A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
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
Napoleon: Life of an Emperor by Mike Lepine
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
From childhood dreams of joining the British Royal Navy to a dotage spent riding on a seesaw to improve his health, the true story of Napoleon Bonaparte is every bit as bizarre and fascinating as it is controversial. Napoleon rose up out of the chaos and horror of the French Revolution to offer a shatte ...Show more
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.' - Sebastian Barry. Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohn's essays and reviews h ...Show more
Mythos - The Illustrated Story by Stephen Fry
$80.00 AUD
Category: History
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld ...Show more
Queen Victoria after Albert - Her Life and Loves by Ilana D. Miller
$75.00 AUD
Category: History
Few British monarchs have fit the time, the tone or the energy of an era quite the way Queen Victoria mastered her reign.From her ascension to the throne in 1837 to her death in 1901, her monarchy was one of spectacular advances in the British Empire. Political, scientific, and industrial wonders were c ...Show more
Finding Freedom - Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Omid Scobie; Carolyn Durand
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
The first, epic and true story of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's life together, finally revealing why they chose to pursue a more independent path and the reasons behind their unprecedented decision to step away from their royal lives, from two top royal reporters who have been behind the scenes since ...Show more
The Etruscan World by Jean MacIntosh Turfa (Editor)
$118.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Routledge Worlds Ser.
The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water ...Show more
The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge by Hubert Krivine
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$39.99 (47% off)
Category: History
Are we entitled to say that the Earth is 4.55 billion years old, and its trajectory an ellipse centered on the Sun, with an average radius of 150 million kilometers? Most educated people today would say yes. Curiously, however, three hundred years after the century of Enlightenment, the fact that these ...Show more
Hitler's Boy Soldiers - How My Father's Generation Was Trained to Kill and Sent to Die for Germany by Helene Munson
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$39.99 (52% off)
Category: History
When Helene Munson finally reads her father, Hans Dunker's, wartime journal, she discovers secrets he kept buried for seven decades. This is no ordinary historical document but a personal account of devastating trauma.During World War II, the Nazis trained some three hundred thousand German children to ...Show more
People of the First Crusade - The Truth about the Christian-Muslim War Revealed by Michael Foss; Janet Levatin
$15.00 AUD
$22.99 (34% off)
Category: History
"As a concise popular history, People of the First Crusade gives an engaging overview of the reasons for the first great Christian-Muslim ""holy war,"" its gruesome progress and the confused aftermath." --Publishers Weekly Near the end of the eleventh century, Western Europe was in turmoil, beset by ...Show more
Clouds Over Paris: The Wartime Notebooks of Felix Hartlaub, 1940-41 by Felix Hartlaub
$21.00 AUD
$32.99 (36% off)
Category: History
The first English translation of Hartlaub's diaries, which have attained classic status in Germany, perfect for fans of Primo Levi and readers of Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française.