Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook by Karina Urbach
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Category: World History
What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was expropriated under the Nazi regime. Alice Urbach had her own cooking school in Vienna, but in 1938 she was forced to flee to England, like so many others. Her younger son was imprisoned i ...Show more
Always Remember Your Name: The Children who Survived Auschwitz by Andra & Tatiana Bucci
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Category: World History
A haunting WWII memoir of two sisters who survived Auschwitz that picks up where Anne Frank's Diary left off and gives voice to the children we lost. On 28 March 1944, six-year-old Tati and her four-year-old sister Andra were roused from their sleep and arrested. Along with their mother, Mira, their au ...Show more
America Before: the Key to Earth's Lost Civilisation by Graham Hancock
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Category: World History
Until very recently there was almost universal agreement amongst scientists that human beings first entered the Americas from Siberia around 13,000 years ago by walking into Alaska across the Bering landbridge. Over the next two thousand years their descendants supposedly spread out through Central and ...Show more
America Second - How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger by Isaac Stone Fish
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Category: World History
The past few years have seen a shift in the relations between China and the United States, from enthusiastic economic partners, to wary frenemies, to open rivals. Americans have been slow to wake up to the challenges posed by the Chinese Communist Party. Why did this happen? And what can be done about i ...Show more
America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger by Isaac Stone Fish
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History
A timely, provocative expose of the US's political and business leadership's deep ties to China- a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing - at a profound and often hidden cost to American and Western interests.The past few years have seen a shift in the relations between China and ...Show more
America in the World - A History of U. S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy by Robert B. Zoellick
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Category: World History
Ranging from Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson to Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and James Baker, AMERICA IN THE WORLD tells the vibrant story of American diplomacy.Recounting the actors and events of U.S. foreign policy, Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged f ...Show more
American Prometheus: the Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
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Category: World History
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific ...Show more
America's Leap into Space - My Time at Jpl and the First Explorer Satellites by Henry L. Richter
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Category: World History
After the shock of watching Russia's Sputnik become the world's first artificial satellite, America's infant space program hurried to launch one of their own. In just 90 days, Dr. Henry Richter and his colleagues at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed and launched the nation's response. Through inno ...Show more
Among the Braves - Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy by Shibani Mahtani; Timothy McLaughlin
$65.99 AUD
Category: World History
Through the eyes of two frontline journalists comes a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing's brutal crackdown. Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in ...Show more
Among the Wolves of Court - The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn by Lauren Mackay
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Category: World History
The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne's life her father Thomas and brother George are often relegated to the margins of the history of Henry VIII's turbulent reign. Well before Anne's coronation in 1533, Thomas was regarded as one of Henry's most ...Show more
Ancestral DNA, Human Origins, and Migrations by Rene J. Herrera; Ralph Garcia-Bertrand
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Category: World History
Ancestral DNA, Human Origins, and Migrations describes the genesis of humans in Africa and the subsequent story of how our species migrated to every corner of the globe. Different phases of this journey are presented in an integrative format with information from a number of disciplines, including popul ...Show more
Ancient Greek Philosophers (Leatherbound Classics)
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Category: World History | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
"Philosophy begins in wonder."--Plato Have you ever wondered about the development of civilization? What topics were discussed in the days of Ancient Greece? This collection of thoughts from Plato, Aristotle, and other masters of philosophy will lead your mind on a journey of enlightened exploration ...Show more