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
The Corona Generation - Coming of Age in a Crisis by Jennie Bristow; Emma Gilland
33.99 AUD
Category: Social Issues
'One of the UK's leading sociologists of generation uses both her scholarship and her ability to write beautifully to give meaning to the experience of Spring and Summer 2020.' Professor Ellie Lee, Director of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies, University of Kent It is already clear that the COVI ...Show more
The English and their History by Robert Tombs
37.99 AUD
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Category: History
The first full-length history of England in one volume for many decades - now in paperback The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining natio ...Show more
The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West by Bruce de Mesquita
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: History
In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world?Western exceptionalism-the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent-is a widespread and powerful political idea. ...Show more
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology
What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? The life and times of the worst Roman emperor of all. 'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times A Financial Times, BBC History and Spectator Book of the Year On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-yea ...Show more
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph Stiglitz
34.99 AUD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: Social Issues
A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more ...Show more
The Secrets of the Universe in 100 Symbols by Sarah Bartlett
42.95 AUD
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology
The Secrets of the Universe in 100 Symbols is an illustrated reference to 100 ancient and diverse symbols that are said to hold the answers to the universe.
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Civilisation to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
34.99 AUD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: History
Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in the world from an African perspective, for fans of William Dalrymple, David Olusoga and Peter Frankopan.*Selected as a book to look out for in 2024 by the Guardian*Everyone is origina ...Show more
Europe: The First 100 Million Years by Tim Flannery
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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
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
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Category: History | Reading Level: 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
Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown by Alison Weir
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: History
The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller. Six wives. One King. You know their stories. Now it's time to hear his. In grand royal palaces, Prince Harry grows up dreaming of knights and chivalry - and the golden age of kings that awaits his older brother. But Arthur's untimely death sees Harry crowned King Henr ...Show more
History of the World Map by Map by SNOW PETER (FOREWORD BY)
61.75 AUD
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Category: History
Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map by map. Come on a journey through global history, told in more than 130 specially made maps that each offer a window on a key event. Step into the action an ...Show more