The Spectacle of Skill: Selected Writings of Robert Hughes by Robert Hughes; Adam Gopnik (Introduction by)
$79.99 AUD
Category: History
"I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it's an expert gardener at work ...Show more
Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
From Andrew Roberts, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Storm of War, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared t ...Show more
The Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire by Roger Crowley
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set ...Show more
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of Civilization by Roy Scranton
$27.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: City Lights Open Media
"In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and provocative book."--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History "Roy Scranton's Learning ...Show more
Hitchens vs Blair : Be it Resolved Religion is a Force for Good in the World by Christopher Hitchens
$14.99 AUD
Category: History
On November 26, 2010, intellectual juggernaut and staunch atheist Christopher Hitchens went head-to-head with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, one of the Western world's most openly devout political leaders, on the highly charged topic of religion. Few world leaders have had a greater hand in s ...Show more
The Demon's Brood: The Plantagenet Dynasty That Forged the English Nation by Desmond Seward
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The Plantagenets reigned over England longer than any other family - from Henry II, to Richard III. Four kings were murdered, two came close to deposition and another was killed in a battle by rebels. Shakespeare wrote plays about six of them, further entrenching them in the National Myth. Based on majo ...Show more
South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Experience the epic survival adventure of Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, brought to life with photos from the journey as well as modern color photography of the fauna, seascapes, and landscapes! In 1914, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton announced an ambitious plan to lead t ...Show more
Wolves of the North by Harry Sidebottom
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The Roman Empire is in crisis, with threats coming from all directions. Ballista, Warrior of Rome, must once again embark on an epic journey - one with a secret mission. Turmoil reigns across the entirety of the imperium
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present by Brendan Simms
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
This is Brendan Simms' formidable, game-changing history of Europe. In this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms tells the story of Europe's constantly shifting geopolitics and the peculiar circumstances that have made it both so impossible to dominate, but also so dynamic and ferociou ...Show more
Titans of History by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
This is a pre-read / used book. Good condition. minor maks Simon Sebag Montefiore, one of our pre-eminent historians, presents the lives of the giants who have made our world. The cast varies from conquerors, poets, kings, empresses and whores to psychopaths, composers and explorers. Informative, en ...Show more
Rasputin: The Biography by Douglas Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Nearly a century after his murder, Rasputin remains as divisive a figure as ever. Was he really a horse thief and a hard-drinking ruffian in his youth? Was he a a devout Orthodox Christian, or was he in fact a just a fake holy man? Are the stories of his enormous sexual drive, debauchery, and drunken or ...Show more
Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy by Sophie Cunningham
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The sky at the top end is big and the weather moves like a living thing. You can hear it in the cracking air when there is an electrical storm and as the thunder rolls around the sky...When Cyclone Tracy swept down on Darwin at Christmas 1974, the weather became not just a living thing but a killer. Tra ...Show more