A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history by Annabelle Hirsch
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The way we remember the past today remains dishearteningly patriarchal: a place where women have always been oppressed by men, from ancient times to the present day. A History of Women in 101 Objects tells a new story of female history, revealing the evolution of the role women have played in society th ...Show more
A History of the Muslim World - From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity by Michael A. Cook
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins ...Show more
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By ...Show more
A Stranger in Your Own City - Travels in the Middle East's Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war."An essential insider account of the unravelling of Iraq...Driven by his intimate knowledge and deep personal stakes, Abdul-Ahad...offers an overdue rec ...Show more
A Very Secret Trade: The dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony w ...Show more
A World Beneath the Sands: Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology by Toby Wilkinson
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
What could be more exciting, more exotic or more intrepid than digging in the sands of Egypt in the hope of discovering golden treasures from the age of the pharaohs? Our fascination with ancient Egypt goes back to the ancient Greeks. But the heyday of Egyptology was undoubtedly the nineteenth and early ...Show more
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present (HB) by Fareed Zakaria
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The international best-selling author explores the revolutions-past and present-that define the chaotic, polarized and unstable age in which we live Fareed Zakaria first warned of the threat of "illiberal democracy" two decades ago. Now comes Age of Revolutions- Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the P ...Show more
Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka by Clare Mulley
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elit ...Show more
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World by Islam Issa
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did not live to see Alexandria built, but his vision of a sparkling metropolis that celebrated learning and diversity w ...Show more
Alice ™: The Biggest Untold Story in the History of Money by Stuart Kells
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
In the 1980s and 90s, amid an explosion in international money flows, a handful of people saw a new financial future and staked claims in it, triggering a battle to control the world's money markets. With phenomenal profits at stake, the conflict would go all the way to the United States Supreme Court, ...Show more
American Midnight - The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
National Bestseller - One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfiction A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast Company From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly" (New York Times) reassessment of the overlooked ...Show more
American Prometheus: the Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific ...Show more