Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A. C. Grayling
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: near fine
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earl ...Show more
Road to Ruin - How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government by Niki Savva
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Kevin Rudd was given no warning, but even he lasted longer than Abbott. Julia Gillard had plenty of warnings, but even she lasted longer than Abbott. Abbott ignored all the warnings, from beginning to end - the public ones, the private ones, from his friends, his colleagues, the media. His colleagues we ...Show more
The Fall of the Ottomans - The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920 by Eugene Rogan
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
Sunday Times Top Ten Best-seller. The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the great epics of the First World War, from best-selling historian Eugene Rogan. For some four centuries the Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful states in Europe as well as ruler of the Middle East. By 1 ...Show more
First Among Equals: Australia's Prime Ministers from Barton to Turnbull by Kim Wildman
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Since Federation in 1901, 28 men and one woman have served in the position of Australian prime minister. From Barton to Turnbull, they are the leaders who have helped forge Australia's national identity. Some have had the position thrust upon them. Some have plotted and schemed their way to the top. Fou ...Show more
100 Events That Made History
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
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Life in a Medieval City by Frances Gies
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: Medieval Life Ser.
From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones series. Evoking every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages, Life in a Medieval City depicts in detail what it was ...Show more
If This is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded through giant gates. Whipping ...Show more
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard 'He writes with gusto...the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ...this book sizzles.' The Times 'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.' On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Winston ...Show more
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: near fine
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by ...Show more
Battleground - Why the Liberal Party shirtfronted Tony Abbott by Wayne ERRINGTON and Peter VAN ONSELEN
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Tony Abbott came to the prime ministership lauded as the most effective leader of the opposition since Whitlam. Why then did he fail to succeed in the job to which he had aspired for decades? Battleground chronicles the paradox of the Abbott prime ministership: steadfast loyalty when pragmatism was requ ...Show more
UFC: A Visual History by Thomas M. Gerbasi
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
UFC: A Visual History is a comprehensive look at the history, individuals, and events that made the UFC the premier organization it is today. Filled with impressive visuals and in-depth text, this striking hardcover book is a must have for any fan.
Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells America's greatest untold story: the United States' rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials - including exclusive interviews with the ...Show more