The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor
39.99 NZD
Category: History
Griffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants - these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts of the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than fictions? This is the arresting and original idea that Adrienne Mayo ...Show more
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women in Space by Loren Grush
39.99 NZD
Category: History
The Six was an extraordinary cohort of women recruited by NASA in the seventies. Ride was just one member of the Six. Greeted in Houston by make-up bags designed for use in space, no designated locker rooms and flight suits that didn't fit, they went on to break barriers on earth and in space. In 1983 S ...Show more
Kings And Queens by Iain Dale
39.99 NZD
Category: History
'We all know about Queen Victoria, Edward VIII and Queen Elizabeth II, but how much do we really know about other monarchs? Yes, we know William the Conqueror beat King Harold at the Battle of Hastings. We know George III was mad, but what else do we know about his 60 year long reign? We know Henry VIII ...Show more
Fake History - 101 Things That Never Happened by Jo Teeuwisse
39.99 NZD
Category: History
A funny, revealing, myth-busting guide to all the history you thought happened but never actually did, from historical expert Jo Teeuwisse. Fake news about the past is fake history. Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms? Did Vikings have horns on their helmets? Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the Sphi ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
41.99 NZD
Category: History
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all n ...Show more
Porn: An Oral History by Polly Barton
36.99 NZD
Category: History
A landmark work of oral history interrogating everything and anything related to porn. How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, her extr ...Show more
Proving Ground - The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer by Kathy Kleiman (Contribution by)
59.99 NZD
Category: History
After the end of World War II, the race for technological supremacy sped on. Top-secret research into ballistics and computing, begun during the war to aid those on the front lines, continued across the United States. Among those researchers were six pioneering women. Kay, Fran, Betty, Marlyn, Ruth, and ...Show more
Fear An Alternate History by Robert Peckham
39.99 NZD
Category: History
A ground-breaking examination of the societal impact of fear that gives us a thrilling new insight on world history. It's been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been dr ...Show more
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins
39.99 NZD
Category: History
**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022**'This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindA searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and cl ...Show more
Hidden Histories - 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class by Tim Rayborn
31.99 NZD
Category: History
We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we've heard a hundred times--but often our understanding of these events and people is narrow. Have you ever wondered about the lesser known details that influenced major events and figures behind-the-scenes This hilarious compe ...Show more
Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation by Kenneth W. Harl
39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others. And, as Kenneth W. Harl ill ...Show more
History of the World Map by Map
74.99 NZD
Category: History
Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map by map. Come on a journey through global history, told in more than 130 specially made maps that each offer a window on a key event. Step into the action and ...Show more