The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
27.99 AUD
Category: World
'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' —Financial Times 'Vast, learned and timely work' —Sunday Times From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and ...Show more
Sunken Lands: A Journey Through Flooded Kingdoms And Lost Worlds by Gareth E Rees
34.99 AUD
Category: World
Travel through drowned forests, vanished villages and sinking cities: the lost lands of our past, present - and future. 'A rich, haunting account of lost lands and vanished futures.' Professor David Farrier, author of Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils From Stone Age lands that slipped beneath the ...Show more
The Modern Art of War: Sun Tzu's Hidden Path to Peace and Wholeness by Hunter Liguore
39.99 AUD
Category: World
Sun Tzu's Art of War has been read mostly as a book of war strategies that teaches us how to beat our opponents on the battlefield. The Modern Art of War presents a new interpretation- it isn't about conquering your enemies, devising strategies to overtake armies, or getting ahead against your competito ...Show more
Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers by Benjamin Wardhaugh
36.99 AUD
Category: World
What has counting meant to different cultures and different individuals?In this book, historian and mathematician Benjamin Wardhaugh explores stories from all over the world and from every period of human history, from the African Stone Age to cyberspace; from Assyrian kings to Chinese peasants.Weaving ...Show more
The Astronomers' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Mysteries of the Universe by Karen Masters
59.99 AUD
Category: World | Series: Liber Historica Ser.
Indulge in this collection of the best astronomy books from the past 800 years. The Astronomers' Library is a rich history of astronomy (and astrology) publishing across Europe. This is a carefully selected arrangement of publications from all over the continent - Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, ...Show more
The Girl Prince Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax by Danell Jones
39.99 AUD
Category: World
A new look at a revolutionary writer, a diverse imperial city, and a controversial trick on the Royal Navy.In February 1910, the future Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blackening her face and masquerading as an Abyssinian prince, the young writer and her ...Show more
Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Performance and Creativity by Robert Hannigan
34.99 AUD
Category: World
From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers – what the secret world can teach us about performance and creativity How do you hire smart people who can work together to prevent terrorist attacks and decode encrypted technology? How do you come up ...Show more
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making by Chris Packham
55.00 AUD
Category: World
‘Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough’s Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox’s Universe’ Guardian A beautiful, full colour book to accompany the 5 part BBC TV series telling the most important story of all, the deep history of our own planet. With the trade ...Show more
Timelines of World History by DK
75.00 AUD
Category: World
This highly accessible guide to world history brings key milestones and events to life in visual timelinesPacked with illustrations and fascinating facts, this book tells the story of the events that shaped our world.From the origins of the first humans to the political turmoil of the 21st century, Time ...Show more
The Red Hotel - The Untold Story of Stalin s Disinformation War by Alan Philps
34.99 AUD
Category: World
In THE RED HOTEL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF STALIN'S DISINFORMATION WAR, former Daily Telegraph Foreign Editor and Russian expert Alan Philps sets out the way Stalin created his own reality by constraining and muzzling the British and American reporters covering the Eastern front during the war and forcing th ...Show more
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
24.99 AUD
Category: World
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed- where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more
Operation Kingfisher: The Cancelled Rescue Mission That Sacrificed Sandakan POWs to the Death Marches by Gary Followill
32.99 AUD
Category: World
The chain of events that led to the death of over 2,500 Prisoners of War – one of Australia’s worst wartime tragedies – the cancellation of the rescue mission Operation Kingfisher. Finally, the true story of why the Sandakan POWs of World War II were not rescued despite a fully planned and resourced ope ...Show more