A Brief History of the Mediterranean - From the Phoenicians to the Present Day by Jeremy Black
29.99 NZD
Category: World History
A wonderfully concise and readable, yet comprehensive, history of the Mediterranean Sea, the perfect companion for any visitor -- or indeed, anyone compelled to stay at home. 'The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.' Samuel Johnson, 1776 The Mediterranean has always bee ...Show more
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
28.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an in ...Show more
A Little History of Religion by Richard Holloway
25.99 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Little Histories Ser.
In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Richard Holloway retells the entire history of religion - from the dawn of religious belief to the 21st century - with deepest respect and a keen commitment to accuracy. Writing for those w ...Show more
Between Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and Pakeha 1773-1815 by Anne Salmond
60.00 NZD
Category: World History
'Vivid, convincing and utterly memorable.' -Michael King, North & South Anne Salmond's extraordinary Between Worldsbegins with the arrival of Cook's second expedition in 1773 and takes the story through to 1815, with the establishment of the first British missionary settlement in the Bay of Islands. ...Show more
Two Worlds by Anne Salmond
60.00 NZD
Category: World History
'Professor Salmond has written a remarkable book. Remarkable for its meticulous research, for its ability to grip the reader's attention; but most of all, remarkable that no-one has done anything quite like it before in the exploration of New Zealand history.' -Naylor Hillary, The Press Two Worldsis Ann ...Show more
Uncivilised: Ten Lies that Made the West by Subhadra Das
39.99 NZD
Category: World History
Some things are a given. The value of a good education. Time's progress. Death. Except most of the ideas that form Western Civilisation are just that - ideas. Taking cues from Greek philosophy and honed in the Enlightenment, certain notions about humanity and human society grew into the tenets we live b ...Show more
The Wager by David Grann
28.99 NZD
Category: World History
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I've ever read' Guardian 'The greatest sea story ever told' Spectator'A cracking yarn... Grann's taste for desperate predicaments finds its fullest expre ...Show more
Southeast Asia: An Introductory History by Milton Osborne
37.99 NZD
Category: World History
A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area. Southeast Asia: An introductory historywas first published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in one of the most dynamic and diverse regi ...Show more
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
27.99 NZD
Category: World History
From William Dalrymple--award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer--a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West's greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time.With access to newly d ...Show more
A Fever in the Heartland - The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
95.00 NZD
Category: World History
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "With narrative elan, Egan gives us a riveting saga of how a predatory con man became one of the most powerful people in 1920s America, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, with a plan to rule the country--and how a grisly murder of a woman brought him down. Compell ...Show more
Blitzed : Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler
28.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: WWII
New York Times Bestseller" A] fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich." -- Washington PostThe Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: coc ...Show more