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Beneath the Night by Stuart Clark
$33.00 NZD
Category: History
From Stone Age to space age, people have looked up at the stars and been inspired by their beauty, their patterns, and their majesty. Beneath the Night is a history of humanity, told through our relationship with the night sky. From prehistoric cave art and Ancient Egyptian zodiacs to the modern era of ...Show more
Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the twenty-first century, and what her journey through time reveals about what matters to us as humans. Charting Venus's origins in p ...Show more
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out well after the war meant they were no longer in touch. What was her s ...Show more
Fossil Men: the Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
A behind-the-scenes account of the shocking discovery of the skeleton of "Ardi," a human ancestor far older than Lucy - a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution. In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White--"the Steve Jobs of ...Show more
Pandora's Jar - Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
'Natalie Haynes is the nation's muse' - Adam Rutherford The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories.Stories of gods and monsters are the mainsta ...Show more
The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam; Caroline Moorehead
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
'Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline Moorehead On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their paren ...Show more
Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Patterns of Life Ser.
PATTERNED PLANET: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americ ...Show more
The Invention of Medicine - From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century BC, Greeks even wrote of medici ...Show more
Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
In little more than a century of cinema - Birth of a Nation was one hundred years old in 2015 - our sense of what a film director is, or should be, has shifted in fascinating ways. A director was once a functionary; then an important but not decisive part of an industrial process; then accepted as the p ...Show more
Riddledom: 101 Riddles and Their Stories by David Astle
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
Why are ladies like arrows?..When is a bird not a bird?..What do you call a nun with a washing machine on her head?..Welcome to the weird new word adventure from David Astle, plunging into the realm of riddles, chasing down and prising open 101 curious questions from around the planet. A mindtrip across ...Show more
No Turning Back - Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid
$27.00 NZD
Category: History
Extending back to the first demonstrations of 2011, No Turning Back dissects the tangle of ideologies and allegiances that make up the Syrian conflict. As protests ignited in Daraa, some citizens were brimming with a sense of possibility. A privileged young man named Suleiman posted videos of the protes ...Show more