The Rose: An Illustrated History by Jennifer Potter
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Category: Overstocks
The rose. No other flower has come close to capturing the western imagination in quite the same way. Tulip fever may have flared fiercely and suddenly in seventeenth-century Europe. The Madonna lily may match the white rose for its symbolic purity. But no other flower fascinates like this mysterious flo ...Show more
Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs: A Brief History of Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz
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Category: History | Series: Brief Histories S.
Have you ever wondered what it was like in the Valley of the Kings? To unlock the mysteries of the pyramids? Or sail down the Nile on Cleopatra's Barge? In her fascinating new introduction to the wonders of ancient Egypt expert Barbara Mertz tells the extraordinary history from the first stone age settl ...Show more
Invented Knowledge - False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religions by Ronald H Fritze
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Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Invented Knowledge explores legends such as the lost continent of Atlantis; the fabled original settlers of the Americas; beliefs of religious groups such as the Nation of Islam and Christian Identity; and books such as Chariots of the Gods, and The Da Vinci Code.
Roman Conquests : Gaul by Michael Sage
$69.99 NZD
Category: History
This volume deals with some of the best known Roman campaigns of all. Indeed, due to the involvement of Julius Caesar and the commentaries he wrote upon them, these are some of the most studied of any ancient campaigns. Before Caesar, however, Rome had already established a foothold across the Alps in G ...Show more
The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars by Annelise Freisenbruch
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Category: History
Like their modern counterparts, the 'first ladies' of Rome were moulded to meet the political requirements of their emperors, be they fathers, husbands, brothers or lovers. But the women proved to be liabilities as well as assets - Augustus' daughter Julia was accused of affairs with at least 5 men, Cla ...Show more
Brief Lives by Paul Johnson
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Category: History
In the course of a long and successful career as a journalist and author, Paul Johnson has known popes, presidents, prime ministers, painters, poets, playwrights, even the foul-mouthed publican Muriel Belcher, who ran the legendary Colony Club. Harking back to the scandalously anecdotal 17th century boo ...Show more
The Kaiser's Holocaust - Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism by Casper W. Erichsen, David Olusoga
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire. As colonial forces moved in , their ruthless punitive raids became an open war of extermination. Thousands of the indigenous people were killed or driven out into th ...Show more
The Ninth : Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs
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Category: Music
A decade after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had given way to an era of retrenchment and repression, 1824 became a watershed year. The premiere of the Ninth Symphony, the death of Lord Byron - who had been aiding the Greeks in their struggle for independence, Delacroix's painting of the T ...Show more
The Plantagenets : The Kings That Made Britain by Derek Wilson
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Category: History
Plantagenet is the name given to the English royal house descended from the union of Queen Matilda of England and her second husband Geoffrey of Anjou. The name derived from Geoffrey's nickname, which came from the sprig of broom (planta genet) which he wore in his hat. The Plantagenets ruled England fo ...Show more
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen and the King's Mother by Philippa Gregory
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Category: History
Elizabeth Woodville, The White Queen (2009), Margaret Beaufort, The Red Queen (2010), and Jacquetta, Lady Rivers, The Rivers Woman (2011) are the subjects of the first three novels in Philippa Gregory's Cousins' War series, and of the three biographical essays in this book. Philippa Gregory and two hist ...Show more
Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45 by Neill Lochery
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
Throughout World War II, Lisbon was at the centre of world attention. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis powers openly operated, it was also a temporary home to much of Europe's exiled royalty; over one million refugees seeking passage to America; and a host of spies, secret po ...Show more
Australians: Eureka to the Diggers by Thomas Keneally
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed history of the Australian people, the vast range of characters who have formed our national story are brought vividly to life. Immigrants and Aboriginal resistance figures, bushrangers and pastoralists, working men and pioneering women, arti ...Show more