Art of the Grimoire An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells by Owen Davies
49.95 AUD
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Category: History
A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks. Grimoires, textbooks of magic and occult knowledge, have existed through the ages alongside other magic and religious texts in part because of the need to create a physical record of magical phenomena, but al ...Show more
Battles that Changed History by DK
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Category: History
A visual journey through more than 3,000 years of combat, revisiting some of the biggest battles in historyFrom the fury of the Punic Wars to the onslaught of Operation Desert Storm, relive the most famous battles in history in this gripping guide.This military history book takes you on a journey throug ...Show more
Budapest: Between East and West by Victor Sebestyen
23.99 AUD
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Category: History
AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the critically acclaimed historian Victor Sebestyen, the enthralling account of historical and cultural events that defined Budapest, a unique city on the fault line between East and West in the heart of Europe. Victor Sebestyen has written a sweeping, colorf ...Show more
Classical Mythology Illustrated (Leather Bound) by Helen A. Guerber
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Category: History | Series: Illustrated Classic Editions
The myths of Greece and Rome have provided us with timeless tales of the ancient past, when the world was young and the gods and goddesses shared it with men and women. Classical Mythology provides a complete panoply of these colorful myths, including those that have become familiar references in countl ...Show more
Courtiers: The Sunday Times bestselling inside story of the power behind the crown by Valentine Low
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: History
The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years watching the public face the Royal family chooses to present to the world in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, with Charles ...Show more
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
25.99 AUD
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Category: History
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition ...Show more
Empress of the East - How a Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire by Leslie Peirce
23.99 AUD
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Category: History
Abducted by slave traders from her home in Ruthenia - modern-day Ukraine - around 1515, Roxelana was brought to Istanbul and trained in the palace harem as a concubine for Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and one of the world's most powerful men. Suleyman became besotted ...Show more
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series by Dolly Alderton
21.99 AUD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: Social Issues
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting du ...Show more
Future Stories: A user's guide to the future by David Christian
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: Social Issues
Big History professor and bestselling author of Origin Story tells you everything you need to know about the future in this ambitious, interdisciplinary book, taking in history, philosophy, theology, physics, biology, chemistry and, of course, futurology...Every second of our lives - whether we're looki ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
28.50 AUD
29.99 (4% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more
History Year by Year: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Events that Shaped the World by DK
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65.00 (5% off)
Category: History
Discover the world's most significant events through a detailed, dynamic, book-long timeline of over 7 million years.When did Hannibal cross the Alps? What caused the war of Jenkins' Ear? Who was Rosa Parks? How did the Arab Spring unfold? Discover history's most decisive moments as and when they happen ...Show more
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
21.99 AUD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: History
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ... A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ... 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry ... 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford ...Show more