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Mary Queen Of Scots by Antonia Fraser
$25.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: Women in History Ser.
'Ground-breaking ... One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war period' Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph 'Reads like an engrossing novel' Sunday Times An infant queen. A teenage widow. Beautiful, flamboyant Mary Queen of Scots had a formidable intellect but her political sense - formed ...Show more
Meals Matter - a Radical Economics Through Gastronomy by Michael Symons
$57.95 AUD
Category: Food | Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History Ser.
Until the early nineteenth century, political philosophy and economics were dining companions. Both took up fundamental questions of how we should feed one another. But with the rise of corporate capitalism, modern economics lost sight of its primary task and turned away from the complexities of real pe ...Show more
Music - A Fold-Out Graphic History by Nicholas O'Neill; Susan Hayes; Ruby Taylor (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Information Books | Series: Fold-Out Graphic History Ser.
"A panoramic survey of noteworthy music and music makers, from bone flutes to Beyonc " (Kirkus Reviews)Follow this unique 8-foot long fold-out timeline through a celebration of the history of music all around the world, while listening along to the accompanying Spotify playlist Learn about how different ...Show more
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 by Paul Stephenson
$50.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: The\Profile History of the Ancient World Ser.
Three hundred action-packed years of Roman history, encompassing the fall of Rome and the rise of a new empire in the East. Long 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 ...Show more
Paris - A Short History by Jeremy Black
$35.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: A\Short History Ser.
Once described as "that metropolis of dress and debauchery" by the Scottish poet David Mallet, Paris has always had a reputation for a peculiar joie de vivre, from art to architecture, cookery to couture, captivating minds and imaginations across the Continent and beyond. In Paris: A Short History, his ...Show more
Personal History by Katharine Graham
$27.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Women in History Ser.
As seen in the new movie The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep, here is the captivating, inside story of the woman who piloted the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media. In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katha ...Show more
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History by Kyle Harper
$50.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Princeton Economic History of the Western World Ser.
A sweeping germ's-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemics Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity's uniquely dangerous di ...Show more
Relentless: The Stories behind the Photographs by Neil Leifer
$85.00 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Focus on American History Series
Neil Leifer is the best-known sports photographer of the past half century. Beginning in 1960, his pictures have regularly appeared in every major national magazine, including the Saturday Evening Post, Look, LIFE, Newsweek, and, most often, Sports Illustrated and Time, and his photographs have run on o ...Show more
Save our Sons: Women, Dissent and Conscription during the Vietnam War by Carolyn Collins
$34.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian History Ser.
Save Our Sons tells for the first time the full story of the Save Our Sons movement of Australian women who banded together to oppose conscription during the Vietnam War.In 1965, angered by the Menzies’ government’s decision to conscript young men to fight in the Vietnam War, a group of Sydney housewive ...Show more
Small Island: 12 Maps That Explain the History of Britain by Philip Parker
$40.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: New History of Britain Ser.
A fascinating analysis of a dozen maps from critical points in British history over the last two thousand years, from the Celtic period when 'Britain' was just a patchwork of tribal kingdoms, to a century ago when the whole of Ireland, India, Australia, much of Africa, Asia and the Americas were marked ...Show more
Strange Bird : The Albatross Press and the Third Reich by Michele K. Troy
$60.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: New Directions in Narrative History Ser.
The first book about Albatross Press, a Penguin precursor that entered into an uneasy relationship with the Nazi regime to keep Anglo-American literature alive under fascism The Albatross Press was, from its beginnings in 1932, a "strange bird": a cultural outsider to the Third Reich but an economic in ...Show more
Sun Tzu The Art of War Through the Ages by Bob Carruthers
$30.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Military History from Primary Sources Ser.
'The Art of War' is an ancient Chinese military treatise that is attributed to Sun Tzu, a high ranking military general and strategist. It is composed of thirteen chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is accepted as a masterpiece on strategy, mastering conflict and winning batt ...Show more