Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A human drama unlike any other--the riveting and definitive full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history. "ENTHRALLING." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) - "OUTSTANDING...A MUST-READ." --Booklist (starred review) - "GRIPPING." --Publishers Weekly ...Show more
Ugliness: a Cultural History by Gretchen E. Henderson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Ugly as sin, the ugly duckling—or maybe you fell out of the ugly tree? Let’s face it, we’ve all used the word “ugly” to describe someone we’ve seen—hopefully just in our private thoughts—but have we ever considered how slippery the term can be, indicating anything from the slightly unsightly to the down ...Show more
Ottoman Odyssey - Travels Through a Lost Empire by Alev Scott
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The author's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800 years of rule ended a century ago--and yet, travelling through twelve countries from Kosovo to Greece to Palestine, she uncovers a legacy that's vital and relevant; where medieval ...Show more
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times - A History of Now by Michael Burleigh
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
In the decades since the end of World War II, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world should be governed. However, events in the early years of the 21st century--first, the 2003 war with Iraq and its chaotic aftermath and, second, the fi ...Show more
Cecil Healy - The Epic Tale of Australia's Only Olympic Gold Medallist to Die at War by John Devitt; Larry Writer
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
When John Devitt won Olympic 100-metre freestyle gold in 1960, his inspiration was Healy. He always wanted to write his hero's biography. Now, on the centenary of Healy's death, Devitt has joined with Larry Writer to produce an extraordinary tale of a man who was born to swim, earned sporting immortalit ...Show more
A Tudor Christmas by Alison Weir; Siobhan Clarke
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry and merrymaking 'to drive the cold winter away?. A carnival atmosphere presided at court, with a twelve-day-long festival of entertainments, pageants, theatre productions and 'disguisings?, when even the king and queen dressed up in costume to f ...Show more
Histories of the Unexpected: How Everything Has a History by Sam Willis; James Daybell
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
'History as you've never seen it before.' Dan Snow In this fascinating and original new book, Sam Willis and James Daybell lead us on a journey of discovery that tackles some of the greatest historical themes - from the Tudors to the Second World War, from the Roman Empire to the Victorians - but via e ...Show more
Dominion - A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The History of England
The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war depression, spanning the last years of the Regency to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.In it, Ackroyd takes us from t ...Show more
Milk of Paradise - A History of Opium by Lucy Inglis
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the "Milk of Paradise" for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain--and hugely addictive. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport, a ...Show more
The Beastly Battles of Old England - The Misguided Manoeuvres of the British at War by Nigel Cawthorne
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Throughout history the English have been a warlike lot. Often we fight among ourselves - there have been a good few civil wars - and when we were not slaughtering each other, we practiced on our neighbours, the Scots, the Irish, the French . . . When that got too easy, we set off around the world to fin ...Show more
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind - A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present by Roy Porter
$44.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Norton History of Science Ser.
A definitive study of the history of medicine, from the earliest humans to the present day. Medicine is advancing at an incredible rate. We now have the ability to overcome sickness but also to transform the nature of life itself: in many parts of the world, human existence has simply ceased to be 'nast ...Show more