The Ottomans - Khans, Caesars and Caliphs by Marc David Baer
37.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe's heart. In their breadth and versatility, the Ottoman rulers saw t ...Show more
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island by Egill Bjarnason
27.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
'[A] joyously peculiar book' -The New York Times 'A fascinating insight into Icelandic culture and a fresh perspective on her global influence. Warning: may well make readers wish they were Icelandic, too.'- Helen Russell, author of The Year of Living Danishly The untold story of how one tiny island in ...Show more
Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
35.99 NZD
Category: World History
In Jesus and John Wayne, a seventy-five-year history of American evangelicalism, Kristin Kobes Du Mez demolishes the myth that white evangelicals "held their noses" in voting for Donald Trump. Revealing the role of popular culture in evangelicalism, Du Mez shows how evangelicals have worked for decad ...Show more
The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and its People by Michael Wood
39.99 NZD
Category: World History
'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' Tom Holland'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced, eminently readable and well-timed. A must-read for those who want - and need - to know about the China of yesterday, today and tomorrow' ...Show more
The History of Magic - From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden
30.00 NZD
Category: World History
A unique history of the forgotten, oldest strand of human history, and its resurgence today. Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history - science, religion and magic. Over the last few centuries, magic - the idea that we have a connection with the universe, and that the univers ...Show more
The Arab Conquests: The spread of Islam and the first caliphates by Justin Marozzi
37.99 NZD
Category: World History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In the 7th and 8th centuries AD, armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula. These Arab conquests followed immediately after the Prophet Mohammed's death in 632. By this time, against all the odds, he h ...Show more
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter by Emma Soames
37.99 NZD
Category: World History
'I am not a great or important personage, but this will be the diary of an ordinary person's life in war time. Though I may never live to read it again, perhaps it may not prove altogether uninteresting as a record of my life - or rather the life of a girl in her youth, upon whom life has shone very bri ...Show more
Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany by Jordan Goodman
27.99 NZD
Category: World History
‘Based on meticulous research in original sources … Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was … Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated' Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books A bold new history of how botany and global plant collecting – centred at Kew Garde ...Show more
China in One Village: The History of One Town and the Future of theWorld by Liang Hong
36.99 NZD
Category: World 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
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
39.99 NZD
Category: World History | Series: The History of England
'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaug ...Show more
A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters by Henry Gee
39.99 NZD
Category: World History
For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place - covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way of incessant volcanic eruptions, the atmosphere in a constant state of chemical flux. And yet, despite facing literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could en ...Show more
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next by Tom Standage
32.99 NZD
Category: World History
From the New York Times bestselling author comes a timely and illuminating history of personal transportation, and how it has transformed the world we live in.Beginning around 3,500 BC with the wheel, and moving through the eras of horsepower, trains and bicycles, Tom Standage puts the rise of the car a ...Show more