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A Brief Guide to Doctor Who by Mark Campbell
$14.99 AUD
Category: Song, Stage & Screen | Series: Brief Histories
"Doctor Who" is now officially the most popular drama on television, From humble beginnings on 23rd November 1963 and eventual resurrection in 2005, the show has always been a quintessential element of British popular culture. Ten Doctors, a multitude of companions, and a veritable cornucopia of monster ...Show more
A Brief Guide to Jeeves and Wooster by Nigel Cawthorne
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Category: Song, Stage & Screen | Series: Brief Histories
This title is a comprehensive guide to P. G. Wodehouse's two best-loved comic characters, Bertram Wilbeforce Wooster and his valet ('Reggie') Jeeves, Bertie's friends and relatives and their world of sunshine, country houses and champagne. Although the stories may seem quintessentially English, they wer ...Show more
A Brief History of Angels and Demons by Sarah Bartlett
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Category: Spirituality | Series: Brief Histories
Throughout history, the human quest for knowledge of the divine, has ruffled the wings of many an angel, but also tested the wrath of the demon. This book not only traces the history of angels and demons from their earliest roots to their modern day renaissance, but also reveals their most intimate secr ...Show more
A Brief History of Bad Medicine by Ian Schott
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Category: True Crime | Series: Brief Histories
A doctor removes the normal, healthy side of a patient's brain instead of the malignant tumor. A man whose leg is scheduled for amputation wakes up to find his healthy leg removed. These recent examples are part of a history of medical disasters and embarrassments as old as the profession itself. In "Br ...Show more
A Brief History of Florence Nightingale: and Her Real Legacy, a Revolution in Public Health by Hugh Small
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories
Praise for Small's earlier work on Nightingale: 'Hugh Small, in a masterly piece of historical detective work, convincingly demonstrates what all previous historians and biographers have missed . . . This is a compelling psychological portrait of a very eminent (and complex) Victorian.' James Le Fanu, D ...Show more
A Brief History of Ireland by Richard Killeen
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Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
The perfect introduction to the Irish story-a story wrapped in mythology and legend. Since its very origins, Ireland has become the home for a successive series of invaders-the Celts, Christians, Vikings, and Normans. And despite deprivation, desperation, and suppression, Ireland has developed an un ...Show more
A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun by Jonathan Clements
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Brief History of Asia Ser.
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion. Stretching for nearly 2000 miles and encompassing almost ...Show more
A Brief History of Roman Britain by J.P. Alcock
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Category: History | Series: Brief Histories
In BC 55 Julius Caesar came, saw, conquered and then left. It was not until AD 43 that the Emperor Claudius crossed the channel and made Britain the western outpost of the Roman Empire that would span from the Scottish border to Persia. This book is a social history of the period showing how roman socie ...Show more
A Brief History of Superheroes by Brian J. Robb
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Category: Graphic Novels - Adult & YA | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
This is a fascinating written exploration of the superhero phenomenon, from its beginnings in the depths of Great Depression to the blockbuster movies of today. For over 90 years, superheroes have been interrogated, deconstructed, and reinvented. In this wide-ranging study, Robb looks at the diverse cha ...Show more
A Brief History of the Amazons: Women Warriors in Myth and History by Lyn Webster Wilde
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories
'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wil ...Show more
A Brief History of the Knights Templar by Helen Nicholson
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Category: History | Series: Brief History of
Much has been written about the Knights Templar in recent years. A leading specialist in the history of this legendary medieval order now writes a full account of the Knights of the Order of the Temple of Solomon, to give them their full title, bringing the latest findings to a general audience. Putting ...Show more
A Brief History of the Roman Empire - Rise and Fall by Stephen Kershaw
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Category: History | Series: Brief Histories
In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Kershaw draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenal's "Satires" to recent archaeological finds. He examines extraordinary personalities such as Caligula ...Show more