A Quick History of Money - From Cash Cows to Crypto-Currencies by Clive Gifford; Rob Flowers (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Quick Histories Ser.
A Quick History of Money takes us from barter to Bitcoin, packed with facts and jokes about how and why money works... and sometimes doesn't.
Hidden Histories - 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class by Tim Rayborn
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we've heard a hundred times--but often our understanding of these events and people is narrow. Have you ever wondered about the lesser known details that influenced major events and figures behind-the-scenes This hilarious compe ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more
Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission by Rowland White
$36.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
The incredible story of one of WW2's most iconic aircraft told through one impossible mission by the master of the aviation thriller Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls Royce engines, impossibly aerodynamic, headspinningly fast, armed to the teeth, the DeHavilland Mosquito was the ...Show more
The Shortest History of Italy: A Captivating Journey from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic by Ross King
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
Embark on a captivating journey through 3000 years of Italy's rich history Italian history has always been about resilience and rebirth ... It is a country that for so many centuries has offered up visions of the wonders to which we humans, at our very best, can aspire. Italy was the centre of Europe's ...Show more
The Shortest History of England by James Hawes
$27.99 AUD
Category: British
In the internationally acclaimed Shortest History of Germany, James Hawes showed that the whole sweep of a national story can be captured in a short book packed with maps and graphics, throwing striking new light on the present day. Now he does the same for his own country. From the Roman invasion throu ...Show more
Pathogenesis - How infectious diseases shaped human history by Jonathan Kennedy
$35.00 AUD
Category: General History | Reading Level: very good
Humans did not make history - we played host. This book is Guns, Germs and Steel without the guns and steel, Sapiens for the pandemic era. A major new history of the world. This humbling and revelatory book shows how infectious disease has shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo s ...Show more
The Tale of Genji : The Authentic First Translation of the World's Earliest Novel by Murasaki Shikibu
$16.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
The most famous work of Japanese literature and the world's first novel--The Tale of Genji was written a thousand years ago and is one of the enduring classics of world literature. Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and even Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks the birth of the novel--and af ...Show more
The Lost Boys by BYRNES
$35.00 AUD
Category: World Wars
In the First World War of 1914-1918, thousands of boys across Australia and New Zealand lied about their age, forged a parent's signature and left to fight on the other side of the world. Though some were as young as thirteen, they soon found they could die as well as any man. Like Peter Pan's lost boys ...Show more
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
$26.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. ...Show more
After the Romanovs: Russian exiles in Paris between the wars by Helen Rappaport
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food, and the latest fashions. But it has also b ...Show more
Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell of the coming of the ghost people by Darren Rix, Craig Cormick
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans Both 250 years late and extremely timely, this is an account of what First Nations people saw and felt when James Cook navigated their shores in 1770. We know the Euro ...Show more