The Big Ones - How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do about Them) by Lucy Jones
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
When the forces that give our planet life exceed our ability towithstand them, they become disasters. Together they have shaped ourcities and architecture, elevated leaders and toppled governments, influencedthe way we think, feel, fight, unite and pray. The history of naturaldisasters is a history of ...Show more
The Corporation - Gangsters, Drugs, Sex and Violence: The Rise and Fall of American's Cuban Mafia by T. j. English
$22.99 NZD
Category: History
The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown by Nick Barratt
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
In The Restless Kings Nick Barratt presents the tumultuous struggle for supremacy between the first Plantagenet king, Henry II, and his four sons - a drama that tore apart the most powerful family in western Europe and shaped the future of two nations. As well as exploring the personalities and crises ...Show more
Notes from the Cévennes - Half a Lifetime in Provincial France by Adam Thorpe
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
A charming memoir exploring the history, landscape and people of rural France, told through the eyes of a Parisian-born Englishman, writer and poet. Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cévennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient ...Show more
The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron and the Making of the Modern World by Robert Morrison
$45.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world. The Regency began on 5 February 1811 when the Prince of Wales replaced his violently insane father George III as the sovereign de facto. It ended on 29 Januar ...Show more
Forever Frida: Celebration of the Life, Art, Loves, Words, and Style of Frida Kahlo by Kathy Cano-Murillo
$28.99 NZD
Category: History
Revel in the enduring legacy of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo--from the self-portraits, to the flower crown, to her iconic eyebrows--with this fun and commemorative book With her colorful style, dramatic self-portraits, hardscrabble backstory, and verve for life, Frida Kahlo remains a modern icon, cap ...Show more
GCHQ by Richard Aldrich
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
FULLY UPDATED CENTENARY EDITION 'An important book' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'An intriguing history of covert surveillance ... thoroughly engaging' Daily TelegraphGCHQ is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the UK, and has existed for 100 years - but we still know next to nothin ...Show more
Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper by Linda Simon
$0.00 NZD
Category: History
In the glorious, boozy party after the first World War, a new being burst defiantly onto the world stage: the so-called flapper. Young, impetuous, and flirtatious, she was an alluring, controversial figure, celebrated in movies, fiction, plays, and the pages of fashion magazines. But, as this book argue ...Show more
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. Winegard
$38.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: History of our Deadliest Predator
What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American Revolution, and how did it lead to Britain colonising Australia? What protected Popes for centuries? And what does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? The answer to these questions and many more is: the mosquito. The mosquito ...Show more
Going Home by Raja Shehadeh
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
In Going Home, Orwell Prize winning author Raja Shehadeh travels Ramallah and records the changing face of the city. Walking along the streets he grew up in, he tells the stories of the people, the relationships, the houses, and the businesses that were and now are cornerstones of the city and his commu ...Show more
New World, Inc - The Story of the British Empire's Most Successful Start-Up by John Butman; Simon Targett
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
In the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it had begun to face a daunting array of social, commercial and political problems. Struggling with a single export - woollen cloth - a group of merchants formed arguably the world's fi ...Show more