Hunting Evil by Guy Walters
42.99 NZD
Category: History
At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus Barbie - not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also beca ...Show more
The Terracotta Army by John Man
39.99 NZD
Category: History
The Terracotta Army is one of the greatest, and most famous, archaeological discoveries of all time. 8,099 life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of China - each is individually carved, and they are thought to represent real members of the emperor's ...Show more
The Blood of the Isles by Bryan Sykes
59.99 NZD
Category: History
Bryan Sykes, the world's first genetic archaeologist, takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain and Ireland, to reveal how our tribal history still colours the country today. In 54BC, Julius Caesar launched the first Roman invasion of Britain. His was the first detailed account of the Celt ...Show more
Blood of the Isles : Exploring the genetic roots of our tribal history by Bryan Sykes
39.99 NZD
Category: History
Exploringthe genetic roots of Britain and Ireland. Bryan Sykes, the world's first genetic archaeologist, takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain and Ireland, to reveal how our tribal history still colours the country today.In 54BC Julius Caesar launched the first Roman invasion of Britai ...Show more
Kublai Khan : From Xanadu to Superpower by John Man
42.99 NZD
47.00 (8% off)
Category: History
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree"Kublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind this legend is even more fantastic than the poem would have us believe. He inherited the second largest land empire in hist ...Show more
Shadow Pasts by William D. Rubinstein
45.00 NZD
Category: History
For many intelligent people, the stuff of history does not consist of the kind of dry-as-dust investigations of diplomatic, economic, or political history that most university historians research and write about, but the famous topics of history's mysteries - who was Jack the Ripper? Was there a conspi ...Show more
QI: The Book of the Dead by John Lloyd
24.99 NZD
Category: History
'"The QI Book of the Dead" is a book about life. What an awful thing life is. It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless' - Gustave Flaubert. Around 90 billion people have existed since the human race began. From this huge number, the bestselling QI team s ...Show more
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
28.99 NZD
Category: History
For two hundred years after Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including Sir Francis Bacon and the Earl of Oxford - have been proposed as their true author. "Contested Will" unravels the mystery of when and why s ...Show more
Contested Will : Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
59.99 NZD
Category: History
For two hundred years after Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including Sir Francis Bacon and the Earl of Oxford - have been proposed as their true author. Contested Will unravels the mystery of when and why so ...Show more
Lipstick Traces : A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus
39.99 NZD
45.00 (11% off)
Category: History
A cult classic in a new edition. This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called 'Anarchy in the UK' was issued in London, and this event launched a transformation of pop music all over the world. The song distilled, in crudely poetic form, a critique of modern society once ...Show more
Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson
59.99 NZD
Category: History
Already famous throughout Europe for his theories of planetary motion and gravity, Isaac Newton decided to take on the job of running the Royal Mint. And there, Newton became drawn into a battle with William Chaloner, the most skilful of counterfeiters, a man who not only got away with faking His Majest ...Show more
Shroom : A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom by Andy Letcher
39.99 NZD
Category: History
Is Santa Claus really a magic mushroom in disguise? Was Alice in Wonderland a thinly veiled psychedelic mushroom odyssey? Did mushroom tea kick-start ancient Greek philosophy? Much stranger than the fictions it has inspired, the world of the magic mushroom is a place where shamans and hippies rub ...Show more