Civilization : A new history of the Western World by Roger Osborne
35.00 NZD
Category: History
Ever since the attacks of 11th September western leaders have described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization.' But what do we mean by civilization? We believe in a western tradition of openness and freedom that has produced a good life for many millions of people and a culture of enormous depth ...Show more
Egyptian Dawn - Exposing the Real Truth Behind Ancient Egypt by Robert Temple
70.00 NZD
Category: History
The mysteries of ancient Egypt have proved an endless source of fascination to the world. Here, for the first time, international bestselling author Robert Temple seeks to reveal the real history of this ancient civilisation's puzzling origins and in so doing calls into question accepted truths about th ...Show more
A People's Tragedy - The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
54.99 NZD
56.99 (3% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
Vast in scope, based on exhaustive original research, and written with passion, narrative skill and human sympath, A PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY is the definitive account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. 'A memorably good book.. A PEOPLES TRAGEDY combines dramatic power, absorbinb narrative and magi ...Show more
Postwar by Tony Judt
34.99 NZD
39.99 (12% off)
Category: History
Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union reach as far ...Show more
Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank A Worsley
36.99 NZD
Category: History
Frank A. Worsley was the Captain of the H. M. S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continent the Endurance became trapped and then crushed by ice, and the ship's party of twenty-eight drifted i ...Show more
The Occult Tradition : From the Renaissance to the present day by David S. Katz
32.99 NZD
Category: History
Is the universe alive? Are there hidden connections within it, revealed in history and in sacred texts? Can we understand or even learn to control these secrets? Have we neglected an entirely separate science that works according to a different set of principles? Certainly by the time of the Renaissance ...Show more
Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard by Jessie Childs
32.99 NZD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: History
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey was one of the most flamboyant and controversial characters of Henry VIII's reign. A pioneering poet, whose verse had a profound impact on Shakespeare, Surrey was nevertheless branded by one contemporary as 'the most foolish proud boy that is in England'. He was the heir of ...Show more
Europe East and West by Norman Davies
45.00 NZD
Category: History
Collected here for the first time are some of the numerous essays and lectures by Norman Davies, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed "Europe, The Isles and Rising '44." Spanning more than fifteen years of his remarkable career, this highly accessible collection addresses many of the issue ...Show more
Lenin, Stalin and Hitler : The Age of Social Catastrophe by Robert Gellately
34.99 NZD
Category: History
This remarkably ambitious book tells the story of the great social and political catastrophe that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945. In a period of almost continuous upheaval society was transformed by two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. C ...Show more
Will in the World : How Shakespeare became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
12.50 NZD
Category: History
The theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry. Yet his plays were also intensely alert to the social and political realities of their times. Shakespeare had to make concessions to the commercial world, for the theatre company in which he was a share ...Show more
Jane Austen : The World of her Novels by Deirdre Le Faye
44.99 NZD
Category: History
With a wealth of details about Jane Austen's life and times, this volume brings to life the world of her novels. Austen scholar Deirdre Le Faye first gives an overview of the period, from foreign affairs to social ranks, from fashion to sanitation. She goes on to consider each novel individually, explai ...Show more