Spare Parts: A Surprising History of Transplants by Paul Craddock
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A rich, surprising and delightfully macabre history of transplant surgeryWe think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world but it's a lot older than you think. As ancient as the pyramids, its history is even more surprising. Cultural historian Paul Craddock takes us on a j ...Show more
Great Furphies of Australian History: What you really need to know - the truth behind the myths by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Jim Haynes upturns some of the long-held myths of Australian history with surprising results. With all the skills of the master storyteller that he is, Jim Haynes exposes some of the great myths of Australian history. Did you know that Portuguese and Spanish explorers probably found the east coast of Au ...Show more
The Ruin of All Witches - Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
The dark, compelling history of a colonial witch-hunt, from the author of WitchfindersIn the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits, and are plagued by strange visions and dreams. Children sick ...Show more
Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War by Brendan Simms, Charles Laderman
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
'A rare achievement ... sure to become an instant classic' John Lewis Gaddis, Yale UniversityThis gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States. These five days trans ...Show more
Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia's Jazz Age by Deirdre O'Connell
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The untold story of race and power in Australia's Jazz AgeThe 1920s were a time of wonder and flux, when Australians sensed a world growing smaller, turning faster-and, for some, skittering off balance. American movies, music and dance brought together what racial lines kept apart. A spirit of youthful ...Show more
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them. Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Br ...Show more
The Running Book - A Journey Through Memory, Landscape and History by John Connell
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
From the award-winning, number one bestselling author of The Cow Book. It is summer, the hay and silage have not yet been made on John Connell's farm, so he has time to indulge his other great passion: running. John sets off on a marathon run of 42.2 kilometres through his native Longford, the scene of ...Show more
Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria by Janet McCalman
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
From award-winning author and historian Janet McCalman, the engrossing tale of Tasmanian convict settlers in colonial Victoria It was meant to be 'Victoria the Free', uncontaminated by the Convict Stain. Yet they came in their tens of thousands as soon as they were cut free or able to bolt. More than ha ...Show more
The Museum: The World's Most Iconic Cultural Spaces by Owen Hopkins
$75.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Packed with stunning imagery and featuring the world's most celebrated cultural institutions, architectural historian and museum curator Owen Hopkins looks at the fascinating history of the museum. Visited by millions around the world every year, discover the untold story of the museum, one of mankind's ...Show more
The Ottomans - Khans, Caesars and Caliphs by Marc David Baer
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe's heart. In their breadth and versatility, the Ottoman rulers saw t ...Show more
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter by Emma Soames
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'I am not a great or important personage, but this will be the diary of an ordinary person's life in war time. Though I may never live to read it again, perhaps it may not prove altogether uninteresting as a record of my life - or rather the life of a girl in her youth, upon whom life has shone very bri ...Show more
Their Fiery Cross of Union: A Retelling of the Creation of the Australian Federation, 1889-1914 by William Coleman
$44.00 AUD
Category: History
'Better than any other account, Their Fiery Cross of Union shatters the myths Australians have cherished about Federation. It both sets out those myths and-in gripping prose-exposes their limitations and contradictions. Using, without ever being heavy-handed, all the tools of modern social science, it m ...Show more