Ireland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and the Disremembered by Turtle Bunbury
35.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
Ireland is approximately the size of the state of Indiana, yet this small country boasts an extensive, rich, and fascinating history. Ireland's Forgotten Past is an alternative history that covers 13,000 years in 36 stories that are often left out of history books. Among the characters in these absorbin ...Show more
The Greedy Queen : Eating with Victoria by Annie Gray
24.99 NZD
Category: World History
From Dr Annie Gray, presenter of BBC2's Victorian Bakers What does it mean to eat like a queen? Elizabeth gorged on sugar, Mary on chocolate and Anne was known as 'Brandy Nan'. Victoria ate all of this and more. The Greedy Queen celebrates Victoria's appetite, both for food and, indeed, for life. Born i ...Show more
Stories We Tell Ourselves - Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe by Richard Holloway
32.99 NZD
Category: World History
An examination of how we make sense of the world, from the Sunday Times bestselling author.
Warrior: A Life of War in Anglo-Saxon Britain by Edoardo,Paul Albert
24.99 NZD
Category: World History
1400 years, 206 bones, 1 extraordinary story...The never-before-told story of a nameless Anglo-Saxon warrior and the bloody life he led.
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations by William H. McRaven
29.99 NZD
Category: World History
In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the mo ...Show more
Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes by Susan Whitfield
110.00 NZD
Category: World History
As world powers realign their cultural, economic and political outlooks, there is no better time to consider how Afro-Eurasia's complex network of ancient trade routes - which spanned the vastness of the steppe, vertiginous mountain ranges, fertile river plains and forbidding deserts across the continen ...Show more
Artists and Empire by Alison Smith (Editor); Tate Britain (Gallery) Staff (Contribution by); David Blayney Brown (Editor); Carol Jacobi (Editor)
60.00 NZD
Category: World History
First wide-ranging study to examine artworks created under the conditions of the British Empire during the last 500 years Exploring how artists have represented and critiqued the diverse places, people and events that make up the legacy of Empire, our expert authors have created a vital book on a subjec ...Show more
The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World by John Dickie
37.99 NZD
Category: World History
Insiders call it 'the Craft'. To the rest of us, Freemasonry is mysterious and suspect. Yet its story is peopled by some of the most distinguished men of the last three centuries: Winston Churchill and Walt Disney; Wolfgang Mozart and Shaquille O'Neal; Benjamin Franklin and Buzz Aldrin; Rudyard Kipling ...Show more
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
27.99 NZD
Category: World History
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition ...Show more
A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton
25.99 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Little Histories Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood. This engaging b ...Show more
A Little History of Science by William Bynum
25.99 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Little Histories Ser.
Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its power. From ancient Greek philosophers through Einste ...Show more
A History of Solitude by David Vincent
60.99 NZD
Category: World History
Solitude has always had an ambivalent status: the capacity to enjoy being alone can make sociability bearable, but those predisposed to solitude are often viewed with suspicion or pity.Drawing on a wide array of literary and historical sources, David Vincent explores how people have conducted themselves ...Show more