The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature (25th Anniversary Edition) by David Suzuki
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: David Suzuki Institute Ser.
'The Sacred Balance has a beautiful spirit.' — E.O. WilsonWith a new foreword from Robin Wall Kimmerer, New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass — and an afterword from Bill McKibben — this special 25th anniversary edition of a beloved bestseller invites readers to see ourselves as part ...Show more
The Shortest History of the World by David Baker
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
A fascinating journey through life, the universe and everythingHow did time begin? What conditions led to humans evolving on Earth? Will we survive the Anthropocene? And is it really true that we're all made from stars? The Shortest History of the World follows the continuum of historical change in the ...Show more
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The cross-dressing horse thief who became Australia's first female business tycoon In 1791, teenage runaway and sometime horse thief Mary Reibey narrowly escaped the English gallows with transportation to the brutal new penal colony at Sydney Cove. It was the beginning of a 60-plus year story of bravery ...Show more
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World: 'Monumental' Daily Telegraph by Islam Issa
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did not live to see Alexandria built, but his vision of a sparkling metropolis that celebrated learning and diversity w ...Show more
Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia: Second Edition by Arthur Bill
$79.99 AUD
Category: General
'The Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia has a place on the work table of every Australian student, on the coffee table of every Australian home and on the desk of every Australian political representative.' Senator Patrick Dodson The Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia is a unique tool for expl ...Show more
Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds by Peter FitzSimons
$37.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plan ...Show more
Gin Glorious Gin: How Mother's Ruin Became the Spirit of London by Olivia Williams
$28.99 AUD
Category: History
Gin Glorious Gin is a vibrant cultural history of London seen through the prism of its most iconic drink. Leading the reader through the underbelly of the Georgian city via the Gin Craze, detouring through the Empire (with a G&T in hand), to the emergence of cocktail bars in the West End, the story ...Show more
Japan in Australia by David Chapman; Carol Hayes
$79.99 AUD
Category: History
Japan in Australia is a work of cultural history that focuses on context and connection between two nations. It examines how Japan has been imagined, represented and experienced in the Australian context through a variety of settings, historical periods and circumstances. Beginning with the first ...Show more
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize"Black Spartacus is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time . . . An extraordinarily gripping read." --David A. Bell,The GuardianA new interpretation of the life of ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Bryson | Reading Level: very good
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him.A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got ...Show more
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book — against a background of today’s 'sculpture wars' — Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and fam ...Show more
Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Eureka Stockade - The Unfinished Revolution In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. Henry Lawson wrote poems about it, its symbolic ...Show more