Energy by Richard Rhodes
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Category: History
Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time-wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond. People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, ...Show more
Extra Time - 10 Lessons for an Ageing World by Camilla Cavendish
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Category: Social Issues
'An inspirational call to arms' DAILY MAIL 'This book is so sensible, so substantially researched, so briskly written, so clear in its arguments, that one wishes Baroness Cavendish was still whispering into the prime ministerial ear' THE TIMES 'A thoughtful handbook to help societies age gracefully' FIN ...Show more
Fall and Rise: the Story Of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff
24.99 AUD
Category: History
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The farewell calls from the planes... the mounting terror of air traffic control... the mothers who knew they were witnessing their loved ones perish... From an author who's spent 5 years reconstructing its horror, never has the story been told with such devastating, huma ...Show more
Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford
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Category: Social Issues | Reading Level: very good
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.
Florence under Siege - Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City by John Henderson
58.95 AUD
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Category: History
Plague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John Henderson examines how a major city fought, suffered, and survived the impact of plague. Going beyond traditional oppositions between rich and poor, this book provides a nuanced and more compassionate inte ...Show more
From Kuan Yin to Chairman Mao by Christine Ni Xueting
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology
China is an immense land with a history spanning thousands of years, and its needs and problems are perhaps too many for a single deity to watch over. This book begins to explore the veritable army of gods, immortals, and deities to whom the Chinese have turned for help, support, and intervention--not j ...Show more
Great British Family Names and Their History - What's in a Name? by John Moss
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Category: History
For better or worse, what we are is often determined by our family; the events that occurred many years before we were born and the choices that were made by our forebears are our inheritance - we are the inexorable product of family history. So it is with nations. The history of Great Britain has been ...Show more
Great State: China and the World by Timothy Brook
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at ...Show more
History and Natural History of Spices: The 5000-Year Search for Flavour by IAN ANDERSON
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Category: History
An illustrated study into the dramatic search for spices through history, and how the pursuit of rare flavours changed and opened up our world. Spices have been highly valued since at least the Bronze Age, with the so-called Spice Trade, spanning Asia to the Mediterranean, developing from the late centu ...Show more
How Powerful We Are: Behind the scenes with one of Australia's leading activists by Sally Rugg
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Category: Social Issues
Even if you're not an activist (yet), at a time when the news is written for clicks and elections are foight with three-word slogans, it's crucial to preserve some record of events that isn't 'fake news' or political spin. In part, this book is my attempt to counter the re-writing of how Australia achie ...Show more
How to Teach Classics to Your Dog - A Quirky Introduction to the Ancient Greeks and Romans by Philip Womack
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology
'Immensely informative, wrapped in an engagingly casual tone, complemented by more than a dash of the bizarre. You'd be barking to miss it.' Professor Michael Scott Can you tell your Odysseus from your Oedipus? In this unique introduction, Philip Womack leads his beloved lurcher Una (and us) on a flee ...Show more
Hungary - A Short History by Norman Stone
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Category: History
The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many called for its creation. Norman Stone traces the country's roots from the traditional representative councils of land-owning nobles to the Magyar nationalists of the ninet ...Show more