Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 by Frank Dikötter
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
"'The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a "liberation." In China the story of liberation and the revolution that followed is not one of peace, liberty, and justice. It is first and foremost a story of calculated terror and systematic violence.' So begins Frank Dikötter's stunning ...Show more
The Story of Medicine: From Bloodletting to Biotechnology by Mary Dobson
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In The Story of Medicine, esteemed medical historian Mary Dobson charts the ways in which we have fought with disease and injury over several millennia - from the 'humours' of Hippocrates to Edward Jenner and the eradication of smallpox; and from Florence Nightingale's nursing reforms to Crick and Watso ...Show more
Scandinavians by Robert Ferguson
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
A journey of discovery through two millennia of Scandinavia's history, culture and society. The Scandinavians are regarded as Europe's most tolerant and peace-loving people. So how was it that one
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World by Adrian Goldsworthy
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and foremost conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates in the east to the Atlantic coast in the west. Their peace m ...Show more
Australian History in 7 Questions by John Hirst
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'If there are genuine questions about Australian history, there is something to puzzle over. The history ceases to be predictable - and dull.' From the author of The Shortest History of Europe, acclaimed historian John Hirst, comes this fresh and stimulating approach to understanding Australia's past an ...Show more
Kafkas Soup by Mark Crick
$12.95 AUD
Category: History
If you've ever wondered what it would be like to have dinner with Franz Kafka, Jane Austen or Raymond Chandler, this is the chance to find out. Literary ventriloquist Mark Crick presents 14 recipes in the voices of famous writers, from Homer to Irvine Welsh. Guaranteed to delight anyone in love with foo ...Show more
Four Days in June by Iain Gale
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
A remarkable debut novel, 'Four Days in June' is an imaginative but accurate reconstruction of five men -- all real figures -- five points of view, and four days of one of the world's most famous battles. Four days in June, 1815. Five men, three armies, on the fields of Waterloo. A battle for honour, g ...Show more
Aztecs: An Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen
$38.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Canto Classics
In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance ar ...Show more
Orwell's Cough: Diagnosing the Last Gasps and Medical Maladies of the Great Writers by John Ross
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Did Shakespeare's doctors addle his brain with mercury, leading to his early retirement? Was Jane Eyre inspired by the plagued school that claimed the Bronte clan? Did writing 1984 kill George Orwell? Many of our most beloved scribes struggled to conquer not just writer's block but a bevy of medical ma ...Show more
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Thomas Keneally
$19.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Lives Biographies (Paperback)
The ideal concise biography of an American icon- now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth The self -mad e man from a log cabin, the great orator, the Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, the martyr-Lincoln's story is at the very heart of American history. But who was he, really? In ...Show more
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of All Crusaders: Reynald de Chatillon by Jeffrey Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan could be put into action, but what puzzled investigators was the name of the person to whom the parcel was addressed: Reynald de Chatillon ...Show more
London's Curse: Murder, Black Magic and Tutankhamun in the 1920s West End by Mark Beynon
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Throughout the 1920 and 30s, London was gripped by the supposed curse of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian boy-king of antiquity, whose tomb in the Luxor sands was uncovered in 1923. Over the next few years more than 20 of those involved in the exhumation of the tomb perished in strange and often terrifying cir ...Show more