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A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off by Charlie Ward
$29.95 AUD
$34.99 (14% off)
Category: Accessories | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. Now, after many years of research, A Handful of Sand tells the story behind the Gurindji people's famous Wave Hil ...Show more
A Historian for All Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton by Stuart Macintyre
$39.95 AUD
$47.99 (16% off)
Category: Accessories | Series: Australian History
Geoffrey Bolton was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher and commentator he enriched understanding of the countrys regional mosaic, some of its notable figures and others who were just as revealing, the natural environment, social patt ...Show more
Anzac and Empire : George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of Australian Defence by John Connor
$59.95 AUD
$75.95 (21% off)
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
Anzac and Empire is the remarkable story of George Foster Pearce - a carpenter who became one Australia's most influential politicians, and the man central to how Australia planned for, and fought in, World War I. The nation's longest-serving defence minister - holding the portfolio before, during and a ...Show more
Asbestos in Australia: From Boom to Dust by Lenore Layman (Editor); Gail Phillips (Editor)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Australian History Ser.
Asbestos in Australia presents for the first time a multi-dimensional view of Australia's asbestos story featuring contributions from experts in the disciplines of history, journalism, medicine, law and public health. It also includes first-hand accounts of those whose lives have been touched by the min ...Show more
Australia 1944-45: Victory in the Pacific by Peter Dean
$59.95 AUD
$65.95 (9% off)
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
The years 1944 and 1945 were pivotal in the development of Australia's approach to strategy during the Second World War and beyond. While the main battlefront of the Pacific War had moved further north, Australian air, land and sea forces continued to make a significant contribution to the Allied campai ...Show more
Australian History Series Book 7 - The Ancient World by Fiona Back
$32.95 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Australian History Series
"The ancient world has been written specifically for students living in Australia studying history in Year 7. Itexplores the time between the earliest human communities and the end of the ancient period (c. 60 000 BCE-c. 650 CE). Every activity sheet has a corresponding student information page. Both ha ...Show more
Australian Lives : An Intimate History by Anisa Puri
$39.95 AUD
$47.99 (16% off)
Category: Accessories | Series: Australian History
What is life like, in Australia? How has it been experienced by those who have lived it? The Australians. Australian Lives: An Intimate History illuminates Australian life across the 20th and into the 21st century: how have we been shaped by the forces and expectations of contemporary history and how, i ...Show more
Australian Magpie: Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird by Gisela Kaplan
$29.95 AUD
Category: Animals | Series: Australian Natural History Ser.
The warbling and carolling of the Australian magpie are familiar to many although few of us recognize that it ranks among the foremost songbirds of the world. Its impressive vocal abilities, its propensity to play and clown, and its willingness to interact with people, make the magpie one of our most we ...Show more
Australian Magpie: Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird by Gisela Kaplan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Nature | Series: AUSTRALIAN NATURAL HISTORY
The Australian magpie is one of our nation's most popular and iconic birds. It is loved for its impressive vocal abilities, propensity to play, excellent parenting and willingness to form enduring friendships with people.Written by award-winning author Gisela Kaplan, a leading authority on animal behavi ...Show more
Born of Fire and Ash - Australian Operations in Response to the East Timor Crisis 1999-2000 by Craig Stockings (Editor)
$99.00 AUD
Category: Military | Series: The\Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor Ser.
Australia's involvement in East Timor from 1999-2000 was this nation's largest mission conducted under United Nations auspices, the single largest deployment of ADF personnel since the Second World War, and an instrumental part of Timor-Leste gaining its independence. Critically, it was also one not nes ...Show more
Conscription Conflict & the Great War by Robin Archer
$29.99 AUD
$34.99 (14% off)
Category: Accessories | Series: Australian History
While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscription for overseas service. The recourse to popular referendum on such an issue at such a time was without precedent anywhere in the world. The campaigns precipitated mass mobilisation, bitter argument, a ...Show more
Dunera Lives: Profiles by Ken Inglis; Bill Gammage; Seumas Spark; Jay Winter; Carol Bunyan
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Australian History Ser.
This second volume of Dunera Lives presents the voices, faces, and lives of 20 people, who, together with nearly 3000 other internees from Britain and Singapore, landed in Australia in 1940. All over the world there were Dunera Lives, those of men and women who passed through the upheavals of the Second ...Show more