The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present by Jonathan Fenby
35.00 AUD
Category: History
In 1850, China was the "sick man of Asia." Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim of oppression, war, and famine. This makes its current position as arguably the m ...Show more
Anti-Judaism by David Nirenberg
24.99 AUD
Category: History
In this magisterial history, David Nirenberg explores anti-Judaism from antiquity to the present, from the Ancient Egyptians who resented their Jewish neighbours to the ideas of Voltaire and Marx, thereby revealing it to be a mode of thought deeply embedded in the Western tradition. With intolerance an ...Show more
Napoleon Hill's Gold Standard - An Official Publication of the Napoleon Hill Foundation by Napoleon Hill
44.99 AUD
Category: History
Napoleon Hill's Gold Standard is a source of riches that you can take to the bank Your profit from this book will materialize in the riches you uncover while living your life's purpose. Knowing what to do is great, but applying what you have learned is the real secret to success. You gain your greatest ...Show more
The Suitcase - Six Attempts to Cross a Border by Frances Stonor Saunders
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old suitcase filled with her father's papers. 'If you open that suitcase you'll never close it again,' warned her mother. Her father's life had been a study in borders - exiled from Romania during the war, to Turkey then Egypt and eventually Britain, ...Show more
Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded by David Graeber
47.99 AUD
Category: History
The classic work on debt, now is a special tenth anniversary edition Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing- Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem ...Show more
Tunnel 29 - The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman
34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Now, he decides to tunnel back in. It's summer, 1962, and Joachim Rudolph, a student, is digging a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin - dozens of men, women and children; all willing to risk everything to ...Show more
Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin by Howard Blum
32.99 AUD
Category: History
"A truly thrilling expose of the previously unknown Nazi assassination plot that could have changed history." - Edward Jay Epstein, New York Times bestselling author of The Assassination Chronicles The New York Times bestselling author returns with a tale as riveting and suspenseful as any thriller: the ...Show more
Broken: Children, Parents and Family Courts by Camilla Nelson, Catharine Lumby
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A devastating account of how Australia's family courts fail children, families and victims of domestic abuseThe family courts intimately affect the lives of those who come before them. Judges can decide where you are allowed to live and work, which school your child can attend and whether you are even p ...Show more
The Dream of Europe by Geert Mak
35.00 AUD
Category: History
The long-awaited sequel to Geert Mak's landmark In Europe. 'Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had' Financial Times How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here? From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, exam ...Show more
The BBC: A People's History by David Hendy
49.99 AUD
Category: History
A monumental work of popular history, making the case that the Beeb is as much of a National Treasure as the NHS. In 1922, three men - only one of whom had previously heard of 'broadcasting' - founded the BBC. In doing so, Arthur Burrows, Cecil Lewis, and John Reith set out to accomplish something utte ...Show more
Watergate - A New History by Garrett M. Graff
49.99 AUD
Category: History
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky, the first definitive narrative history of Watergate, exploring the full scope of the scandal through the politicians, investigators, journalists, and informants who made it the most influential political event of our modern era.In ...Show more
Slave Empire - How Slavery Built Modern Britain by Padraic X. Scanlan
24.99 AUD
Category: History
In intimate, human detail, Slave Empire shows how Britain's empire was built on sugar, tobacco and coffee plantations worked by enslaved African labourers and their descendants. With original research and synthesis of new scholarship, it explores two clashing visions of the British empire after emancipa ...Show more