The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele, David Perry
37.99 NZD
Category: History
"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come....The Bright Ages is a rare thing--a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading."--Slate "Incandescent and ultimat ...Show more
The Snow Society: The Definitive Account of the World's Greatest Survival Story by Pablo Vierci
39.99 NZD
Category: History
It was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly into the Andean mountains to devastating consequences: the body of the plane broke violently into t ...Show more
All the Women of the Bible by M. del Mastro
39.99 NZD
Category: History
Saints, sinners, harlots, and angels--all are included in this wonderful biographical reference and collection of stories of over 400 biblical women. See how their struggles, successes, and failures still resonate today. If you've ever asked yourself the question, "Who was she?" while reading the Bible ...Show more
The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature by Edward Brooke-Hitching
52.99 NZD
Category: History
From the author of the critically acclaimed and globally successful The Phantom Atlas, The Golden Atlas and The Sky Atlas comes a stunning new work. The Madman's Library is a unique, beautifully illustrated journey through the entire history of literature, delving into its darkest territories to hunt do ...Show more
A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace by Jonathan Holslag
25.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Pelican Bks.
A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peace In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent ...Show more
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
28.99 NZD
Category: 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
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
32.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
New York Times Bestseller - National Book Critics Circle Finalist - Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2015 - Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 - Economist Books of the Year 2015 - New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2015 A sweeping, "magisterial" history of the Roman Empire from one of our f ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel - A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
34.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel
39.99 NZD
Category: History
The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. But we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them ...Show more
The Frontier Below by Jeff Maynard
27.99 NZD
Category: History
Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see the ocean when we look at the water that blankets more than two thirds of our planet. We only see the entrance to it. Beyond that entrance is a world ...Show more
Knowing What We Know - The Transmission of Knowledge: from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
27.99 NZD
Category: History
Named a Best History Book for 2023From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--this is award winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how te ...Show more