Hume - An Intellectual Biography by James A. Harris
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the entire career of one of Britain's greatest men of letters. It sets in biographical and historical context all of Hume's works, from A Treatise of Human Nature to The History of England, bringing to light the major influences on the course ...Show more
Ribbons Among the Rajahs : A History of British Women in India Before the Raj by Patrick Wheeler
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
Chambers for a Memory Palace by Donlyn Lyndon; Charles W. Moore
$35.50 AUD
Category: History
This ode to the spirit of place consists of an exchange of letters in which one author recalls and the other responds to the elements considered essential to the art of successful place-making. Each of the book's chapters forms a chamber, and each chamber is inscribed with the authors' personal observat ...Show more
The Great Discoveries and Inventions That Changed the World - From the End of the 19th Century to the Present by Gianni Morelli
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
Take an extraordinary journey through the discoveries that have transformed our world, and our lives, forever. What would life be like without cars, refrigerators, the Internet, or the omnipresent smartphone? Learn about the discovery of the most important inventions that have influenced the contempor ...Show more
As a Driven Leaf by Milton Steinberg
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
A spirited classic of American Jewish literature, a historical novel about ancient sage-turned-apostate Elisha ben Abuyah in the late first century C.E. At the heart of the tale are questions about faith and the loss of faith and the repression and rebellion of the Jews of Palestine. Elisha is a leading ...Show more
The British in India - A Social History of the Raj by David Gilmour
$99.99 AUD
Category: History
A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and ...Show more
No More Worlds to Conquer: Sixteen People Who Defined Their Time - and What They Did Next by Chris Wright
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
What do you do with the rest of your life, after you've achieved brilliance at an early age? This is the question posed by celebrated-journalist Chris Wright to some of the most renowned adventurers, athletes and politicians of the twentieth century. What happens if you are an athlete or gymnast and you ...Show more
Our Fathers - The Secret Life of the Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal by David France
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Our Fathers is history at its best--as intimate as a diary, as immediate and epic as a novel. When, in early 2002, a team of Boston Globe reporters broke open the pedophilia scandal around Father John J. Geoghan--and then Paul Shanley, Joseph Birmingham, and hundreds of other priests in Boston and acros ...Show more
One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper by Richard Davenport-Hines (Editor); Adam Sisman (Editor)
$36.95 AUD
Category: History
The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in academic intrigues, a lover of literature, a traveller, a countryman. They depict a life of richdiversity; a ...Show more
Mrs Cook:The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain's Wife by Marele Day
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
A richly woven and evocative portrayal of Elizabeth Cook by the author of the acclaimed "Lambs of God."
Blood Rush - The Dark History of a Vital Fluid by Jan Verplaetse; Andy Brown (Translator)
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
As a young man, Jan Verplaetse saw a hare suspended from a meat hook, skinned and gutted. What struck him so forcefully at the time was not the animal itself, but the blood gently dripping from its mouth. His reaction prompted the start of a quest he undertakes in this book: to investigate our fascinati ...Show more