Say What?! the History of Communication by Woody Brambles
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
People have been communicating with each other for thousands of years. From visual representations such as cave paintings, pictograms and writing, to verbal and visual communication such as speech and body language, the ways in which humans communicate has changed dramatically over time. This is especia ...Show more
The Landmark Julius Caesar - The Complete Works - Gallic War, Civil War, Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War by Kurt A. Raaflaub (Editor); Robert B. Strassler (Series edited by)
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
Between 58 and 50 B.C., Caesar led his army to twice invade Britain and conquer most of the land that is now France, Belgium, and Switzerland. The Gallic Wars served two purposes- to offer a record of Caesar?s travels and insights into his military strategies, and to present the Roman public with a port ...Show more
Atlas of a Lost World - Travels in Ice Age America by Craig Childs
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How they got here, persevered, and ultimately thrived is a story that resonates from the Pleistocene to our modern era. The lower sea levels of the Ice Age exposed a vast land bridge between Asia ...Show more
Ships of Heaven ... British Cathedrals by Christopher Somerville
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
When Christopher Somerville, author of the acclaimed The January Man, set out to explore Britain's cathedrals, he found his fixed ideas shaken to the roots. Starting out, he pictured cathedrals - Britain possesses over one hundred - as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But as he journeys among favo ...Show more
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj by Anita Anand
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
Anita Anand tells the remarkable story of one Indian's twenty-year quest for revenge, taking him around the world in search of those he held responsible for the Amritsar massacre of 1919, which cost the lives of hundreds. When Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, ordered Brigadier G ...Show more
Defeating the Ministers of Death (The compelling story of vaccination) by David Isaacs
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The compelling history of vaccination. We may fear terrorist attacks but in truth humans have always had far more to fear from infections. In 1950 there were an estimated 50 million cases of smallpox worldwide, which killed 10 million people. At the end of WWI, Spanish flu proved deadlier than the war t ...Show more
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration by Edward J. Larson
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD WINNER From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" (WSJ) entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time: in 1909 three daring expeditions-led by Ernest Shackleton, Robert Peary, and the dashing Duke of the Abruzzi-simultaneously raced to the top, ...Show more
Night of the Long Knives by Phil Carradice
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: History of Terror Ser.
In the summer of 1934 Adolf Hitler planned and conducted the most ruthless purge of his thirteen-year period as leader of Germany. The victims were not political opponents but friends, colleagues and fellow fascists who had helped the Nazi Party in its rise to power. The Night of the Long Knives broke t ...Show more
Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I by Kelcey Wilson-Lee
$44.99 NZD
Category: History
Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized - and largely mythical - notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of the great ...Show more
Yeti - An Abominable History by Graham Hoyland
$26.99 NZD
Category: History
What leads us to believe in monsters? What happens when we meet the brutal creatures of our nightmares? Tales of the yeti, the 'Abominable Snowman' of the Himalayas, have been recorded for centuries. This huge, ape-like, hairy creature has tantalised explorers, mountaineers and locals with curious footp ...Show more
The First Wave - The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II by Alex Kershaw
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
The New York Timesbestselling author of The Liberatorand Avenue of Spiesreturns with a thrilling, action-heavy account of D-Day combat.Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wavefollows ten men attempting to carry out D-Day's most critical missions. Their actions would determine th ...Show more
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A gripping investigation of Israel's assassination policy' Sunday Times 'Remarkable' Observer 'Riveting' Daily Mail 'Compelling' John le Carré Winner of 2018 National Jewish Book Award From the very beginning of its statehood in 1948, the instinct to take every measure to ...Show more