The Challenge by A. B. Whipple
$12.00 NZD
Category: History
Looks at the development of the American clipper ship, tells the story of a race between the Challenge and the Flying Cloud, and offers a profile of the captain of the Challenge, Robert Waterman
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson (Professor of Political and Financial History, University of Oxford)
$18.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The British Empire was the biggest empire in all history. At its peak it governed a quarter of the world
A Romanov Fantasy - Life at the Court of Anna Anderson by Frances Welch
$14.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
A compelling, eerie and often comic study of discipleship, snobbery and life after death.
The World's Great Speeches by COPELAND
$12.00 NZD
Category: History
This outstanding compendium of 292 great speeches contains addresses from nearly every historical era and nation, from formal orations of ancient Greece and the speeches of Julius Caesar, to modern-day addresses by Nelson Mandela, Ronald Reagan and Vaclav Havel. Among the memorable speeches included are ...Show more
(Un)Manly Citizens - Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and Germaine de Stael's Subversive Women by Lori J. Marso
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
From the author of the beloved #1 national bestsellerCrow Lakecomes an exceptional new novel of jealously, rivalry and the dangerous power of obsession. Two brothers, Arthur and Jake Dunn, are the sons of a farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is reticent, ...Show more
Women in the Streets - Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy by Samuel K. Cohn Jr.; Samuel K. Cohn
$12.00 NZD
Category: History
Charts changes in law, the structure and accessibility of the criminal courts, and the customs and mentalities that shaped women's lot, from infanticide to the control of sexual mores. These seven essays on women, sex, violence, and piety in Renaissance Italy, writes historian Samuel Cohn Jr., bespeak ...Show more
Keys to the Temple by David Furlong
$12.00 NZD
Category: History
The mysteries and myths of ancient sites such as the Great Pyramids of Giza and the Mayan temples of Central America, Stonehenge, Avebury, Glastonbury hold a perennial fascination for us all. Who built them, how, and for what purpose, are endlessly debated. David Furlong's 25 years of research form an i ...Show more
The Brotherhood: Inside the Secret World of the Freemasons by Tim Dedopulos
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
Freemasons are a worldwide secret, sacred organisation dating back to the Middle Ages. The Brotherhood offers a fascinating glimpse into this enigmatic institution: its structure and social context, its symbolism and philosophy, its myths and legends, its intrigues - and the challenges it faces in the 2 ...Show more
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
$15.00 NZD
Category: History
A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia--from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"A landmark."--Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyFor more than three decades, Svetlana Ale ...Show more
Farewell the Trumpets - An Imperial Retreat by Jan Morris
$15.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Pax Britannica 3 | Reading Level: very good
A second edition of the text originally published in 1978. This title is the third volume in the triptych by the same author, depicting the rise and decline of the British Empire and it charts the imperial retreat from glory, ending with the death of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965.
The Land That Never Was: Sir Gregor MacGregor by David Sinclair
$10.00 NZD
Category: History
On a cold January morning in 1823, a group of Scottish immigrants set sail from the port of Leith. They were headed for the nation of Poyais in Central America where, they were told, they would find rich and fertile soils, a balmy climate and beautiful, civilised cities. A month later they landed on the ...Show more
Tony's Ten Years by Boulton Adam
$12.00 NZD
Category: History
Adam Boulton uses the events of Blair's last hundred days to identify key moments in his premiership and follows him intimately through his final days in office. The veteran political journalist witnesses the so-called 'Blairwell Tour' as the caravan travels from Westminster to Washington, Iraq, South ...Show more