The Shortest History of Greece by James Heneage
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
How has Greece shaped the world we live in today, and what can we learn from its history?The story of Greece is our story. Philosophy, art, democracy, language, even computers - our world has been shaped by the products of Greek civilisation. Yet most of us know little about a people and a place that ha ...Show more
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England by Marc Morris
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'[A] clever, lively ... splendid new book'DAN JONES, SUNDAY TIMES'A big gold bar of delight'SPECTATORSixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and establis ...Show more
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. The instant Sunday Times bestseller 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is'Sunday Times 'An audacious, entertaining page-turner. Dan Jones covers a thousand years of hist ...Show more
The Shortest History of India by John Zubrzycki
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
An illuminating and concise telling of the 5000 years of turbulent history that led India from the ruins of ancient civilisations to emerging global superpowerOne of the oldest civilisations and the largest democracy in the world, India is an amalgam of customs, races, castes, languages and spiritual be ...Show more
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
This is a profoundly original and entertaining history of France, from the first century bc to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library. Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and endi ...Show more
Greek Myths by Gustav Schwab
$74.99 AUD
Category: History
The Greek myths are timeless classics, whose scenes and figures have captivated us since ancient times. The gods and heroes of these legends embody universal human characteristics and truths - the courage of Perseus, the greed of Midas, the ambition of Icarus, the vengeance of Medea or the hubris of Nio ...Show more
Voices from the Past - A Year of Great Quotations - and the Stories from History That Inspired Them by W. B. Marsh
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
366 quotations - one for every day of the (leap) year - each with a fascinating historical story
The Shortest History of Democracy by John Keane
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
In an age of fake news and half-truths, the radical potential of democracy is more important than ever, as this nimble, illuminating history by a celebrated political theorist reveals.From its beginnings in Syria-Mesopotamia - and not Athens - to its role in fomenting revolutionary fervour in France and ...Show more
Albert Camus and the Human Crisis by Robert E. Meagher
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis" that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in ours, producing a brilliant study of Camus's life and influence for those readers who, in Camus's words, "cannot live without dialogue and friendship." As France--and all of the world--was emerging from t ...Show more
France A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
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Category: History
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic footnotes deserve a review of their own' DAILY TELEGRAPH I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel cross ...Show more
The Polymath - A Cultural History from Leonardo Da Vinci to Susan Sontag by Peter Burke
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
The first history of the western polymath, from the fifteenth century to the present day From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such ...Show more
Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains'A scholarly yet entertaining synthesis of hundreds of years of history' Financial Times This is the first major history of the Himalaya- an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among ...Show more