The Shortest History of Japan by Lesley Downer
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Everyone who has ever visited Japan says it feels 'different'. It is a small island nation with few natural resources, limited space and a history of swinging between isolation and openness to the outside world. This past has produced an extraordinary aesthetic culture that has inspired artists, archite ...Show more
2025 Guide To The Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A Month-by-month Guide To Exploring The Skies Above Australia, New Zealand And South Africa by Storm Dunlop, Wil Tirion, Radmila Topalovic, Royal Observatory Greenwich, Collins Astronomy
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers.A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January-December 2025.Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from N ...Show more
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by Josephine Quinn
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History. Based on her own sweeping research, an award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing its innovations and traditions to societies from all over the world and making the case that we are, and always have be ...Show more
The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast by Tom; Sand Goalhanger; Holland Podcasts
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys - there's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland a ...Show more
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire by Eckart Frahm
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The first comprehensive account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the world's very first empire: Assyria 'A work of remarkable synthesis. The range of its sources is truly extraordinary . . . Frahm punctures a fair share of myths too' Pratinav Anil, The Times At its height in 660 ...Show more
Together We Can: Everyday Australians Doing Amazing Things To Give Our Planet a Future by Claire O'Rourke
$24.99 AUD
$32.99 (24% off)
Category: General Non Fiction
Inspiring stories about people around Australia who are taking action on climate change, helping create a better future for our children and for the planet, while at the same time deepening connections with each other. Millions of Australians are quietly freaking out about climate change, and Claire O'R ...Show more
Heroines of Olympus: The Forgotten Women of Greek Mythology by Ellie Mackin Roberts
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Heroines of Olympus retells the tales of 50 classic characters, plucking the threads of their lives from the myriad narratives in which they have appeared and weaving them together to create the full stories of these legendary women. Each story is accompanied by a captivating illustration and followed b ...Show more
Indian Ancient Origins: Stories Of People and Civilisation by J. K. JACKSON
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Beautiful edition with a new introduction to the history of the land and the people, highlighting the origins of myth and folklore. The story of Ancient India, the vast land that stretches from the Himalayas in the North to the Oceans far south, can be traced back to the 8th millennium BCE. Later, in th ...Show more
The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
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
How Many More Women? How the Law Silences Women: Uncensored. Unredacted. Updated. by Jennifer Robinson, Keina Yoshida
$36.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
In a new, uncensored edition, two human rights lawyers break open the ways that our legal system continues to silence and disadvantage women. Uncensored. Unredacted. Updated. HOW MANY MORE WOMENhave to be raped or abused before we act? need to accuse him before we believe her? will be failed by the crim ...Show more
The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the leg ...Show more
Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty by Hillary Rodham Clinton
$49.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach. She describes the strength she ...Show more