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By Steppe, Desert, & Ocean : The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe
$46.95 AUD
Category: World History
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to the expansion of the Mongols ...Show more
Pale Rider : The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney
$22.99 AUD
Category: World History
With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I. In Pale ...Show more
Chanel's Riviera - Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte D'Azur, 1930-1944 by Anne de Courcy
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed ...Show more
Curious Voyages - A Collection of Astoundingly True Tales by Andrew Murray (Illustrator)
$39.95 AUD
Category: World History
Over thousands of yearsthe world was wide with wind-powered boats, one of man's mostbeautiful constructions, andsailors had to strugglein theage-old game of Man vsSea. This collection of tales isnot a history of sail, it's avoyage through centuries of curious sailing adventures.
I Am Not a Label by Cerrie Burnell
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History
This book brings together 34 disabled artists, thinkers, athletes and activists from past and present. In this stylishly illustrated biography anthology, meet 30 artists, thinkers, athletes and activists with disabilities, from past and present. From Frida Kahlo to Stephen Hawking, find out how these ic ...Show more
Kings of Shanghai by Jon Kaufman
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History
Kings of Shanghai tells the story of two Jewish families - the Sassoons and the Kadoories - who immigrated to China in the mid nineteenth century and became dynasties of a sort, standing astride Chinese business and politics for more than 175 years. The Kadoories were aristocrats while the Sassoons wer ...Show more
Mysteries in History by Editors of Chartwell Books
$27.99 AUD
Category: World History
With Mysteries in History, beautiful infographics, stunning photography, and descriptive text help you uncover the secrets in the stories you were told as a child.
The Great Imperial Hangover - How Empires Have Shaped the World by Samir Puri
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History
'An excellent read.' -- Robert D. Kaplan. For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's imperial legacies are still shaping the thorniest issues we face to ...Show more
The Lost Pianos of Siberia (PB) by Sophy Roberts
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
'An elegant and nuanced journey through literature, through history, through music, murder and incarceration and revolution, through snow and ice and remoteness, to discover the human face of Siberia. I loved this book.' - Paul Theroux. Siberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies and ...Show more
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History
A sweeping, moving novel that is becoming an international sensation - based on an incredible true story. We all have something to tell those we have lost...When Yui loses her mother and daughter in the tsunami, she wonders how she will ever carry on. Yet, in the face of this unthinkable loss, life mus ...Show more
The Rat People - A Journey Through Beijing's Forbidden Underground by Patrick Saint-Paul; David Homel (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History
In a relatively short amount of time, China has become the second largest economy in the world and is soon poised to overtake the US. But the country's rapid growth was achieved on the backs and shoulders of its workforce. Now, a million of them and their descendants live underground in Beijing under in ...Show more
1968: Those Were the Days by Brian Williams
$37.99 AUD
Category: World History
A compendium of milestone stories and watershed events in popular culture, politics, and news at home and abroad from 1968, including the Assassination of Martin Luther King, an introduction of the Ford Escort, Apollo 8 and the first orbit of the moon, the Viet Cong Offensive, Bobby Kennedy getting shot ...Show more
