A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives by Philip Matyszak, Joanne Berry
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A vibrant portrait of a lost world, A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives reveals the mightiest civilization of antiquity through the eyes of one hundred of its citizens. The book gives a voice not just to Rome's most famous generals and rulers, such as Caesar and Caligula, but also to its builders, sc ...Show more
The Basis of Everything: Before Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project there was the Cavendish Laboratory by Andrew Ramsey
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific quest to fathom the secrets of the atom.The unlikely story of an Antipodean friendship that changed the world forever. Before the Manhattan Project, before n ...Show more
The Great Plague - A People's History by Evelyn Lord
$22.95 AUD
Category: History
In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague's effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord's fascinating reconstruction of life during plague ti ...Show more
Adventurers - The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650 by David Howarth
$51.95 AUD
Category: History
The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company--from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch--to laying the groundwork for future British expansion
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts. In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan reconnects us with our ancestors who, like us, worshipped, exploited ...Show more
Code Name Blue Wren by Jim Popkin
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in US history, drawing upon never-before-seen material and to be published upon her release from prison, for readers of Agent Sonya and A Woman of No Importance. 'This spy tale reads like a new season of Homeland - except this Ice Qu ...Show more
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our li ...Show more
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
'Majestic, ambitious . . . [Peter Watson] deserves admiration for the grace and agility with which he interlinks the development of a vigorous cultural identity and the seismic shifts of French national history, continually lurching between triumph and disaster' Literary Review__________________________ ...Show more
The Dissolution of the Monasteries - A New History by James Clark
$30.95 AUD
Category: History
The first account of the dissolution of the monasteries for fifty years--exploring its profound impact on the people of Tudor England "This is a book about people, though, not ideas, and as a detailed account of an extraordinary human drama with a cast of thousands, it is an exceptional piece of histori ...Show more
Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen by Jane Draycott
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
The first biography of one of the most fascinating, and unjustly neglected, female rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene. Princess, prisoner, African queen - and surviving daughter of Cleopatra VII. In 1895, archaeologists excavating a villa outside Pompeii unearthed a hoard of Roman silverware ...Show more
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 by Paul Stephenson
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' The TimesLong before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique empire, the glittering Constantinople: New Rome. In thi ...Show more
Blood on the River - A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A breathtakingly original history of the Berbice Slave Rebellion, the event that almost changed the face of the Americas.