Humans by Tom Phillips
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
'F*cking brilliant' Sarah Knight 'Very funny' Mark Watson AN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F*CK-UPS OF HUMAN HISTORY In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long way. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutiona ...Show more
The Royal Society & the Invention of Modern Science by Adrian Tinniswood
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge has been at the forefront of scientific endeavour for more than 350 years, since receiving its royal charter from Charles II in 1662. Philosophical Transactions, published in 1665, established the concepts of scientific priority and peer review ...Show more
The Management of Savagery by MAX. BLUMENTHAL
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
THE MANAGEMENT OF SAVAGERY tells the story of the parallel rise of international jihadism and Western ultranationalism. Since Washington's secret funding of the Mujahideen following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 1970s, America has supported extremists with money and hardware, including enem ...Show more
Beyond Coincidence by Martin Plimmer; Brian King
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
Laura Buxton, aged ten, releases a balloon from her garden. It lands 140 miles away in the garden of another Laura Buxton, aged ten. Coincidence? Or something beyond coincidence? Is someone playing snap with our lives? Could it be the hand of God? Or are we, as some scientists have suggested, being gran ...Show more
The Worst Is yet to Come - A Survival Guide to Post-Capitalism by Peter Fleming
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
Capitalism is about to commit suicide and is threatening to take us down with it. But will it give way to a grand social utopia or the beginning of a new dark age... albeit WiFi enabled? The Worst is Yet to Come explores the disturbing possibility that the current crisis of neoliberal capitalism isn't g ...Show more
Singapore, Singapura - From Miracle to Complacency by Nicholas Walton
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Category: History
Modern Singapore is a miracle. Half a century ago it unwillingly became an independent nation, after it was thrown out of the Malay Federation. It was tiny, poor, almost devoid of resources, and in a hostile neighborhood. Now, this unlikely country is at the top of almost every global nationalindex, fro ...Show more
Made in Sweden: 25 Ideas That Created a Country by Elisabeth Asbrink
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
In recent times, we have come to favour all things Scandi - their food, furnishings, fiction, fashion, and general way of life. We seem to regard the Swedes and their Scandinavian neighbours as altogether more sophisticated, admirable, and evolved than us. We have all aspired to be Swedish, to live in t ...Show more
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin by Simon Jenkins
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
A sweeping, illustrated history of Europe--a continent whose imperial ambitions, internal clashes, and existential threats are as vital today as they were during the conquests of Alexander the Great In just a few hundred years, a modest peninsula off the northwest corner of Asia has seen the rise and fa ...Show more
América - The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898 by Robert Goodwin
$57.99 NZD
Category: History
An epic history of the Spanish empire in North America from 1493 to 1898 by Robert Goodwin, author of Spain: The Centre of the World. At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus's great voyage of discovery, in 1 ...Show more
Behold, America - A History of America First and the American Dream by Sarah Churchwell
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
SELECTED AS A 2018 SUMMER READ BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, I-PAPER AND THE BIG ISSUE'Enormously entertaining' SUNDAY TIMES'Fascinating' NEW STATESMAN'Excoriating, brilliant' ALI SMITH'Enthralling' GUARDIAN'My number one contributor when it comes to US politics' DAN SNOW'The American dream is dead,' D ...Show more
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
$34.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town?All Sloane wanted was to be admire ...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