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The Best Australian Science Writing 2021 by Dyani Lewis (Editor); Cathy Foley (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The\Best Australian Science Ser.
This much-loved anthology showcases the nation’s best science writing. New voices join prominent science writers and journalists, taking us to the depths of the ocean, the fuels of the future, and to the Ryugu asteroid and back. The anthology also takes us straight the heart of complex ethical dilemmas ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2022 by Ivy Shih (Editor); Norman Swan (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The\Best Australian Science Writing Seri Ser.
What can a microbial gravesite on a moon teach us? Why are a group of scientists risking their life to safeguard a seed bank? How does a virus detective story show us why we need to be vigilant about the next disease outbreak? Great science writing compels us to pay attention to parts of the world often ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2023 by Donna Lu (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The\Best Australian Science Ser.
The annual collection — now in its thirteenth year — celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.Should we alter animals’ DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth’s deep past? How is the world’s most expensive — and explosive — substance ma ...Show more
The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell
$7.99 AUD
Category: Catalogue | Series: Australian Classics Series
For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey - the international bestseller - an explosive novel of sex, secrecy and escape. 'You've never been in control, until now; you've never, before, had exactly what you want...The lights turned off. A touch that's gentle, slow, provocative, that builds you up, that makes you ...Show more
The Cake Stall by The Australian Women's Weekly
$39.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Women's Weekly Maxi
Who doesn't like to hover over a cake stall at markets, fetes, voting places on election day or even just a street stall run for a local charity? As long as the items on sale are homemade, a cake stall is like a magnet for those of us who love oldfashioned cakes and preserves made with loving care in so ...Show more
The Captive Republic - A History of Republicanism in Australia 1788-1996 by Mark McKenna
$56.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Studies in Australian History Ser.
This first comprehensive history of republican thought and activity in Australia traces debate around an Australian republic from 1788 to the present. It explains the pivotal role played by republican philosophies, both before and after federation, and illustrates the striking similarities between the a ...Show more
The Conscription Conflict and the Great War by Archer Damousi et al
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Australian History Ser.
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
The Contagion (My Australian Story) by Kerry Greenwood
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Education | Series: My Australian Story
As the horrors of the First World War are drawing to a close, a danger has arisen that will kill more people around the world that the Great War did—an influenza pandemic. Charlotte McKenzie, assisting the doctor next door, find herself experiencing at close hand the effects of this devastating disease— ...Show more
The Emperor's Grace: Untold Stories of the Australians Enslaved in Japan during World War II by Mark Baker
$34.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Emperor's Grace is the story of the men of "C" Force – the first contingent of Australian, British and Dutch POWs shipped from Singapore to Japan in November 1942 – who worked in the Kawasaki Shipyard in Kobe before the American firebombing campaign razed the city, and then the infamous Fukuoka coal ...Show more
The Farm : Images of Rural Australia by ANDREW CHAPMAN
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Australian Coffee Table Books
Australia’s countryside, deeply and richly scarred by the human presence, shows the marks of sweat and toil, of lives and generations, of triumphs and failures and of enterprise often slowly decaying with time.These beautiful images captured by Andrew Chapman in The Farm are glimpses of the past amidst ...Show more
The Fountain of Public Prosperity - Evangelical Christians in Australian History 1740¿1914 by Stuart Piggin; Robert D. Linder
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Australian History Ser.
The official religion brought to Australia with the First Fleet was Evangelical Christianity, the 'vital religion' then shaping public policy through William Wilberforce and his fellow evangelicals. That it has shaped Australian history ever since, making a substantial contribution to the public prosper ...Show more
The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors by Bain Attwood
$29.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia | Series: Australian History
In this superbly researched book Bain Attwood eschews the generalisations of national and colonial history to provide a finely grained local history of the Djadja Wurrung people of Central Victoria. Insisting on the importance of grappling with a history that involved a relationship between the people o ...Show more