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1492: The Year Our World Began by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began. In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the t ...Show more
1492: The Year Our World Began by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
1492: The Year Our World Began by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto traces modernity to its roots in the year 1492. It focuses on specific events of 1492 (including the Renaissance and voyages of Columbus) which Fernandez-Armesto views as crucial to the development of modern ways of thinking and the physical sta ...Show more
Civilizations by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
32.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Civilisations is a radical cultural history of mankind's fragile relationship with nature, written in the unique style that made Millennium a bestseller. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto closely examines the world's societies, from the maritime civilisations of the Polynesians to the Dawada people of the Sahara ...Show more
Civilizations by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
58.02 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Food: A History by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
27.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Starting with the notion of our decision to cook our food, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto introduces us to the revolutions which influenced our culinary habits, and he describes how food changed and changed us through the centuries, on the way explaining why. Paperback (B-Format)
Food - A History by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
55.10 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A delicious and intriguing history of food and society. From the bestselling author of Civilizations and Millennium, comes a book which delves into the rich history of how we eat and why we eat what we do. In this delicious narrative, we are taken on a journey from the start of humanity right through to ...Show more
Ideas That Changed the World by Felipe Fernandez Armesto
39.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Felipe Fernandez Armesto's Ideas That Changed The World is a compelling and thought-provoking guide to the historical and philosophical notions that have shaped human civilization. From cannibalism to jihad, from the dawn of time to the present day, from Ancient Greece to North America, each idea is eng ...Show more
Ideas That Changed the World by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Professor in History and Geography, Queen Mary College, University of London)
55.00 NZD
59.95 (8% off)
Category: Coffee Table Books
Authoritative, compelling, provocative: internationally respected historian Felip Fernandez-Armesto introduces you to the key historical and philosophical notions that have shaped our world since the dawn of civilization. Over 175 of the word's most pivotal ideas are crystallized and clearly explained - ...Show more
Out of our Minds by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
34.99 NZD
Category: History
To imagine – to see that which is not there – is the startling ability that has fueled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the pictures in our minds. Traversing the realms of science, politics, religi ...Show more
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
42.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero- a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. Now, renowned historian Felipe Fern indez-Armesto draws on extensive and meticulous research to conduct a dazzli ...Show more
The Americas by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
25.99 NZD
29.95 (13% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
A history of North, South and Central America, from prehistory to the present, by one of the world's best-known historians.With his trademark range and independence of thought, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto sweeps aside the tidy separation between the enlightened `first world' United States and Canada, and l ...Show more
The Americas by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
42.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
A history of North, South and Central America, from prehistory to the present, by one of the world's most exciting historians.With his trademark range and independence of thought, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto sweeps aside the tidy separation between the enlightened first world' United States and Canada, and ...Show more
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