The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
65.00 AUD
Category: History
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrifi ...Show more
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 by Alina Chan; Matt Ridley
9.99 AUD
34.99 (71% off)
Category: History
It's the greatest whodunnit mystery of the century: how did the first detected outbreak of Covid-19 start in Wuhan city? We know that the natural reservoir of SARS-related coronaviruses is in bats, but we do not how, where, and when SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, acquired the ability to ...Show more
The World Aflame: The Long War, 1914-1945 by Marina Dan: Amaral Jones
29.99 AUD
49.99 (40% off)
Category: History
'Purists argue that colourising black and white photographs is sacrilege, but the world has always been in colour. Truth be told, monochrome is a contrivance. Human experience is always colourful' The Times. The epic, harrowing and world-changing story - in words and colourized images - of global confli ...Show more
Courtiers: The inside story of the Palace power struggles from the Royal correspondent who revealed the bullying allegations by Valentine Low
32.99 AUD
Category: History
Who advises the royal family, what influence do they have and how have they shaped history?Throughout history, the British monarchy has relied on its courtiers - the trusted advisers in the King or Queen's inner circle - to ensure its survival as a family, an ancient institution, and a pillar of the con ...Show more
Voices of the Winds - Native American Legends by Margot Edmonds; Ella Clark
19.99 AUD
Category: History
This wonderfully colorful and appealing anthology gathers more than 130 Native American legends, many told to the authors by elder storytellers and tribal historians.
Tremors in the Blood - Murder, obsession and the birth of the lie detector by Amit Katwala
9.99 AUD
34.99 (71% off)
Category: History
Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detectorHenry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife's blood. But was he a grieving husband, or a ruthless killer who'd conspired with bandits to have her murdered?To find out, the San Francisco police turned to technology, and a ...Show more
My Place by Sally Morgan
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
My Place begins with Sally Morgan tracing the experiences of her own life, growing up in suburban Perth in the fifties and sixties. Through the memories and images of her childhood and adolescence, vague hints and echoes begin to emerge, hidden knowledge is uncovered, and a fascinating story unfolds - a ...Show more
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance by Judy Batalion
9.99 AUD
24.99 (60% off)
Category: History
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists. One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Rise and Fall of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
29.99 AUD
Category: History
'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India - A book of beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected ...Show more
Puff Piece by John Safran
34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Wild, hilarious and thought-provoking, Puff Piece is a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping industry, and how words can be literally a matter of life and death. The folks that bring you Marlboro - Philip Morris - are wheezing, slowly dying. Cigarettes are out of favour with everyone, from world ...Show more
By Sea and Stars: The Story of the First Fleet by Trent Dalton
9.99 AUD
24.99 (60% off)
Category: Australian History
Dazzling, poetic and vivid storytelling from one of Australia's greatest writers, which tells the bloody, brutal and enthralling story of the epic journey of the First Fleet. Originally published as a multi-part serial in The Australian, By Sea and Stars tells the story of the epic voyage which led to t ...Show more
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
9.99 AUD
14.99 (33% off)
Category: History
Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air, and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly u ...Show more