Introducing Te Tiriti o Waitangi (BWB Texts) by Claudia Orange and Jared Davidson
$18.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: 1st
The content of this short book is derived directly from the larger illustrated publication, foregoing all illustrations to suit the BWB Texts format. In 1840, over 500 Maori leaders put their names to a significant new document: Te Tiriti o Waitangi or the Treaty of Waitangi. Through their signatures, ...Show more
Hands of Time - A Watchmaker's History of Time by Rebecca Struthers
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
An intricate and personal history of watches and time from an extraordinary watchmaker and historian A watchmaker's world is not much bigger than a thumbnail. I spend whole days working on mechanisms which can contain hundreds of tiny components. Each of them has a specific task to perform. Every mornin ...Show more
The Colour Storm: The Compelling and Spellbinding Story of Art and Betrayal in Renaissance Venice by Damian Dibben
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
Enter the world of Renaissance Venice, where the competition for fame and fortune can mean life or death, in this immersive novel of art and the Inquisition.Artists flock to Renaissance Venice for wealth, fame and revolutionary colour. Yet for Giorgione 'Zorzo' Barbarelli, competition is fierce and debt ...Show more
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
The definitive history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the bestselling author of Chernobyl- History of a TragedyFor more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, famine ...Show more
The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way by Anthony Seldon
$46.00 NZD
Category: History
In August 2021, Anthony Seldon set out on a gruelling 35-day pilgrimage from the Swissborder to the English Channel, following the historic route of the Western Front. From sumptuous towns in the east of France to the haunting trenches of the Somme and Ypres, thewalk took in many important sites from Wo ...Show more
The Car - The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World by Bryan Appleyard
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
A spirited, insightful exploration of our favorite machine and it's cultural impact on society over the past one hundred and fifty years. More than any other technology, cars have transformed American popular culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom and mobility. The ...Show more
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
From the international bestselling author of The New Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and demise-of civilisations across time. A 2023 HIGHLIGHT FOR: BBC NEWS * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * FINANCIAL TIMES * NEW EUROPEAN * GUARDIAN * NEW STATESM ...Show more
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
‘Janina Ramirez is a born storyteller, and in Femina she is at the peak of her powers. This is bravura narrative history underpinned by passionate advocacy for the women whom medieval history has too often ignored or overlooked. Femina is essential reading’ - Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantag ...Show more
The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England by Janina Ramirez
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
Skulduggery, power struggles and politics. A fascinating re-examination of Anglo-Saxon England told through the secret lives of the saints.From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina'Ramirez blasts a powerful spotlight into the so-called Dark Ages' - Dan SnowSkulduggery, power struggles and polit ...Show more
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic worldTo fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, in the United Stat ...Show more
The Dark Queens: A gripping tale of power, ambition and murderous rivalry in early medieval France by Shelley Puhak
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens. 'Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life' Helen Castor 'Restores two half-forgotten and much-mythologized queens to their proper place in medieval history' Dan Jones 'Fredegund and Brunhild have finally foun ...Show more
Everybody Loves Our Town A History of Grunge by Mark Yarm
$29.00 NZD
Category: History
Grunge, also known as the 'Seattle Sound', emerged from the Pacific north-west in the early part of the 1980s. With the unexpected success of Nirvana's single 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' in 1991, grunge became a household word overnight and launched an American music movement on a par with punk and hip-ho ...Show more