HISTORY
A CONCISE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA 5TH EDITION
Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Aust...
View full detailsA GLOBAL HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 3RD EDITION
The book that forever changed the way architectural history is viewed, taught, and studied, A Global History of Architecture examines 5,000 years o...
View full detailsA SUNBURNT CHILDHOOD GROWING UP IN THE TERRITORY
For fans of Sheryl McCorry's DIAMONDS AND DUST and Sara Henderson, this is the story of Toni Tapp Coutts's extraordinary childhood on the legendary...
View full detailsAUSTRALIA'S MUSLIM CAMELEERS: PIONEERS OF THE INLAND 1860s - 1930s
Between 1870 and 1920, as many as 2,000 cameleers and 20,000 camels arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and northern India. Australia's Muslim Ca...
View full detailsBRIEF HISTORY OF BALI
PIRACY SLAVERY OPIUM AND GUNS:THE STORY OF A PACIFIC PARADISE This book tells the story of Bali the paradise island of the Pacific; its rulers and ...
View full detailsCLEVER MEN
How worlds collided on the scientific expedition to Arnhem Land of 1948 WINNER of the 2025 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award'Here was I with...
View full detailsCONNECTING DARWIN AND THE EASTERN FRONT
Anzac Nursing Stories
DARWIN'S ORCHIDS THEN AND NOW
 For biologists, 2009 was an epochal year: the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of a book now ...
View full detailsDARWIN: ORIGIN OF A CITY
A crocodile pulls a sleeping man into the river by one leg. Another breaks the neck of a swimming policeman. An out-of-luck miner drowns himself in...
View full detailsDARWINS LIFE WITH BIRDS: HIS COMPLETE ORNITHOLOGY
THIS IS A PRINT ON DEMAND TITLE - 6-8 WEEKS FOR DELIVERY Much of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work as an evolutionary biologist stemmed from his...
View full detailsIN THE NAME OF THE LAW WILLIAM WILLSHIRE AND THE POLICING OF THE AUSTRALIAN FRONTIER
Mounted Constable William Willshire commanded a corps of Native Police in Central Australia during the 1880s. Notorious for the violence of his pat...
View full detailsKILLING FOR COUNTRY
 A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier warsDavid Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal...
View full detailsLICENCE TO KILL : MASSACRE MEN OF AUSTRALIA'S NORTH
Dr Robyn Smith, the author, is a lecturer in colonial history at Charles Darwin University and a conjoint lecturer at the University of Newcastle. ...
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In May 1939, Australia's Naval Intelligence had the foresight to set up a network of men located on various islands north of Australia to report on...
View full detailsSEA PEOPLE THE PUZZLE OF POLYNESIA
Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history. How di...
View full detailsTHE AUSTRALIAN WARS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BLOODY BATTLES FOUGHT TO ESTABLISH THE NATION
For the first time, The Australian Wars brings what for too long has been considered the historical past into connection with its reverberations in...
View full detailsTHE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO
' The Gulag Archipelago helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph WITH A NEW FOREW...
View full detailsTHE HUMAN PAST WORLD PREHISTORY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN SOCIETIES
A new, radically updated edition of the immensely successful introductory textbook on world prehistory.
THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA
The history of Australia has been written before - but not like this. In The Shortest History of Australia, Mark McKenna offers a compelling new ve...
View full detailsTHE SQUATTERS GRAB
Millions of Australians who will vote in the upcoming referendum have little knowledge of the history of our relations with the traditional owners....
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PRINT ON DEMAND 6-8 WEEKS TO ARRIVE Thirty years ago, on Christmas Day 1974, Australia woke up to the news that Darwin had been devastated by Cyclo...
View full detailsUNDER THE BANYAN TREE – IN SEARCH OF THE LOST HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA’S NORTH COAST
The history of Australia’s north coast is a story of ancient industry and international trade with tentacles that reached as far as China. It tells...
View full detailsVOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING: THE NORTHERN TERRITORY'S HISTORY OF PUBLIC PHILANTHROPY
This book represents the first consolidated history of vocational education and training in the Northern Territory. Not only does the story present...
View full detailsWALKING WITH CAMELS: THE STORY OF BERTHA STREHLOW
In this volume, Leni Shilton offers us a woman’s exploration of loss and survival in a savagely beautiful landscape. The story of Bertha Strehlow -...
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