Plagues and Pandemics: Black Death, Coronaviruses and Other Killer Diseases Throughout History by DOUGLAS BOYD
$15.00 AUD
Category: History
All you need for a plague to go pandemic are population clusters and travellers spreading the bacterial or viral pathogens. Many prehistoric civilisations died fast, leaving cities undamaged to mystify archeologists. Plague in Athens killed 30% of the population 430-426 BCE. When Roman Emperor Justinian ...Show more
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century by Christina Riggs
$20.00 AUD
Category: History
A surprising new history of Tutankhamun published to coincide with the centenary of his tomb's discovery. When it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into a household name overnight and kickstarting an international media obses ...Show more
Cabinets of Curiosities by Patrick Mauriès
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Unicorns' horns, mermaids' skeletons, stuffed and preserved animals and plants, precious metals, clocks, scientific instruments, celestial globes--all knowledge, the whole cosmos, arranged on shelves in a single room. Such were the cabinets of curiosities of the seventeenth century, the last period of h ...Show more
Idiots, Follies and Misadventures by Mikey Robins
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein The history books are full of heroes and villains… but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity, one idiot at a ti ...Show more
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history by Annabelle Hirsch
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The way we remember the past today remains dishearteningly patriarchal: a place where women have always been oppressed by men, from ancient times to the present day. A History of Women in 101 Objects tells a new story of female history, revealing the evolution of the role women have played in society th ...Show more
The Great War For Civilisation: The Conquest Of The Middle East by Robert Fisk
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
During the thirty years that award-winning journalist Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East, he has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of only two Western journalists in the city a ...Show more
Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth by Francine Prose
$22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex Rowson
$12.00 AUD
Category: History
In brilliant biography, Alex Rowson offers an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great – one of the most important figures of the ancient world, but whose earlier years have until now been a mystery. Alexander the Great conquered land from Macedonia to Egypt to India, known now both for his accomp ...Show more
Gibraltar - The Greatest Siege in British History
$15.00 AUD
Category: History
A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain's Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France--an overlooked key to the British loss in the American Revolution For more than three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land ...Show more
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age by Tom Holland
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The third in the epic trilogy narrating the history of the Roman Empire from renowned historian Tom Holland. Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that began with Rubicon, and continued with Dynasty, now arrives at the period which marks the apogee ...Show more
The Stonemason - A History of Building Britain by Andrew Ziminski
$10.00 AUD
Category: History
A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into an ancient craft.In his thirty-year career, stonemason Andrew Ziminski has worked on many of our greatest monuments. From Neolithic monoliths to Roman baths and temples, from the tower of Sali ...Show more
Defying Hitler - The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule by Gordon Thomas; Greg Lewis
$15.00 AUD
Category: History
An enthralling story that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi rule "Stirring."--USA Today - "Fascinating."--New York Post - "Important."--Newsday - "Gripping."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - "Engrossing."--Publishers Weekly - "Terrifying and timely."--Alex KershawNazi Germany ...Show more