The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market by George Soros
37.99 NZD
40.99 (7% off)
Category: History | Series: Wiley Investment Classics Ser.
New chapter by Soros on the secrets to his success along with a new Preface and Introduction. New Foreword by renowned economist Paul Volcker "An extraordinary ...inside look into the decision-making process of the most successful money manager of our time. Fantastic." -The Wall Street Journal George So ...Show more
World History for Dummies by Peter Haugen
29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: For Dummies
Now updated - this is the one-stop guide to significant events in world history. Written for students and lifelong learners, this detailed overview of human history takes readers from the discovery of fire to the birth of the Internet. It features new coverage of significant events that have reshaped ou ...Show more
1959 : The year everything changed by Fred Kaplan
42.99 NZD
Category: History
Acclaimed national security columnist - and noted cultural critic - Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America Conventional historical wisdom focuses on the sixties as the era of pivotal change that swept the nation, yet, as Fred Kaplan argues, it was 1959 that ushered in t ...Show more
Gilded by Deborah Davis
39.99 NZD
Category: History
This is a beautifully written history of high society in Newport, Rhode Island, from the acclaimed author of "Party of the Century". Newport is the legendary and beautiful home of American aristocracy and the sheltered super-rich. Many of the country's most famous blueblood families - the closest thing ...Show more
History Lessons: What the Movers and Shakers of History Can Teach Us About Business and Management by Jonathan Gifford
40.00 NZD
Category: History
What the movers and shakers of history can teach us about business and management Pericles of Athens, Lorenzo of Florence, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Elizabeth I, Napoleon Bonaparte, Zhou Enlai, Ghandi, Lee Kwan Yew - these are just some of the great names who changed the course of history. Far ...Show more
Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler by Bradford Matsen
38.99 NZD
Category: History
After rewriting history with their discovery of a Nazi U-boat off the coast of New Jersey, legendary divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler decided to investigate the great enduring mystery of history's most notorious shipwreck: Why did Titanic sink as quickly as it did? To answer the question, Chatte ...Show more
Is Paris Burning ? by Collins
34.99 NZD
Category: History
From the bestselling authors of The City of Joy comes the dramatic story of the Allied liberation of Paris. Is Paris Burning? reconstructs the network of fateful events - the drama, the fervor, and the triumph - that heralded one of the most dramatic episodes of our time.
War Children by Phil Robins
19.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
War Children shows what life was like during the Second World War for the children who lived through it. What was it life going to school in Nazi Germany, or helping to put fires out during the Blitz? How did it feel to be evacuated, or to arrive in Britain as a refugee and then be told you were an 'ene ...Show more
Hitler Youth : Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
24.99 NZD
Category: History
What was it like to grow up in the dark times of Nazi Germany? This gripping narrative paints a picture of life for a teenager during Hitler's reign in Germany. Drawing on oral histories, diaries, letters and the author's own interviews with those recruited into Hitler Youth, resisters, Holocaust surviv ...Show more
Decoding the Heavens by Jo Marchant
37.99 NZD
39.99 (5% off)
Category: History
In 1900 a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an Ancient Greek shipwreck dating from around 70 BC. Lying unnoticed for months amongst their hard-won haul was what appeared to be a formless lump of corroded rock, which turned out to be the most stunning scientific arte ...Show more
My Father's Country : The Story of a German Family by Wibke Bruhns
37.99 NZD
Category: History
The story of a German family from the late nineteenth century through WWI to WWII and after. A huge bestseller in Germany, it offers extraordinarily moving and riveting insight into the experience of being German in the last century, fit to stand alongside Gitta Sereny's biography of Albert Speer or Ber ...Show more
Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
64.00 NZD
Category: History
Many of us take it as a given that the Great Depression - the consequences of which reverberated for decades, crippling the future of an entire generation and setting the stage for WWII - resulted from a confluence of inexorable forces beyond any one person or government's control. In fact, as erudite e ...Show more