Great State: China and the World by Timothy Brook
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The last eight centuries of China's relationship with the world told through the eyes of traders, invaders, civil servants, visionaries, and traitors
Clean Living under Difficult Circumstances - Finding a Home in the Ruins of Modernism by Owen Hatherley
39.99 AUD
Category: History
How to make a fairer, more just city From the grandiose histories of monumental state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner cafés, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, Clean Living under Difficult Circumstances argues for the city as ...Show more
The Last Duel: Now a major film starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer by Eric Jager
19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The gripping, atmospheric true story of the duel to end all duels- a trial by combat pitting a knight against a squire accused of violating the knight's beautiful young wife. Now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott. In 1386, a few days after Christmas, a massive crowd gathered at a Paris mon ...Show more
Scenes from Prehistoric Life - From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans by Francis Pryor
49.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
An invigorating journey through Britain's prehistoric landscape, and an insight into the lives of its inhabitants. From the critically acclaimed author of The Fens, a Radio 4 Book of the Week. A journey through the evolution of Britain's prehistoric landscapes in fifteen 'scenes', shedding revelatory li ...Show more
Everything in Moderation by Daniel Finkelstein
24.99 AUD
Category: History
'How long does a column take? Well it's 1,150 words and it takes usually between two and three hours to write down. But in reality it has taken me somewhere between three hours and the entirety of my life since I was eight years old.'Writing on everything from a defence of suburban life and moderate pol ...Show more
System Failure: The Silencing of Rape Survivors (In the National Interest) by Michael Bradley
19.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
One in five Australian women has been the victim of a sexual assault. For these women, there is less than a 1 per cent chance that their rapist has been arrested, prosecuted and convicted of the crime. These are the bare numerical facts of system failure.We offer rape survivors a stark choice: go to the ...Show more
The Wolf Age - The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
49.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A thrilling work of popular history that gives a new perspective on the Viking-Anglo Saxon conflicts and brings the bloody period vividly to life. In the eleventh century, the rulers of the lands surrounding the North Sea are all hungry for power. To get power they need soldiers, to get soldiers they ne ...Show more
Mirror Sydney: An Atlas of Reflections by Vanessa Berry
39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: essays on sydney
Through delicately wrought essays and hand-drawn illustrated maps, Mirror Sydney charts an alternative view of the harbour city, to show a place of suburban mysteries, hidden stories, and anachronistic sites. Vanessa Berry, one of Australia's most acute observers of the urban landscape, casts an attenti ...Show more
Committed to Learning: A History of Education at the University of Melbourne by Juliet Flesch
49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Consistently ranking in the top five educational faculties in the world, the Melbourne Graduate School of Education has achieved a status few would have predicted. This history of the first hundred and ten years of the discipline of Education at the University of Melbourne reflects the extraordinary cha ...Show more
Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz by Mark Felton
22.99 AUD
Category: History
High in the Tuscan hills above Florence, an elaborate medieval castle, converted to a POW camp on Mussolini's personal orders, holds one of the most illustrious groups of prisoners in the history of warfare. The dozen or so British and Commonwealth senior officers includes three knights of the realm an ...Show more
Has the West Lost It? by Kishore Mahbubani
29.99 AUD
Category: History
The West's centuries-old status as the center of global wealth and power is coming to an end. As the new powers--China and India from Asia and others from Africa and Latin America--rise to the top of the world's pecking order, how should the West react? Kishore Mahbubani argues passionately and provocat ...Show more
Greece and the Reinvention of Politics: On Greece by Alain Badiou
24.99 AUD
Category: History
One of the world's leading radical philosophers analyses the failure of the Syriza experience in GreeceIn a series of seven trenchant interventions Alain Badiou analyses the decisive developments in Greece since 2011. Badiou considers this Mediterranean country "a sort of open-air political lesson", wit ...Show more