Japan - The Natural History of an Asian Archipelago by Mark Brazil
$59.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Wildlife Explorer Guides
A comprehensive, richly illustrated guide to Japan's astonishing animals and plants--and the natural forces that have shaped them This richly illustrated guide is the first comprehensive and accessible introduction to the extraordinary natural history of the Japanese archipelago. It explains how Jap ...Show more
Maps: Their Untold Stories by Rose Mitchell; Andrew Janes
$64.99 AUD
Category: History
Drawing on 700 years' worth of maps from the National Archives, this stunning and fascinating collection is not just about the history of the maps, but is also an insight into the places and the social history of the time that the mapmakers captured.This magnificent collection, drawn from seven centurie ...Show more
The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition by Robert Graves
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
*The definitive and comprehensive edition of Robert Graves's classic retelling of the Greek myths*'Icarus disobeyed his father's instructions and began soaring towards the sun, rejoiced by the lift of his great sweeping wings. Presently, when Daedalus looked over his shoulder, he could no longer see Ica ...Show more
The Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan, His Heirs and the Founding of Modern China by John Man
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The untold story of the world's greatest empire and the creation of modern China. Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire ...Show more
Maralinga: The Chilling Expose of Our Secret Nuclear Shame and Betrayal of Our Troops and Country by Frank Walker
$23.99 AUD
Category: History
'Utterly gripping. It reads like a thriller.' JON FAINE This edition contains a new author note with shocking new material that has come to light as a result of the groundbreaking original publication. Investigative journalist Frank Walker's MARALINGA is a must-read true story of the abuse of our servic ...Show more
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
$47.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It's easy to be pessimistic about ...Show more
Europe: The First 100 Million Years by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs. It was a dynamic island arc whose individual landmasses were made up of diverse geological types, including ancient continental fragments, raised segments of oceanic crust, and land newly minted by volcanic ...Show more
Chastise: The Dambusters 1943 by Max Hastings
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A brand new history of the Dambusters raid from best-selling and critically acclaimed military historian, Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron on the night of 16/17 May 1943, was an epic that has passed into Britain' ...Show more
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an in ...Show more
1914: The Year the World Ended by Paul Ham
$32.99 AUD
$34.99 (5% off)
Category: History
Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did. In July that year, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set t ...Show more
The Great War by Les Carlyon
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The Great War is Les Carlyon's extraordinary account of the Anzacs on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918. It combines a brilliant overview of this immense conflict with telling detail, stories, letters and diaries that breathe life into those terrible battles of 90 years ago. In The Great War, Carlyon ...Show more
Code Breakers: Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia's two Bletchley Parks by Craig Collie
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
At the height of World War II in the Pacific, two secret organisations existed in Australia to break Japan's military codes. They were peopled by brilliant and idiosyncratic cryptographers, including some with achievements in mathematics and the Classics and others who had lived or grown up in Japan. Th ...Show more