Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
$24.99 AUD
Category: New History | Reading Level: very good
All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obses ...Show more
A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
$24.99 AUD
Category: New History | Reading Level: very good
Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100 Objects begins with one of the earliest surviving object ...Show more
Agents of Empire by SASSOON JOANNA
$44.00 AUD
Category: New History
For nearly 100 years, E.L. Mitchell's emblematic photographs have shaped ideas about Australia. But who was Mitchell and why did he succeed above his competitors? For nearly 100 years, E.L. Mitchell's emblematic photographs have shaped ideas about Australia. But who was Mitchell and why did he succeed a ...Show more
Too Long in the Bush by Len Beadell
$29.99 AUD
Category: New History
Too Long In the Bush is the story of how, from 1956 to 1958, Len Beadell and his team made the first road across Central Australia from east to west, 1500 kilometres from the Alice Springs road to Carnegie homestead 650 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie. On the way he surveyed and built the Giles Meteorolo ...Show more
Who Owns History? The Case of Elgin's Loot (HB) by Geoffrey Robertson
$39.99 AUD
Category: New History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The controversy about the Elgin Marbles continues to rage. This book will be the first to propound a system for the return of cultural property, based on human rights law principles that are being developed by the courts to decide whether artworks, manuscripts and sculptures have cultural importance and ...Show more
Memory Craft: Improve your memory using the most powerful methods from around the world by Lynne Kelly
$32.99 AUD
Category: New History | Series: Methods from around The World
In her bestselling book The Memory Code Lynne Kelly uncovers the memory methods of the ancients. She has now tested them thoroughly and in Memory Craft she shows how anyone of any age can use traditional memory methods to expand their memory capacity and to memorise whatever they want.
Visions of Victoria: The Magic of Kodachrome (HB) by Nick Anchen
$69.99 AUD
Category: New History
Melbourne underwent great changes in the decades following World War II, with rapid population growth and mass migration during the 1950s and ‘60s forever altering the face of the city. Despite the changes, Melbourne in this period was often considered to be idyllic, with an ease of life, and a strong ...Show more
Britain's Maritime Empire Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763-1820 by MCALEER JOHN
$36.95 AUD
Category: New History
A fascinating new study in which John McAleer explores the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope and its critical role in the establishment, consolidation and maintenance of the British Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Situated at the centre of a maritime chain tha ...Show more
The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt: Beyond Pharaohs by Douglas J. Brewer
$39.95 AUD
Category: New History
Egyptologists, art historians, philologists and anthropological archaeologists have long worked side by side in Egypt, but they often fail to understand one another's approaches. This book aims to introduce students to the archaeological side of the study of ancient Egypt and to bridge the gap between d ...Show more
Penguins and Primus: An Account of the Northern Expedition June 1910-Febuary 1913 by Dickason Harry
$49.99 AUD
Category: New History
In summer clothes, with only eight weeks worth of provisions, six men found themselves trapped at Terra Nova Bay. These men, members of the the ill-fated British Antarctic Expedition, were forced to winter in a snow cave eating only penguin and seal meat before trekking the 230 miles back to base camp. ...Show more
Picturing the Pacific: Joseph Banks and the Shipboard Artists of Cook and Flinders by James Taylor
$49.99 AUD
Category: New History
For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of a new world in the form of oil paintings, watercolors and drawings--a sensational view of a part of the world few would ever see. Today these works represe ...Show more
The Enterprising Mr MacGregor - Stockbreeder & Pioneer Pastoralist in Australia by Fay Woodhouse
$39.95 AUD
Category: New History
"The enterprising Mr MacGregor was an ambitious and talented Scottish Highlander who tried his luck as a shepherd in a new country and made good. He quickly realised the pedigree required for cattle, sheep and horses in the harsh Australian climate and led the industry in breeding programs." -- back cov ...Show more