Shrimp to Whale - South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop by Ramon Pacheco Pardo
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History
South Korea has the most remarkable of histories. Born from the ashes of colonialism, partition and a devastating war, back in the 1950s there were real doubts about its survival as an independent state. Yet South Korea did survive, and first became known globally for the export of cheap toys, shoes and ...Show more
Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal: by Ben Macintyre
$22.99 AUD
Category: World History
Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War.Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and Jam ...Show more
Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies by Scott Branson
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Category: World History
Surviving the Future is a collection of the most current ideas in radical queer movement work and revolutionary queer theory. Beset by a new pandemic, fanning the flames of global uprising, these queers cast off progressive narratives of liberal hope while building mutual networks of rebellion and care. ...Show more
Sweat: A History of Exercise by Bill Hayes
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Category: World History
A New Yorker Best Book of the yearAn Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 From Insomniac City author Bill Hayes, "who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did" (SF Chronicle)-a cultural, scientific, literary, and personal history of exercise, now in paperback. Exercis ...Show more
Ten Cities that Led the World From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity by Paul Strathern
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Category: World History
'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times *** Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made. Through ten unique cit ...Show more
The 7 Deadly Myths: Antisemitism From the Time of Christ to Kanye West (Second Edition, Revised and Supplemented) by Alex Ryvchin
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Category: World History
This revised and supplemented second edition features some of the author's most probing essays and speeches on antisemitism, published here for the first time. The 7 Deadly Myths traces antisemitism from its earliest origins to the present day and uncovers the dangerous conspiracy theories that have cor ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
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Category: World History
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international ...Show more
The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes by Steven Pinker
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Category: World History
"If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this--the most inspiring book I've ever read."--Bill Gates (May, 2017) A provocative history of violence--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate, and Enlightenment Now. Believe it or not, tod ...Show more
The Celts - A Sceptical History by Simon Jenkins
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Category: World History
A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022'Simon Jenkins, as ever, writes with clarity and insight' Times'One of the liveliest commentators in Britain, always worth reading and pleasingly contrarian' Jeremy Paxman, GuardianWho were the Celts? Were they a people, a civilisation, an empire, or a fiction of h ...Show more
The Complete MAUS by Art Spiegelman
$36.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
'A quiet triumph, moving and simple - impossible to describe accurately, and impossible to achieve in any medium but comics' - Washington Post Maus is the harrowing story of the author's parents, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living in Hitler's Europe, and then his father dealing with Art Spiegelman' ...Show more
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
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Category: World History
Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts. In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan reconnects us with our ancestors who, like us, worshipped, exploited ...Show more
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
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Category: World History
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ‘Excellent … thrilling … Freedland’s book is rich in the kind of details that haunt you long after you have turned the last page’ Sunday Times ‘A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of informat ...Show more