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A Brief Guide to the Great Equations by Robert Crease
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
Here are the stories of the ten most popular equations of all time as voted for by readers of "Physics World", including - accessibly described here for the first time - the favourite equation of all, Euler's equation. Each is an equation that captures with beautiful simplicity what can only be describe ...Show more
A Brief History of America by Jeremy Black
$24.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
The next in this series of admirably concise yet nevertheless comprehensive titles looks at the history of all Americans as well as America; its environmental history and its linkage to economic history; the political shaping of America; and America in the world, from being a colony to post-Cold War Ame ...Show more
A Brief History of Florence Nightingale: and Her Real Legacy, a Revolution in Public Health by Hugh Small
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | 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 France by Cecil Jenkins
$24.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Series: Brief Histories
When we think of France, we tend think of fine food and wine, the elegant boulevards of Paris or the chic beaches of St Tropez. Yet, as the largest country in Europe, France is home to extraordinary diversity. The idea of 'Frenchness' emerged through 2,000 years of history and it is this riveting story, ...Show more
A Brief History of Germany: Indispensable for Travellers by Jeremy Black
$22.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
The history of Germany is intricately woven. Threaded in time through its struggles and triumphs with religion, industrialisation, enlightenment, politics, unification, and war. In A Brief History of Germany, Jeremy Black questions how the Germany we know today came to be, chronicling the events tha ...Show more
A Brief History of London by Jeremy Black
$22.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
As the United Kingdom left the European Union, during a period of international and domestic turmoil, London found itself at a turning point. This critical moment presents an opportunity to look back, with a distinctive perspective, a focus on London in its national and, perhaps even more importantly, i ...Show more
A Brief History of the English Reformation by Derek Wilson
$14.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Series: Brief Histories
Religion, politics and fear: how England was transformed by the Tudors. The English Reformation was a unique turning point in English history. Derek Wilson retells the story of how the Tudor monarchs transformed English religion and why it still matters today. Recent scholarly research has undermined th ...Show more
A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean by Jeremy Black
$24.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
This brilliantly concise history of the Pacific Ocean nevertheless succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands and Western control or influence over the its islands and shores. There is a particular focus on the period from the 1530s to 1890 with its greater Western coastal and ...Show more
A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II, Updated Edition by Michael Paterson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about the lives of her subjects than they often realize. She has known every Prime Minister since Winston Churchill and every American President since Eisenhower. Yet what of t ...Show more
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