History of the World Map by Map by DK
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Much more than a history atlas, this book drops you right in the heart of the action, as 130 detailed maps tell the story of pivotal episodes in world history, from the first human migrations out of Africa to the race for space. After the foreword written by renowned broadcaster and historian Peter Snow ...Show more
50 People Who Messed up the World by Alexander Parker; Tim Richman
22.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
'I can't imagine how they whittled it down to just 50 people' - comedian Nik Rabinowitz 'A fantastic thought-provoking book that renews my appreciation for history. It reminds us how we got here and how we can avoid things getting worse' Mandla Shongwe, SAFM Lifestyle A fascinating, terrific read. Garet ...Show more
Written in History - Letters That Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some are noble and inspiring, some despicable and unsettling; some are exquisi ...Show more
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
The Number One Bestseller Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the ...Show more
The Desert and the Sea : 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast by Michael Scott Moore
29.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign polic ...Show more
God: A Human History of Religion by Reza Aslan
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER InGod, Reza Aslan sheds new light on mankind's relationship with the divine and challenges our perspective on faith and the birth of religion. From the origins of spiritual thought to the concept of an active, engaged, divine presence that underlies all creation, Aslan exa ...Show more
Endeavour: The ship and the attitude that changed the world by Peter Moore
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: good-very good
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR' Christopher Hart, Sunday Times An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - an alluring combination of history, adventure and science The Enlightenment was an age of endeavours. Britain was consumed by the impulse for grand p ...Show more
Lenin the Dictator by Victor Sebestyen
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: near fine
'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine 'Richly readable ... An enthralling but appalling story' Francis Wheen, author of Karl Marx The cold, one-dimensional figure of Lenin the political fanatic is only a partial truth. Drawing on extensive material that has only rece ...Show more
Hell Ship by Michael Veitch
32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch's family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrants - mostly Scottish victims of the Clearances and the potato famine. A better lif ...Show more
King Cnut and the Viking Conquest of England 1016 by Bartlett Wb
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
The Viking Conquest of England in 1016 - a far tougher and more brutal campaign than the Norman Conquest exactly half a century later - saw two great warriors, the Danish prince Cnut and his equally ruthless English opponent King Edmund Ironside, fight an epic campaign. Cnut sailed in two hundred longbo ...Show more
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for this Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures by Charlie English
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
'An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel' Observer, Book of the Year 'A piece of postmodern historiography of quite extraordinary sophistication and ingenuity... [written with] exceptional delicacy and restraint' TLS The fabled city o ...Show more
The Ship That Never Was by Adam Courtenay
32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller. In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from ...Show more