Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future by Tracey Spicer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change. `Mum, I want a robot slave.’ Broadcaster Tracey Spicer had an epiphany when her ...Show more
Man Who Never Was: The Remarkable Story of Operation Mincemeat by EWEN MONTAGU
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Ewen Montagu's legendary memoir is released to coincide with the film version of Operation Mincemeat. In the early hours of 30 April 1943, a corpse, wearing the uniform of an officer in the Royal Marines, was slipped into the waters off the south-west coast of Spain. With it was a briefcase, in which we ...Show more
Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia by Ben Bland
$12.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: LOWY INSTITUTE PAPER
Although he has dominated Indonesian politics for years, President Joko Widodo remains a beguiling figure. He has consistently defied both his sternest critics and his strongest supporters. A brilliant instinctive politician, Jokowi, as he is known, was resoundingly re-elected in 2019. However, he has s ...Show more
Man with a Blue Scarf - On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
"An extraordinary record of a great artist in his studio, it also describes what it feels like to be transformed into a work of art." -ARTnews Lucian Freud (1922-2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of his time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayfor ...Show more
Manly Pictorial History by Virginia Macleod
$24.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Pictorial History S.
"Seven miles from Sydney and a thousand miles from care." Manly has always been the beauty spot of Sydney where millions of visitors have travelled to get away from city life. This book covers the history of the municipality from Aboriginal settlement to modern times.
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
$39.99 AUD
Category: Essays
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three dec ...Show more
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Dear Comrades Since the accident at the Chernobyl power plant, there has been a detailed analysis of the radioactivity of the food and territory of your population point. The results show that living and working in your village will cause no harm to adults or children.So began a pamphlet issued by the U ...Show more
Many Maps: Charting Two Cultures: First Nations Australians and European Settlers in Western Australia by Bill Bunbury; Jenny Bunbury
$42.99 AUD
Category: History
The title Many Maps, Charting Two Cultures, looks at the way two contrasting societies often misunderstood each other in the western third of Australia. Maps can be drawn and interpreted in different ways. It is possible to map a path through life, find a way through a forest, traverse a desert or chart ...Show more
Many a Close Run Thing - From jet-fighter pilot to airline captain by Tom Enright
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
A New Zealand squadron leader, flying-boat captain and airliner pilot on a life of aerial adventure Though rarely seen above the small sheep farming town called Ranfurly in Central Otago in the 1940s, Tom Enright developed a fascination with planes from an early age. He joined the Royal New Zealand Air ...Show more
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
"Revelatory and instructive . . . [a] beautifully written and accessible book" --The Times (London). For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authorit ...Show more
Mapping the Great Game - Explorers, Spies and Maps in 19th-Century Asia by Riaz Dean
$57.99 AUD
Category: History
"[A] fine example of popular history, and a worthy addition to the literature on the Great Game." -- Journal of Military History Although the ultimate prize of the Great Game played out between Great Britain and Imperial Russia in the 19th century was India, most of the intrigue and action took place a ...Show more
Maralinga: The struggle for return of the lands by Garry Hiskey
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
The British government notoriously conducted a series of atomic bomb tests in South Australia’s Maralinga lands during the 1950s and 1960s. The traditional owners were moved to Yalata, within a kilometre or so of the main highway from Adelaide to Perth. Estranged from their lands and unable to visit the ...Show more