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A Quick History of Politics: From Pharaohs to Fair Votes by Clive Gifford
19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Quick Histories Ser.
A Quick History of Politics takes us from pharaohs to fair votes, packed with facts and jokes about the many faces of politics through time.
A Short History of the Tudors by Richard Rex
29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Short Histories Ser.
Combining an expertise on the Tudor dynasty with an authoritative understanding of its religious and political make-up, A Short History of the Tudors provides a fresh and accessible perspective of one of the most formative periods of British history.Rex considers the ways in which the Tudors shaped the ...Show more
All at Sea by Terry Deary; Martin Brown (Illustrator)
32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Horrible Histories Ser.
Discover all the foul facts behind the story of Britain and Ireland's seafaring heritage. From the early explorersto the Pilgrim Fathers, the horrors of the slave tradeto the particular appeal of a piratical life, the Royal Navyto the Merchant Navy, ship-building tales, fishing traditions and beyond, i ...Show more
Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History - From Medieval Robots to Neural Networks by Clifford A. Pickover
39.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Sterling Illustrated Histories Ser.
An illustrated journey through the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence, from popular science author Cliff Pickover.From medieval robots and Boolean algebra to facial recognition, artificial neural networks, and adversarial patches, this fascinating history takes readers on a vast tour t ...Show more
Beyond the Moulin Rouge - The Life and Legacy of la Goulue by Will Visconti
89.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Peculiar Bodies: Stories and Histories Ser.
Best known by her stage name, La Goulue (the Glutton), Louise Weber was one of the biggest stars of fin de siècle Paris, renowned as a cancan dancer at the Moulin Rouge and an iconic figure of modern art. Her life, however, has consistently been misrepresented and reduced to a footnote in the stories of ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #1: Shipwreck, Sailors & 60,000 Years by Jackie French; Peter Sheehan (Illustrator)
16.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
The Indigenous people of Australia have lived here for tens of thousands of years. They survived the ice age and ancient global warming. They saw oceans sink and oceans rise. They watched the mega-beasts disappear and dingoes arrive. Theirs is the oldest civilization in the world. Then along came the Du ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #4: Gold, Graves and Glory by Jackie French
16.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
For 60,000 years the rest of the world had pretty much left Australia and its Aboriginal nations alone. Then it became a home for Britain's criminals and poor. Now a con man had found gold and suddenly everyone was heading to Australia: adventurers, revolutionaries, camels... Australia would never be th ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #6: Weevils, War and Wallabies by Jackie French
16.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
1920-1945, an iconic period in Australian history: QANTAS founded, the Sydney Harbour Bridge built, Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup and dies in the US, Don Bradman wows the world at the wicket and becomes the main target in the Bodyline series. The Depression hits. Australia enters WW II. Aborigines lob ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #8: Booms, Busts & Bushfires by Jackie French
16.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
Australia had changed before, but slowly. Now everything was fast! Attitudes were evolving, technology was changing every aspect of life, and people were starting to recognise the damage we were doing to our landand the way Australia's Indigenous people had been mistreated. Our resources had made us a r ...Show more
Frightful First World War - Horrible Histories by Terry Deary; Martin Brown
33.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Horrible Histories Ser.
Discover all the foul facts about the 'Great' War with history's most horrible headlines: Frightful First World War edition. The master of making history fun, Terry Deary gives us all the facts on the First World War including what the 'Fat King' did with food scraps and dead horses, how sniffing you ...Show more
Grim Crims & Convicts (Fair Dinkum Histories #2) by Jackie French
16.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
It was the craziest, wildest and most daring expedition the world had ever seen. Eleven ships with nearly 15,000 people travelled 25,000 kilometers to the other side of the world. But what did they find when they arrived?
Histories of the Unexpected: The Romans by Sam Willis; James Daybell
19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Histories of the Unexpected Ser.
In this new series of short books under the Histories of the Unexpected brand, Sam Willis and James Daybell take on some of greatest historical subjects but in an entirely unexpected way.