The Shortest History of the World by David Baker
30.00 NZD
Category: World History
A fascinating journey through life, the universe and everythingHow did time begin? What conditions led to humans evolving on Earth? Will we survive the Anthropocene? And is it really true that we're all made from stars? The Shortest History of the World follows the continuum of historical change in the ...Show more
Living Democracy: An Ecological Manifesto for the End of the World As We Know It by Tim Hollo
37.99 NZD
Category: Politics
There's a mounting sense of desperation in the face of ecological crises, gaping economic inequality and racial injustice, and a post-truth in politics that's divorced from reality. But what if it were possible for us to not just survive, but thrive, in the 21st century? What if the solutions to our eco ...Show more
The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Centre of WWII's Greatest Battle by Iain MacGregor
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'Stunning. History at its very best.' James Holland The sacrifices that enabled the Soviet Union to defeat Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45 are sacrosanct. The foundation of their eventual victory was laid during the battle for the city of Stalingrad, resting on the banks of the river Vo ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The bestselling historian with the real story of WW2's 'inescapable' Nazi prison camp In a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop, an unlikely band of prisoners plotted a daring escape from the clutches of their Nazi captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchanged and unchallenged for 70 years. ...Show more
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse
39.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries brings together Kate's rich and detailed knowledge of unheard and under-heard women's history, and of how and why women's achievements have routinely been omitted from the history books. This beautiful illustrated book is both an alternative feminist history of ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms (HB) by Richard Fidler
48.00 NZD
Category: World History
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. When Richard Fidler came across the account of Ibn Fadlan - a tenth-century Arab diplomat who travelled a ...Show more
Abyss - The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. One of its most ...Show more
China After Mao - The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikotter
36.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good-very good
'A leading historian of modern China. He is a rare scholar, adept in both Russian and Chinese . . . Combined with this linguistic skill, Dikutter has a writer's gift' EVENING STANDARD From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
34.99 NZD
Category: World History
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past', George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four. In this glorious work of history, Orlando Figes argues that the maxim is truer for Russia than for any other country in the world. The Story of Russia begins in the firs ...Show more
The ANZACS: War Popular Penguins by Patsy Adam-Smith
13.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
Gallipoli was the final resting place for thousands of young Australians. Death struck so fast there was no time for escape or burial. and when Gallipoli was over there was the misery of the European Campaign. Patsy Adam-Smith read over 8000 diaries and letters to write her acclaimed best-seller about t ...Show more
The Road to Gondwana - In search of the lost supercontinent by Bill Morris
39.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
The Road to Gondwana traces the steps science took to find Gondwana, and the journey Gondwana itself took through 500 million years of Earth history. The road to Gondwana took western science many hundreds of years to travel. And like Scott's epic haul across the ice of Antarctica, it was a journey jagg ...Show more
Pilgrimage: Journeys of Meaning by Peter Stanford
29.99 NZD
Category: World History
A thought-provoking reflection on pilgrimage past and present, and a compelling exploration of its relevance today. The enormous rise in popularity in recent decades of the Camino, the ancient pilgrim path that stretches from France, across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela, is part of a wider ph ...Show more