Hardball How Politics Is Played Told By One Who Knows The Game by Chris Matthews
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
How politics is played by one who knows the game...host of MSNBC's Hardball, Chris Matthews.Chris Matthews has spent a quarter century on the playing field of American politics—from right-hand man of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill to host of NBC's highest rated cable talk show Hardball. In this revise ...Show more
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America's most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America's favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that br ...Show more
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland s enthralling account tells the story of Caesar s generation, witness to the twilight of the Republic and its bloody ...Show more
Zola and the Victorians: Censorship in the Age of Hypocrisy by Eileen Horne
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
London, 1888: Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of Whitechapel; national strikes and social unrest threaten the status quo; a grave economic crisis is spreading across the Atlantic ...Yet Her Majesty's government is preoccupied with "a mere book" - or rather, a series of books: new translations of the ...Show more
The Beach : An Australian Passion by Robert Drewe
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From an Indigenous food source to a hedonistic playground, the beach has long been a national obsession. Robert Drewe's lyrical examination of Australian beach culture combines imagery from some of Australia's most celebrated photographers with his personal anecdotes of a favourite boat, a capsicum-stre ...Show more
A History of Life in 100 Fossils by Paul D. Taylor
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
This is the epic story of life on Earth, uniquely retold through some of the most significant fossils ever found. A History of Life in 100 Fossils travels through 3.5 billion years of Earth's history and across all seven continents, showcasing the unusual and wonderful forms of life that have played a p ...Show more
The Pepys Library: And the Historic Collections of Magdalene College Cambridge by M. E. J. Hughes
$80.00 AUD
Category: History
Samuel Pepys's Library, as famous in his own lifetime as it is now, was willed by Pepys to Magdalene, the college he had attended in the 1650s. It finally arrived in 1724 to be housed in a handsome new building. A remarkable collection of some 3,000 items, the library includes medieval manuscripts and ...Show more
Captain Cook's Merchant Ships: Free Love, Three Brothers, Mary, Friendship, Endeavour, Adventure, Resolution and Discovery by Stephen Baines
$43.00 AUD
Category: History
While the story of Endeavour is widely known, Captain Cook sailed with eight ships, which began their lives as merchant vessels. This detailed illustrated history tells the story of these vessels and the people who sailed in them. In placing these ships and people in the personal, political, social, fin ...Show more
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
$59.99 AUD
Category: War
With a gripping tale that transforms our understanding of the Second World War, The Battle of the Atlantic was - though often overlooked - crucial to victory in the Second World War. If the German U-boats had prevailed, the maritime artery across the Atlantic would have been severed. Mass hunger would h ...Show more
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 by Sean McMeekin
$70.00 AUD
Category: European
The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume history of the Ottoman empire's decade-long war for survival. Beginning with Italy's invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September 1911, the opening salvo in what would soon spiral into a European conflict, the book concludes with the establishm ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern Russia - From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century by Robert Service
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change. In his acclaimed history, now updated to 2015, Robert Service provides a superb panoramic viewpoint on Russia, exploring the complex, changing interaction between ...Show more
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949: Volume 8 by Ian Kershaw
$70.00 AUD
Category: War
Telegraph Books of the Year and Editor's Choice 2015 BBC History Magazine Books of the Year 2015. In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its survi ...Show more