The Shortest History of Greece by James Heneage
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
How has Greece shaped the world we live in today, and what can we learn from its history?The story of Greece is our story. Philosophy, art, democracy, language, even computers - our world has been shaped by the products of Greek civilisation. Yet most of us know little about a people and a place that ha ...Show more
Time of the Magicians: The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
'Weaves together the biographies and the developing thought of the four philosophers with great bravura and wit' (Sunday Telegraph)The year is 1919. Walter Benjamin flees his overbearing father to scrape a living as a critic. Ludwig Wittgenstein signs away his inheritance, seeking spiritual clarity. Mar ...Show more
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian 'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thu ...Show more
The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War by Malcolm Gladwell
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
What is the price of progress?In this tale of innovation and obsession Gladwell revisits one of the bloodiest attacks of the Second World War to show what happens when technological inventions slip out of our control.Weaving together the stories of a group of renegade pilots, the ruthless bomber command ...Show more
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England by Marc Morris
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'[A] clever, lively ... splendid new book'DAN JONES, SUNDAY TIMES'A big gold bar of delight'SPECTATORSixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and establis ...Show more
The Pathfinders: The Elite RAF Force that Turned the Tide of WWII by Will Iredale
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
The untold story of the elite force that spearheaded almost every British bombing raid over Nazi Germany, by the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Kamikaze Hunters. Perfect for fans of John Nichol's Spitfire, Patrick Bishop's Fighter Boys and Dambusters'Compelling... sensitive, colourful and moving ...Show more
Secret Horsepower Race, The: Western Fighter Engine Development by Douglas E. Calum
$108.00 NZD
Category: History
The piston engines that powered Second World War fighters, the men who designed them, and the secret intelligence work carried out by both Britain and Germany would determine the outcome of the first global air war. Advanced jet engines may have been in development but every militarily significant air b ...Show more
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing--of being--articulated by ten pathfinding women writers. "A wild portrayal of the passion and spirit of female walkers and the deep sense of 'knowing' that they found along the path."--Raynor Wi ...Show more
Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials by Alice Roberts
$27.00 NZD
Category: History
An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries, Professor Alice Roberts helps us better understand life today.'This is a terrific, timely and transporting book - taking us he ...Show more
The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command by Andrew Gordon
$48.00 NZD
Category: History
This book is the winner of the Longman's History Today Book of the Year Award and the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature. More than a century had gone by since the Battle of Trafalgar. Generation after generation of British naval captains had been dreaming ever since of a 'new' Trafalga ...Show more
Road People of Aotearoa - House-Truck Journeys 1978-1984 by Paul Gilbert
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
A historic photo-essay by the late Paul C. Gilbert, this book chronicles the early days of the New Zealand phenomenon of DIY house trucks, which appeared on the roads around the mid-1970s as part of an alternative lifestyle movement. The house-truckers were drawn to the alternative life and music festiv ...Show more
These Bodies of Water: Notes on the British Empire, the Middle East and Where We Meet by Sabrina Mahfouz
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
'Sabrina Mahfouz is a tidal wave of truth swallowing the banks of empire with a torrent of information which will not be damned. These Bodies of Water is so vast, yet achingly intimate' Lemn SissayAre you not made of Suez silt?How do we know you won't shore our boats by making yourself bigger than we ma ...Show more