A Cry from the Far Middle - Dispatches from a Divided Land by P. J. O'Rourke
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
Observations on the present political moment, and the discord that defines it, from the best man for the job: bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P.J. O'Rourke P. J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry are wha ...Show more
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century by Christina Riggs
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
A surprising new history of Tutankhamun published to coincide with the centenary of his tomb's discovery. When it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into a household name overnight and kickstarting an international media obses ...Show more
War: How Conflict Shaped Us (PB) by Margaret MacMillan
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in - for good and evil. The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a militar ...Show more
The Library: A Fragile History by Arthur der Weduwen, Andrew Pettegree
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
Princes, collectors, bookworms and thieves: the extraordinary story of the library, from Alexandria to the age of Google. 'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched, of that extraordinary and enduring phenomenon: the library' - Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge ...Show more
1587 A Year of No Significance by Huang, Ray
$50.00 AUD
Category: Asian
"If you buy only one work on pre-modern Chinese history this year, make it this one."--W. S. Atwell, History Winner of the American Book Award for History In 1587, the Year of the Pig, nothing very special happened in China. Yet in the seemingly unspectacular events of this ordinary year, Ray H ...Show more
The Turkish Embassy Letters by Mary Wortley Montagu
$30.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
In 1716 Mary Montagu traveled across Europe to take up residence in Istanbul as the wife of the British ambassador. Her letters remain as fresh as the day they were penned: enchanted by her discoveries of the life of Turkish women behind the veil, by Arabic poetry and by contemporary medical practices - ...Show more
The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu - Scientist and Feminist by Jo Willett
$75.00 AUD
Category: British
300 years ago, in April 1721, a smallpox epidemic was raging in England. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu knew that she could save her 3-year-old daughter using the process of inoculation. She had witnessed this at first hand in Turkey, while she was living there as the wife of the British ambassador. She also ...Show more
The Free World - Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand
$65.00 AUD
Category: European
In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years. The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense--economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Fre ...Show more
Conclave 1559 by Mary Hollingsworth
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
Conspiracy, intrigue and faction fighting as the future of Europe hangs in the balance: Mary Hollingsworth tells the story of the papal conclave in 1559. Intrigue, double-dealing and conspiracy in the Eternal City. August 1559. As the long hot Italian summer draws to its close, so does the life of a r ...Show more
The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong by Michael Sheridan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'A delightful piece of writing and research which describes the remarkable history behind the handover of this unique and exciting city' Jasper Becker 'Deeply researched and beautifully written' Mike Chinoy A superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. The ...Show more
The Afghanistan Papers : A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
The groundbreaking investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about the longest war in American history by Washington Post reporter Craig Whitlock, a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, t ...Show more
Charles Strong's Australian Church - Christian Social Activism, 1885-1917 by Marion Maddox
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The untold story of Reverend Dr Charles Strong and progressive Christian activismIn the optimistic years preceding Federation in 1901, the Melbourne-based Australian Church emerged as a progressive Christian movement to serve a brand-new nation. Galvanising many members of Melbourne's social and politic ...Show more