Nonviolence by Mark Kurlansky
45.00 NZD
Category: History
The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare. According to this view, all the important ideas and significant changes of humankind were put forward in an effort to win one violent bloody conflict or another. This approach to history is only one of many examples of how so ...Show more
Believe in Yesterday: My Adventures in Living History by Tim Moore
37.99 NZD
Category: History
In 1989, Tim Moore moved into the last house in Chiswick with an outside toilet. Intrigued by a subsequent encounter with an elderly former resident, and shamed to confess the phobic haste with which he demolished this facility, he finds himself inspired to travel back to the land before now, experienci ...Show more
The Empire Stops Here by Philip Parker
79.00 NZD
Category: History
The Roman Empire was the largest and most enduring of the ancient world. From its zenith under Augustus and Trajan in the first century AD to its decline and fall amidst the barbarian invasions of the fifth century, the Empire guarded and maintained a frontier that stretched for 5,000 kilometres, from C ...Show more
Attila the Hun - Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire by Christopher Kelly
37.99 NZD
39.99 (5% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Attila the Hun - godless barbarian and near-mythical warrior king - has become a byword for mindless ferocity. His brutal attacks smashed through the frontiers of the Roman empire in a savage wave of death and destruction. His reign of terror shattered an imperial world that had been securely unified by ...Show more
Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore by Bettany Hughes
65.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A major new book about the life and legend of the world's 'most beautiful woman' - by the new star of TV history As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject. Hesiod, a poet born around 700BC and one of the first named authors in history, called her 'the most beautiful woman in t ...Show more
The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War by Ben Shephard
69.99 NZD
Category: History
Surprisingly early in the Second World War - long before an Allied victory was assured - people began to plan for its aftermath. They were haunted by memories of what happened a generation before - when the millions of soldiers killed on the battlefields of the Great War had been eclipsed by the million ...Show more
Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld by James Belich
63.99 NZD
Category: History
Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin, the British West, comprising the settler dominion ...Show more
Deadly Companions : How microbes shaped our history by Dorothy Crawford
32.99 NZD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: History
Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself inf ...Show more
Flower Hunters by Mary Gribbin
35.00 NZD
Category: History
The flower hunters were intrepid explorers - remarkable, eccentric men and women who scoured the world in search of extraordinary plants from the middle of the seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century, and helped establish the new science of botany. For these adventurers, the search for new, und ...Show more
Breast Cancer by Christobel Saunders
34.99 NZD
Category: History
Breast Cancer: The Facts is a concise and accessible guide to breast cancer for patients and their families, general health practitioners, nurses and medical and allied health students. For those newly diagnosed with breast cancer, this book will provide essential background information on the disease a ...Show more
The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain by MORGAN KENNETH O
65.00 NZD
73.99 (12% off)
Category: History
This beautifully illustrated volume tells the story of Britain and its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day. Encompassing political, social, economic, and cultural developments throughout the British Isles, the dramatic narrative is taken up in turn by ...Show more