Ten Caesars - Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal)--a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of the ...Show more
Ten Drugs - How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Thomas Hager
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager does in this re ...Show more
Terra Nova by Harrison Christian
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
‘A riveting account about Scott of Antarctica and the machinations of his demise. Of the food depots that were diminished and the rescue that never came.’ – Peter Hillary, mountaineer and explorer For a long time it seemed Antarctica would remain the sole holdout in a nearly fully explored world. The a ...Show more
That Was My Home - Voices from the Noongar Camps in Fremantle and the Western Suburbs by Denise Cook
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
That Was My Home explores the hidden histories of the Noongar camps around Fremantle, Swanbourne and Shenton Park in the suburbs of Perth along the Swan River. The focus is the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, a time when many Noongar people lived with their families in camps. The voices of Noongar people, juxta ...Show more
The ANZAC Girls: The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses by Peter Rees
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have ...Show more
The Accidental Prime Minister by Annika Smethurst
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Nine months after the spill that catapulted him to the prime ministership, Scott Morrison won the 2019 election, shocking politicians and political pundits (and, quite possibly, himself). Yet, unlike his predecessors, little was really known about the former marketing man whose hard-nosed political inst ...Show more
The Aeronauts: Travels in the Air by James Glaisher
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1862, ambitious scientist James Glaisher set out to do the impossible: ascend higher into the skies than ever before. A pioneer of weather forecasting and of photography, he wanted to take ground-breaking research measurements from different altitudes. Before aeroplanes, the only unpredictable availa ...Show more
The Almighty Dollar - Follow the Incredible Journey of a Single Dollar to See How the Global Economy Really Works by Dharshini David
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The dollar is the lifeblood of globalisation: China holds billions in reserve for good reason. Greenbacks, singles, bucks or dead presidents, call them what you will, $1.2 trillion worth are floating around right now - and half the dollars in circulation are actually outside of the USA. But what is real ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Rise and Fall of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India - A book of beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected ...Show more
The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Fascism was the major political invention of the twentieth century and the source of much of its pain. How can we try to comprehend its allure and its horror? Is it a philosophy, a movement, an aesthetic experience? What makes states and nations become fascist? Acclaimed historian Robert O. Paxton shows ...Show more
The Ancient World in Minutes by Charles Phillips
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: In Minutes Ser.
From the first cities of Sumeria and Babylon around 3500 BCE to the fall of the Rome and the bloody demise of the Aztecs, here--in 200 mini essays--are the critical leaders and wars; ideas and inventions; myths and religions, and art and architecture of the first 5000 years of recorded history. Discover ...Show more