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
The Shortest History of England by James Hawes
26.00 NZD
Category: World History
In the internationally acclaimed Shortest History of Germany, James Hawes showed that the whole sweep of a national story can be captured in a short book packed with maps and graphics, throwing striking new light on the present day. Now he does the same for his own country. From the Roman invasion thro ...Show more
Captain Cook's Epic Voyage by Geoffrey Blainey
40.00 NZD
Category: World 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
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
24.00 NZD
Category: World History
As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at fifteen, has become the most wanted man in the wild colon ...Show more
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
26.99 NZD
Category: World History
'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan'Succeeds in conjuring a lost world' Dava Sobel, author of Longitude'Fascinating and satisfying' Simon Winchester, author of The Map that Changed the World. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remote ...Show more
Not Enough - Human Rights in an Unequal World by Samuel Moyn
53.99 NZD
Category: World History
"No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights." --Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal "Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness." --George Soros The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. While stat ...Show more
She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen - The Lives and Times of British Women in India 1600 - 1900 by Katie Hickman
27.99 NZD
Category: World History
'Sharply observed, snappily written and thoroughly researched, She Merchants provides a fabulous panorama of a largely ignored area of social history. Katie Hickman successfully challenges the stereotype of the snobbish, matron-like memsahib by deploying a riveting gallery of powerful and often eccentri ...Show more
On Track Searching Out the Bundian Way by John Blay
54.99 NZD
Category: World History
On Track tells the story of John Blay's long-distance search for the Bundian Way, an important Aboriginal pathway between Mt Kosciuszko and Twofold Bay near Eden on the New South Wales far south coast. The 360-kilometre route traverses some of the nation's most remarkable landscapes, from the highest pl ...Show more
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present by Philipp Blom
24.99 NZD
Category: World History
'Europe where the sun dares scarce appearFor freezing meteors and congealed cold.' Christopher MarloweIn this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, a crisis that would transform the entire social and political fabric of Eu ...Show more