Terrible Honesty A by Douglas Ann
$14.00 NZD
Category: History
"Terrible Honesty" is the biography of a decade, a portrait of the soul of a generation - based on the lives and work of more than a hundred men and women. In a strikingly original interpretation that brings the Jazz Age to life in a wholly new way, Ann Douglas arugues that when, after World War I, the ...Show more
Heroines and Harlots by David Cordingly (formerly Keeper of the Pictures, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
$12.00 NZD
Category: History
Women have always been involved in maritime life, but their stories have rarely been told. David Cordingly looks at this traditionally male domain and finds some remarkable women: Mary Patten, who took command of a vessel and sailed it round Cape Horn at the age of nineteen; Grace Darling, the daughter ...Show more
The Pursuit of Paradise by Jane Brown
$12.00 NZD
Category: History
This book will provide a new perspective on the way we garden, why we garden and what it means for us. Full of fascinating characters and vignettes – from ancient Greeks to suffragettes, from eccentric military men to Catholics in hiding from persecution – The Pursuit of Paradise looks into how society’ ...Show more
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke
$10.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"I knew I could only be killed once. I might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb". Irene was a 17-year-old nursing student when the Nazis invaded Poland. They took over her country and her life. Nothing in her innocent girlhood could have prepared her for the horrors she was to witness. However, ...Show more
The Royal over-Seas League - From Empire into Commonwealth, a History of the First 100 Years by Adele Smith
$12.00 NZD
Category: History
In 1910, when Evelyn Wrench founded the Royal Over-Seas League, King George V was on the throne, the British Empire seemed invincible and for most people international travel was a new and exciting opportunity. One hundred years later, the world and Britain's place in it has been transformed almost beyo ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu
$12.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
In the years following World War II, medicine won major battles against smallpox, diphtheria, and polio. In the same period it also produced treatments to control the progress of Parkinson's, rheumatoid arthritis, and schizophrenia. It made realities of open-heart surgery, organ transplants, test-tube b ...Show more
For God, Country and Coca-Cola by Mark Pendergrast
$12.00 NZD
Category: History
Mark Pendergrast's history is a microcosm of American enterprise. Invented as a patent medicine with a cocaine kick, Coca-Cola is today 99 percent sugar water, the world's most distributed product, available in over 185 countries, more than the membership of the United Nations.
Great Speeches for Better Speaking: Listen and Learn from History's Most Memorable Speeches by Michael E Eidenmuller
$14.00 NZD
Category: History
Learn the secrets of captivating an audience from the greatest orators of all time. What person faced with speaking in public wouldn't want some pointers from great speakers like John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan? Now you can. Michael E. Eidenmuller, founder of American- Rhetoric.com, outlines the six ar ...Show more
The Allens Affair - How One Man Shook the Foundations of a Leading Australian Law Firm by Valarie Lawson
$16.00 NZD
Category: History
Valerie Lawson, one of Australia's leading investigative journalists, writes about the law in a way never previously attempted in Australia, uncovering some fascinating facts behind a scandal that nearly destroyed, Allen Allen & Hemsly, one of Australia's biggest - and most secretive - law firms. ...Show more
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen
$12.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004's most talked about books. In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In Britain, an era of weary con ...Show more
Across the Seas: Australia's Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann; Arnold Zable (Foreword by)
$20.00 NZD
Category: History
Today, Australia's response to asylum-seeking 'boat people' is a hot-button issue that feeds the political news cycle. But the daily reports and political promises lack the historical context that would allow for informed debate. Have we ever taken our fair share of refugees? Have our past responses bee ...Show more
The Dreadful Judgement by Neil Hanson
$14.00 NZD
Category: History
1665,London,after a 10 month drought,tinderbox conditions in an area ofwooden buildings and warehouses filled with coal and wood provided the fuel, an easterly gale provided the oxygen,then September 2nd,London ignited and burnt for 3 days.This is a historical detective story,meticulously researched,viv ...Show more