Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us about Old Age and Death by Peter Jones
$30.00 AUD
Category: European
In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors two thousand years ago. Romans inhabited a world where man, k ...Show more
Norse Myths by Tom Birkett
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
The great Norse Myths are among the most dramatic and unforgettable stories in all human history. These fascinating, fantastical tales have inspired centuries of art, culture and literature, including the storytelling of Tolkien, Neil Gaiman, George RR Martin's Game of Thrones, Wagner's Ring Cycle and M ...Show more
France - A History from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
"...This book is written in the belief that the average English-speaking man or woman has remarkably little knowledge of French history. We may know a bit about Napoleon or Joan of Arc or Louis XIV, but for most of us that's about it. In my own three schools we were taught only about the battles we won: ...Show more
New Jerusalem by Paul Ham
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
IN FEBRUARY 1534 a radical religious sect whose disciples were being persecuted throughout Europe seized the city of M nster, in the German-speaking land of Westphalia.They were convinced that they were God's Elect, specially chosen by the Almighty to be the first to ascend to Paradise on Judgement Day, ...Show more
A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000 by John Gibney
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the beginning of Ireland's modern period and continues throug ...Show more
The Queen's Embroiderer by Joan DeJean
$43.00 AUD
Category: European
From the author of How Paris Became Paris, a sweeping history of high finance, the origins of high fashion, and a pair of star-crossed lovers in 18th-century France.Paris, 1719. The stock market is surging and the world's first millionaires are buying everything in sight. Against this backdrop, two fami ...Show more
Proust's Duchess : How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin de Siecle Paris by Caroline Weber
$59.95 AUD
Category: European
From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion--a brilliant look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Genevi ve Hal vy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Co ...Show more
In Miniature - How Small Things Illuminate the World by Simon Garfield
$30.00 AUD
Category: European
Bestselling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans' peculiar fascination with small things-and what small things tell us about our larger world. Simon Garfield writes books that shine a light on aspects of the everyday world in order to reveal the charm ...Show more
Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick by David Frye
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. Great Walls have appeared on nearly every continent, the handiwork of people from Persia, Rome, China, Central America, and beyond. They have accompanied the rise of cities, nations, and empires. And yet ...Show more
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings by Matthew Kneale
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
"This magnificent love letter to Rome" (Stephen Greenblatt) tells the story of the Eternal City through pivotal moments that defined its history--from the early Roman Republic through the Renaissance and the Reformation to the German occupation in World War Two--"an erudite history that reads like a pag ...Show more
Reformations - The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 by Carlos M. N. Eire
$34.95 AUD
Category: European
This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that p ...Show more