Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$26.99 AUD
Category: World History
Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet, prol ...Show more
100 Nasty Women of History - Brilliant, Badass and Completely Fearless Women Everyone Should Know by Hannah Jewell
$22.99 AUD
Category: World History
'Vital reading' STYLIST 'Because 100 Nasty Women is so easy to read and witty, I didn't expect it to be the life changing, important book that I'm discovering it to be' PHILIPPA PERRY * * * * * * These are the women who were deemed too nasty for their times. When you learn about (the very few) women ...Show more
1001 Days That Shaped the World by FURTADO, PETER
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History
Fully updated for 2021, this is a comprehensive guide to those extraordinary moments that defined human history, written by respected figures from the fields of science, history, and journalism.
1001 Ideas That Changed The Way We Think by Robert Arp
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History
Fully updated for 2021, 1001 Ideas That Changed The Way We Think is a comprehensive guide to the most interesting and imaginative thoughts from the finest minds in history.
1421: The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History
On 8 February 1421 the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, 500 foot long junks made from the finest teak and mahogany, were led by Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from ...Show more
1776 by David McCullough
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the ...Show more
1968: Those Were the Days by Brian Williams
$37.99 AUD
Category: World History
A compendium of milestone stories and watershed events in popular culture, politics, and news at home and abroad from 1968, including the Assassination of Martin Luther King, an introduction of the Ford Escort, Apollo 8 and the first orbit of the moon, the Viet Cong Offensive, Bobby Kennedy getting shot ...Show more
30-Second Mythology by Robert A. Segal
$19.99 AUD
Category: World History | Series: 30 Second
The perfect introduction to the study of mythology, covering essential facts and details in one handy volume.
30 Second Napoleon by Charles Esdaile
$19.99 AUD
Category: World History | Series: 30 Second
Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those with a romantic attachment to ideals of liberty and democracy, on the other are those who would rather see him as an ambitious warlord, bent on establishing a colonial empire in the hea ...Show more
A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
$19.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
From the Big Bang to the theory of relativity, Stephen W. Hawking will challenge your imagination and expand your grasp of the cosmos. This is the classic revelatory science book of the last century. Here is a landmark book written for those of us who prefer words to equations. Told by an extraordinary ...Show more
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next by Tom Standage
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History
From the New York Times bestselling author comes a timely and illuminating history of personal transportation, and how it has transformed the world we live in.Beginning around 3,500 BC with the wheel, and moving through the eras of horsepower, trains and bicycles, Tom Standage puts the rise of the car a ...Show more
A Brief History of Paris by Cecil Jenkins
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
Paris: city of love, food and fashion.Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas.Paris: a modern metropolis.Paris is all of these, all at once, all the time.There is a unique fusion of past and present in this purposefully grand and well-planned city. The Triumphal Way, whi ...Show more