The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny by Neil Howe, William Strauss
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a human life, each composed of four eras - or "turnings" - that last about twenty years and that always arrive in the same order. First comes a High, a period of ...Show more
Speeches that Changed Our Times by Carlo Batà (Editor)
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
This collection of 38 speeches makes it possible for the reader to grasp a deeper understanding of the period, to appreciate the prophetic words, and to emulate the example of those who spoke them. The great speeches from post-World War II to the present have interpreted the sentiments of a world in co ...Show more
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began by Stephen Greenblatt
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the N ...Show more
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History by Otto English
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idols and exposing what they were trying to hide. Was Che Guevara really a revolutionary hero? Should Mother Teresa be honoured as a sai ...Show more
A History of Europe - From Prehistory to the 21st Century by Jeremy Black
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Arcturus Science and History Collection
Written by one of Britain's leading historians, Professor Jeremy Black is an accomplished author.Beautifully illustrated with more than 200 colour images and maps.Covers the whole history of Europe from prehistoric times to the modern day, from Ireland to Russia.Contains approximately 60,000 words.
Radicals: Remembering the Sixties by Meredith Burgmann, Nadia Wheatley
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The Sixties -- an era of protest,free love, civil disobedience, duffel coats, flower power, giant afros and desert boots, all recorded on grainy black and white footage -- marked a turning point for change. A time when radicals found their voices and used them. While the initial trigger for protest was ...Show more
How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator by Theodore Papakostas
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a spectacularly iconoclastic take on the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeology Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do you do?’, becomes the springboard for a dialogue that ...Show more
Magna Carta by J. C. Holt
$65.95 AUD
Category: History
A revised edition of J. C. Holt's classic study of Magna Carta, the Great Charter, offering the most authoritative analysis of England's most famous constitutional text. The book sets the events of 1215 and the Charter itself in the context of the law, politics and administration of England and Europe i ...Show more
The Taliban at War: 2001 - 2021 by Antonio Giustozzi
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
How does the Taliban wage war? How has its war changed over time? Firstly, the movement’s extraordinary military operation relies on financial backing. This volume analyses such funding. The Taliban’s external sources of support include foreign governments and non-state groups, both of which have affect ...Show more
Ordinary Men by Christopher R Browning
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most of them had never fired a shot at a human being before, yet they killed with little hesitation and eventually went on to slaughter tens of thousands in cold blood. How could this transforma ...Show more
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age by Tom Holland
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The third in the epic trilogy narrating the history of the Roman Empire from renowned historian Tom Holland. Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that began with Rubicon, and continued with Dynasty, now arrives at the period which marks the apogee ...Show more
Horology by BARRY KAPLAN
$75.00 AUD
Category: History
This beautifully illustrated volume provides an in-depth look at horology, the scientific study of time and timekeeping. Brimming with more than 150 detailed and full-color images, illustrations, charts, and technical drawings, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in the art of watchmaking and ...Show more