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When the Dutch East Indian Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the new continent of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629, 332 men, women ...
Aboriginal Myths, Legends and Fables presents a wealth of poetic and imaginative tales from Aboriginal cultural heritage. While retelling the stories simply, this book captures ...
Churchill through the eyes of those who met him, published for the 150th anniversary of his birth
This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond ...
The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel-Palestine conflict didn't start on 7 October. It ...
Volume 2 is devoted to the preparation by Moscow of hostilities near Kursk in the spring and early summer of 1943 and consists of two ...
This classic history of Australian mining now appears in its fifth edition, updated to bring the story up to the twenty-first century.
Forget about Ned ...
A dazzling exploration of the intersections of beauty and power around the globe, told through the lens of an iconic cosmetic
'Fascinating' Nigella Lawson
'Awe-inspiring ...
Gold Award Winner, 2024 Nonfiction Book Awards
Runner-up, 2024 History category, San Francisco Book Festival
For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to ...
The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous ...
A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them.
If ...
A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years
In this paradigm-shifting global ...
'The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time' - John Le Carre
Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war ...
'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.'
Timothy Snyder #1 New York ...
Dominating Ukraine has been the cornerstone of Russian policy for centuries - now, we are witnessing a genocide.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine brought large-scale warfare ...
