Exploring the World - Two Centuries of Remarkable Adventurers and Their Journeys by Alexander Maitland
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have played a vital role in mankind's development. For almost two hundred years, the Royal Geographical Society has recognised their achievements by awarding its prestigious gold me ...Show more
A History of Water - Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History by Edward Wilson-Lee
28.00 NZD
Category: History
A Times History Book of the Year 2022A TLS Book of the Year 2022'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMESFrom award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal.A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men ...Show more
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome by Guy de la Bedoyere
40.00 NZD
Category: History
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world Living in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who were acutely aware of the seething and voluptuous nature of a city that ruled the known world. Through ...Show more
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
48.00 NZD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times #1 bestseller, with gorgeous full-colour illustrations and a beautiful package - the perfect gift for the curious beings in your life. One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species ...Show more
What's Where on Earth? History Atlas: History as You've Never Seen it Before
35.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference | Series: What's Where on Earth
This captivating children's atlas gives a complete history of the life and times of our world, through a series of stunning, specially commissioned 3D maps. Wrap up warm for a trip to the Ice Age, wonder at the invention of the wheel, show your support at the French Revolution, and blast off for the Moo ...Show more
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds by Simon Ings
40.00 NZD
Category: History
Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writers - once the faithful servants of authority - into figures of political consequence. Maurice Barres, who first wiel ...Show more
Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World by Tim James
40.00 NZD
Category: History
We may imagine that science is a process of breakthroughs and light bulb moments. But in reality, science goes wrong 99% of the time.Almost every idea a scientist comes up with is quickly disproved by a failed experiment or rival research. Science moves at a rate of inches per decade and we like it that ...Show more
Takeover by Timothy W. Ryback
40.00 NZD
Category: History
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin.In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans ...Show more
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass
48.00 NZD
Category: Recent arrivals: Non-Fiction
In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the victorious powers turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. To them, it was clear that Japan's militaristic leaders needed to be tried and punished for their crimes. For the Allied ...Show more
Queens of the Age of Chivalry by Alison Weir
30.00 NZD
Category: History
The third volume of Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of medieval England.'Weir's history books are as gripping as novels' The TimesMedieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies - yet, as Alison Weir shows in this group biography, many of the Plantagenet queens of the High Middle Age ...Show more
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East by Nicholas Morton
30.00 NZD
Category: History
'Brain-stretching . . . pulsating . . . irresistable' The Sunday Times'Deeply researched and elegantly written - essential reading' Dan Jones'Erudite, often thrilling and much-needed' Daily TelegraphHow the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages.For cent ...Show more
Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff
38.00 NZD
Category: History
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before there was any possibility of 'a room of one's own'. In an innovative and engaging narrative of eve ...Show more