The Great Depression: A Diary by Benjamin Roth
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depre ...Show more
1983 - The World at the Brink by Taylor Downing
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
1983 was a supremely dangerous year - even more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the US, President Reagan massively increased defence spending, described the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire' and announced his 'Star Wars' programme, calling for a shield in space to defend the ...Show more
Mary, Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure by Jenny Wormald; Anna Groundwater (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Stewart Dynasty in Scotland Ser.
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, naïve, beautiful and sexually voracious, often highly principled, she secured the Scottish throne and bolstered the position of the Catholic Church in Scotland. Her plotting, including probable ...Show more
Hippie Food: How Back-To-Landers ... by Jonathan Kauffman
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
An enlightening narrative history--an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan--that traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements, charismatic gurus, and counterculture elements that brought them to the mainstream and created a distinctly American ...Show more
Meeting the Waylo: Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago by Tiffany Shellam
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
This book explores the experiences of Indigenous Australians who participated in Australian exploration enterprises in the early nineteenth century. These Indigenous travellers, often referred to as ‘guide’s’, ‘native aides’, or ‘intermediaries’ have already been cast in a variety of ways by historians: ...Show more
Poison - The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners by Ben Hubbard
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Chronologically recounting the story of history's silent assassin, Poison documents the gripping tales of the users and victims of these mysterious substances, from Cleopatra, the Borgias and Qin Shi Huang to contemporary secret service agents and terrorists. Profiles of the most commonly used toxins of ...Show more
Liberation by Imogen Kealey
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The must-read thriller inspired by the true story of Nancy Wake, whose husband was kidnapped by the Nazis and became the most decorated servicewoman of the Second World War - soon to be a major blockbuster film. To the Allies she was a fearless freedom fighter, special operations super spy, a woman ahea ...Show more
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A lively and accessible history of humanity's greatest - and strangest - creation: money.
Latitude: The Astonishing Adventure that Shaped the World by Nick Crane
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
By knowing the shape of our earth we can create maps, survive the oceans, follow rivers, navigate the skies, and travel across the globe. This is the story of our world, of how we discovered what no one thought possible - the shape of the earth. A thrilling and page-turning account of the first major e ...Show more
World Religions by John Bowker
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Learn everything you need to know about the central practices, important figures, and key teachings of many different religions. Each of the major faiths - including Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Islam - is examined in detail through its sacred texts, epic imagery, key ...Show more
The Reef: A Passionate History by Iain McCalman
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Great Barrier Reef, argues Iain McCalman, has been created by human minds as well as coral polyps, by imaginations as well as natural processes. In this landmark book he charts our shifting perceptions of it, from the terrifying labyrinth that almost sunk Cook's Endeavour to a fragile global treasu ...Show more
Superstition and Science, 1450-1750 : Mystics, Sceptics, Truth-seekers and Charlatans by Derek Wilson
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
'O what a world of profit and delight Of power, of honour and omnipotence Is promised to the studious artisan.' Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus Between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Europe changed out of all recognition and particularly transformative were the ardent quest for knowledge and the ...Show more