The Daily Show & Jon Stewart Present EARTH (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race by JON STEWART
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Category: History
Where do we come from? Who created us? Why are we here? These are questions that have sporadically interested people since the dawn of time, but whose answers have continually eluded us. Now in their new book, Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show" writing staff (who include the team behind "The Onion") tackl ...Show more
Eat Me: A Natural and Unnatural History of Cannibalism (HB) by Bill Schutt
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Category: History | Series: Wellcome
Cannibalism. It's the last, greatest taboo: the stuff of urban legends and ancient myths, airline crashes and Captain Cook. But while we might get a thrill at the thought of the black widow spider's gruesome mating habits or the tragic fate of the nineteenth-century Donner Party pioneers, today cannibal ...Show more
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland
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Category: History
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. 'Augustus', their new mas ...Show more
Detective Piggot's Case Book: Famous True Crimes by Kevin Morgan
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Category: History
Welcome to hell, a world at war. The streets of old Melbourne are no longer a tidy grid but fractured with laneways like cracks in old varnish, a hotchpotch of chaos, of shanties and factories, woodpiles and chimneys, the city smouldering under its bludgeoned sky. Here, crime flourishes, the damaged fes ...Show more
Dynasty - The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland
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Category: History
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. 'Augustus,' their new mas ...Show more
Dumb History: The Stupidest Mistakes Ever Made by JOEY GREEN
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Category: History
A book that proves idiocy is as old as timeThink civilization has deteriorated and that people these days are dumber than ever? "Dumb History" proves that we didn't invent stupidity in the 21st century. You'll find facts from throughout the ages about everyone from Cleopatra and Napoleon to Elvis Presle ...Show more
The Drowned Man: A True Story of Life, Death and Murder on HMAS Australia by Brendan James Murray
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Category: History
A chance encounter in a fish-'n'-chip shop set Brendan Murray on the trail of a mystery. Had a gay man been secretly murdered on HMAS Australia during the Second World War? The veteran he spoke to was certain. 'I knew about it,' he said. 'We all did.' But was the story true? If so, who was the dead man? ...Show more
The Dragon and the Kangaroo by Robert Macklin
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Category: History
The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from colonial times to today. Chinese 'presence' in Australia extends from well before the time of Captain Cook - trading with northern Australia long before Europeans came here - right through to t ...Show more
Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
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Category: History
Named one of the best books of 2014 by: NPR's Science Friday, The Onion's AV Club, io9.com, The Guardian, Library Journal, Amazon.com, and More. America in the early 1800s was an easy place to die, especially for those unlucky souls so severely deformed that medicine at the time literally classified t ...Show more
Dive to Adventure: Exploring the World's Best-known Wrecks by Egidio Trainito
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Category: History | Series: Secrets of the Sea
Even if the memory of their sinking fades or is lost forever, the wrecks remain on the seabed, immersed in silence, bearing visual witness to moments of tragedy or moments of history. Every time you dive down to a wreck, even down to the more famous wrecks, there's a moment of pure magic: you descend in ...Show more
Double Entry by Jane Gleeson-White
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Category: History
How the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world - and how their invention could make or break the planet. A fascinating exploration of how a simple system used to measure and record wealth spawned a cultural revolution. Prepare to have your idea of accounting changed forever. 'The rise and metamorph ...Show more