A Street Through Time: A 12,000 Year Journey Along the Same Street (HB) by Steve Noon
29.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
Discover how one street has changed throughout history in this update to the illustrated classic. Have you ever wondered what your street was like thousands of years ago? This illustrated history book for children takes you on a 12,000-year journey to find out the story of a single street. Think of th ...Show more
The Silk Roads - A New History of the World: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
29.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities | Reading Level: very good
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
A Concise History of Wales by Geraint H. Jenkins
50.95 AUD
Category: History & Humanities | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
Based on the most recent historical research and current debates about Wales and Welshness, this volume offers the most up-to-date, authoritative and accessible account of the period from Neanderthal times to the opening of the Senedd, the new home of the National Assembly for Wales, in 2006. Within a r ...Show more
The Great Wall by Elizabeth Mann
14.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities | Series: Wonders of the World S.
Imagine a wall 30 feet high, a wall thousands of miles long, a wall that crossed deserts and climbed over impossibly jagged peaks, a wall that contained thousands of individual forts and towers, a wall that was guarded by a million soldiers, a wall that took over 200 years to build. This is the story of ...Show more
Egypt (HB) by Regine Schultz
49.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
Roman emperors, Arab scholars, and early travellers were already drawn to and enchanted by the fascination of the land along the Nile. The pyramids of Giza, the temple-city of Karnak, or the Valley of the Kings with the grave of Tutankhamen even today maintain their extraordinary force of attraction.Acr ...Show more
History Year by Year: A journey through time, from mammoths and mummies to flying and facebook by DK
45.00 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
Travel through the ages, year by year, in this visual history for children told on a timeline that stretches from prehistoric times to the modern day. In this updated volume, the historic timeline reaches to the present day, documenting recent events, including the Syrian War and the continuing explorat ...Show more
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (PB) by Robin Jones
52.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Three names. Three people in one. Born in Portsmouth on 9 April 1806, there was Brunel the great engineer, who would habitually throw out the rule book of tradition and established practice, and start again with a blank sheet of paper, taking the technology of the day to its lim ...Show more
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
34.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our li ...Show more
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
39.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts. In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan reconnects us with our ancestors who, like us, worshipped, exploited ...Show more
The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
34.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Montefiore takes us on ...Show more
Nordic Runes: Understanding Casting and Interpreting the Ancient Viking Oracle by Paul Rhys Mountford
45.00 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
Nordic runes are a potent and profoundly transformative magic system that gives contemporary readers access to the ancient wisdom tradition of Northern European cultures. The runes have deep resonances within the pagan Norse world of gods and goddesses, giants, dwarves, warriors, and wizards, which have ...Show more
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
27.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an in ...Show more