The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's First Mass-Murder Programme by Charlie English
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary, little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art. In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn gathered a remarkable collection of works by schizophrenic patients that would astonish and delight the world. The Prinzhorn collection, as it was called ...Show more
The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from Heyday to Reckoning by Stuart Macintyre
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The long awaited second volume in Stuart Macintyre's definitive history of the Communist Party of Australia. Communism was unlike any other political movement Australia has ever seen. At its peak in the 1940s, unions led by communists could call a strike that paralysed the nation, and communists influen ...Show more
The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand (Professor of English, Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA)
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Massachusetts, in 1872. The one thing we know that came out of it was an idea - an idea about ideas. This book is the story of that idea. It follows the evolution of the American mind during the period that formed the world we now inhabit.
Rest in Pieces - The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses by Bess Lovejoy
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A "marvelously macabre" (Kirkus Reviews) history of the bizarre afterlives of corpses of the celebrated and notorious dead. For some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, im ...Show more
1491 : The Americas before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Up until very recently it was believed that in 1491, the year before Columbus landed, the Americas, one-third of the earth's surface, were a near-pristine wilderness inhabited by small, roaming bands of indigenous people. But recently unexpected discoveries have dramatically changed our understanding of ...Show more
The Palace Papers by Tina Brown
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
William, Harry, Kate, Meghan, Andrew, Charles, Camilla, Diana . . . and the Queen. Based on unprecedented sources and research, bestselling author Tina Brown takes readers behind the palace walls to tell the real story of the Windsors over the last twenty years since the death of Diana. Full of powerful ...Show more
An Uncommon Hangman: The life and deaths of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard by Rachel Franks
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Executioners were once a critical component of the justice system in New South Wales. In an era when judges handed down death sentences as easily as they toasted the good health of the monarch, someone had to do the dirty work of the authorities.Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard used to be a household name. Tod ...Show more
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance agains ...Show more
Churchill's Shadow: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
$38.99 AUD
Category: History
A critical but fair political biography of Churchill that zooms in on crucial moments in his life and career that help us understand the man in his many contradictions.While in A.J.P. Taylor's words, Churchill was 'the saviour of his country', he was also a deeply flawed character, whose personal ambiti ...Show more
For the Good of the World: Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible? by A. C. Grayling
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Can we human beings agree on a set of values which will allow us to confront the numerous threats that we and our planet face? Or will we continue our disagreements, rivalries and antipathies, even as we collectively approach what, in the not impossible extreme, might be extinction? To answer these que ...Show more
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
In a book that is part thrilling adventure, part exploration of some of the darkest secrets of the Holocaust, award-winning journalist and best-selling novelist Jonathan Freedland uncovers the extraordinary story of the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz, a man who was determined to warn the world--and ...Show more
Days Of Destruction Days Of Revolt by Chris Hedges; Joe Sacco
$25.99 AUD
Category: History
Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com and the Washington Post Three years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in America that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of pr ...Show more