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Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed- where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding (Classic Edition #16) by Beatrix Potter
$16.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Beatrix Potter Classic
The first farm that Beatrix Potter owned, Hill Top, was an old house with many hiding places for the rats and mice against which she waged a constant battle. In The Tale of Samuel Whiskers this farmhouse is Tom Kitten's home and the story tells what happens when Tom accidentally comes upon the rat Samue ...Show more
The SS Officer's Armchair - In Search of a Hidden Life by Daniel Lee
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
It began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal documents covered in swastikas that had been sewn into its cushion. The SS Officer's Armchair is the story of what happened next, as historian Daniel Lee follows the trail of cold calls, documents, coincidences and fa ...Show more
The Golden Maze: A Biography of Prague (HB) by Richard Fidler
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is back with a personally curated history of the magical city that is Prague. In 1989, Richard Fidler was living in London as part of the provocative Australian comedy trio The Doug Anthony All Stars when revolution bro ...Show more
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths by John Barton
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER A SUNDAY TIMES AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'With emotional and psychological insight, Barton unlocks this sleeping giant of our culture. In the process, he has produced a masterpiece.' Sunday Times The Bible is the central book of Western culture. For the two faiths w ...Show more
The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers The story of philosophy is an epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents. It explores some of the most creative minds in history. ...Show more
Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time by James Suzman
$33.00 NZD
Category: History
We live in a society where work defines who we are, what we do and who we spend our time with. But this wasn't always the case. For 95% of our history, our ancestors had a radically different view of its importance; hunter gatherers rarely worked more than fifteen hours per week. How did work become the ...Show more
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
$24.00 NZD
Category: History
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped pe ...Show more
Burning the Books: A history of knowledge under attack by Richard Ovenden
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
Opening with the notorious bonfires of 'un-German' and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, Burning the Books takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the fight against all the odds to preserve it. Richard Ovenden, director of th ...Show more
Himalaya - A Human History HB by Ed Douglas
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
This is the first major history of the Himalaya- an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains. Spanning millennia, from its earliest inhabitants to the present conflicts over Tibet and Everest, Himalaya is a soaring account of resilience and conquest, discovery ...Show more
The Assassin's Cloak - An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists by Irene Taylor (Editor); Alan Taylor (Editor); Taylor, Alan Taylor
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
A beautiful and updated edition of this collection of the world's greatest diarists on its twentieth anniversary.
Chernobyl - History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy
$29.00 NZD
Category: History
*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018* 'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' Viv Groskop, Observer On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what w ...Show more
