The Book Company: New Products - Australia & New Zealand

Walking Sydney (Fifteen walks with a city's writers)

Sat, 09 May 2026 17:09:24 +0000

‘ My primary mode of transport is my feet. It’ s the way that I orient in the world. It’ s also the way to honour being in place.’ – Jazz Money Walking Sydney offers an invitation to join a city’ s writers as they lead us t..

Price: $34.99

Drink and Democracy (Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia)

Sat, 02 May 2026 08:38:45 +0000

The nineteenth-century spread of democracy in Britain and its colonies coincided with an increase in alcohol consumption and in celebratory public dinners with rounds of toasts. British colonists raised their glasses to salute the Crown in rituals that asserted fraternal equality and political ..

Price: $42.95

Republicanism and Responsible Government (The Shaping of Democracy in Australia and Canada)

Sat, 02 May 2026 08:10:58 +0000

Despite remarkable similarities, little attempt has been made to compare the political development of colonial-era Australia and Canada. Both nations were born as British colonies and used violent and non-violent means to agitate for democratic freedoms. Republicanism and Responsible Governm..

Price: $39.95

Humanism Betrayed (Theory, Ideology, and Culture in the Contemporary University)

Sat, 02 May 2026 03:51:05 +0000

In Humanism Betrayed Graham Good offers a defence of liberal humanism against the illiberal trends, political and intellectual, that dominate today's university. He uses the McEwen Report episode at the University of British Columbia to illustrate the current political climate in univers..
Price: $37.95

Adam Smith's Islands (New Zealand's Incomparable Restructuring, 1980-1995)

Fri, 01 May 2026 23:33:30 +0000

Many developed countries restructured relations between state and economy from the late 1970s into the 1990s. Among them, New Zealand went far, fast, and left a clear trail, making it possible to study economic restructuring as it occurred, with all the debates, uncertainty, surprises, mistakes..
Price: $49.95

Spitfire VC vs A6M2/3 Zero-sen (Darwin 1943)

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:29:02 +0000

The little-known yet fascinating story of when two of the most iconic aircraft of World War II dueled in the skies above Australia.

Fully illustrated with detailed full-color artwork, this is the gripping story of two iconic aircraft facing off against each other above Australia.<..
Price: $23.00

Eureka (The Unfinished Revolution)

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:14:41 +0000

Readers are drawn into the greatest Australian legend outside of wartime, the Eureka Blockade
Australia's answer to the Boston Tea Party and to the French people's storming of the Bastille was the Eureka Blockade. It was the moment when the diggers sense of outraged justi..
Price: $45.00

State Apologies to Indigenous Peoples (Law, Politics, Ethics)

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:29:37 +0000

This book considers the ethics and politics of state apologies made to Indigenous peoples.
Price: $61.99

A History of Christchurch Muslims (Integration and Harmony)

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:20:49 +0000

This book presents a critical analysis of the Muslim community in Christchurch, a neglected but important aspect of wider New Zealand social and religious history. A useful reference for scholars interested to learn more about the Muslim and Christchurch Mosque communities before the 2019 shoot..
Price: $61.99

The First Anzacs (The Incredible Untold Stories of Aussie Combat Engineers in WWI)

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:02:30 +0000

The untold story of the Australian sappers - army engineers - in World War I.

They were airbrushed out of history. Charles Bean claimed the first Australian ashore at the Gallipoli landing on 25 April 1915 was an army officer, but he was wrong. Even today, the military hier..
Price: $29.99