Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and History on a Central Australian Pastoral Station by Shannyn Palmer
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A new work of history that seeks to unmake mythologies of pioneers, pastoralism and possession in the Northern TerritorySome stories dominate how we see and interpret a place, while others are obscured from view. Angas Downs is a pastoral station in Central Australia, but pastoralism is only a fraction ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all n ...Show more
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Geoff Manaugh, Nicola Twilley
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
Quarantine has shaped our world, yet it remains both feared and misunderstood. It is our most powerful response to uncertainty, but it operates through an assumption of guilt: in quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. An unusually poetic metaphor for moral and mythic ills, quarantin ...Show more
Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them. But as doctors, researchers, campaigners and most of all as patients, women have continuously challenged medical ...Show more
Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
'We are taught that medicine is the art of solving our body's mysteries. And as a science, we expect medicine to uphold the principles of evidence and impartiality. We want our doctors to listen to us and care for us as people, but we also need their assessments of our pain and fevers, aches and exhaust ...Show more
Urban Jungle: Nature and the City from the Stone Age to the Climate Emergency by Ben Wilson
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
An eye-opening and urgent re-examination of nature in our cities, from the Sunday Times bestselling winner of the Somerset Maugham Awards. Our modern-day cities might seem to represent our separation from the natural world. In fact, as Ben Wilson reveals in this captivating re-examination of urban land ...Show more
Van Diemen's Land by James Boyce
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life. In this multi-award-winning history of colonial Tasmania, James Boyce shows how the newcomers were changed by the natural world th ...Show more
Van Diemen's Land by James Boyce
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
"With a foreword by Richard Flanagan Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize 'A brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in how land shapes people' —Tim Flannery Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a k ...Show more
Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria by Janet McCalman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
From award-winning author and historian Janet McCalman, the engrossing tale of Tasmanian convict settlers in colonial Victoria It was meant to be 'Victoria the Free', uncontaminated by the Convict Stain. Yet they came in their tens of thousands as soon as they were cut free or able to bolt. More than ha ...Show more
Vital Organs by Suzie Edge
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts.Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's armpit led the development of antiseptics. Robert Jenkin's ear started a war. All too often, historical figures feel distant and abstract; more myth and legend than r ...Show more
Votes for Women: Voices of the Suffragettes by National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) Staff (Contribution by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
A century after the first women were given the vote in Britain, this remarkable book presents a wealth of observations by and about the leading protagonists of the suffrage movement, beautifully illustrated with their portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, London. Combining the portraits of, and ...Show more
Wagnerism - Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
'An absolutely masterly work' - Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. ...Show more