Warriors in Scarlet: The Life and Times of the Last Redcoats by Ian Knight
75.00 NZD
Category: History
Ian Knight's Warriors in Scarlet is a comprehensive and stirring history of the Victorian army between 1837 to 1860, from the Battle of Bossendon Wood to the Crimean War, a period of seismic change.An acclaimed military historian, Knight draws on first-hand accounts to show us the reality of life for th ...Show more
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens by Nicola Clark
40.00 NZD
Category: History
Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets. But they also held a uniq ...Show more
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler by Robert Hutton
40.00 NZD
Category: History
Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with a drink and a story, he was a well-known figure in the local bars. If you then asked what he did, you would have less success. Those who knew didn't tell, and almost no o ...Show more
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge
40.00 NZD
Category: History
People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By ...Show more
The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
40.00 NZD
Category: History
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the leg ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa; Timothy Revell
40.00 NZD
Category: History
A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths. Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journ ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more
What Do We Know About History? by Philip Steele
38.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference
Bringing the past to life in an engaging question-and-answer format, this is an exhilarating encyclopedia for children. Explore the intriguing answers to more than 200 questions about the past in this absorbing encyclopedia of world history for kids. Where did the first humans come from? How many pande ...Show more
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong
28.00 NZD
Category: History
‘Lucid and damning … an absorbing – and infuriating – tale of complicity, coverup and denial’ PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II – and how the world allowe ...Show more
The Race to the Future by Kassia St Clair
40.00 NZD
Category: Cars
An Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a conman and various journalists battle over steep mountain ranges and across the arid vastness of the Gobi Desert. The contestants need teams of helpers to drag their primitive cars up narrow gorges, lift them over rough terrain and float th ...Show more
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang
45.00 NZD
Category: History
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Sixteenth-century Europe - Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the C ...Show more
Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
A massive, predatory bird and its place in history and myth. The legend of Pouakai, aka the extinct Haast's Eagle, takes Peter Walker on a journey from an 1860s Canterbury sheep run to a deep cave near Karamea as he learns the story of the mighty hunter that inhabited a peak in the foothills of the Sout ...Show more