The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World by Jacques Bosser
$90.00 AUD
Category: History
Housing the world's collective knowledge, within which reside the milestones of human intellectual achievement, libraries are perhaps the richest of all cultural institutions. Often architectural treasures in themselves, they were constructed in styles that befitted the riches they stored, from Neoclass ...Show more
Darwin's Fossils: Discoveries that Shaped the Theory of Evolution by Adrian Lister
$29.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
Explore Darwin's pioneering work on fossils in this richly illustrated book. In On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin credited his discoveries of fossils, as much as those of living creatures, as the stimulus for his theory of evolution. Darwin's Fossils is an accessible account of his pioneering work ...Show more
Against the Grain A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's s ...Show more
The Great Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
It has always been mankind's gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them--and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world's greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia, available for the first t ...Show more
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The never-before-told story of three women who courageously reported from the frontlines of the Vietnam War. One spent twenty-three days in captivity. Another jumped off planes to get the perfect aerial shot. The other reported from war-torn slums and villages. Catherine Leroy, Frankie Fitzgerald and Ka ...Show more
Bullies and Saints: an Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian History by John Dickson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Is religion a pernicious force in the world Does it poison everything Would we be better off without religion in general and Christianity in particular Many skeptics certainly think so. John Dickson has spent much of the last ten years reflecting on these difficult questions and on why so many doubters ...Show more
The Girl Explorers - How a Group of Globetrotting Women Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World by Jayne Zanglein
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Never tell a woman where she doesn't belong.In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, president of the men-only Explorers Club, boldly stated to hundreds of female students at Barnard College that "women are not adapted to exploration," and that women and exploration do not mix. He obviously didn't know a thing abo ...Show more
The Chloroformist by Christine Ball
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The historical biography of Joseph Clover and the invention of anaesthesia Operating with bare hands, dressed in his street clothes, he had taken those first steps that every training surgeon must take-gripping the handle of a scalpel and making the first, irrevocable cut into live human flesh. For th ...Show more
Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
A finely spun history of clothes and where they come from Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool- through the stories of these five fabrics, Sofi Thanhauser illuminates the world we inhabit in a startling new way, travelling from China to Cumbria to reveal the craft, labour and industry that create the c ...Show more
Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Now in a special new edition perf ...Show more
Black Wave - Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Forty Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Novelistic and character-driven, Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Kim Ghattas seamlessly weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to deliver a gripping read of the largely unexplor ...Show more
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
New York Times Bestselling AuthorSusan Orlean, hailed as a "national treasure" by The Washington Post, reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution -- our libraries.