Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China by John Man
$24.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks: he conjures up an ancient people in an alien landscape in such a way as to make them live.' Guardian____________________ The people of the first nomadic empire left no written records, but from 200 BC they dominated the heart of Asia for 400 years. ...Show more
The Values Compass - What 101 Countries Teach Us about Purpose, Life and Leadership by Mandeep Rai
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
'The Values Compass takes us into the hearts, minds, and traditions of the cultures and people of the world. It demonstrates how interconnected we are and how the divisions that exist between us stem from narrow self-interest rather than concern for the good of our human family. I hope that the book wil ...Show more
Henry VIII: The Decline and Fall of a Tyrant by Robert Hutchinson
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
The Tudors retained only a precarious grip on the crown of England, founded on a title that was both tenuous and legally flimsy. This left them preoccupied by two major obsessions: the necessity for a crop of lusty male heirs to continue their bloodline, and the elimination of threats from those who had ...Show more
The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities by Violet Moller
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
'An epic treasure hunt into the highways and byways of stored knowledge across faiths and continents.' John Agard, poet and playwrightIn The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity - Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy - through seven c ...Show more
Stalin's Nose - Across the Face of Europe by Rory MacLean
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
Winston the pig fell into Aunt Zita's life when he dropped onto her husband's head and killed him dead. It was a distressing end to a distinguished life of spying for the U.S.S.R. After the funeral Zita, a faded Austrian aristocrat and vivacious eccentric, refuses to remain at home in East Germany. Inst ...Show more
In a Time of Monsters - Travels Through a Middle East in Revolt by Emma Sky
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American general, Emma Sky felt no sense of homecoming. She soon found herself back in the Middle East traveling through a region in revolt. In a Time of Monsters bears witness to the demands of young people ...Show more
Captain Cook's Epic Voyage by Geoffrey Blainey
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set out on a small British naval vessel in search of a missing continent. 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of that voyage, and Cook's 'discovery' of Australia. Captain Cook's Epic Voyage reveals the hardships and adventure of this remarkable quest, and the euphori ...Show more
Checkpoint Charlie - The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Iain MacGregor
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
'With a gripping narrative and vivid interviews with those on all sides whose lives were directly affected by that grim symbol of the East-West divide that poisoned Europe for almost half a century, [MacGregor] has made an important contribution to the history of our times' Jonathan Dimbleby 'Captures ...Show more
The Book of Gutsy Women by Clinton, Hillary Rodham
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
Ensuring the rights and opportunities of women and girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century. While there’s a lot of work to do, we know that throughout history and around the globe women have overcome the toughest resistance imaginable to win victories that have m ...Show more
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Appeasing Hitler is an astonishingly accomplished debut' Antony Beevor'One of the most promising young historians to enter our field for years' Max Hastings'Brilliant and sparkling ... reads like a thriller. I couldn't put it down' Peter Frankopan On a wet afternoon in Sep ...Show more
Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: the Life of Mikhail Sholokhov by Brian J. Boeck
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
Stalin's Scribe is the first biography of a man who was once one of the Soviet Union's most prominent political figures. Thanks to the opening of Russia's archives, Brian Boeck discovers that Sholokhov's official Soviet biography is actually a tangled web of legends, half-truths, and contradictions. Boe ...Show more
Underground Asia - Global Revolutionaries and the Overthrow of Europe's Empires in the East by Tim Harper
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
The end of Europe's empires has so often been seen as a story of high politics and warfare. In Tim Harper's remarkable new book the narrative is very different: it shows how empires were fundamentally undermined from below. Using the new technology of cheap printing presses, global travel and the widesp ...Show more