Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha
21.99 AUD
Category: History
This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history. Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Pale ...Show more
The Diary Keepers - Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times by Nina Siegal
34.99 AUD
Category: History
Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before.Nina Siegal, an accomplished journalist and novelist, weaves together excerpts from t ...Show more
Defeating the Dictators by Charles Dunst
34.99 AUD
Category: History
'A deeply-researched and engaging work that both details the challenges democracies face, and offers us clear and persuasive solutions. Dunst's writing is as sharp as his argument is necessary.' SENATOR CHRIS COONSThe world is currently experiencing the lowest levels of democracy we have seen in over th ...Show more
Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History by Hannah McElhinney
32.99 AUD
Category: History
Rainbow History Class is your entry into LGBTQ+ history, sharing queer and trans stories from Ancient civilisations all the way up to the internet. So much of queer and trans history and culture has been erased, but Hannah McElhinney, writer and creator of Rainbow History Class (as seen on TikTok), is ...Show more
Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China by Jing Tsu
24.99 AUD
Category: History
A riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the processWhat does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living language?China today is one of the world's most powerful nations, yet just a ...Show more
Russia: Myths and Realities by Rodric Braithwaite
22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Wise and thorough' The Spectator 'Brisk and readable ... very valuable' Financial Times 'He is an engaging guide ... and writes with the same flair demonstrated in his previous bestseller Afgantsy' The Sunday Telegraph 'A scholarly yet highly readable gallop through the last 1000 years of Russian hi ...Show more
Imagining England’s Past: Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession by Susan Owens
49.99 AUD
Category: History
Imagining England's Past takes a long look at the country's invented histories, from the glamorous to the disturbing, from the eighth century to the present day.England has long built its sense of self on visions of its past. What does it mean for medieval writers to summon King Arthur from the post-Rom ...Show more
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones
34.99 AUD
Category: History
Sex, surveillance and the most sinister Nazi of them all in wartime Berlin There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decade ...Show more
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World by Anthony Sattin
24.99 AUD
Category: History
‘In a book of sensitivity and grace, Sattin does not just describe the nomadic way of life, but also evokes it … This is A BOOK OF BEAUTY AND BEGUILING RHYTHM that offers unsettling lessons about our present-day world of borders’ The Times ‘Thoughtful, lyrical yet ambitiously panoramic … As fleet and li ...Show more
The Dawn of Modern Cosmology: From Copernicus to Newton by Nicolaus Copernicus; Galileo Galilei; Johannes Kepler; René Descartes; Isaac. Newton; Aviva Rothman (Editor, Translator)
29.99 AUD
Category: History
New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it aboutIn the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later ...Show more
Heroines of Olympus: The Forgotten Women of Greek Mythology by Ellie Mackin Roberts
24.99 AUD
Category: Mythology
Heroines of Olympus retells the tales of 50 classic characters, plucking the threads of their lives from the myriad narratives in which they have appeared and weaving them together to create the full stories of these legendary women. Each story is accompanied by a captivating illustration and followed b ...Show more
Te Motunui Epa by Rachel Buchanan
49.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
‘This is a story about the power of art to help us find a way through the darkness. It is about how art can bring out the best in us, and the worst. The artworks in question are five wooden panels carved in the late 1700s by relatives in Taranaki.’ This stunning book examines how five interconnected car ...Show more