The City of Today Is a Dying Thing - In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow by Des Fitzgerald
$46.99 NZD
Category: History
An unmissable journey into the past, present and future of urban life.
100 Letters That Changed the World by Colin Salter
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
A collection of the most inspiring and powerful letters of all time. The written word has the power to inspire, astonish and entertain, as this collection of 100 letters that changed history will show. Ordered chronologically, the letters range from ink-inscribed tablets that vividly describe life in t ...Show more
A Terribly Serious Adventure - Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960 by Nikhil Krishnan
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
"Teeming with Oxford characters [and] lively storytelling . . . [recasts] the history of philosophy at Oxford in the mid-twentieth century by conveying not only what made it influential in its time but also what might make it vital in ours."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "Ordinary La ...Show more
Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Every human being is endowed with an inheritance. A set of ancient biases - forged by natural selection and fine-tuned by millennia of culture - that shape every facet of our behaviour.For countless generations, this inheritance has been taking us to ever greater heights- driving the rise of more sophis ...Show more
Operation Chiffon - The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland by Peter Taylor
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, the top-secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to Ireland.'A gripping exploration of how MI5 and MI6 worked for a ceasefire with the IRA - and how one meeti ...Show more
Agents of Influence - How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies by Mark Hollingsworth
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge There's no such thing as a former KGB man... 'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of contro ...Show more
The House: The Dramatic Story of the Sydney Opera House and the People Who Made It by Helen Pitt
$36.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
The best-loved building in Australia nearly didn't get off the drawing board. When it did, the lives of everyone involved in its construction were utterly changed: some for the better, many for the worse. Helen Pitt tells the stories of the people behind the magnificent white sails of the Sydney Opera H ...Show more
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller by Jeremy Dronfield
$28.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The boy is my greatest joy. We strengthen each other. We are one. Inseparable . . . If only we were free; but daily, hourly, death is before our eyes. In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germa ...Show more
The Restaurant - A History of Eating Out by William Sitwell
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
Tracing its earliest incarnations in the city of Pompeii, where Sitwell is stunned by the sophistication of the dining scene, this is a romp through history as we meet the characters and discover the events that shape the way we eat today. Sitwell, restaurant critic for The Telegraph and famous for his ...Show more
Orcadia - Lande, sea and stone in neolithic Orkney by Mark Edmonds
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Orcadian archipelago is a museum of archaeological wonders. Its largest island, Mainland, is home to some of the oldest and best-preserved Neolithic sites in Europe, the most famous of which are the passage grave of Maeshowe, the megaliths of Stenness, the Ring of Brodgar and the village of Skara Br ...Show more
China in One Village: The History of One Town and the Future of theWorld by Liang Hong
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society, and a village ...Show more
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers by Mary Wellesley
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire lives, long receded.Hidden Hands tells the stories of the artisans, artists, scribes and readers, patrons and collectors who made and kept the beautiful, ...Show more