History
Little Book of John Wayne in the Movies
$10.00 AUD
John Wayne reportedly loathed horses. Nor did he ever serve one day in the army. Yet the Iowa pharmacistA (t)s son born Marion Michael Morrison came to embody two of the most enduring archetypes in American popular culture: the cowboy and the gung-ho war hero.
A Brief History of Motion
$15.00 AUD
Beginning around 3,500 BC with the wheel, and moving through the eras of horsepower, trains and bicycles, Tom Standage puts the rise of the car – and the future of urban transport – into a broader historical context. Our society has been shaped by the car in innumerable ways, many of which are so familiar that we no longer notice them. Why does...