Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
$22.99 AUD
Category: World History
Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them. But as doctors, researchers, campaigners and most of all as patients, women have continuously challenged medical ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways in ...Show more
Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London by OSKAR JENSEN
$49.99 AUD
Category: World History
Compelling, moving and unexpected portraits of London's poor from a rising star British historian the Dickensian city brought to real and vivid life. Until now, our view of bustling late Georgian and Victorian London has been filtered through its great chroniclers, who did not themselves come from pover ...Show more
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family, the Vanderbilts. When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on hi ...Show more
Vietnam - Rising Dragon by Bill Hayton
$26.95 AUD
Category: World History
A much-needed behind-the-scenes survey of an emerging Asian power The eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam is rising fast among its Asian peers. A breathtaking period of social change has seen foreign investment bringing capitalism flooding into its nominally comm ...Show more
Viking Women: Life and Lore by Lisa Hannett
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History
Let's travel in time together, a thousand or so years back, and meet Viking women in their hearth-lit world.How did these medieval viragoes live, love and die? How can we encounter them as flesh-and-blood beings with fears and feelings - not just as names in sagas or runes carved into stone? In this gro ...Show more
Vital Organs by Suzie Edge
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History
The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts.Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's armpit led the development of antiseptics. Robert Jenkin's ear started a war. All too often, historical figures feel distant and abstract; more myth and legend than r ...Show more
Voices of History: Speeches That Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$29.99 AUD
$34.99 (14% off)
Category: World History
VOICES OF HISTORY celebrates the great speeches of world history and cultural life. In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some speeches are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious; some a ...Show more
Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$22.99 AUD
Category: World History
VOICES OF HISTORY celebrates the great speeches of world history and cultural life. In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some speeches are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious; some a ...Show more
Vox Populi - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Classical World but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: World History
A witty and engaging beginner's guide to the Classics, by the author of Veni, Vidi, Vici and Eureka!
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas
$27.99 AUD
Category: World History | Series: The\Landmark Library
The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year'Highlights a dizzying burst of new research' The Economist'A refreshing addition to the canon of literature that contemplates Oceanic navig ...Show more
War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat
$64.95 AUD
Category: World History
Why do people go to war? Is it rooted in human nature or is it a late cultural invention? How does war relate to the other fundamental developments in the history of human civilization? And what of war today - is it a declining phenomenon or simply changing its shape? In this truly global study of war a ...Show more