Real-Life Disasters (PB) by Susan Martineau
19.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities | Series: Real Life
Why do disasters happen and can they ever be predicted or prevented? From natural mega-eruptions to terrifying man-made catastrophes, read what the expert investigators have to say about these lethal real-life disasters. Even if you want to, you will not be able to look away. Just try! From the team beh ...Show more
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby
32.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A "fascinating and very moving" (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network) chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most interesting countries in the world--Israel.Israel. The small strip of arid land is 5,700 miles awa ...Show more
Man In The Iron Mask by ALEXANDRE DUMAS
14.00 AUD
Category: History & Humanities | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a powe ...Show more
What's Inside?: Fascinating Structures Around the World (HB) by Giles Laroche (Illustrator)
27.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
With intricate cut-paper collages that reveal the insides of some of the world's most fascinating structures, this book shows how the purpose of these buildings greatly influenced their designs, locations, and materials used in construction. Full color.
Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World by Toby Walsh
34.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
A prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so ... artificial Artificially intelligent machines are set to play an increasingly important role in our lives. They will take the dirty tasks of life off our hands, as well as the dull, the difficult and the dangerous - which is a good thing. ...Show more
The Nonconformist Revolution - Religious Dissent, Innovation and Rebellion (PB) by Amanda J. Thomas
49.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
The Nonconformism Revolution explores the evolution of dissenting thought and how Nonconformity shaped the transformation of England from a rural to an urban, industrialized society. The foundations for the Industrial Revolution were in place from the late Middle Ages when the early development of manuf ...Show more
History of Just about Everything: 180 Events, People and Inventions That Changed the World by Elizabeth MacLeod
29.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
From Buddha and Muhammad to King and Mandela, from the discovery of fire to the invention of the World Wide Web, and from Romeo and Juliet to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, this is a thorough and thoroughly entertaining compendium of important people and events.
882-1/2 Amazing Answers to Your Questions about the Titanic (HB) by Hugh Brewster; Laurie Coulter
24.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
The one illustrated book that tells the complete, heart-stopping story of the legendary ship. "A fantastic book... The 882-1/2 answers in this book truly are amazing -- both for the scope of information they cover as well as for the depth of details given."-- CM Magazine "For all trivia lovers this is ...Show more
Explorapedia by .
29.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
Get ready to travel across the world and back into history, to meet some of the world’s greatest explorers in this big fun, fully illustrated reference book. Learn about the lives of Amelia Earhart and Charles Darwin, and explore themed spreads that investigate everything from the First Journeys out of ...Show more
Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 by Tim Harris
57.95 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two Stuart kings, from 1567 to the outbreak of civil war in 1642 - and why ultimately all three of their kingdoms were to rise in rebellion against Stuart rule. Both James VI an ...Show more
Empire State Building by Elizabeth Mann
14.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities | Series: Wonders of the World S.
This is an illustrated story of when New York reached for the skies; the story of an American icon! It was 1929 and the race was on to put up the tallest building in the world. Less than two years later, the Empire State Building was completed and the race was over. This book tracks this wonder of moder ...Show more
Ceremonial Swords of Britain - State and Civic Swords (HB) by Edward Barrett
80.00 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
The British Isles have long been steeped in a rich heritage of ceremony and tradition, and there are few artefacts that evoke this culture so strongly as the ceremonial sword. Undertaking a monumental task to create a celebration of artistry, craft and tradition, author Edward Barrett travelled to over ...Show more