The Ottomans - Khans, Caesars and Caliphs by Marc David Baer
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe's heart. In their breadth and versatility, the Ottoman rulers saw t ...Show more
The People's Republic of Amnesi; a Tiananmen Revisited by Louisa Lim
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
"One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989." --The New York Times Book Review On June 4, 1989, People's Liberation Army soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians in Beijing, killing untold hundreds of people. A quarter-century later, this defining even ...Show more
The Piano - A History in 100 Pieces by Susan Tomes
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
A fascinating history of the piano explored through 100 pieces chosen by one of the UK's most renowned concert pianists An astonishingly versatile instrument, the piano allows just two hands to play music of great complexity and subtlety. For more than two hundred years, it has brought solo and coll ...Show more
The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Premonitions are impossible. But they come true all the time.You think of a forgotten friend. Out of the blue, they call.But what if you knew that something terrible was going to happen? A sudden flash, the words CHARING CROSS. Four days later, a packed express train comes off the rails outside the stat ...Show more
The Rest is History Returns: An A-Z of Historical Curiosities by Tom Dominic; Holland Sandbrook
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns. This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking on some of history's best and most bizarre moments! Charge forth against the traitors of the American Revolution, jour ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
It was Hitler's boast that the Third Reich would last a thousand years. Instead it lasted only twelve. But into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilisation has ever known. William Shirer is one of the very few historians to have gained full access to the ...Show more
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
On 21 November 1915, the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's ship, finally succumbed to the immense pressures of the surrounding ice. Its crew watched in silence as the stern rose twenty feet in the air and then, just like that, it was gone. Over a century later, an audacious plan to locate the ship was hatc ...Show more
The Shortest History of Music by Andrew Ford
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
From award-winning broadcaster and composer Andrew Ford, The Shortest History of Music is a lively, authoritative tour through several thousand years of music. Packed with colourful characters and surprising details, it sets out to understand what exactly music is - and why humans are irresistibly draw ...Show more
The Shortest History of the World by David Baker
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
A fascinating journey through life, the universe and everythingHow did time begin? What conditions led to humans evolving on Earth? Will we survive the Anthropocene? And is it really true that we're all made from stars? The Shortest History of the World follows the continuum of historical change in the ...Show more
The State of Africa - A History of the Continent since Independence by Martin Meredith
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'As a narrative of Africa's political trajectory since independence, this book is hard to beat... Elegantly written as well as unerringly accurate' Financial Times'Meredith has given a spectacularly clear view of the African political jungle' Spectator'You cannot even begin to understand contemporary Af ...Show more
The Story of Tutankhamun - An Intimate Life of the Boy Who Became King by Garry J. Shaw
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
A lively new biography of Tutankhamun--published for the hundredth anniversary of his tomb's modern discovery The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 sparked imaginations across the globe. While Howard Carter emptied its treasures, Tut-mania gripped the world--and in many ways, never left. But who w ...Show more
The Story of Work - A New History of Humankind by Jan Lucassen
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day "Beginning in the hunting-and-gathering past, this long view of work shows how little has changed over millennia. Progressing through the rise of cities, wages and markets for labour, it t ...Show more