Mexico - From the Olmecs to the Aztecs by Michael D. Coe; Rex Koontz; Javier Urcid
$39.99 AUD
Category: General History
This authoritative volume has been revised throughout and expanded, with stunning new images and accounts of the major discoveries of recent years. Recent findings have been added to expand our understanding of the Olmecs outside of their heartland, and new research on the legacy of the Maya offers a wi ...Show more
Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World by Otto English
$29.99 AUD
Category: General History | Reading Level: very good
A fun, authoritative and alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever told and how they've been used over time. Lincoln did not believe all men were created equal. The Aztecs were not slaughtered by the Spanish Conquistadors. And Churchill was not the man that people love ...Show more
Signed by hand by National Library of Australia
$19.99 AUD
Category: General History
Signed by Hand is a little gem of a book that displays images of a wide variety of autographed items from the National Library of Australia collections. This beautiful book represents and celebrates famous and influential people in Australia's history through sixty-six personal, hand written inscription ...Show more
Ghost Colonies by Ed Wright
$45.00 AUD
Category: General History | Series: Lost and Found in History
Ghost Colonies brings to light the fascinating but rarely told stories of history's lost colonies. Unlike many of the colonial 'success stories' from lands like America, Australia, Canada and South Africa, the ghost colonies were promised lands that failed entirely to live up to their promise. They fail ...Show more
Time Travel Handbook: From Pompeii to Woodstock by David Goldblatt
$29.99 AUD
Category: General History
Have you ever wondered what you might need to wear if you were setting off back in time to be at the execution of Charles I? Or what might have been the best vantage point to watch the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and still survive? Or how you might get your point across at the trial of Greek philosopher ...Show more
Underground - A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet by Will Hunt
$32.99 AUD
Category: General History
Will Hunt is an urban adventurer who has explored caves and catacombs, subway systems, and long abandoned, ghostly mines: all varieties of holes in the ground. He's tracked down people who, for one reason or another, have shared his underground fixation: each an incarnation of Hermes, who could see and ...Show more
Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged by Peter Furtado
$19.99 AUD
Category: General History
National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a 'self-portrait' of hi ...Show more
Antarctica: A Biography by David Day
$45.00 AUD
Category: General History | Reading Level: good-verygood
A groundbreaking history of human interaction with Antarctica, the last continent on earth. For centuries it was suspected that there must be an undiscovered continent in the southern hemisphere. But explorers failed to find one. On his second voyage to the Pacific, Captain James Cook sailed further sou ...Show more
The History of Navigation by Dag Pike
$65.99 AUD
Category: General History
Today travellers by land, sea and air take accurate navigation for granted but it was not always thus. The author, a highly experienced sailor, sets out to record the development of navigational techniques from the earliest time, five millenniums ago. As explorers started to venture offshore into the un ...Show more
Nothing New: A History of Second-Hand by Robyn Annear
$29.99 AUD
Category: General History | Reading Level: 6 Home
'Given the way we live now,' writes Robyn Annear, 'it would be easy to suppose that newness has always been venerated.' But as this wonderfully entertaining short history makes clear, modern consumerism is an aberration. Mostly, everyday objects-from cast-off cookware to clothing worn down to rags-have ...Show more
Who Does that Bitch Think She Is?: Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag by Craig Seligman
$34.99 AUD
Category: General History
An exciting new history of drag told through the life of the remarkable, flawed, and singular Australian-born Doris Fish In the 1970s, gay men and lesbians were openly despised and drag queens scared the public. Yet that was the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952) painted and padded his way ...Show more
The Age of Empires by Robert Aldrich (ed.)
$90.00 AUD
Category: General History | Reading Level: very good
The story of thirteen modern Empires, a story full of suspense, cruelty, conflict, heroism, great explorations and extraordinary feats of endurance, is here told with a rich profusion of illustrations drawn from a wide range of vivid, colourful, authentic sources.Now that the age of empires is fully ove ...Show more