Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle by Michael Kerrigan
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
This stunningly illustrated volume tells the story of the voyage of HMS Beagle in the words of Darwin himself, with linking narration and commentary as well as sidebars and special features by author Michael Kerrigan. This was an epic adventure into the scientific unknown, related here with unsurpass ...Show more
Medieval Philosophy by A.J.P. Kenny
$37.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: New History of Western Philosophy
Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought through to the Renaissance.The middle ages saw a great ...Show more
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes each of the participants dur ...Show more
The Great Arab Conquests by Hugh Kennedy
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. Whereas the Roman Empire took over 200 years to reach its fullest extent, the Arab armies overran the whole Middle East, North Africa and Spain within a generation. They annhilated the thousand-year-old Persian Empire and reduced the Byzantine Empire ...Show more
Parliament Of Man: The Un The by Paul Kennedy
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
In the course of the twentieth century, states, which had defined themselves by their claims to sovereign independence, gradually came together to create international organizations to promote peace, devise an international code of law, encourage social development and foster prosperity. This book exami ...Show more
The Great Shame by Thomas Keneally
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
A new non-fiction book recounting the 19th century history of Ireland. The book traces the three causes of the halving of the Irish population in that century: the famine, the Irish emigrations to American and Canada, and the transportation of political activitists to Australia. It is a quest for the au ...Show more
A history of the Soviet Union from the beginning to the end by KENEZ PETER
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Peter Kenez's History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End examines not only political change, but also social and cultural developments. The book identifies the social tensions and political inconsistencies that spurred radical change in the government of Russia, beginning at the turn of t ...Show more
Commonwealth of Thieves by Tom Keneally
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
A brilliant recreation of the first four years of white settlement in Australia by Booker Prize-winning author Tom Keneally. In 1787, Britain banished its unwanted citizens - uneducated petty thieves, streetwalkers, orphan chimneysweeps and dashing highwaymen - to the fringes of the known world. So remo ...Show more
American Scoundrel by Tom Keneally
$19.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Charming and ambitious, Dan Sickles literally got away with murder. His protector was none other than the President himself, the ageing James Buchanan; his political friends quickly gathered round; and Sickles was acquitted. His trial is described with all Thomas Keneally's powers of dash and drama, aga ...Show more
Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore by Ronan Kelly
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
Colm Toibin has called Thomas Moore 'the most influential figure in shaping the Irish political psyche'. In "Bard of Erin", Ronan Kelly tells the story of Moore's extraordinary life - from humble beginnings in Dublin to glittering social and literary success in London (at one point his popularity was ec ...Show more