Australian Lives - An Intimate History
`Life is long. When youre forty-eight, theres been a lot...
History Alive 10 for the Australian Curriculum Flexisav...
History Alive 10 for the Australian Curriculum Flexisaver & ...
If Walls Could Talk - An intimate history of the home
Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? ...
Australian Curriculum Classroom Approaches - History
Australian Curriculum Classroom Approaches - History - Unive...
Australian Gypsies - Their secret history
Since the arrival of the First Fleet there have been Gypsies...
Australian Gypsies: Their secret history
Since the arrival of the First Fleet there have been Gypsies...
The Secret of Chanel No. 5 - The Intimate History of th...
With its rich golden hue, art deco-inspired bottle, and time...
Exiles at Home - Australian Women Writers 1925-1945
Exiles At Home traces the lives of a generation of Australia...
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief Histo...
Why is there so much inequality?In this short book; world fa...
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is one of the oldest labour parti...
Australian Lives - An Intimate History
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capi
Why is there so much inequality?In this short book; world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis sets out to answer his daughter Xeniaâs deceptively simple question. Using personal stories and famous myths â from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix â he explains what the economy is and why it has the power to shape our lives.Intimate yet universally accessible; Talking ...
Australian Lives - An Intimate History
`Life is long. When youre forty-eight, theres been a lot of stuff thats happened (laughs). Its got elements of comedy and there are elements of heartache and drama and thriller and its got so many things in it. Rhonda King, born 1965 `I really like the idea that in maybe a hundred years someone could listen and hear about my life to learn about what living in 2012 or 2013 was like. Th...
Travelling with Ghosts - An intimate and inspiring journey
In the summer of 2002, Shannon Leone Fowler was backpacking with her Australian fiance Sean in Thailand. The couple were planning to return home to Melbourne after their excursion to the island of Koh Pha Ngan but their plans were devastated when a box jellyfish the most venomous animal in the world wrapped itself around Seans legs, stinging and killing him in minutes. Rejecting the Thai a...
What's Old is New Again - An Australian Icon Preserving Taste for over 100 years
Whats Old is New Again celebrates the 100th anniversary of Australian icon Fowlers Vacola and captures the very best of Australias food preserving history. Together with some of Australias most-loved chefs, we take you on a delicious journey from Matt Wilkinsons old family recipe for Yorkshire pickled onions to Andrew McConnells inspired baby iceberg lettuce salad with pink grapefruit, a...
Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts - A Book of Dodgy Schemes and Crazy Dreams from the Bush to the City
Australian history is
so curious and strange, that it
does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies
It is full of surprises, and adventures, and incongruities, and contradictions, and incredibilities; but they are all true, they all happened. Mark Twain Australia is the birthplace and setting of some of the wildest, craziest and least-likely-to-succeed cons and rorts in ...
Ednapedia - A History of Australia in a Hundred Objects
Dame Edna Everage, Australias most famous and funniest export, tells the history of her homeland in 100 objects. Its very rare that we see the emergence of a completely original idea in the world of books. Dame Edna Everages masterly history of Australian civilization is one such idea, and, possums, you will never think of historical writing in the same way again. From our dainty gu...
Sport of Queens - Women in Australian Horse Racing
Gender equality in sport is a hot issue of our time, with the womens league in AFL being pushed this year and the prominence of issues surrounding gender equality in sport maintaining a bright spotlight in the media. Sport of Queens reveals the history of women in Australian horse racing from Wilhelmina Bill Smith who secretly rode as a man at race meetings across North Queensland in the 194...
Australia Gone Wild: Australian Geographic's greatest animal stor
For more than 30 years; Australian Geographic has been showcasing Australiaâs unique natural history through the words and images of the nationâs finest writers and photographers. This brand new 224-page hard cover compendium brings together over 40 of the best stories spanning the natural world from the smallest of invertebrates to the creatures that inhabit the waters that surround us ...
Tasmanian Aborigines - A History Since 1803
Lyndall Ryans new account of the extraordinary and dramatic story of the Tasmanian Aborigines is told with passion and eloquence. It is a book that will inform and move anyone with an interest in Australian history. Professor Henry Reynolds, University of Tasmania A powerful and insightful historical account about a unique island and its First peoples, their dispossession and their str...
The Future is History - How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
A brave and eloquent critic of the Putin regime
For anyone wondering how Russia ended up in the hands of Putin and his friends, and what it means for the rest of us, Gessens book gives an alarming and convincing picture. The Times In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. E...
Mao's Great Famine - The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962
An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of Chinas Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the Peoples Republic of China.Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the co...
A Free Flame - Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century
HIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE 2016 DOROTHY HEWETT AWARD FOR AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT `I need to be a writer, Ruth Park told her future husband, DArcy Niland, on the eve of their marriage. `Thats what I need from life. She was not the only one. At a time when women were considered incapable of being `real artists, a number of precocious girls in Australian cities were weighing their chances ...
A Thoroughly Unhelpful History of Australian Sport
When it comes to sport, Australians are mad. Completely, irrationally insane. Its the closest thing we have to a culture. From Don Bradmans singular focus to Steven Bradburys heroic not falling over, sport has shaped our sense of self. But how did we get here? Part history, part social commentary and a lot of nonsense, Titus OReily, Australias least insightful sports writer, explains. Co...
Australian History In 7 Questions
If there are genuine questions about Australian history, there is something to puzzle over. The history ceases to be predictable and dull. From the author of The Shortest History of Europe, acclaimed historian John Hirst, comes this fresh and stimulating approach to understanding Australias past and present. Hirst asks and answers questions that get to the heart of Australias hi...
The Game of Their Lives
One of the strongest statements on the horror and futility of war I have ever read. David Williamson, screenwriter of Gallipoli As the Great War raged in 1916, two teams of Australian soldiers played an Australian Rules football match in London. It was the first time the world had seen our national game. But this was more than an exhibition match. It symbolised sports role in driving young ...
Great Australian Stories - Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales
Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wanders from bush track to spooky hollow, follows the path of yowies and bunyips, searches for Lasseters Reef, meets Dad and Dave and, on a different path, Henny-Penny, and then rambles into the cities where just as many entertaining characters are ready to tell their stories. From the foreword by Warren Fahey Australia has a rich tradi...
Their Brilliant Careers - The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers
Absurd, original and highly addictive . . . In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan ONeill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall, who unearthed the secret source of the great literature of our time and paid a terrible price for her discovery. Meet Rand Washington, hugely popular sci-fi author (of Whiteman of Cor) a...
Inside the Vault - The history and art of Australian coinage
Celebrating the history and art of Australian coinage for the first time, Inside the Vault uncovers the fascinating story of the nations currency. Bestselling author Peter Rees traces significant events the Rum Rebellion, the gold rushes of the 19th century, the opening of the Royal Australian Mint, the introduction of decimal currency in 1966 and their effect on Australias coinage. Lavi...
Australia and the War in the Air - Volume I - The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War
The first book in a new series that will explore Australias role in the Great War.From the earliest days of the Great War, Australians volunteered to fight in the air warfares newest arena, and one that would transform the nature of military operations. In the squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps and with Britains flying services, Australian airmen fought in campaigns that spanned the...
For Hire - The Intimate Adventures of a Gigolo
What does a gigolo do when his lives start to collide? Find out in this saucy and eye-opening memoir. Mixing business and pleasure to devastating effect
Now 25 years old, young Australian Luke Bradbury has quickly established himself as one of Londons most successful male escorts, raking in both money and as much sex as he can handle. With women falling at his feet, Luke happily entertains h...
Exiles at Home - Australian Women Writers 1925-1945
Exiles At Home traces the lives of a generation of Australias women writers through letters, diaries, notebooks and the memories of their contemporaries. Invaluable to all readers seriously interested in the history of Australian literature. Weekend Australian At the end of the 1920s Christina Stead had left Australia and was poised to write Seven Poor Men of Sydney. In London Miles Fra...