Persians: The Age of The Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
24.99 AUD
Category: History
A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. From the palace-city of Persepolis, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, ...Show more
The World According to Colour: A Cultural History by James Fox
26.99 AUD
Category: History
The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the reader in a single colour, drawing together stories from the histories of art and humanity to illuminate the meanings it has been ...Show more
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China - A History of Conflict by Lawrence James
34.99 AUD
Category: History
Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997.THE LION AND THE DRAGON reveals the part t ...Show more
Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization by Kenneth W. Harl
36.99 AUD
Category: History
The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world's greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others. And, as Kenneth Harl illust ...Show more
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
19.99 AUD
Category: History
Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness wit ...Show more
The World and Us by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
59.99 AUD
Category: History
A radical re-envisioning of the human condition by the acclaimed Brazilian philosopher and politician In The World and Us, Roberto Mangabeira Unger sets out to reinvent philosophy. His central theme is our transcendence, everything in our existence points beyond itself, and its relation to our finitude: ...Show more
Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe by Sarah Gristwood
19.99 AUD
Category: History
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Venom: The heroic search for Australia's deadliest snake by Brendan James Murray
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
In the early years of the 20th century, an awareness was growing among European Australians of an unexpected threat, one that seemed the very embodiment of the dark, ominous power of the Australian bush. To the Indigenous people of the Guugu Yimithirr nation, it was nguman; to the whites it was the taip ...Show more
Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901 by Tim Rowse
45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and - along with Torres Strait Islanders - they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's ...Show more
Women to the Front by Heather Sheard; Ruth Lee
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
At the outbreak of World War I, 129 women were registered as medical practitioners in Australia, and many of them were eager to contribute their skills and expertise to the war effort. For the military establishment, however, the notion of women doctors serving on the battlefield was unthinkable. Undau ...Show more
D-Day - The Soldiers' Story by Giles Milton
22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Vivid, graphic and moving' Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 'It has a wonderful immediacy and vitality - living history in every sense' Anthony Horowitz 'Fantastic' Dan Snow 'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis 'Stirring and unsettling i ...Show more
The French Revolution and What Went Wrong by Stephen Clarke
22.99 AUD
Category: History
An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde.The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks back at the French Revolution and how it's surrounded in a myth. In 1789, almost no one in France wanted t ...Show more