A Place for Everything - The Story of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
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Category: History | Series: FLANDERS, JUDITH
A celebration of alphabetical order, from its humble beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the sum of the world's knowledge. While we emphasize our subconscious appreciation for the importance of the alphabet, it is alphabetic order, its organization, that allows us to sift thr ...Show more
SAS: Who Dares Wins: Leadership Secrets from the Special Forces by Anthony Middleton - Ant
19.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Life and leadership lessons from the Special Forces, accompanying the Channel 4 series SAS: Who Dares Wins. Are you up to the challenge of SAS leadership? Only the best will succeed...Britain's SAS (Special Air Service) has an unparalleled reputation for soldiering excellence. Their skills and technique ...Show more
Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-42 by Nathaniel Philbrick
23.99 AUD
Category: History
The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-42The dramatic story of the largest voyage of discovery in the history of the world, this is an astounding tale of courage, arrogance and adventure on the high seas. Headed by the controversial Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, and consisting of six sailing vessels and 346 m ...Show more
The Queens of Animation - The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt
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Category: History
From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold, "richly detailed" story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generations (Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures) From Snow White to Moana, from Pinocc ...Show more
The Little Ice Age - How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 by Brian Fagan
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Little Ice Age tells the fascinating story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history. Using sources ranging from the dates of long-ago wine harvests and the business records of medieval monasteries to modern chemical analysis of ice cores, renowned archaeo ...Show more
Jerusalem: The Biography A History of the Middle East by Simon Sebag Montefiore
26.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of Jerusalem is the story of the world. Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilisations. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the 'centre of the world ...Show more
The Nine Hundred - The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam
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Category: History
On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few ...Show more
Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia's Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
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Category: History
This book focuses on the visual and material culture of St Petersburg and Moscow at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The twilight of Imperial Russia witnessed a sudden renaissance that left a profound imprint on the visual, literary and performing arts: here was a Silver Age as luminous perhaps ...Show more
A History of New York in 25 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis by Sam Roberts
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Category: History
From the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New York is poised to celebrate its four hundredth anniversary, New York Times correspondent Sam Roberts tells the story of the city through bricks, glass, wood, and morta ...Show more
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan
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Category: History
From the bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes an updated, timely, and visionary book about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now--as seen from the perspective of the rising powers of the East. "All roads used to lead to Rome. Today they lead to Beijing." So argues P ...Show more
Dreamers by Volker Weidermann
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Category: History
At the end of the First World War in Germany, the journalist and theatre critic Kurt Eisner organised a revolution which overthrew the monarchy, and declared a Free State of Bavaria. In February 1919, he was assassinated, and the revolution failed. But while the dream lived, it was the writers, the poet ...Show more