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  • Haboo

    Native American Stories from Puget Sound

    The stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound represent an important part of the oral tradition by which one generation hands down beliefs, values, and customs to another. Vi Hilbert grew up when many of the old social patterns survived and everyone spoke the ancestral language.Haboo, Hilbert’s collection of thirty-three stories, features tales mostly set in the Myth ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

    Edited by G.A.J. Rogers, Tom Sorell, Jill Kraye ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
    Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders--Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes--and Outsiders--Pierre Gassendi, Kenelm Digby, Theophilus Gale, Ralph Cudworth and Nicholas Malebranche--of the philosocial canon, and the ways in which reputations are created and confirmed. In their own day, these ten figures were all considered to be ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Start Digging, You Bastards!

    Australian and New Zealand forces' desperate battle with Rommel and the Axis at El Alamein

    by Tom Gilling ...
    The gripping story of Australians' and New Zealanders' key role defeating the Axis in North Africa a true turning point of World War II'We were to go through and take on targets of opportunity, to shoot up anything we could. Never at any stage can I remember any plan of us coming back, none of that was ever talked about ... We felt it was a suicide mission.'July 1942: the North African campaign ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Project RAINFALL

    The secret history of Pine Gap

    by Tom Gilling ...
    Pine Gap is a top secret American spy base on Australian soil, but how much do we really know about it?At the height of the Cold War the chief of one of Australia's spy agencies joined three CIA men at a remote site in Central Australia to toast the success of a top secret project known in US intelligence circles as RAINFALL.The CIA listening station at Pine Gap was officially called the Joint ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Blood Money

    Bikies, terrorists and Middle Eastern gangs

    by Clive Small, Tom Gilling ...
    Organised crime in Australia is more reckless and more violent than ever before. Controlled by a new wave of gangland bosses, it has broken old taboos and formed alliances that would have once been unthinkable. So who now holds the power?There are the Middle Eastern gangs whose core business is drugs, the sale and stockpiling of dangerous weapons, extortion and large-scale fraud; the outlaw ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Dark Side

    The explosive story of corruption, greed and murder in the Australian drug trade

    by Clive Small, Tom Gilling ...
    A fierce and compelling expose of organised crime and the role of a senior law enforcement officer in Australia's multi-billion dollar drug trade.'Each year at least 10 billion is laundered in and through Australia. Much of this money is derived from illicit drugs.'Hooked on the limitless profits of the drug trade, organised crime has grown so powerful that it now poses a major threat to Australia ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Japan Copes with Calamity

    Edited by Tom Gill, Brigitte Steger, David H. Slater ...
    Four years after the 3.11 disaster in Japan, this acclaimed collection of ethnographies in English on the Japanese communities affected by the giant Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters continues to be the only one of its kind. With a new preface offering an update on the affected communities, this volume brings together studies by experienced researchers of Japan from field sites ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Bastard Behind the Lines

    The extraordinary story of Jock McLaren's escape from Sandakan and his guerrilla war against the Japanese

    by Tom Gilling ...
    He escaped from Singapore's Changi prisoner of war camp to become one of Australia's great World War II guerrilla fighters.'The way I look at it is this...When you're behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you've got to get your bloody self out irrespective of anybody else. That's why I like it.'Scottish-born but a Queenslander to the bone, Jock McLaren was a true Australian hero. As a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Griffith Wars

    The powerful true story of Donald Mackay's murder and the town that stood up to the Mafia

    by Tom Gilling, Terry Jones ...
    The story behind the murder that shocked a nation.The assassination of Donald Mackay was meant to solve a problem for the mafia. Instead it roused the law-abiding citizens of Griffith to fight against the powerful criminal elements who had made their town synonymous with drugs and murder.Drawing on the personal diaries and memories of Terry Jones - who, as the editor of the local newspaper, knew ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Witness

    The fighting had ended but for Sandakan's most notorious prisoner the war was not over

    by Tom Gilling ...
    The fighting had ended but for Sandakan's most notorious prisoner the war was not over.'That bastard's still alive? I'm going to kill him with my bare hands.' POW Bill MoxhamAt the Australian war crimes trials that followed World War II, one prosecution witness stood out: Warrant Officer Bill Sticpewich.During his three years in the infamous Sandakan POW camp, Sticpewich had seen hundreds of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Betrayed

    The shocking story of two undercover cops

    by Clive Small, Tom Gilling ...
    'I've cheated, lied and deceived people. I've ruined marriages, ruined lives, ruined relationships, ruined the health of others, not to mention my own.'What is it really like to live as an undercover cop? Joe and Jessie joined the NSW Police believing they could make a difference, but their whole life became a lie. They were cops pretending to be crooks. And their targets? Drug dealers, criminal ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Diggers of Kapyong

    The story of the Aussies who changed the course of the Korean War

    by Tom Gilling ...
    The gripping account of Australia in the Korean War and how 3RAR battalion held back an entire Chinese army division to prevent Seoul being overrun.'In the only war in which Australian soldiers ever faced off against the might of Mao, this is a revealing and spellbinding account of an extraordinary victory.' - Peter FitzSimonsWe charged and we began to get shot down . . . there were so many ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD