Borgata #1: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia by Louis Ferrante
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Historians have previously glazed over the mafia's formative years. In this first volume, Ferrante explores its Sicilian roots, before following a cast of larger-than-life characters who arrived as fugitives on American shores. Through these and other lives - including legendary mobsters Lucky Luciano, ...Show more
Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK by Brett Mason
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: 1st
The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president. On a moonless night in August 1943, a US torpedo boat commanded by Lt John F Kennedy, on patrol in Solomon Islands, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Left clinging to wreckage within sight of Japanese encampment ...Show more
Goth: A History by Lol Tolhurst
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
GOTH is an entertaining and engaging historical memoir of the genre of Goth music and culture, exploring creative giants like The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division and many more great bands that offered a place of refuge for the misfits of the 80s and ever since. Written by Lol Tol ...Show more
Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments by Paul Roberts
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
Rome wasn't built in a day, but over several centuries and under many different emperors. This story of continual creation and renewal lies at the heart of Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments. Rome's history has been explored by countless classicists, historians, poets, and authors, but rarely has its histo ...Show more
GREAT INFLUENZA by BARRY JOHN
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity an ...Show more
Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari, Dr
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Category: History
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century humankind ...Show more
Great Society - A New History by Amity Shlaes
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A battle rages in our country between those attracted to socialism and economic redistribution and those who argue for purer capitalism. Racial tensions are driving citizens to the breaking point. All envision a better society, even a great society. In the 1960s, Americans also dreamed of a great societ ...Show more
Notorious Australian Women by Kay Saunders
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Category: History
Hayley Lewsi had countless buisness ideas buzzing around in her head before she took the plunge and opened her own small business. Drawing on her experience as a business woman and athlete, Hayley gives a personal account of life in the small business world.
Mortal Monarchs - 1000 Years of Royal Deaths by Suzie Edge
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'A brilliant, funny and thought-provoking book' - Jonn Elledge'Compelling, provocative, and utterly brilliant' - Dr Estelle ParanqueHow the monarchs of England and Scotland met their deaths has been a wonderful mixture of violence, infections, overindulgence and occasional regicide. In Mortal Monarchs, ...Show more
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine by Will Loxley
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
As the streetlamps flickered out and lights were obscured behind brown-paper screens, a subdued atmosphere took hold of London in 1939. Cloistered in pubs and gloomy sitting rooms, London's young writers and artists faced being sent to the front, trading their paintbrushes and pens for the weapons of wa ...Show more
The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport by Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
F1 is now the fastest growing sport in the world; the full story of its unbelievable rise is a riveting saga only hinted at by the likes of Drive to Survive. In this book - the first, definitive account of how F1 came to achieve total global fandom - Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jo ...Show more
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy by Stein Ringen
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the A ...Show more