Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples by Neil MacGregor
$30.00 NZD
Category: Religion
No society on Earth lacks beliefs about where it has come from, its place in the world, and the connection of individuals to the eternal. Until recently, it was widely assumed that religion was on the wane almost everywhere- now, far from becoming marginalised, the relationship between faith and society ...Show more
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans by David Abulafia
$85.00 NZD
Category: History
David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills, long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century were trading between their far-flung islands. By the seventh century, trading routes stretc ...Show more
Rise and Fall - A History of the World in Ten Empires by Paul Strathern
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
From the Akkadian Empire to modern-day America, Rise and Fall charts the history of the world through its ten greatest empires. Through these we examine humanity's will to power in forms both infamous and poorly understood, and trace the evolution of the imperial impulse as it moves from the blunt milit ...Show more
The Great Successor - The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
'Packed with the fascinating and frequently bizarre anecdotal detail' The Times'Superb...a model of investigative diligence and rigour' New Statesman'Astonishing and insightful - the inside story of the mercurial man now making headlines, and history. Essential reading' Lyse Doucet 'By far the most comp ...Show more
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths by John Barton
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLERA SUNDAY TIMES AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'With emotional and psychological insight, Barton unlocks this sleeping giant of our culture. In the process, he has produced a masterpiece.' Sunday Times The Bible is the central book of Western culture. For the two faiths whic ...Show more
Joan of Arc by Helen Castor
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it beforeA French peasant girl who heard voices from God, Joan convinced the royal court of her divine calling and became a teenage warrior, leading an army to victory against the English. Eventually captured and ...Show more
The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers The story of philosophy is an epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents. It explores some of the most creative minds in history. B ...Show more
The History of Sexuality 2 - The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Michel Foucault's landmark account explores our evolving attitudes to sex, and shows how are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase in pleasure.
Himalaya - A Human History HB by Ed Douglas
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
This is the first major history of the Himalaya- an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains. Spanning millennia, from its earliest inhabitants to the present conflicts over Tibet and Everest, Himalaya is a soaring account of resilience and conquest, discovery ...Show more
Hiroshima by John Hersey
$26.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with his heartrending account of six men and ...Show more
What is History?: Popular Penguins by E. H. Carr
$14.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Since its first publication in 1961 E.H. Carr's What is History? has established itself as the classic introduction to the subject. Ranging across topics such as historical objectivity, society and the individual, the nature of causation, and the possibility of progress, Carr delivered an incisive text ...Show more
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
$24.00 NZD
Category: History
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped pe ...Show more