One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market by Peter Lynch
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
STOCKS ARE THE NUMBER ONE MONEY-MAKING INVESTMENT TODAY. HERE'S HOW YOU CAN MAKE MONEY IN THE MARKET Peter Lynch has been called "an investment superstar" (Fortune). Manager of the $9 billion Fidelity Magellan Fund, he has earned investors a 190,000 return on a 10,000 investment over the last twelv ...Show more
Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison Weir
$19.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
On the night of 10 February 1567, an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. The noise was heard as far away as Holyrood Palace, where Queen Mary was attending a wedding masque. Those arriving at the scene of devastation found, ...Show more
Stubborn Buggers by Tim Bowden
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
There was a place far worse than Changi - Singapore's Outram Road Gaol. Deprivation here was so extreme that there really was a fate worse than death. Stubborn Buggers is the story of twelve Australian POWs who endured and survived the Thai-Burma Railway and Sandakan and then the unimaginable hardships ...Show more
Handy History Answer Book by David L. Hudson
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A concise guide to all things historical, this feast of facts and compelling stories recounts the revolutionary ideas, acts, and inventions that have changed the world. Beginning with a section on historical eras, this popular reference source tracks history and organises information in 13 specific subj ...Show more
Latin: Story of a World Language by Jurgen Leonhardt
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries after Rome's fall, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Jurgen Leonhardt has written a full history ...Show more
Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?: Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation by Robert Bartlett
$77.00 AUD
Category: History
From its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints - the holy dead. This sweepingly ambitious history from one of the world's leading medieval historians tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second- ...Show more
American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character by Diana West
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
In "The Death of the Grown-Up, " Diana West diagnosed the demise of Western civilization by looking at its chief symptom: our inability to become adults who render judgments of right and wrong. In "American Betrayal, "West digs deeper to discover the root of this malaise and uncovers a body of lies that ...Show more
Dangerous Allies by Malcolm Fraser
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Australia has always been reliant on 'great and powerful friends' for its sense of national security and for direction on its foreign policyandmdash;first on the British Empire and now on the United States. Australia has actively pursued a policy of strategic dependence, believing that making a grand ba ...Show more
The True Story of the Bilderberg Group by ESTULIN D
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
Delving into a world once shrouded in complete mystery and impenetrable security, this investigative report provides a fascinating account of the annual meetings of the world's most powerful people--the Bilderberg Group. Since its inception in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the small Dutch town of Oost ...Show more
All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To by STUART LAYCOCK
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, we've invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171. That's not far off a massive, jaw-dropping 90 per cent. Not too many Britons know that we invaded Iran in the Second World War with the Soviets. You can be fairly sure a lot more Iranians ...Show more
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had developed an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, and not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set the earth spinning among the other planets. Over the next two deca ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of Australia: How a great nation lost its way by Nick Bryant
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Never before has Australia enjoyed such economic, commercial, diplomatic and cultural clout. Its recession-proof economy is the envy of the world. It's the planet's great lifestyle superpower. Its artistic exports win unprecedented acclaim. But never before has its politics been so brutal, narrow and fa ...Show more