Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know by Greg Jenner
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
‘Brilliantly funny’ SHAPARAK KHORSANDI ‘Immensely enjoyable’ BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE ‘Every page contains delights’ LINDSEY FITZHARRIS Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? How fast was the medieval Chinese post system? How do we know how people sounded in the past? Who invented maths? Responding to ...Show more
Atlas of Empires by Peter Davidson
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History
Atlas of Empires tells the story of how and why the great empires of history came into being, operated and ultimately declined, and discusses the future of the empire in today's globalized world. Featuring 60 beautiful and detailed maps of the empires' territories at different stages of their existence ...Show more
Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds As They Were and As They Are Today by Travis Elborough
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History | Series: Unexpected Atlases Ser.
Maps offer us a chance to see not just how our world looks today, but how it once looked. But what about the places that are no longer mapped?Cities forgotten under the dust of newly settled land? Rivers and seas whose changing shape has shifted the landscape around them? Or, even, places that have seem ...Show more
August in Kabul: America's last days in Afghanistan by Andrew Quilty
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History
Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut publication offers a remarkable record of this historic moment As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United Stat ...Show more
Bees and Their Keepers - From waggle-dancing to killer bees, from Aristotle to Winnie-the Pooh by Lotte Moller
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
A beautifully illustrated and thoroughly engaging cultural history of beekeeping - packed with anecdote, humour and enriching historical detail. The perfect gift. Beekeeper and garden historian Lotte Möller explores the activities inside and outside the hive while charting the bees' natural order and ha ...Show more
Beirut 2020: The Collapse of a Civilization, a Journal by Charif Majdalani
$27.99 AUD
Category: World History
When Charif Majdalani begins to walk the streets of his city, and to write down what he sees, the first hints of unrest within a vibrant culture creep to the fore. 'The author's home town is falling apart. Lebanon's capital ... has morphed into a symbol of devastation and hatred and madness. Majdalani i ...Show more
Berlin: The Story of a City by Barney White-Spunner
$22.99 AUD
Category: World History
Telling the story of its people and its rulers, from its medieval origins up to the present day, Berlin is a fascinating and informative history of an extraordinary city from the author of the international bestseller Partition.Berlin is Europe's most fascinating and exciting city. It is and always has ...Show more
Berlin's Hollow Homes by Trevor Carroll
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History
Stumbling upon Berlin's gruesome past. From 1933 to 1945, Germany was gripped by Nazi tyranny. During those turbulent years many minorities suffered. Amongst them were the non-Aryan, political opponents, trade unionists, the disabled, homosexuals and ...the Jews. Any person who opposed the regime or di ...Show more
Bethlehem - Biography of a Town by Nicholas Blincoe
$22.99 AUD
Category: World History
" Bethlehem] brings within reach 11,000 years of history, centering on the beloved town's unique place in the world. Blincoe's love of Bethlehem is compelling, even as he does not shy away from the complexities of its chronicle." --President Jimmy Carter Bethlehem is so suffused with history and myth th ...Show more
Beyond the Known - How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars by Andrew Rader
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights humans' insatiable desire to continually push into new and uncharted territory, from civilization's earliest days to curre ...Show more
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History
The definitive new history of East Germany by a highly acclaimed young historian. In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically diffe ...Show more
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici by Estelle Paranque
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History
'A stunning portrayal of two of the most powerful women in European history' Tracy Borman'Exciting and compelling, packed full of tantalising details of diplomacy and court life, Paranque succeeds both in bringing history to life, but also in putting flesh on the bones of these two extraordinary women a ...Show more