Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
36.99 AUD
Category: History
The revelatory Pulitzer Prize finalist for General Nonfiction, New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation--and the moral ...Show more
London by Tanya Dalziell
30.00 AUD
Category: History
Joan London's remarkable body of work, including the award-winning novels and short fiction The Golden Age, Gilgamesh and Sister Ships, tells everyday stories of family, love and loss, with her signature poetic vision. London's stories portray how ordinary people get caught up in extraordinary circumst ...Show more
Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher by Laura Beatty
34.99 AUD
Category: History
A strange, wild, brilliant personal journey - across land and through time - in which Laura Beatty travels back two thousand years to rescue from obscurity Aristotle's friend and Chaucer's inspiration, the forgotten philosopher who grandfathered botany and the English novel. Standing on the deck of a f ...Show more
Why Did the Chicken Cross the World: The Story of the Bird That Powers Civilisations by Andrew Lawler
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Queen Victoria was obsessed with it. Socrates' last words were about it. Charles Darwin and Louis Pasteur made their scientific breakthroughs using it. Hailed as a messenger of the gods, powerful sex symbol, gambling aid, all-purpose medicine and handy research tool, the humble chicken has been also cas ...Show more
Invisible Lines by Maxim Samson
45.00 AUD
Category: History
Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious - like an ocean - to subtle differences in language or climate. Most of us cross invisible lines all the time, but don't stop to consider them. In Invisible Lines, geographer Maxim Samson presents 30 such unseen boundaries, intriguing and un ...Show more
Magisteria by Nicholas Spencer
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today. The true history of science and religion is a human one. It's about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling, science before the scie ...Show more
Millennium - The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom by Tom Holland
27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. But the anarchy of ...Show more
The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings. by Neil Price
35.00 AUD
Category: History
A new history of the Vikings - told from their own perspective rather than that of their victims. The 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and to end in September 1066, when King Harald Hardrada of Norway ...Show more
Hotel Florida: Truth, Love and Death in the Spanish Civil War by Amanda Vaill
19.99 AUD
Category: History
Secondhand. Amid the rubble of a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe, the Hotel Florida on Madrid's chic Gran Via has become a haven for foreign journalists and writers. It is here that six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, h ...Show more
21st-Century Virtues: How They Are Failing Our Democracy by Lucinda Holdforth
19.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Authenticity. Vulnerability. Humility. Transparency. These are some of the 21st-century virtues proselytised by mindset gurus, paraded (if not practised) by big corporations, and lauded by professionals on LinkedIn. The quest for authenticity, for example, is central to progressive campaigns for greater ...Show more
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China by Jessica Rawson
85.00 AUD
Category: History
An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombs.The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilisation still in place today- an extraordinarily challenging geogra ...Show more
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
29.99 AUD
Category: History
The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of historyThe modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless conte ...Show more