Darwin's Ghosts - In Search of the First Evolutionists by Rebecca Stott
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Soon after publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected outrage and accusations of heresy, but this letter was different: it accused him of taking credit for a theory that wasn't his. Yet when he tried to trace his intellectual fore ...Show more
Darkest Hour - How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink by Anthony McCarten
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the world's greatest leaders - and provides a revisionist, more rounded portrait of his leadership. May, 1940. Britain is at war, E ...Show more
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion comprehensively and deliberately extinguished the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to 'one true faith'. Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, g ...Show more
Dark History of the Kings & Queens of England: 1066 to the Present Day by Brenda Ralph Lewis
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Despite its reputation as the longest established and most admired in Europe, the story of the English monarchy is punctuated by an ongoing roster of scandals, murders, betrayals, plots, treasons and general mayhem. Since 1066, England has seen three civil wars, six monarchs have been murdered or execut ...Show more
Dark Invasion by Howard Blum
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Set in New York City in 1915, as World War I rages in the battlefields of Europe, 'Dark Invasion' chronicles the little-known story of a tense cat-and-mouse battle between two complex antagonists: New York police captain Tom Tunney, who leads a select team of novice spy-chasers; and Franz von Rintelen, ...Show more
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler - leadin millions into the abyss by Laurence Rees
$19.95 AUD
Category: History
Adolf Hitler was an unlikely leader - fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwilling to debate political issues - and yet he commanded enormous support. So how was it possible that Hitler became such an attractive figure to millions of people? That is the important question ...Show more
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg by Simon Winder
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off - through luck, guile and sheer mulishness - any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. From their princi ...Show more
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off - through luck, guile and sheer mulishness - any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. From their princi ...Show more
Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England by Terry Deary
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Dangerous Days Ser.
The reign of Elizabeth I - a Golden Age? Try asking her subjects...Elizabethans did all they could to survive in an age of sin and bling, of beddings and beheadings, galleons and guns. Explorers set sail for new worlds, risking everything to bring back slaves, gold and the priceless potato. Elizabeth li ...Show more
Dangerous Women by Kimberly L. Mary D.; Dennis Garrard
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
-Dangerous Women presents works from the rich holdings of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art that explore different artists' responses to the women of the Bible -Evokes a politically charged theme celebrating the strength of women and their ability to take back power in adverse circumstances -Fea ...Show more
Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt : Pyramids, Plagues, Gods and Grave-robbers by Terry Deary
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Dangerous Days Ser.
Think that Ancient Egypt is just a load of old obelisks?Don't bet your afterlife on it.Ancient Egypt should be deader than most of our yesterdays. After all it was at its height 5,000 years ago. Yet we still marvel at its mummies and ponder over its pyramids. It's easy to forget these people once lived ...Show more