On Hope by Daisy Jeffrey

$6.00 NZD

Category: Ecology | Series: On ... Series | Reading Level: near fine

As extreme weather becomes the norm, scientists agree that our climate is changing. But it seems too many of our leaders aren't listening to the science and are failing to act. In On Hope, one of the lead organisers of the Australian Climate strike, 17-year-old Daisy Jeffrey shows how ordinary people ar e fighting back and demanding we address climate change to help save our planet. Daisy was at the centre of a movement that joined people together to drive change. She reveals what prompted the action, what she and her friends believe and why she is choosing hope over indifference and standing up to speak truth to power. ...Show more

A Short History of Australia by Manning Clark

$15.00 NZD

Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good

in this lively, very readable book, the eminent and controversial historian Manning Clark portrays the evolution of Australia with remarkable breadth of vision. He begins with the Aborigines and the coming of white men, then traces the progress of the First Fleet to Botany Bay, the unfurling of the Brit ish flag in January 1788 to the accompaniment of a regimental band, and Governor Arthur Phillip's harangue to the convicts in his charge. With a provocative style the author describes convicts and settlers, architecture, exploration, immigrants and squatters, politics and culture, the gold rushes, radicals and nationalists, the world wars. The incisive concluding chapter deals with the years from 1969 to 1986 - Manning Clark's 'age of ruins.' This elegantly written and well-illustrated book brings to life the people and events that have shaped Australia's history. ...Show more

Disreputable Profession - Journalism and Journalists in the 19th Century Australia by Denis Cryle (Editor)

$14.00 NZD

Category: Australia | Reading Level: good-very good

East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination by Paul Millar

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand

At a time when China is being seen as the next superpower, both sweatshop and powerhouse for the global economy, political courtship on the part of interested governments is accompanied by grassroots hostility. Such ambivalence is not new. These essays ­ discuss ways in which people of Chinese d escent have made significant contributions to the history of both Australian and New Zealand. This is the first book to compare both countries' orientalism and its various alternatives. ...Show more

Indigenous Australian Art in the National Gallery of Victoria by Judith Ryan

$15.00 NZD

Category: Maori & Pacific | Reading Level: very good

This publication acknowledges the power and primacy of the indigenous art and culture. It follows five published catalogues on aspects of the collection and aims to extend the repertoire of published images in the public domain.

Hill End: An Historic Australian Goldfields Landscape by Alan Mayne

$12.00 NZD

Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good

A Secret Country by John Pilger

$12.00 NZD

Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good

"EXPATRIATE JOURNALIST and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A SECRET COUNTRY, he pays tribute to a little known Australia and tells a story of high political drama."

Mariners Are Warned! - John Lort Stokes and H. M. S. Beagle in Australia, 1837-1843 by Marsden Hordern

$45.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Series: Miegunyah Press Ser. | Reading Level: very good

John Lort Stokes was commissioned by the British Hydrographic Office in 1837 to survey and chart unknown parts of the Australian coastline. He was the last Royal Navy surveyor to hold such a roving commission-as had Matthew Flinders and Phillip Parker King before him. The voyage lasted six years and his ship was H.M.S. Beagle, of Charles Darwin fame. Stokes circumnavigated Australia twice. In the north he discovered the Fitzroy, Albert and Flinders rivers and Port Darwin, and in the south charted that graveyard of sailing ships, Bass Strait. A century later, twelve of his charts were still in use. The occasional breathtaking foolhardiness of this earnest and conscientious man startles the reader, as it must have done his men. On a whim, Stokes twice risked drowning himself and others with him, and he made several daredevil escapes from crocodiles. The stories are gripping, and Marsden Hordern is a gifted and vigorous storyteller. He is ably assisted by the ship's mate, Helpman-a chatty, witty chronicler. Mariners are Warned! is an engrossing biography, written with empathy by a fellow mariner. Winner of the Age Book of the Year; Victorian Premier's Literary Award (A. A. Phillips Award for Australian Studies); Braille Book of the Year; Australian Maritime History Prize. Companion volume to King of the Australian Coast, another prize-winning maritime biography by the same author. ...Show more

Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A World That is, Was and Will be by Diane Bell

$20.00 NZD

Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good

This study examines the culture, politics and history of the Ngarrindjeri people and the burning issue of the women''s business in the Hindmarsh Island bridge case.'

Federation Square by Andrew Brown-May and Norman Day

$18.00 NZD

Category: Architecture | Reading Level: good-very good

Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands since the First World War by William S. Livingston; William Roger Louis

$30.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

The Usurper: Jorgen Jorgenson and His Turbulent Life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land, 1780-1841 by Dan Sprod

$55.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine

Includes the full text of Jorgenson's hitherto unpublished account of the 'revolution' in Iceland in 1809, in which he was briefly installed as 'Protector' - and which was the source of the name by which he is known to Tasmania history - the 'Convict King'. Jorgenson's adventurous life - and his often u nreliable accounting of it - are examined in meticulous detail. ...Show more