History of the World Map by Map by DK
$65.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map by map. Come on a journey through global history, told in more than 130 specially made maps that each offer a window on a key event. Step into the action an ...Show more
Handwritten Remarkable People on the Page by Lesley Smith
$79.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The less it is part of everyday life, the more the appeal of handwriting grows. This wonderful selection of treasures from the Bodleian Library introduces remarkable individuals through documents written by their own hands. From the second century BCE to the present, individual lives and relationships a ...Show more
Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions by Jason Travis Ott
$41.95 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Words confirm and deny, guarantee and deceive, elucidate and obfuscate. The more words you know, the better you can express yourself and the more you can do in life. The founder of Grandiloquent Word of the Day accordingly presents a voluptuary of verbiage encompassing rare and obscure terms that confo ...Show more
Voltaire (The Great Philosophers) by John Gray
$14.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
'Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers.' VoltaireVoltaire was one of the first philosophers to be commercially successful internationally. Famous for his strong views on the importance of civil liberties, he was equally renowned for his wit. A prolific letter writer, he was also the a ...Show more
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$9.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of Americanah, "one of the world's great contemporary writers" (Barack Obama). In this personal, eloquently-argued essay--adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers ...Show more
Aristotle (The Great Philosophers) by Kenneth Mcleish
$14.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: The\Great Philosophers Ser.
'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all' Aristotle'Knowing yourself is the mark of all wisdom''You will never do anything in this world without courage'Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers that has ever lived. Taught by Plato, he was the first genuine scientist i ...Show more
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the fight for women in science by Kate Zernike
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The story of how a group of determined, brilliant women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radical change. It shows that real power is collective power and that speaking up and allying yourself with likeminded others is one of the key pathways to change. This is ...Show more
History: The Definitive Visual Guide
$85.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
From prehistoric times to the 21st century, the compelling story of world history may both surprise and inspireThis lavishly illustrated visual encyclopedia tells the story of our world in depth and detail from the dawn of civilization to the present day.Charting human endeavour from every angle, Histor ...Show more
Nietzsche (The Great Philosophers) by Ronald Hayman
$12.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
'God is dead', announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself.Envious contemporaries of Nietzsche ridiculed him as a mad man - and yet they came closer than they knew in characterising a philosopher in whose thought ambivalence approximated to disintegration of the self.While the nineteenth ce ...Show more
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearIn his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues - sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals the astonishing new culture wars playing out in our workplac ...Show more
History Year by Year: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Events that Shaped the World by DK
$65.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Discover the world's most significant events through a detailed, dynamic, book-long timeline of over 7 million years.When did Hannibal cross the Alps? What caused the war of Jenkins' Ear? Who was Rosa Parks? How did the Arab Spring unfold? Discover history's most decisive moments as and when they happen ...Show more
Templars: The Knights Who Made Britain by Steve Tibble
$51.95 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain The Knights Templar have an enduring reputation--but not one they would recognize. Originally established in the twelfth century to protect ...Show more