The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities by Violet Moller
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
'An epic treasure hunt into the highways and byways of stored knowledge across faiths and continents.' John Agard, poet and playwright In The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity - Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy - through seven ...Show more
Heroines of Olympus: The Women of Greek Mythology by Ellie Mackin Roberts
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Goddesses, monsters, humans and the semi-divine - whether courageous or meek, gruesome or irresistible, female characters are ever present on the peripheries of the great Greek myths, but rarely do they take centre stage. Their time has finally come to act as protagonists in their own stories. Heroines ...Show more
Born in 1971?: What else happened? by Ron Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Based largely on major daily newspapers, highlights main events and typical stories, such as compulsory seat belts, winds of political change, first withdrawal of our troops from Vietnam and the introduction of McDonalds and one-day cricket in Oz.
Batavia by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Bataviais the greatest story in Australia?s history and history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons.The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mu ...Show more
Battles That Changed History (HB) by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
From the fury of the Punic Wars to the icy waters of Dunkirk, relive 5,000 years of world-changing combat with this guide to the most famous battles in history, including a foreword from TV presenter and historian Tony Robinson.This military history book takes you on a journey through the battlefields o ...Show more
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Secondhand. The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) e ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
$22.99 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
Born in 1965?: What else happened? by Ron Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Based largely on major daily newspapers, highlights main events and typical stories, such as Churchill's death, the Freedom Rides and Dawn Fraser's punishment, controversy over Anzac Day, rising hemlines and school projects.
Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C. by Samuel Noah Kramer
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Sumerian Mythology Revised Edition Samuel Noah Kramer "A real addition to the body of world mythology."--American Anthropologist "No people has contributed more to the culture of mankind than the Sumerians, and yet it has been only in recent years that our knowledge of them has become at all accurate or ...Show more
Palestine Diaries: The Light Horsemen's Own Story, Battle by Battle (Beersheba) by Jonathan King
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Culminating with the cavalry charge at Beersheba on 31 October 1917, Palestine Diariesis the story of Australia's Light Horsemen of WWI, told in their own brutally honest words - day by day, battle after bloody battle.One hundred years after that now-legendary battle - widely considered the last great c ...Show more
Lawrence in Arabia - War, deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 2014New York Times top ten bestseller 2014Amazon.com's Top Ten History Books of the Year 2014New York Times Book of the Year 2014 The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, 'a sideshow of a sideshow'. Amidst the slaughter in ...Show more
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the critically acclaimed, best-selling account of the forgotten story of one of history's most brutal massacres. In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and mur ...Show more