Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars by Peter Stothard
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History
This is an unusual history of a time that still defines our world - a view of the early Roman empire that its historians never intended us to see. Beginning sixty years after the assassination of Julius Caesar, it graphically depicts a story parallel to that of Caligula and Nero, and shows us those stru ...Show more
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
$36.99 AUD
Category: World History
The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley. Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and materiall ...Show more
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
Best Books of 2022 - Financial Times ... 'A literary phenomenon.' - Times Literary Supplement ... 'Imaginative, lively and contemporary...masterly.' - Economist ... 'Vallejo enlivens history with imagination and personal anecdote' - Observer ... 'A mindboggling history of the earliest books... the stor ...Show more
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age by Tom Holland
$34.99 AUD
Category: World 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
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN 'READS LIKE A THRILLER' FINANCIAL TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder’s Red Notice comes a unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the zenith of power and money in 21st cen ...Show more
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
$26.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe ...Show more
Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story by Mark Edele
$32.00 AUD
Category: World History
An examination of the causes of the Russian invasion and its implications for the future In February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a fellow East Slav state with much shared history. Mark Edele, a world authority on the history of the Soviet Union, explains why and how this conf ...Show more
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
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Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruder ...Show more
Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth Century Britain: A Downstairs View of Twentieth Century Britain by Lucy Lethbridge
$19.99 AUD
Category: World History
Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain is the social history of the last century through the eyes of those who served. From the butler, the footman, the maid and the cook of 1900 to the au pairs, cleaners and childminders who took their place seventy years later, a previously unheard c ...Show more
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
In this instantand tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight "offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh" (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one o ...Show more
Shrimp to Whale - South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop by Ramon Pacheco Pardo
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History
South Korea has the most remarkable of histories. Born from the ashes of colonialism, partition and a devastating war, back in the 1950s there were real doubts about its survival as an independent state. Yet South Korea did survive, and first became known globally for the export of cheap toys, shoes and ...Show more
Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal: by Ben Macintyre
$22.99 AUD
Category: World History
Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War.Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and Jam ...Show more