It's the Government, Stupid!: How Governments Blame Citizens for Their Own Policies by Keith Dowding
$44.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Governments have developed a convenient habit of blaming social problems on their citizens, placing too much emphasis on personal responsibility and pursuing policies to ‘nudge’ their citizens to better behaviour. Dowding shows that, in fact, responsibility for many of our biggest social crises — includ ...Show more
I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter (HB) by David Chariandy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
"Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble." --Nafkote Tamirat For readers of Between the World and Me and We Should All Be Feminists, an intimate and profound meditation on the politics of race today, from prizewinning novelist David Chariandy. I can glimpse, through the lens of my own e ...Show more
JFK: the Smoking Gun by Colin McLaren
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
On 22nd November 1963, the 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and his wife Jackie were taking part in a presidential motorcade through Dallas. Thousands lined the streets cheering; others hung out of windows to catch a glimpse of the much-loved First Lady and President. Sudden ...Show more
Jambusters: The Story of the Women's Institute in the Second World War by Julie Summers
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
The Second World War was the WI's finest hour. The whole of its previous history - two decades of educating, entertaining and supporting women and campaigning on women's issues - culminated in the enormous collective responsibility felt by the members to 'do their bit' for Britain. With all the vigour, ...Show more
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia by Simon Barnard
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in ...Show more
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present by Christopher Harding
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th century to the present, through the eyes of people who always had their doubts about modernity - who greeted it not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's familiar mode ...Show more
Japan at War in the Pacific - The Rise and Fall of an Empire, 1869-1945 by Jonathan Clements
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
By the time of Japan's surrender in 1945, an entire generation had grown up knowing nothing but conflict; but the transformation of Japan into a militarist power began decades earlier, with the toppling of the old samurai regime, and the rush of the formerly isolated nation onto the world stage. Jap ...Show more
Japan's Pacific War: Personal Accounts of the Emperor's Warriors by PETER WILLIAMS
$75.00 AUD
Category: Military
'I had no qualms fighting the Australians, just as I have killed without remorse any of the Emperor's enemies: the British, the Americans and the Dutch', so admits Takahiro Sato in this ground-breaking oral history of Japan's Pacific War. Thanks to years of research and over 100 interviews with veterans ...Show more
Japanese Ancient Origins: Stories of People and Civilization by J. K. JACKSON
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Beautiful edition, and companion to Japanese Myths and Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Japanese society and culture. A gorgeous Collector's Edition covering the history of Japan from the early Jomon period to the Edo. Japan has gripped the imagination of readers of their spiritual and delicate ...Show more
Japanese Myths by Jake Jackson (Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\World's Greatest Myths and Legends Ser.
Japan's mythology is alive with gods, spirits and monsters. It draws on Buddhist and Shinto traditions to explain the nature of the world of the island of Japan, and the heavenly status of the long line of emperors. The warrior class of the imperial court, and the natural spirits of the countryside repr ...Show more
Japanese War Fantasy 1933 - An Edited and Annotated Translation of "Account of the Future US-Japan War" by Kyosuke Fukunaga
$42.99 AUD
Category: Military
A bombshell dropped onto Honolulu docks in 1933--by ominous coincidence, on December 7. It was merely a crate of Japanese pulp fiction titled Account of the Future US-Japan War. Unlike other popular war fiction of the day, this riveting techno-thriller was written by a Japanese naval commander with fore ...Show more
Jean-Claude Colin - Reluctant Founder 1790-1875 by Justin Taylor
$85.00 AUD
Category: History
In 1830, at the age of forty, Jean-Claude Colin accepted the call of his colleagues to take charge of the Society of Mary (Marists). He had joined this project as a seminarian in Lyons, France, in 1816, along with Marcellin Champagnat, future founder of the Marist teaching brothers. Since ordination, he ...Show more