Australasian History

Battlers and Billionaires sheds fresh light on what makes Australia distinctive, and what it means to have - and keep - a fair go. Is Australia fair enough? And why...

Governments throughout Australia have been confronted with a daunting array of problems in the 1980s and 1990s. These include severe constraints on public enterprise, a crisis in the state banking...

It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all...

' I've had more than my share of close calls. Truth is, it's f*cking thrilling. But the fear can hit just as hard, especially when you see mates wounded or...

'Stories drawn from the very soul of football and written from the heart. In Martin Blake's hands these iconic moments are vividly captured and celebrated as a timely reminder of...

'Relentless, raw and just impossible to fake. Bram Connolly has survived more in one lifetime than most of us could ever imagine - and takes us right there, with a...

'An ingenious piece of historical reconstruction. It reads like a spy thriller.' Tom Gilling, author of Start Digging, You Bastards! In January 1941, the dapper, slightly built Major Hashida arrived...

'The so-called war on drugs has been a colossal failure, and this book offers further proof that we must treat drug use as a public health issue, not as a...

The book titled Cargo of Women: the History by the author Babette Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Fundamentals of Trial Techniques: Australian Edition by the author McCrimmon/& Mauet. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Reith Papers is the best of those diary entries from the heart of a government that changed Australia. Peter Reith was a senior cabinet minister under John Howard from...

The book titled An Introduction to Advocacy by the author Lee Stuesser. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Peter Slater Australian Birds by the author Peter Slater. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Finalist in the United Nations Association of Australia's 2011 World Environment Day Awards Australia was the first country in the world to officially ban old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs as a...

Essential reading for every woman who is or may one day become a mother Women are told they have pregnancy and birth care choices. But their only real choice is...

Was Robert Menzies out of step with the swinging 1960s, or did he shape the profound changes that it wrought? Menzies led Australia for over half the decade, finally retiring...

The book titled With Dew on My Boots by the author Colin Thiele. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

If Australians are so smart why are we losing the international education race? More important, what should the community do about this? What can teachers, parents and students do about...

Sir Paul Hasluck was for almost two and a half decades one of Australia's most prominent politicians. Born in Fremantle in 1905 and educated at Perth Modern School and The...

Love, mythology and magic collide in a delicious, action-packed new romantasy series from Australian author and award-winning podcaster Olivia O'Flynn, for all fans of Sarah A Parker, Carissa Broadbent and...

An award-winning and provocative novel about women's bodies, sex, autonomy - and the power of the image. Hypothetically, would you want to live forever but invisible, or a short life...

"The Short Goodbye is the untold story of a nation forever changed by the global financial crisis." "Elisabeth Wynhausen was at her desk writing a story about people being sacked...

'I adore perving at Australia's quirky and under-appreciated architectural underbelly through Sandy's stalky lens.' - Tim Minchin A delightfully curated collection that celebrates the eclectic, the innovative, the showstoppers, the...

'A Carlton please!' a name that's still shouted across every bar and hotel in Australia. It was one of six breweries that united to form the company we know today...

Rex Boyden's place in history was forged in his death as the pilot in the famous Stinson crash on the Lamington Plateau in 1937. His story includes original source material...

p>This book is a must for fans of Australian cricket, a registry of every first class player Australian cricket has developed all together in one book./p>Every Test, One-Day International, 20/20...

There's a lot of aeroplanes and aviators down in that water. Thank God I'm not one of them. From pioneering and outback flights to delivering Spitfires or tackling the jungles...

Everyone, it seems, has a story about David Jones. This iconic department store began in 1838 when maverick retailer David Jones threw open the doors of his first shop in...

The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T....

This book is about a war zone and the people in it. The war was World War II; the zone Australias Northern Territory (7th Military District) with extensions into western...

The book titled Creators & Inventors : Australian Women's Art in the National Gallery by the author Jennifer Phipps. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled War By Stealth by the author Powell, Alan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Andrew Male takes a journey through the life and times of Max Fatchen in this affectionate and surprising work. Along the way, he reproduces some of Max's best writing, including...

A romantic suspense full of witty banter, simmering tension and a larger-than-life family dynasty - Australia's answer to Yellowstone! Only the truth - or a ruthless killer - can tear...

Join Bruce Gall on the trip of a lifetime, as bus and train drivers safely chauffer you 26,000 kilometres around amazing Australia. Think of all those places you've ever wanted...

ALS Colin Jones, a historian brings us a history of the Royal Australian Navy in the years following World War II (1947-1953). This was a period that saw a number...

The book titled Eureka PLC (BD) by the author Peter FitzSimons. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In the northern summer of 1977 Australians Michael Byrne and Emma Riley are holidaying in Spain. On arriving back in London they are shocked to learn that Presley is dead;...

Australia's China explores the multifaceted and dynamic Australian encounter with China from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 through the Cold War to the Australian recognition of the...

With a jazz band playing on its balcony on Sundays, the Beechworth Bakery has customers five deep and proves that business can be alive and well in country Australia. Understandably,...

In the First World War, Australian reactions to death were defined by distance, a circumstance that impelled mourners towards communal responses to their loss. It drove them to create and...