The Wager by David Grann
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: History
From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on ...Show more
The War Queens by Jonathan W. Jordan; Emily Anne Jordan
42.99 AUD
44.99 (4% off)
Category: History
The ingenious wartime tactics of some of history's most powerful female leaders, from the stifling battlefields of ancient Egypt to the frigid waters off the Falkland Islands. History's killer queens come in all colors, ages, and leadership styles. Elizabeth Tudor and Golda Meir played the roles of ...Show more
The Women's Atlas by Joni Seager
28.50 AUD
29.99 (4% off)
Category: Social Issues
is is not just an atlas about women. It's a feminist remapping of the world.' - Joni Seager Joni Seager's award-winning The Women's Atlas illustrates the status of women worldwide today. Through cutting-edge infographics, the atlas portrays how women are living across continents and cultures: * Gender E ...Show more
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex Rowson
21.99 AUD
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Category: History
'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great - one of the most important figures of the ancient world, whose earl ...Show more
Tutankhamun's Trumpet: The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects by Toby Wilkinson
26.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History/Mythology
On 26 November 1922 Howard Carter first peered into the newly opened tomb of an ancient Egyptian boy-king. When asked if he could see anything, he replied: ‘Yes, yes, wonderful things.’ In <i>Tutankhamun’s Trumpet</i>, acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes a unique approach to that tom ...Show more
Uhtred's Feast (PB) by Bernard Cornwell
31.50 AUD
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Category: History
WELCOME TO UHTRED'S FEAST The Last Kingdom is one of the most successful historical fiction series of our time, telling the epic story of the birth of England, and introducing one of the greatest ever fictional heroes: the iconic Uhtred of Bebbanburg. Saxon-born, Norse-raised, warrior and rebel. The f ...Show more
Under the Influence - Putting Peer Pressure to Work by Robert H. Frank
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Category: Social Issues
From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, bold new ideas for creating environments that promise a brighter futurePsychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse. But social influen ...Show more
Underground - A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet by Will Hunt
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: History
Will Hunt is an urban adventurer who has explored caves and catacombs, subway systems, and long abandoned, ghostly mines: all varieties of holes in the ground. He's tracked down people who, for one reason or another, have shared his underground fixation: each an incarnation of Hermes, who could see and ...Show more
Understanding Hieroglyphs - A Quick and Simple Guide by Hilary Wilson
32.99 AUD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: History
If you've ever wanted to learn how to read hieroglyphs, this book is the perfect guide. This book will teach you all you need to know about deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs, with the help of hundreds of the most commonly used hieroglyphs arranged in easy-to-use tables, with translations, plus examples f ...Show more
White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Social Issues | Series: Social & Cultural history
When white people cry foul it is often people of colour who suffer. White tears have a potency that silences racial minorities. White Tears/Brown Scarsblows open the inconvenient truth that when it comes to race, white entitlement is too often masked by victimhood. Never is this more obvious than the de ...Show more
Why Empires Fall by John Rapley; Peter Heather
42.99 AUD
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Category: History
Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline.This is not the first time the global order has witnessed s ...Show more
Wild History: Journeys through Lost Scotland by James Crawford
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Category: History
From the presenter of BBC One's Scotland from the SkyYou scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a forest. And then you find them. The traces of the past. Perhaps they are marked by a tiny symbol on your map, ...Show more