Battle Elephants and Flaming Foxes: Animals in the Roman World by CAROLINE FREEMAN-CUERDEN
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Why did the emperor Augustus always have a seal skin nearby? What was the most dangerous part of a chariot race? How could a wolf help with toothache? Take a gallop into the Roman world of chariot horses, battle elephants and rampaging rhinos. In the ancient world a bear could be weaponised and venomous ...Show more
Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia by Levi Roach
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'In this fascinating, panoramic account, Levi Roach brings an expert eye and page-turning energy to the telling of their extraordinary story' Helen Castor, bestselling author of She Wolves'A fresh retelling of the story of the Normans . . . written with enthusiasm and brio' Marc Morris, bestselling auth ...Show more
Forgotten Women - The Women Who Shaped and Were Erased from Our History by Zing Tsjeng
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
Forgotten Women uncovers the lost histories of the influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept the hand they've been dealt and, as a result, have formed, shaped and changed the course of our futures Forgotten Women shines a well-deserved spotlight on women of accomplishment i ...Show more
An Ordinary Man - The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford by Richard Norton Smith
$79.99 AUD
Category: History
"Richard Norton Smith had brought a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and storytelling verve to the life of a consequential president--Gerald R. Ford. Ford's is a very American life, and Smith has charted its vicissitudes and import with great grace and illuminating perspective. A marvelous achievement!" -- ...Show more
Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses by Lucy Worsley
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
William Cavendish, courageous, cultured and passionate about women, embodies the popular image of a cavalier. Famously defeated at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, he went into a long and miserable continental exile before returning to England in triumph on the restoration of King Charles II to the t ...Show more
Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary by Christopher Somerville
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Blows the dust off geology to tell the incredibly dramatic story of all the upheavals, volcanic explosions, sea inundations and violent quakes that have shaped our landscape, human history and our everyday lives. Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville (walkin ...Show more
In the Shadow of St Paul's Cathedral - The Churchyard That Shaped London by Margaret Willes
$22.95 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard--the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the heart of London, an enduring symbol of the city. Less well known is the neighborhood at its base that hummed with life for ...Show more
Nuclear Minds - Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Ran Zwigenberg (Contribution by)
$57.95 AUD
Category: History
In 1945, Researchers on a Mission to Hiroshima with the United States Strategic Bombing Survey canvassed survivors of the nuclear attack. This marked the beginning of global efforts to tackle the complex ways in which human minds were affected by the advent of the nuclear age. Ran Zwigenberg traces thes ...Show more
Richard III: The Maligned King by ANNETTE CARSON
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A new and updated edition of this classic work, brought right up to date. In 2012 Annette Carson formed part of the team that discovered King Richard III's mortal remains, verified in 2013 by forensics including DNA matching. In response to the recent upsurge of interest, her 2009 paperback has been upd ...Show more
Adventurer - The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova by Leo Damrosch (Contribution by)
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
The iconic libertine Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), a storied serial seducer, was also an aspiring priest, an army officer, a diplomat, a gambler, a spy, and a con man. Leo Damrosch vibrantly brings to life Casanova and the world he inhabited.
A Brief History of London by Jeremy Black
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
As the United Kingdom left the European Union, during a period of international and domestic turmoil, London found itself at a turning point. This critical moment presents an opportunity to look back, with a distinctive perspective, a focus on London in its national and, perhaps even more importantly, i ...Show more