Empty Cradles (Oranges and Sunshine) by Margaret Humphreys
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History
In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first incredulous, Margaret discovered that this was just the tip of an enormous iceberg. Up to 150,000 children, some as young as t ...Show more
English Food - A People's History by Diane Purkiss
$59.99 AUD
Category: World History
In this delicious history of Britain's food traditions, Diane Purkiss invites readers on a unique journey through the centuries, exploring the development of recipes and rituals for mealtimes such as breakfast, lunch, and dinner, to show how food has been both a reflection of and inspiration for social ...Show more
Enslaved - The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Simcha Jacobovici (Contribution by); Sean Kingsley (Contribution by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History
In the pages of Enslaved, we are introduced to the remarkable group, Diving With A Purpose (DWP), as they dive for sunken slave ships all around the world. They search for remains and artifacts testifying to the millions of kidnapped Africans who were transported to Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbe ...Show more
Escape From the Ghetto: The Breathtaking Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the Nazis by John Carr
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History
'Trust me, this is a great true story' - Ken Follett 'It deserves to be ranked among the great survival stories of the Second World War' - The Jewish Chronicle The captivating true story of one boy's flight across Europe to escape the Nazis. A tale of extraordinary courage, incredible adventure, and t ...Show more
Escape from Earth - The Secret History of How We Reached Space by Fraser MacDonald
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History
The long-buried truth about the dawn of the Space Age: lies, spies, socialism, and sex magickLos Angeles, 1930s: Everyone knows that rockets are just toys, the stuff of cranks and pulp magazines. Nevertheless, an earnest engineering student named Frank Malina sets out to prove the doubters wrong. With ...Show more
Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy by Anne Sebba
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
"I don't think I've ever read a book that has moved me more" ANTHONY HOROWITZ "Masterful, original and painfully gripping" PHILIPPE SANDS "A brilliant and fresh take on a famous case" SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE Ethel Rosenberg's story is America's Dreyfus Affair: a catastrophic failure of humanity and justi ...Show more
Ether Day Pb by Julie M Fenster
$29.95 AUD
Category: World History
A fascinating historical account details how three men--an ingenious dentist from Boston, his brilliant colleague from Harvard, and a mentally unstable geologist--combined efforts and pioneered the use of ether, a miraculous event that put an end to pain during surgery, but a bitter battle ensued pl
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
$22.99 AUD
Category: World History
The renowned Israeli historian revisits the formative period of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six ...Show more
Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 by Götz Aly
$36.99 AUD
Category: World History
From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 is the first book to move beyond Germany's singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole. The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Germans, but it would not have been possible without the assistance of thousand ...Show more
Even Greater Mistakes: Stories by Charlie Jane Anders
$21.99 AUD
Category: World History
The woman who can see all the possible branching futures is dating the man who can see the one and only foreordained future.A wildly popular slapstick filmmaker is drawn, against his better judgment, into working with a fascist militia, against a background of social collapse.Two friends must embark on ...Show more
Evolution Is Wrong - A Radical Approach to the Origin and Transformation of Life by Erich von Däniken
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History | Series: Erich Von Daniken Library
A Fascinating Exploration on Why the Darwinists' Theory No Longer Explains Everything There was once a set of ideas called the theory of evolution, conceived by clever people and confirmed by countless scientists. Then people discovered the electron microscope. This made it possible to make the mol ...Show more
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an in ...Show more