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HISTORY AND SOCIAL COMMENTARY
HISTORY OF THE WORLD
IN SEVEN CHEAP THINGS
MOMENT OF TRUTH
Mark McKenna
RRP $22.99
Raj Patel
RRP $34.99
In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the
frontier, the Anzac legacy and deep time. He drags some
fascinating new scholarship into the light, and pushes the
debate about history beyond the familiar polarities.
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things brings
the latest ecological research together with histories of
colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other
uprisings to demonstrate how throughout history, crises
have always provided fresh opportunities to make the
world cheap and safe for capitalism.
SUNBURNT COUNTRY
DEEP TIME DREAMING:
UNCOVERING ANCIENT AUSTRALIA
Joelle Gergis
RP $34.99
Billy Griffiths
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Sunburnt Country pieces together Australia’s climate
history for the first time. It uncovers a continent long
vulnerable to climate extremes and variability, as well as
highlights the impact of a warming planet on Australian
lifestyles and ecosystems and the power we all have to
shape future life on Earth.
Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig
as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with
a historian’s inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey
through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary
deep history of the Australian continent.
VICTORY ON GALLIPOLI
DARK EMU
Peter Stanley
RRP $29.99
Bruce Pascoe
RRP $19.99
DUE 1ST MAY
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration
of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal
Australian s. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people
right across the continent were using domesticated
plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating, and storing -
behaviours inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag.
DUE 1ST MAY
SKIN IN THE GAME
EXACTLY
Simon Winchester
RRP $32.99
DUE 8TH MAY
In Victory on Gallipoli, prominent historians contemplate
how Australia today could have been a very different place
but for a decision made or not made, an opportunity
taken or not taken. These are the nation’s sliding door
moments, our alternative history.
Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the
pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery
to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the
Higgs boson. Exactly takes us back to the origins of the
Industrial Age, to Britain where he introduces the scientific
minds that helped usher in modern production.
SPINNING TOPS AND GUMDROPS
Edwin Barnard
RRP $44.99
Spinning Tops & Gumdrops captures a time when
‘imagination, skill, and daring’ was the source of
children’s play. Quoits and jacks, dress ups and
charades, can all be seen in these images. This
was also a time when children could view public
hangings, and premature death was frequent.
MRS KELLY
Grantlee Kieza
RRP $29.99
Mrs Kelly is the astonishing story of one of Australia’s
most notorious women and her wild family, but it’s also
the story of the making of Australia, from struggling colony
and backwater to modern nation.
Sonya Voumard
RRP $27.99
Sonya Voumard’s Skin in the Game is original, incisive,
and hugely entertaining. The daughter of a European
refugee mother and a journalist father, Voumard recounts
with aplomb her passionate but questioning relationship
with journalism and the nature of the interview.
POPULISM NOW!
David McKnight
RRP $29.99
This timely and persuasive book exposes the failures
of globalisation: greedy banks, predatory privatisation
and corporate tax avoidance. David McKnight argues
that a progressive populism could address the genuine
economic grievances of everyday people, without
scapegoating immigrants or ethnic minorities.
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