The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen
$34.95 AUD
Category: Asian
The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different--and far more interesting--as revealed in ...Show more
Sunlight and Other Fears by Amartya Sen, FBA
$47.95 AUD
Category: Political
Time and again Amartya Sen, one of the polymaths of our times, has stirred our thoughts and world-views through his writings and speeches. Intrigued by the questions of social justice and welfare, he argues, in this work, some of the fundamental issues-poverty, hunger, education, globalization, media an ...Show more
The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters by Anthony Pagden
$30.95 AUD
Category: European
The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Pagden explains how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Weste ...Show more
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire by Victor Sebestyen
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
Journalist Victor Sebestyen witnessed much of the 1989 fall of the Soviet empire at first hand and in this book, he reassesses this decisive moment in modern history.
The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The world known as the 'Dark Ages', often seen as a time of barbarism, was in fact the crucible in which modern Europe would be created. Chris Wickham's acclaimed history shows how this period, encompassing people such as Goths, Franks, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, was central t ...Show more
Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made by Richard Rhodes
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb"--the remarkable story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary numb ...Show more
Sicily - A Short History from the Ancient Greeks to Cosa Nostra by John Julius Norwich
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
The stepping-stone between Europe and Africa, the gateway between the East and the West, at once a stronghold, clearing-house and observation-post, Sicily has been invaded and fought over by Phoenicians and Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, Spaniards and ...Show more
The Silent Day: A Landmark Oral History of D-Day on the Home Front by Max Arthur
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence. Overnight, 160,000 Allied troops had vanished and an eerie emptiness settled over the country. The majority of those men would never return. This is the story of that extraordinary 24 hours. Using a wealth of first person testimonies, renowned histor ...Show more
Post-God Nation by Roy Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
At the time of Federation 98% of Australians identified themselves as Christians. Now only 5% regularly go to Church. The reasons for this steep decline in faith are broad - they include the failings of the Church itself; its relentless negativity and hypocrisy as well as misunderstandings about what be ...Show more
Between River and Sea, Encounters in Israel and Palestine by Dervla Murphy
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Following A Month by the Sea, her acclaimed exploration of life in Gaza, Dervla Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of living with and among Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in both Israel and Palestine. In cramped Haifa high-rises, in homes in the settlements and in a refugee camp o ...Show more
How Good We Can be: Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country by Will Hutton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Britain is beset by a crisis of purpose. For a generation we have been told the route to universal well-being is to abandon the expense of justice and equity and so allow the judgments of the market to go unobstructed. What has been created is not an innovative, productive economy but instead a capital ...Show more
Israel: A History by Anita Shapira
$31.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Written by one of Israel's most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late 19th century to the present day. Anita Shapira's gripping narrative explores the emergence of Zionism in Europe against the backdrop of relations a ...Show more