A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
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Category: social issues
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year "A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it, however: as citizens, we must be ready to fight f ...Show more
The Auschwitz Detective by Jonathan Dunsky
57.00 AUD
Category: History
The boy was murdered in Auschwitz. The killer isn't a Nazi.Poland, 1944: Adam Lapid used to be a police detective. Now he's a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.Reduced to a slave after losing his family in the gas chambers, Adam struggles to find a reason to carry on living.But when a boy is found murdered i ...Show more
Myths of the Underworld - Timeless Tales of the Afterlife, Love, Revenge, Fatal Attraction and More from Around the World (Includes Stories about Hades and Persephone, Kali, the Shinigami, and More) by Lindsay Christinee
26.80 AUD
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology
A vibrant collection of ten retellings of forbidden love, acts of vengeance, and naive attractions. Modernized for today's reader, these diverse stories from cultures and traditions around the world, are woven throughout with themes that are quintessentially human. The ten different stories include: Had ...Show more
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome by Guy de la Bedoyere
34.99 AUD
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Category: History
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world Living in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who were acutely aware of the seething and voluptuous nature of a city that ruled the known world. Through ...Show more
Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation’s Cultural Heritage by Thames and Hudson; Victoria Burlaka (Contribution by); Andrey Kurkov (Foreword by); Andriy Puchkov (Contribution by); Christian Raffensperger (Contribution by); Diana Klochko (Contribution by); Maksym Yaremenko (Contribution by); Alisa Lozhkina (Contribution by); Myroslava M. Mudrak (Contribution by); Oleksandr Soloviev (Contribution by)
47.50 AUD
49.99 (4% off)
Category: History
A celebration of Ukraine's rich cultural heritage, drawing on over 100 of the country's most important works of art and architectural monuments from prehistory to the present.
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms: Winner Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year. The thrilling story of an empire's rise & fall from the best-selling author of GOLDEN MAZE & GHOST EMPIRE. by Richard Fidler
29.99 AUD
36.99 (18% off)
Category: History
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. Winner of the Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the BookPeople Non Fic ...Show more
Southeast Asia: An Introductory History by Milton Osborne
32.99 AUD
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Category: History
A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area. Southeast Asia: An introductory historywas first published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in one of the most dynamic and diverse regi ...Show more
Endeavour - Encounters, Stories and Objects of the Ship That Changed the World by Janine Flew
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Category: History
HMB Endeavour sailed for just 14 years, but its name reverberates through history. This book examines why it is still charismatic and controversial, 250 years later.There are many views of Endeavour. To some, it is a great ship of exploration and science, a symbol of the Age of Enlightenment. To indigen ...Show more
The Ship Beneath the Ice - The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
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24.99 (4% off)
Category: History
Over one hundred years after its wreck, Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the depths of the most hostile sea on Earth. The Ship Beneath the Ice is the astonishing story of the ship and its discovery, told by Mensun Bound, the Director of Exploration on the Endurance22 Expedition.'As ...Show more
Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service
61.75 AUD
65.00 (5% off)
Category: History
'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. For Service, the great unanswered questio ...Show more
The World War I Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
39.99 AUD
42.99 (6% off)
Category: History
An accessible guide to the major events and turning points of the First World War, and the nations and individuals involved Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the First World War - the epic conflict that was supposed to be "the war to end all wars". Combining authori ...Show more
History Year by Year: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Events that Shaped the World by DK
65.00 AUD
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