ANZAC Treasures: The Gallipoli Collection of the Australian War Memorial by Peter Pedersen
$19.99 AUD
Category: REM Australian Studies
This landmark publication commemorates the centenary of the Great War's Gallipoli campaign, 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916. ANZAC Treasures approaches the subject of Gallipoli not only from a military perspective but also in terms of its social impact and its role in commemoration and nation building. ...Show more
Melbourne Then and Now Compact by Heather Chapman
$9.99 AUD
$17.99 (44% off)
Category: REM Australian Studies
The classic series from Pavilion Books, Melbourne Then and Now showcases vintage pictures of the city and compares them with the views as they look today. Melbourne has often been considered the most English of Australia's various capital cities, yet it was the only one to be founded by a native-born Au ...Show more
What Do We Want? The Story of Protest in Australia by Clive Hamilton
$15.99 AUD
$39.99 (60% off)
Category: REM Australian Studies | Series: Forwared by Germaine Greer
**NEW** In What Do We Want! Clive Hamilton explores the colourful, enthralling and stirring forms of protest used in the big social movements that define modern Australia. He includes dedicated chapters on the peace movement, women's liberation, Indigenous rights, gay rights and the environmental mo ...Show more
Spinning Tops & Gumdrops: A Portrait of Colonial Childhood by Edwin Barnard
$16.95 AUD
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Category: REM Australian Studies
Spinning Tops & Gumdrops captures a time when `imagination, skill, and daring' was the source of children's play. Quoits and jacks, hide and seek, cricket with a kerosene tin for a wicket, dress ups and charades, can all be seen in these appealing images. Children climb trees, run races, and build r ...Show more
Swallowed By the Sea by HENDERSON GRAEME
$15.95 AUD
Category: REM Australian Studies
Swallowed by the Sea tells the stories of Australia's greatest and most tragic shipwrecks, lost in raging storms, on jagged reefs, under enemy fire, or through human error, treachery or incompetence. Read about the oldest known wreck in Australian waters, the Tryal, driven into a maze of sunken rocks by ...Show more
Royal Visits to Australia by Jane Connors
$10.00 AUD
Category: REM Australian Studies
Out of Australia's total population of around nine million, an estimated seven million people turned out to catch a glimpse of the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II in 1954. Sixty years later, in April 2014, television news bulletins, newspapers and social media were awash with stories of the royal visit ...Show more
Kin by Nick Brodie
$29.99 AUD
Category: REM Australian Studies
When author and historian Nick Brodie traced his own family tree, he began to see the pattern of European settlement in Australia. As he learnt about the generations of his family, Nick uncovered the social and cultural contexts and historic circumstances that shaped his ancestors: the Irish, the convic ...Show more
Henry and Banjo by James Knight
$16.95 AUD
Category: REM Australian Studies
Today most of us know that Henry Lawson and Andrew 'Banjo' Paterson were famous writers. We know about Matilda, Clancy of the Overflow and the Man from Snowy River; The Drover's Wife, While the Billy Boils and Joe Wilson and his mates, but little else. Here, in a compelling and engaging work, James Knig ...Show more
The Best Australian Essays 2016 by Geordie Williamson
$10.00 AUD
Category: REM Australian Studies
In The Best Australian Essays 2016, Geordie Williamsoncurates the year's best non-fiction writing from Australia's finest writers. The result is a collection that reads as a wake-up call- from Jo Chandler on the devastating bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and Richard Flanagan on the Syrian exodus to ...Show more
Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path to Power by David Marr
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Category: REM Australian Studies
"InFaction Man, David Marr traces the career of a Labor warrior. In dazzling style, he shows how this brilliant recruiter and formidable campaigner mastered first the unions and then the party in pursuit of an ambition he set himself in childhood- to be Prime Minister of Australia. Bill Shorten is now a ...Show more
Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney Rn by Suzanne Rickard; Peter Cochrane (Foreword by)
$16.95 AUD
Category: REM Australian Studies
Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney RN is about the young James Burney's experience of shipboard life and the momentous events that took place during the second voyage of exploration when he sailed with Captain Cook on the Resolution and then on the Adventure between 1772 and 1 ...Show more