Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail by Ray Dalio
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
From the international bestselling author of Principles and legendary investor Ray Dalio, who has spent half a century studying global markets, The Changing World Order examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from ...Show more
The Romanovs: The Story of Russia and its Empire 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$27.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
"Epic history on the grandest scale. . . . Game of Thrones seems like the proverbial vicar's tea party in comparison."--Financial Times The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined princip ...Show more
Themes for Great Cities: A New History of Simple Minds by Graeme Thomson
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
'Nobody owes us anything, but the Simple Minds story has been too condensed. After Live Aid and 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' there hasn't been quite the credit for those first few records. I think they contain some really special music. I can hear the flaws but there's something about the spirit and im ...Show more
The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear- mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thous ...Show more
The Story of the World in 100 Moments by Neil Oliver
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
We reveal ourselves not through what we display but through what we conceal and discard; a rusty trowel, a crooked needle, the hilt of a sword, these are the objects that furnish our lives. Priceless is not just about obvious treasure, gold and jewels, but also those unexpected, unintended glimpses of t ...Show more
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World by Adrian Wooldridge
$32.00 NZD
Category: History
The Times (UK) book of the year! Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their birth. While this initially seemed like a novel concept, by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is merit ...Show more
Cloud Land: The dramatic story of Australia's extraordinary rainforest people and country by Penny van Oosterzee
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
A sweeping account of Australia's wet tropical rainforest country, from deep time to the legendary time of Australia's first peoples; from the killing times and maniacal destruction of the forests by European settlers, to the present time of growing awareness of forests as the life-force of the planet. ...Show more
He Reo Wahine: Māori Women's Voices from the Nineteeth Century by Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
During the nineteenth century, Maori women produced letters and memoirs, wrote off to newspapers and commissioners, appeared before commissions of enquiry, gave evidence in court cases, and went to the Native Land Court to assert their rights. He Reo Wahine is a bold new introduction to the experience o ...Show more
The Revolutionary Temper by Robert Darnton
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
A brilliant account of the coming of the French Revolution, and the culminating work of this most distinguished historian'Events do not come naked into the world. They come clothed - in attitudes, assumptions, values, memories of the past, anticipations of the future, hopes and fears and many other emot ...Show more
On Palestine by Noam Chomsky Ilan Pappé
$17.99 NZD
Category: History
On Palestine is Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe's indispensable update on a suffering region. Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never be ...Show more
The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts by Silvia Ferrara
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
'Ferrara's book is an introduction to writing as a process of revelation, but it's also a celebration of these things still undeciphered, and many other tantalising mysteries besides.' - The Spectator This book tells the story of our greatest invention. Or, it almost does. Almost, because while the s ...Show more
White Terror: A Neo-Nazi Killing Spree and the Global Rise of Homegrown Terrorists by Jacob Kushner
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
In a tour de force of investigative journalism, White Terror tells for the first time the story of the National Socialist Underground in Germany – in an engrossing global story that examines violence, modern racism and national trauma. Before the storming of the U.S. Capitol; before the mass shootings ...Show more