Daughters of Kobani by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won. In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of: Ko ...Show more
Deal with the Devil by Grace Tobin
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
What Mark and Faye Leveson have endured to discover the truth about the mysterious death of their son Matt is unfathomable. For the ten years after Matt?s disappearance in September 2007, they tirelessly searched bushland for his body and doggedly pursued the man they believed responsible, Michael Atkin ...Show more
Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded by David Graeber
$47.99 AUD
Category: History
The classic work on debt, now is a special tenth anniversary edition Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing- Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem ...Show more
Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia by Billy Griffiths
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian's inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent. Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate ...Show more
Defiant Voices: How Australia’s Female Convicts Challenged Authority 1788–1853 by Babette Smith
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia. For nearly 200 years, there has been a chorus of outrage at their vulgarity, their depravity and their promiscuity. Babette Smith takes the reader beyond this traditional casting of convict women, looking for evidence of th ...Show more
Destined for War: Can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? by Graham Allison, Andrew Hastie
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason is Thucydides' Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece, the ...Show more
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history. Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land'- a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, origin ...Show more
Diaghilev's Empire: How the Ballets Russes Conquered the World by Rupert Christiansen
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A freshly researched and challenging reassessment of a unique phenomenon, exploring passionate conflicts and outsize personalities in a story embracing triumph and disaster. Serge Diaghilev was the Russian impresario who is often said to have invented the modern art form of ballet. Commissioning such l ...Show more
Digging Deeper: How Archaeology Works by Eric H. Cline
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of 1177 B.C., an accessible primer to the archaeologist's craft An archaeologist with more than thirty seasons of excavation experience, Eric H. Cline has conducted fieldwork around the world, from Greece and Crete to Egypt, Israel, and Jordan. In Digging Deeper, Cline an ...Show more
Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon by Eric H. Cline
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
A vivid portrait of the early years of biblical archaeology from the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed In 1925, James Henry Breasted, famed Egyptologist and director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, sent a team of archaeologists to the Holy Land to exc ...Show more
Dinner in Rome A History of the World in One Meal by Andreas Viestad
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A culinary exploration of Rome, which expands to take in global civilization. With a celebrated food writer as host, a delectable history of Roman cuisine and the world — served one dish at a time. 'There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum', writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome ...Show more
Diplomacy Ends at Midnight: The Last Years of British Hong Kong by Dalena Wright
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The compelling story of the inescapable return of Hong Kong to China, published for the 25th anniversary of the handoverBritish Hong Kong ended in the last minutes of 30 June 1997. Diplomacy Ends at Midnight traces the extraordinary twists and turns of Hong Kong's long drawn out, but unavoidable, reunio ...Show more