Life in a Medieval City by Frances Gies
9.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Medieval Life Ser.
From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones series. Evoking every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages, Life in a Medieval City depicts in detail what it was ...Show more
Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia by Victor Steffensen
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Delving deep into the Australian landscape and its alarming state of devastation, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land management expert Victor Steffensen on how the revival of Indigenous fire practices, including what's called 'cool burns', could restore our country. Fire Country o ...Show more
The Templars: Rise & Fall of God's Holy Warriors by Dan Jones
22.99 AUD
Category: History
The Knights Templarwere the wealthiest, most powerful - and most secretive - of the militaryorders that flourished in the crusading era. Their story - encompassing as it does the greatest international conflict of the Middle Ages, a network of international finance, a swift rise in wealthand influence f ...Show more
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrodinger's cat. Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect ...Show more
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
9.99 AUD
24.99 (60% off)
Category: History
A writer's search for his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original and riveting epic, brilliantly exploring the nature of time and memory. 'The Lost' begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust - an unm ...Show more
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: a Selection by Samuel Pepys; Robert Latham (Selected by, Editor)
35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Previously published as The Shorter Pepys, Samuel Pepys' The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection is a collection of scintillating first-hand accounts of Restoration England, from the most tumultuous events to the simplest domestic pleasures, selected and edited by Robert Latham. The 1660s represent a tur ...Show more
Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland by Leifur Eiricksson
22.99 AUD
Category: History
Icelandic literary culture was one of the richest and most important in the medieval world. Texts that were written in Iceland during this period include "Njal's Saga", "Egil's Saga", "The Vinland Sagas", as well as the "Comic Sagas and Tales" collected in this volume. "Comic Sagas and Tales" brings tog ...Show more
Original Australians (The) by Josephine Flood
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The Original Australians tells the story of Australian Aboriginal history and society from its distant beginnings to the present day. From the wisdom and paintings of the Dreamtime, to the first contacts between Europeans and indigenous Australians, right through to modern times, it offers an insight in ...Show more
This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited by Henry Reynolds
32.99 AUD
Category: History
'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing attitu ...Show more
Midnight's Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day by John Keay
9.99 AUD
29.99 (66% off)
Category: History
The first modern history of all South Asia's peoples. If British India had not been partitioned in 1947, its population would today be the world's largest. At c1.5 billion, Midnight's Descendants (the offspring of those affected by 'the midnight hour' Partition) already outnumber Europeans and Chinese; ...Show more