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Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories
by Jim Haynes
Did you know that in 1932 the Australian army was called out to wage war on an invading army of 20,000 ... emus? Or that the first royal personage to arrive in Australia was the King of Iceland and he came as a convict? And how about the spooky ...
ISBN: 9781489376541
Binding: CD-Audio
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Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories
by Jim Haynes
Did you know that in 1932 the Australian army was called out to wage war on an invading army of 20,000 ... emus? Or that the first royal personage to arrive in Australia was the King of Iceland and he came as a convict? And how about the spooky ...
ISBN: 9781489376558
Binding: CD-Extra
Audio Book$39.95
by George Megalogenis
Most nations don't get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the nineteenth century, Australia was the world's richest country, a pioneer for democracy and a magnet for migrants. Yet our last big boom was ...
ISBN: 9780143783640
Binding: Paperback
$24.99
by George Megalogenis
<b>The bestselling author of <i>The Australian Moment</i> asks the most important question confronting the country right now - how do we maintain our winning streak?</b> Most nations don't get a first chance to prosper. ...
ISBN: 9781926428574
Binding: Paperback
$34.99
by Luda Popenhagen
In the 1940s Australian officials searched the displaced persons’ camps of war-ravaged Europe to select able-bodied, fair and hardworking Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian refugees fleeing the Soviet regime to launch the Mass Migration Scheme. ...
ISBN: 9781742233321
Binding: Paperback
$59.99
by Peter Plowman
In 1945 Arthur Calwell announced a new immigration policy for Australia requiring an influx of 70,000 migrants a year, and it was hoped that all of them would come from Britain. When insufficient Britons applied the Australian government looked ...
ISBN: 9781877058400
Binding: Paperback
$34.95
Australian Soldiers in South Africa and: Words from the Battlefield
by Effie Karageorgos
The Boer War and Vietnam War provoked dramatically different reactions in Australians, from pro-British jingoism on the eve of Federation, to the anti-war protest movements of the 1960s. In contrast, the letters and diaries of Australian ...
ISBN: 9781472585806
Binding: Hardback
$131.99
Kevin Rudd and the Lucky Country
by Mungo MacCullum
In Australian Story, Mungo MacCallum investigates the political success of Kevin Rudd. What does he know about Australia that his opponents don't? This is a characteristically barbed and perceptive look at the challenges facing the government ...
ISBN: 9781742335889
Binding: CD-Audio
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by Peter York
<p>Politicians are now told they must be ‘authentic’- like Nigel Farage, drinking, smoking, men of the people. Food has to be ‘authentic’ meaning, presumably, made in ovens of clay with woods taken from the right tree in Tuscany or Bengal, using
ISBN: 9781849547871
Binding: Hardback
$19.99
by John Stuart Mill
One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand. Intellectually brilliant, fearless and profound, he ...
ISBN: 9780140433166
Binding: Paperback
$22.99
Autobiography of Margaret Sanger
by MARGARET SANGER
While working as a nurse amid the squalor of New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century, Margaret Sanger witnessed the devastating effects of unwanted pregnancies. Women already overwhelmed by the burdens of poverty had no ...
ISBN: 9780486434926
Binding: Paperback
$28.99
Automatic Society - Volume 1, the Future of Work
by Bernard Stiegler
<p>In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated ...
ISBN: 9781509506316
Binding: Paperback
$39.95
Food and Travels in Italy's Northwest
by Manuela Darling-Gansser
Piemonte - literally the "foot of the mountains" is in the far north-west of Italy. To the west is France, to the north Switzerland and to the east the plains of Lombardy and the city of Milano. Some of the richest agricultural land in Italy is ...
ISBN: 9781740665544
Binding: Paperback
$45.00
Available: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Hookups, Love and Brunch
by Perry Matteson
"Matteson Perry is a nice guy. He remembers birthdays, politely overts his eyes on the subway, and enjoys backgammon. A serial monogamist, he's never asked a stranger out. But when the girl he thought might be The One dumps him, he decides to
ISBN: 9781863958448
Binding: Paperback
$29.99
by ASVAGHOSA
Comprehensive and coherent, this guide to a complex system of Buddhism is so authoritative that it has been employed in the instruction of Buddhist priests. Readers will find that it offers the keys to the essentials of Mahayana Buddhism, a ...
ISBN: 9780486431413
Binding: Paperback
$20.99
Bill Simon's Story
by Bill Simon
Stolen, beaten, deprived of his liberty and used as child labour, Bill Simon’s was not a normal childhood. He was told his mother didn’t want him that he was ‘the scum of the earth’ and was locked up in the notorious Kinchela Boys Home for eight
ISBN: 9780855756772
Binding: Paperback
$34.95
by Roxane Gay
<i>Bad Feminist</i> is collection of frank, funny, whip-smart and spot-on essays from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. ...
ISBN: 9781472119735
Binding: Paperback
$29.99
Inside the Beaconsfield Mine Rescue
by Humphrey Bower
Bad Ground is the real story of miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb and their deliverance from entombment in the depths of the Beaconsfield hard-rock mine. But the seismic event that trapped them affected the close-knit community just as ...
ISBN: 9781741636413
Binding: CD-Audio
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