Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard
65.00 AUD
Category: History
Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar ( ...Show more
Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation by David Baker
34.99 AUD
Category: History
The big history of sex from early life to sexbots How did sex begin? How did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence does our genetic ancestry have on our love life today? And what might sex look like in the future? Sex traces where all the facets of human sexuality came from, ...Show more
The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
35.00 AUD
Category: History
What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the ...Show more
The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle by Anna Shechtman
34.99 AUD
Category: History
Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen’s Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator’s compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women’s work and feminist protest. The indisputable “queen of crosswords,” ...Show more
The Globemakers - The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft by Peter Bellerby
49.99 AUD
Category: History
The beautifully illustrated story of our globe and the globes it has inspired, told from inside the workshop of one of the world's last globemakers, with four-color photos throughout. Many of us encounter a globe as children. We find a grown-up and ask, "Where are we?" They spin the globe and point ...Show more
Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
34.99 AUD
Category: History
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, The Ibis Trilogy, ten years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in e ...Show more
Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK by Brett Mason
34.99 AUD
Category: Warfare | Series: 1st
The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president. On a moonless night in August 1943, a US torpedo boat commanded by Lt John F Kennedy, on patrol in Solomon Islands, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Left clinging to wreckage within sight of Japanese encampment ...Show more
The Man Next Door: And Other True Stories of War and Peace by Mike Colman
32.95 AUD
Category: Warfare
This is a classic collection of war stories from one of Australia's finest writers. Ray McMillan was an aircraftman on the Hudson bomber that sunk the 'Awazisan Maru' - an episode captured in Frank Harding's painting that adorns the cover of this book. Years later, author Mike Colman read the war diarie ...Show more
Kinky History: The Stories of Our Intimate Lives, Past and Present by Esme Louise James
34.99 AUD
Category: History
A fun, educational deep dive into the rich history of human sexuality and how we can harness this kinky history towards a more liberated present and future. This book draws on Esme Louise James's phenomenally successful Kinky History series on social media which focuses on the evolution of human sexuali ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
36.99 AUD
Category: History
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all n ...Show more
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons by Catrine Jarman
34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the brilliant bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings, a gripping new history of the Anglo-Saxons told through six bone chests, stored for over a thousand years in Winchester Cathedral. A book that unlocks the secrets of the pre-Norman past. In 1642, William Waller and his Parliamen ...Show more
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China - A History of Conflict by Lawrence James
34.99 AUD
Category: History
Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997.THE LION AND THE DRAGON reveals the part t ...Show more