Pantheon by Caroline Lawrence
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Category: Mythology
*** 'I love Caroline Lawrence and so should you.' Natalie Haynes 'Huge fun!' Tom Holland 'Gorgeous illustrations bring the whole pantheon to life.' Emily Wilson *** EXPLORE THE MYTHICAL PAST, MEET THE ANCIENT GREEK GODS AND GODDESSES AND DISCOVER WHY THEIR STORIES ARE STILL SO ENTHRALLING TODAY... ...Show more
Enchanted Creatures: Our Monsters and Their Meanings by Natalie Lawrence
34.99 AUD
Category: Mythology
The hydra rears its many heads in a flurry of teeth and poisonous fumes. The cyborg lays waste to humanity with a ruthless, expressionless stare. From ancient mythology to modern science fiction, we have had to confront the monsters that lurk in the depths of our collective imagination. They embody our ...Show more
She Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street by Paulina Bren
34.99 AUD
Category: History
Introducing the Women of Wall Street . . . First came the secretaries who struggled to get past the typing pool. Then came the first Harvard Business School grads who were laughed out of interviews. But by the 1980s, with markets in turbo-drive, women were playing for high stakes in Wall Street's bad-b ...Show more
The Missing Thread by Daisy Dunn
34.99 AUD
Category: History
'A brilliant concept, executed with enviable elegance' Lucy WorsleySpanning 3,000 years, from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in Rome, a magisterial new history of the ancient world told, for the very first time, through women.For centuries, men have been writing his ...Show more
The Future of Dinosaurs - What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know by David Hone
26.99 AUD
Category: History
Discover the latest frontiers in dinosaur research with Dr David Hone. Ever since we first started discovering dinosaurs in the early-1800s, our obsession for uncovering everything about these creatures has been insatiable. Each generation has made huge strides in trying to better our understanding of ...Show more
X Marks the Spot: The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries by Michael Scott
24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Fascinating' GREG JENNER'I couldn't put it down' JANINA RAMIREZ'Fabulous' NATALIE HAYNES'Alive with the spirit of adventure' RANULPH FIENNES'If you love Indiana Jones, this is the real thing' DAN SNOW Ancient shipwrecks in crystal seas, mythical princesses preserved in ice and astonishing lost rituals ...Show more
No Road Leading Back by Chris Heath
34.99 AUD
Category: History
This shattering and inspiring account of prisoners who dug their way out of torture and imprisonment by the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in how we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust.No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen pr ...Show more
Fortune's Bazaar - The Making of Hong Kong by Vaudine England
26.99 AUD
Category: History
'Vivid, atmospheric, packed with brilliant story-telling' - Humphrey Hawksley, former BBC Beijing, Hong Kong and Asia Correspondent '[An] entertaining guide, rich in anecdote and understanding for an early globalised world that has gone' - Michael Sheridan, Sunday Times 'Illuminating' - Thomas Dyja, N ...Show more
American Whitelash - The Resurgence of Racial Violence in Our Time by Wesley Lowery
24.99 AUD
Category: History
"American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is." - Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cyclical pattern of violence that has marred racial progress in America In 2008, Barack Obama's historic victory was her ...Show more
Why War? by Richard Overy
45.00 AUD
Category: History
Why has war been such a consistent presence throughout the human past? A leading historian explains, drawing on rich examples and keen insight. Richard Overy is not the first scholar to take up the title question. In 1931, at the request of the League of Nations, Albert Einstein asked Sigmund Freud to c ...Show more
The Universal History of Us: A 13.8 billion year tale from the Big Bang to you by Tim Coulson
39.99 AUD
Category: History
PRE-ORDER THE UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF US NOW AND UNCOVER THE SCIENCE OF HOW WE CAME TO EXIST ''Most scientists know only their own field. Tim Coulson is at home with science as an integrated whole. A pleasure to read, and a lasting accomplishment'' Richard Dawkins ''Step aside Star Wars - ours is the mos ...Show more