Beyond the Known - How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars by Andrew Rader
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights humans' insatiable desire to continually push into new and uncharted territory, from civilization's earliest days to curre ...Show more
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History
The definitive new history of East Germany by a highly acclaimed young historian. In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically diffe ...Show more
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici by Estelle Paranque
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History
'A stunning portrayal of two of the most powerful women in European history' Tracy Borman'Exciting and compelling, packed full of tantalising details of diplomacy and court life, Paranque succeeds both in bringing history to life, but also in putting flesh on the bones of these two extraordinary women a ...Show more
Blood and Oil: Mohammed Bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope; Justin Scheck
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History
Thirty-five-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former Prime Minister Tony Blair and WME Chairman Ari Emmanuel flew out to meet with the Crown Prince and came away convinced that his desire to reform the kingdom was sincere. He spoke passi ...Show more
Blowing Up Ukraine by Yuri Felshtinsky; Michael Stanchev
$34.95 AUD
Category: World History
Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine came from nowhere? Felshtinsky and Stanchev's gripping history chronicles Ukraine's story from its origins to its modern day struggle to ward off Russian interference. A bestseller published after Russia annexed the Crimea in 2014 it predicted that the Russian invasi ...Show more
Bonnie Prince Charlie by George Alfred Henty
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History
Bonnie Prince Charlie is a classic historical novelby G.A. Henty. "Ronald, the hero, is very like the hero of Quentin Durward. The lad's journey across France with his faithful attendant Malcolm, and his hairbreadth escapes from the machinations of his father's enemies, make up as good a narrative of th ...Show more
Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History by Lauren Marino
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History
A boldly illustrated celebration of literary history's most revolutionary, talented women writers Women have written some of our most extraordinary literary works while living in societies and cultures that tried to silence them. These women dared to put pen to paper to express the multifaceted female e ...Show more
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Twenty-five years after she left, Kassabova returns to Bulgaria to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece in an immersive travel narrative that is also a shadow history of the Cold War, a sideways look at the migration crisis troubling Europe, and a deep, witchy descent into interior and ex ...Show more
Bosnia: A Short History by Noel Malcolm
$57.95 AUD
Category: World History
This updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly-acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History provides the reader with the most comprehensive narrative history of Bosnia in the English language. Malcolm examines the different religious and ethnic inhabitants of Bosnia, a land of vast cultural upheaval where the empir ...Show more
Breadsong: How Baking Changed Our Lives by Al Kitty; Tait Tait
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History
'If you had told me at 14 when I couldn't even get out of bed with depression and anxiety that three years later I would have written a book I would never have believed you. But here it is - the story of the Orange Bakery. How I went from bed to bread and how my Dad went from being a teacher to a baker. ...Show more
Brilliant Maps: An Atlas for Curious Minds by Ian Wright
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History
See the world anew with this unique and beautifully designed infographic atlas. Which nations have North Korean embassies? What percentage of young people live with their families? Which country lists volleyball as its national sport? How much does it cost to get a pint around the world? And where can ...Show more
British India, White Australia - Overseas Indians, Intercolonial Relations and the Empire, 1901-1947 by Kama Maclean
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History