the land of maharajas with their palaces, vices, jewels & harems, their gold-caparisoned elephants & their glittering private armie ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
$6.50 AUD
Category: Military
A gripping true story of human endurance and the resilience of one remarkable individual during WWII from Laura Hillenbrand (author of 'Seabiscuit'). On a May afternoon in 1943, a US bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean. After an agonising delay, a young lieutenant finally bobbed to the surface and str ...Show more
MERALTE : THE BOAT by JANIS KOOLMATERI AND GRAHAM JENKIN
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Meralte: the boat is a beautifully crafted story, set 10,000 years ago. It is a story able to be understood and appreciated by children and adults over a wide range of ages.
Politics and Deviance by Ian Taylor; Laurie Taylor
$4.95 AUD
Category: General History | Series: Pelican Ser.
God's Frontiersmen - The Scots-Irish Epic by Rory Fitzpatrick; Kenneth McNally (Photographer)
$34.95 AUD
Category: General History
The Ulster Scots came to the north of Ireland in the 17th century and today constitute the dominant strain among Ulster Protestants. They brought with them their Calvanist beliefs, a stern work ethic and a fiercely independent spirit. Religious discrimination led thousands of them to cross the Atlantic, ...Show more
This Accursed Land by Lennard Bickel
$12.00 AUD
Category: General History
This Accursed Land charts the epic journey of Antarctic survival endured by explorer and geologist Sir Douglas Mawson. On the 10th of November, 1912, Douglas Mawson, Lieutenant Belgrave Ninnis and Xavier Mertz set off from the hut at base camp to undertake geographic research, mapping the coastline and ...Show more
Rape of the Fly by John Goode; Lawrence Hargrave; Luigi Maria d' Albertis
$14.95 AUD
Category: General History