How the Scots Invented the Modern World : The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It by Arthur Herman
$35.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, ...Show more
Our Mob Served: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories of War and Defending Australia
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
Our Mob Served presents a moving and little-known history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander war time and defence service, told through the vivid oral histories and treasured family images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Our Mob Served presents a moving and little-known history of ...Show more
Argyle: The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds by Stuart Kells
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'Fascinating and lucid ... a valuable insight into an industry once widely praised but now undervalued by a nation that relies on it so strongly.' GEOFFREY BLAINEY The remote Kimberley region of Western Australia has a rich history and unique geography. In the 1960s De Beers, the world's largest diamon ...Show more
More Letters of Note : Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters. These letters deliver the same mix of the heartfelt, the historically significant, the tragic, the comic and the unexpected. Discover Richard Burton's fa ...Show more
Magicians of the Gods: Evidence for an Ancient Apocalypse by Graham Hancock
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returned with the sequel to his seminal work filled with compl ...Show more
The Lost Art of Scripture by Karen Armstrong
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Second-hand, paperback in as new condition. 'An amazingly wide-ranging book, showing that the world's religious texts can be a force for good today' John Barton, author of A History of the Bible In our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at worst as an excuse to ...Show more
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Sixteenth-century Europe - Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the C ...Show more
The Lucky Country: Amazing Australian tales of pure dumb luck by Eamon Evans
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Eamon Evans dives deep to deliver the most hilarious, fascinating tales of the Australians who were almost too lucky to be believed. The happy accident that created wi-fi. The well-placed piece of coral that saved the Endeavour from sinking. The karaoke night that launched Kylie's singing career.Austral ...Show more
Fragile Cargo: China's Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City by Adam Brookes
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The gripping true story of the intrepid curators who saved China's finest art from the ravages of the Sino-Japanese War and World War IISpring 1933. The silent courtyards and palaces of Peking's Forbidden City are tense with fear and expectation. Japan's aircraft drone overhead; its troops and tanks are ...Show more
Rebels against Rome: 400 Years of Rebellions against the Rule of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The Great Roman Empire was no stranger to rebellions, but who were the rebels behind these lost causes, and what fueled their brazen plights? Despite their many differences, the rebels of the Roman Empire had one thing in common: all were Romans, or onetime Roman allies, who attempted to overthrow Roma ...Show more
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Elizabeth Winkler
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be. The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horribl ...Show more
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
$21.00 AUD
Category: History
The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick First published in 1955, A Night to Remember remains a completely riveting account of the Titanic's fatal collision and the behavior of the passengers and cre ...Show more