Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization by Nadav Eyal
39.99 NZD
Category: World History
'A well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal's interpretation, but few will remain indifferent.' —Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of na ...Show more
The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits by Jennifer Higgie
37.99 NZD
Category: World History
Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Lois Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula M ...Show more
The Barbizon - The New York hotel that set women free by Paulina Bren
37.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good-very good
Built in 1927, New York's Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the 'Modern Woman' seeking a career in the arts. It became the place to stay for ambitious, independent women, who were lured by the promise of fame and good fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and ...Show more
An Atlas of Extinct Countries by Gideon Defoe
34.99 NZD
Category: World History
Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated - and timely - history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. 'Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They're all equally implausible once you get up close' Countri ...Show more
Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
40.00 NZD
Category: World History
For many years, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adventurers, and mountaineers seeking to test themselves among the world's most spectacular and challenging peaks. But far from being wild and barren, the Him ...Show more
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
39.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
'Natalie Haynes is the nation's muse' - Adam Rutherford The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories.Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay ...Show more
Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year by James Holland
40.00 NZD
Category: World History
This is the story of the biggest seaborne landing in history.Codenamed Operation HUSKY, the Allied assault on Sicily on 10 July 1943 remains the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted in world history, landing more men in a single day than at any other time. That day, over 160,000 British, American an ...Show more
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them. Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Brie ...Show more
Queens of the Crusades - Eleanor of Aquitaine and Her Successors 1154-1291 by Alison Weir
40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: England's Medieval Queens | Reading Level: near fine
The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe - these determined ...Show more
Congo by David van Reybrouck
24.99 NZD
Category: World History
Epic yet eminently readable, penetrating and profoundly moving, 'Congo' traces the fate of one of the world's most devastated countries, second only to war-torn Somalia: the Democratic Republic of Congo. With a span of several hundred years and an enormous cast of characters, 'Congo' chronicles the most ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People: Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
40.00 NZD
Category: World History
The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin.The first came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea were one. The second began to arrive from Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. Each had to come to term ...Show more