Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy by Caroline Kennedy
$85.95 AUD
Category: History
During his presidency, John F. Kennedy recorded over 260 hours of meetings and telephone conversations. The taping system remained a closely held secret, even from his top aides. Now Listening In gives readers a behind-the-curtain glimpse of one of America's most famous and revered presidencies. The Ken ...Show more
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life by Jane Jacobs
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: From 2 To 12
In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities not nations that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities are constantly evolving to replace imported goods ...Show more
Asperger's Children - The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Edith Sheffer
$43.95 AUD
Category: History
Hans Asperger, the pioneer of autism and Asperger syndrome in Nazi Vienna, has been celebrated for his compassionate defense of children with disabilities. But in this groundbreaking book, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer exposes that Asperger was not only involved in the racial policies of Hitler' ...Show more
Mescaline - A Global History of the First Psychedelic by Mike Jay
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, after which the word "psychedelic" was coined to describ ...Show more
The Maisky Diaries : The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London by Ivan Maisky
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries. A remarkable exception is the unique diary assiduously kept by Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador to London between 1932 and 1943. This selection from M ...Show more
Civil Wars - A History in Ideas by David Armitage
$44.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflict-ridden world We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and isn't, have a long and contested history. Defining the term is acutely ...Show more
THE JAPANESE ON TRIAL ALLIED WAR CRIMES OPERATIONS IN THE EAST 1945 1951 by PICCIGALLO PHILIP R.
$82.95 AUD
Category: History
This comprehensive treatment of post-World War II Allied war crimes trials in the Far East is a significant contribution to a neglected subject. While the Nuremberg and, to a lesser degree, Tokyo tribunals have received considerable attention, this is the first full-length assessment of the entire Far E ...Show more
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy by Philip Coggan
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
More tracks the development of the world economy, starting with the first obsidian blades that made their way from what is now Turkey to the Iran-Iraq border 7000 years before Christ, and ending with the Sino-American trade war that we are in right now. Taking history in great strides, More illustrates ...Show more
30-Second Ancient Rome by Matthew Nicholls
$19.99 AUD
Category: Europe
You know that Rome wasn't built in a day, but just how did a cluster of small hilltop villages expand to become one of the greatest empires in history?
Mad and Bad - Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Regency England is a world immortalized by Jane Austen and Lord Byron in their beloved novels and poems. The popular image of the Regency continues to be mythologized by the hundreds of romance novels set in the period, which focus almost exclusively on wealthy, white, Christian members of the upper cla ...Show more
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
$35.00 AUD
Category: 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 Curious Cures of Old England - Eccentric Treatments, Outlandish Remedies and Fearsome Surgeries for Ailments from the Plague to the Pox by Nigel Cawthorne
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Did you know that a child can be cured of the whooping cough by passing it under the belly of a donkey? The history of medicine in Britain is filled with the most bizarre and gruesome cures for many common ailments. Although enthusiastically supported by doctors of the time, many of these cures were of ...Show more