The Parthenon Enigma - A Journey into Legend by Joan Breton Connelly
49.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A radical new interpretation of the meaning and purposes of one of the world's most iconic buildings. For more than two millennia, the Parthenon has been revered as the symbol of Western culture and its highest ideals. It was understood to honour the city-state's patron deity, Athena, and its sculptures ...Show more
The Great War for Peace by William Mulligan
49.95 AUD
Category: History
"The war to end all wars" rings out a bitter mockery of the First World War, often viewed as the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century, the crucible from which Soviet, Fascist and Nazi dictatorships emerged. Today's conventional wisdom is that the Great War attuned the world to large-scale slaugh ...Show more
Gondola by Donna Leon
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Of all the trademarks of Venice - and there are many, from the gilded Basilica of San Marco to the melancholy Bridge of Sighs - none is more ubiquitous than the gondola. In Gondola, the internationally acclaimed 'American with the Venetian heart', Donna Leon, tells its fascinating story. First used in m ...Show more
The Peculiar Case of the Electric Constable: A True Tale of Passion, Poison and Pursuit by Carol Baxter
19.99 AUD
Category: History
John Tawell was a sincere Quaker but a sinning one. Convicted of forgery, he was transported to Sydney, where he opened Australia's first retail pharmacy and made a fortune. When he returned home to England after fifteen years, he thought he would be welcomed; instead he was shunned. Then on New Year's ...Show more
Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle by Michael Jones
22.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1485 the Battle of Bosworth marked an epoch in the lives of two great houses: the house of York fell to the ground when Richard III died on the field of battle; and the house of Tudor rose from the massacre to reign for the next hundred years. Michael Jones, co-author of The King's Grave: The Search ...Show more
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson
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Category: History
In recent years, computers have learned to diagnose diseases, drive cars, write clean prose and win game shows. Advances like these have created unprecedented economic bounty but in their wake median income has stagnated and employment levels have fallen. Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee reveal the t ...Show more
Elizabeth's Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen's Court by Anna Whitelock
19.99 AUD
Category: History
Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558, restoring the Protestant faith to England. At the heart of the new queen's court lay Elizabeth's bedchamber, closely guarded by the favoured women who helped her dress, looked after her jewels and shared her bed. Elizabeth's private life was of public, politica ...Show more
Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle That Gave Birth to the Globe by Chris Laoutaris
39.99 AUD
Category: History
"Fabulous! Ground-breaking ...a gripping tale that enables us to see Shakespeare in a new light". (Alison Weir). In November 1596 a woman signed a document which would nearly destroy the career of William Shakespeare...Who was the woman who played such an instrumental, yet little known, role in Shakespe ...Show more
War of Words: The Man Who Talked 4000 Japanese into Surrender by Hamish McDonald
32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Thirty years ago when Hamish McDonald was Asia Correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald in Japan, he was given a box of papers by a departing journalist. The box contained a large manuscript and photographs that detailed the amazing life of Charles Bavier. Born in Japan in the late 1800s, the illegit ...Show more
Tudor: The Family Story by Leanda de Lisle
19.99 AUD
Category: History
The Tudors are a national obsession. From TV bodice-rippers to Booker-prize winning novels and scholarly journals, they are our favourite family in history. Their story is packed with famous and thrilling tales: Henry VIII and his wives,Elizabeth the Virgin Queen, the Princes in the Tower, the Armada. B ...Show more
The Mighty Dead - Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson
44.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty, but why they do is a mystery. How can we be so intimate with something so distant? In this passionate and deeply perso ...Show more
D-Day Through French Eyes: Normandy 1944 by Mary Louise Roberts
41.95 AUD
Category: History
Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges. Silent parachutes dotting the night sky - that's how one woman in Normandy in June of 1944 learned that the D-Day invasion was under way. Though they yearned for liberation, the ...Show more