The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe by Martyn Rady
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Category: World
The dramatic history of Europe's shape-shifting centre, from the author of The Habsburgs Central Europe is not just a space on a map but also a region of shared experience - of mutual borrowings, impositions and misapprehensions. From the Roman Empire onwards, it has been the target of invasion from th ...Show more
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan
22.99 AUD
Category: World
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
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy by Philippe Sands
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Category: World
After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determination. Supported by Britain, these unprecedented changes sought to end the scourge of colonialism. But how committed was Britain? In the 1960s, its colonial instinct ignited once more: a secret decision ...Show more
The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's battle for its inner soul by Isabel Kershner
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Category: World
A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel - the last fifteen for The New York Times - presents a rich, wide-ranging portrait of the Israeli people today at a critical juncture in their country's history. A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel presents a rich, wide-ranging portr ...Show more
The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power by Martyn Rady
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Category: World
The definitive history of the dynasty that dominated Europe for centuriesIn The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fif ...Show more
The Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told by McCarthy Tom
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Category: World | Series: Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told Ser.
The newspaper advertisement for volunteers to accompany Ernest Shackleton on his planned traverse of Antarctica in 1914 was frank in its offering. "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
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Category: World
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international ...Show more
Stasiland by Anna Funder
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Category: World
Winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson PrizeTruth can be stranger - and more heartbreaking and hilarious - than fiction.In this now classic work, Funder tells extraordinary stories from the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy of ...Show more
Orderly Britain: How Britain has resolved everyday problems, from dog fouling to double parking by Tim Newburn, Andrew Ward
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Category: World
How do British pavements remain free of dog mess? Why are paths not littered with cigarette butts or roads not lined with abandoned cars? What does the decline of the public lavatory say about us and is the national reputation for queuing still deserved today? Orderly Britain takes a topical look at mo ...Show more
Mother Tongue The Surprising History of Women's Words by Jenni Nuttall
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Category: World
An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language--and what we can learn from the vivid vocabulary English once had for women's bodies, experiences, and sexualitySo many of the words we use to articulate the experiences women share feel awkward or alien. Medical terms are ...Show more
Idiots, Follies and Misadventures by Mikey Robins
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Category: World
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein The history books are full of heroes and villains… but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity, one idiot at a ti ...Show more
How to Build Stonehenge by Mike Pitts
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Category: World
There is nothing like Stonehenge: the simple, graphic genius of these great, arranged blocks. The stones seem to rise from the ground in some antediluvian heave of the Earth: lintels, great horizontal slabs, roughly squared, the grey rock now covered in subtle lichen green. But who made it? When did the ...Show more