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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Yuval Noah Harari
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world
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Mr. Bill Hayes
From Insomniac City author Bill Hayes, who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did (SF Chronicle)–a cultural, scientific, literary, and personal history…
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Annalee Newitz
A fascinating look at four of the most spectacular cities in human history - and why they were all abandoned.
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Gillen D'Arcy Wood
A history of the first race to Antarctica that weaves the great polar discoveries of the nineteenth century with scientific breakthroughs of the modern era Antarctica, the ice kingdom hosting…
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Philip Coggan
A panoramic history of trade, industry and economic thought, from prehistoric times to the present.
Michael Glover
A laugh-out-loud visual history of the strangest piece of men’s clothing ever created: the codpiece.
Hallie Rubenhold
The victims of Jack the Ripper finally get their full stories told.
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Jenni Murray
The inimitable Jenni Murray celebrates great women from around the world - rescuing some from obscurity and shining a new light on familiar names
Thomas Morris
Blending fascinating history with lacerating wit, The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth will take you on a tour of some of the funniest, strangest and most wince-inducing corners of medical…
Peter Godfrey-Smith
What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the…
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Ian W. Shaw
The dramatic and heart-warming story of the last-minute evacuation of hundreds of orphaned babies from South Vietnam in the dying days of the Vietnam War and of the brave Australian…
David Isaacs
The compelling story of vaccination.
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Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most…
Lindsey Fitzharris
In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to the safe…
Kassia St Clair
The unforgettable history of colours and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-coloured volume
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Ronald Hutton
Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe’s history
David Sornig
I’m here already, in the bleak, awful hour on Dudley Flats in which the final dereliction of Elsie Williams will come to pass. I’m beginning with it, so you won’t…
Elisabeth Asbrink
As the clock strikes the end of the war, the time begins to turn towards a new age - the one we call now.
Masha Gessen
Putin’s bestselling biographer reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.
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Norman Ohler
The sensational German bestseller on the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich, from Hitler to housewives.
