Heiresses : The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson
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Category: History
A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress – glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating – from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. 'Life is less sad with money', said Emerald Cunard; Barbara Hutton was the 'Poor Little Rich Girl', but which is true? Laura Thompson explores the phenomen ...Show more
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History by Otto English
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Category: History
From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idols and exposing what they were trying to hide. Was Che Guevara really a revolutionary hero? Should Mother Teresa be honoured as a sai ...Show more
Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
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Category: History
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, The Ibis Trilogy, ten years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in e ...Show more
Hotbed: Bohemian New York and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism by JOANNA SCUTTS
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The dazzling story of the early feminists who blazed a trail for the movement's most radical ideas. New York City, 1912: at a restaurant in downtown Greenwich Village, a group of women gathered, all with a plan to change the world. This was the first meeting of 'Heterodoxy', a secret social club. Its me ...Show more
Lady M by Brown Colin
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Category: History
Nicknamed "Lady M" by Byron, Elizabeth Milbanke, Viscountess Melbourne, rose above all adversity, using sex and her husband's wealth to hold court among such glittering figures as Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, the Whig leader and wit Charles James Fox, and the playwright Sheridan. Her many lovers in ...Show more
Houdini Unbound: Mystery, Music and Flying Machines by Alan Attwood
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Category: History
It is 1910. Halley's Comet is coming. Harry Houdini is in Australia for the first time. The most celebrated escape artist in the world has sold-out seasons in both Melbourne and Sydney.Houdini has a new obsession- aviation. He has brought with him from Europe his own Voisin biplane, being put together a ...Show more
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age by Norman Ohler
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Category: History
A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon, by the author of Blitzed. First used as a drug capable of treating mental illnesses, then as a 'truth serum' by the CIA, Tripped reveals how the fortuitous discovery of LSD in Ap ...Show more
Australians at Home: World War II by Michael McKernan
$14.99 AUD
Category: History
The best-selling Australians at Home were the first books to study the Australian home front, during World War I and II, in depth and detail. Michael McKernan has a University Medal and a doctorate from the Australian National University, he lectured in Australian History at the University of New South ...Show more
History of Ancient Egypt by Erik Hornung
$30.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Edinburgh University Press Ser.
Each interpreter of ancient Egypt seems to bring new insights and the famous German Egyptologist, Erik Hornung, is no exception. One of the great strengths of his newly translated history is his expertise in burial customs and ritual. Revised throughout for this English version, his account of the histo ...Show more
Where Australia and Asia Collide by Ian Burnet
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
This book follows the epic voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, and Alfred Russel Wallace through the voyage of Continent Australia after it breaks away from Antarctica 50 million years ago - with its raft of Gondwanaland flora and fauna - and begins its journey north towards the equator. The voyage ...Show more
Bad Girls from History by Dee Gordon
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Category: History
You won't be familiar with every one of the huge array of women featured in these pages, but all, familiar or not, leave unanswered questions behind them. The range is extensive, as was the research, with its insight into the lives and minds of women in different centuries, different countries, with div ...Show more
Antarctica: A Biography by David Day
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Category: History
Since the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world's imagination. David Day's brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating detail every aspect of this vast land's history--two centuries of exploration, scientific investigation, ...Show more