Phenomena : The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis by Annie Jacobsen (Contribution by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets, to divine other nations' secrets, and even to predict future threats to national security. Now, for the first time, Annie Jacobsen tells t ...Show more
A Thoroughly Unhelpful History of Australian Sport by Titus O'Reily
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
When it comes to sport, Australians are mad. Completely, irrationally insane. It's the closest thing we have to a culture. From Don Bradman's singular focus to Steven Bradbury's heroic not falling over, sport has shaped our sense of self.But how did we get here? Part history, part social commentary and ...Show more
The Dawn of Christianity: People and Gods in a Time of Magic and Miracles by Robert C. Knapp
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Exploring the origins of Christianity, this book looks at why it was that people first in Judea and then in the Roman and Greek Mediterranean world became susceptible to the new religion. Robert Knapp looks for answers in a wide-ranging exploration of religion and everyday life from 200 BC to the end of ...Show more
The Big Ones - How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do about Them) by Lucy Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
When the forces that give our planet life exceed our ability towithstand them, they become disasters. Together they have shaped ourcities and architecture, elevated leaders and toppled governments, influencedthe way we think, feel, fight, unite and pray. The history of naturaldisasters is a history of ...Show more
A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace by Jonathan Holslag
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Pelican Bks.
A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peace In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent ...Show more
The Human Tide - How population shaped the modern world by Paul Morland
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Every phase since the advent of the industrial revolution - from the fate of the British Empire, to the global challenges from Germany, Japan and Russia, to America's emergence as a sole superpower, to the Arab Spring, to the long-term decline of economic growth that started with Japan and has now sprea ...Show more
The Suspect - An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle by Kent Alexander; Kevin Salwen
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A contributing source for the Warner Bros.' film Richard Jewell starring Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde and Paul Walter Hauser "Meticulously reported, bracingly written, full of memorable and bizarre characters, the book casts a wary eye on the worlds of law enforcement and journalis ...Show more
The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country by Adam Courtenay
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never WasJust after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness. A few months later, the local Aboriginal people found the six-foot-five ...Show more
Remarkable Minds - A Celebration of the Reith Lectures by Radio 4 BBC
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
IDEAS THAT HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD The best of an extraordinary 70 year archive, gathered in one volume for the first time. The prestigious BBC Reith Lectures have been enriching the world with new ideas since 1948. Every year, a world-leading thinker is invited to speak on a topic of their ...Show more
The Invention of Surgery by David Schneider
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A fascinating history of the practice of surgery from one of the leading figures in the field, chronicling centuries of scientific breakthroughs by the discipline's most dynamic, pioneering doctors.Written by an author with plenty of experience holding a scalpel, Dr. David Schneider's THE INVENTION OF S ...Show more
Banks by Grantlee Kieza
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Lust, science, adventure - Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery - the extraordinary life of one of the world's most famous and notorious adventurers. Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trump ...Show more
Berlin - Biography of a City by Barney White-Spunner
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
There is a particular frisson about Berlin, a combination of excitement, anticipation, nervousness and the unexpected. Through all its life it has been a city of tensions. Its position, on the frontier of Europe, on the 'Mark', where Christianity met paganism, where the Huns met the Slavs, where Europe ...Show more