The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St Clair
$22.99 AUD
Category: World History
'A charming, absorbing history that takes us on a journey from the silk roads to sportswear, from ruffs to spacesuits . . . I devoured this quietly feminist book' SUNDAY TIMES All textiles begin with a twist. From colourful 30,000-year old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to what the linen ...Show more
The Impossible Office? - The History of the British Prime Minister - Revised and Updated by Anthony Seldon; Jonathan Meakin (Assisted by); Illias Thoms (Assisted by); Tom Egerton (Assisted by)
$28.95 AUD
Category: World History
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year. The recent political chaos enfolding Downing Street provides the framing for the extraordinary story of the office of Prime Minister, and how and why it has endured longer than any other democratic political office in world history. Sir Anthony Seldon, historia ...Show more
The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History
A SUNDAY TIMES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR'Timely ... a long and engrossing survey of the library' FT'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched' Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the BooksFamed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed i ...Show more
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom
$22.99 AUD
Category: World History
What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? The life and times of the worst Roman emperor of all. 'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times A Financial Times, BBC History and Spectator Book of the Year On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-yea ...Show more
The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
A Spectator Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the Year'An illuminating and riveting read.' - Jonathan DimblebyJeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present.In The Making of ...Show more
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
$22.99 AUD
Category: World History
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world*SELECTED AS ONE OF WATERSTONES' BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2022*'A splendid idea, vividly carried out- I enjoyed this book enormously' PHILIP PULLMAN'A rich history of beautiful discoveries' ...Show more
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester OBE
$25.95 AUD
Category: World History
'The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was indeed a monumental achievement, gleaned from the efforts of ...Show more
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East by Nicholas Morton
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History
The Mongols have long been viewed in the West as violent barbarians who plundered and wrecked the societies they invaded. But in fact the Mongol Empire was highly sophisticated, and through their conquests they built a new world order. Within the space of a single generation, they swept across the Midd ...Show more
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin by Brad Meltzer
$36.99 AUD
Category: World History
The little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the height of World War II, and how it was averted. In 1943 only three men stood in Hitler's way; Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. As the war against Nazi Germany raged, the Allied lea ...Show more
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs by Marc David Baer
$26.99 AUD
Category: World History
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe's heart. In their breadth and versatility, the Ottoman rulers saw t ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
The Point of the Needle: Why Sewing Matters by Barbara Burman
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History
From the pleasures of mending to the problems of fast fashion, an intimate look at the creativity, community, and deep meaning sewed into every stitch. Tens of millions of people sew for necessity or pleasure every day, yet the craft is surprisingly under-appreciated. The Point of the Needle redresses t ...Show more