Australasian History

This comprehensive guide to the rainforest flora of Australia is packed with information on more than 300 commonly observed species from rainforests around the continent. Each plant is beautifully illustrated...

The indomitable Miss Cocks and Ethel Bromley return for Book Two in the bestselling and charmingly cosy Petticoat Police Mystery Series, inspired by one of Australia's first policewomen. Adelaide, September...

For a century and a half town criers walked the streets of Australian capital cities, regional centres, and country towns, ringing their bells and conveying their messages. Australia's first town...

People are fascinated by other people's lives: what they do, how they live, who they love, their successes and their blind spots. Biography has long been a popular literary genre...

A fabulous pictorial Australiana gift-book on Australia's animals and with unique motivational voice and life-principle that can help release and empower a depth in self-discovery. Showcasing 24 Iconic Australian animals,...

Pounds and Pedigrees: The Upper Class in Victoria 1850–80 by Paul De Serville is a sweeping history of public and private life in Melbourne's establishment during the mid-to-late nineteenth century....

Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on...

When Dorothea Mackellar wrote My Country in 1908, her words struck a chord of recognition among all who lived in the Sunburnt Country and had seen its jewel seas, ragged...

The Soul of the Outback explores Australia's outback, from Alice Springs to Darwin. Through photography, painting and drawings, local artist Mai Maddisson takes us on a journey that captures a...

'Why is it so hard for Church people to find the appropriate words that tap into Australians' search for something more? Why, too, would their words not be listened to,...

Where are the Careys and Kellys of yesteryear? What are the `Cowboy', `the Incredible Hulk' and `the Galloping Gasometer' doing these days? Jim Main takes us inside the locker rooms...

The book titled Front Line Despatches: Australians at War 1845-1972 by the author Nic Van Oudtshoorn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In photography, you don't get to have it all. You are always making choices, always making sacrifices. To capture the light. Tom's longest-standing commitment is his run-down house Mayfield, which...

The great majority of holidaymakers in Australia get home in one piece, but a handful do suffer fatal or serious injuries. See Australia and Die is about dangerous Australia. It's...

By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests...

Australian English is unique; having absorbed elements of British and American English it has developed its own distinctive style. As a living language, Australian English is constantly changing, so that...

Australian Cultural History is a 1988 text which opens up new ways of looking at Australian society, culture and history. The diverse and distinguished authors range across religion, literature, history,...

The book titled I Protest!: Fighting for Your Rights - a Practical Guide by the author Phil Thornton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand has for some time now been experiencing something of a 'golden age'. The richness of Australasia's philosophical past, though less well known, should also...

The right to vote is the most precious democratic entitlement, and Australia has a proud tradition of recently introduced legislation will effectively disenfranchise over 200,000 voters in future federal elections...

From Gallipoli to Kokoda and beyond - the story of our greatest general and the power, politics and tragedy of command General Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander in Chief of Australian...

Making Rural Australia challenges two common by contradictory views of Australian history. One is the 'fatal shore': Australia was a place of horrible destitution and those miserable beginnings set the...

The book titled The Gatton Mystery by the author James Gibney. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

Fifty years after its first publication, Robin Boyd's bestselling The Australian Ugliness remains the definitive statement on how we live and think in the environments we create for ourselves. In...

Australians have been responsible for a number of inventions and this dictionary provides comprehensive detail about them. "The Dictionary of Australian Inventions and Discoveries" covers more than 400 Australian inventions...

The book titled From a Roman Window: Five Decades of the World, the Church and the by the author Rosemary Goldie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

Simon Hughes tells the stories of ten extraordinary Ashes encounters, drawn from every period of Test match history. With an innovative and distinctive approach Hughes selects each match as a...

Benjamin Stevenson meets Nine Perfect Strangers in a story about writerly ambition, self-discovery and - of course - revenge. Sharp, fresh, bold, thrilling and gothic - gripping suspense from a...

Consistently ranking in the top five educational faculties in the world, the Melbourne Graduate School of Education has achieved a status few would have predicted. This history of the first...

This volume is comprised of two previously unpublished glossaries of prison and underworld slang compiled in the 1940s and 1950s. Gary Simes contributes a long essay on criminal literature since...

For the past 20 years, Edmond and Corrigan's work has drawn an intense reaction and interest that only has an Australian counterpart in the reception of Walter Burley Griffin in...

The book titled Memoirs from a Young Republic. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Melbourne's Grand Boulevard - the Story of St. Kilda Road. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The warbling and carolling of the Australian magpie are familiar to many although few of us recognise that it ranks among the foremost songbirds of the world. Its impressive vocal...

A fictionalised account of the Eureka stockade battle. The diggers took made a stand against license fees and police harassment. They took up arms, built a stockade and swore to...

From Rhodes Scholar to union leader to political powerhouse: how Bobbie became Bob, the iconic PM. The new biography from award-winning historian David Day sheds fresh light on the formative...

Second-chance love, family secrets and a small-town mystery to uncover ... A charming and heartwarming new series begins. Picture-perfect rural romance from bestselling author Alissa Callen. When horticulturalist Rylea Laurent...

The unofficial history of Australia's national day since the first contentious one, thereby offering 237 other reasons for a day off. 'The nation is grateful. This is an indispensable book....

Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, Cambodia...

A revision of Shirley Purchase's successful Australian Writers' and Editors' Guide, incorporating more than 1000 new entries - names and places, foreign words and phrases, abbreviations and acronyms, capitalisation and...

SHORTLISTED: 2025 CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers SHORTLISTED: 2024 Readings Children's Prize Most kids meet their parents when they're born. All they need to do to impress them...

An exciting addition to the narrative non-fiction series Nature Storybooks, about an Eastern Quoll. The blue-black sky is painted with glistening stars. Quoll has woken. It's playtime here in the...

Aurora Place and Macquarie Apartments exhibit refinements of many of the themes for which Renzo Piano is famous. This is a detailed study of a single development. It features many...