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
The Rest is History (The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast) by Tom Holland; Dominic Sandbrook
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past from Alexander the Great to Tolkein, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle
$48.95 AUD
Category: World History
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left.The epochal shift toward neoliberalism-a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the ...Show more
The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The untold story of the shadowy international spy network, through its targets, traitors and spies by Richard Kerbaj
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History
The first published account of the Five Eyes, the elite spy network created by Britain and the United States that industrialised espionage operations. Drawn from five countries - Britain, America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - the Five Eyes has been steeped in secrecy since its formation in 1956, ...Show more
The Ship Beneath the Ice - The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
Over one hundred years after its wreck, Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the depths of the most hostile sea on Earth. The Ship Beneath the Ice is the astonishing story of the ship and its discovery, told by Mensun Bound, the Director of Exploration on the Endurance22 Expedition.'As ...Show more
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$27.99 AUD
Category: World History
The story of an empire made and an empire undone - and what emerged from the ashes - by one of the world's leading authorities on Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia arrived in the world accidentally and departed unexpectedly. More than a hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the tumultuous history of t ...Show more
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women in Space by Loren Grush
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History
The Six was an extraordinary cohort of women recruited by NASA in the seventies. Ride was just one member of the Six. Greeted in Houston by make-up bags designed for use in space, no designated locker rooms and flight suits that didn't fit, they went on to break barriers on earth and in space. In 1983 S ...Show more
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War by Giles Milton
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History
'Terrific' Anthony Horowitz From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the Allies' secret mission to wartime Moscow. In the summer of 1941, as Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, Stalin's forces faced a catastrophic defeat which would make the Allies' liber ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
$22.99 AUD
Category: World History
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian sch ...Show more
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy by Stein Ringen
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History
In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the A ...Show more