A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100 Objects begins with one of the earliest surviving object ...Show more
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By ...Show more
A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Ma ...Show more
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Resistance Quartet Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES The extraordinary story of the courageous women who spearheaded the Italian Resistance during the Second World War In the late summer of 1943, in the midst of German occupation, t ...Show more
A House in the Mountains: the Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
The extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance during the Second World WarIn the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in the War and the Germans, now their enemies, occupied the north of the country, an Italian Resistance was born. Ada, Frida, Silvia and ...Show more
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
During the 1530s, rumours of a potentially revolutionary theory of how the heavens worked emanating from a small city in Poland began to spread throughout Europe. The architect of this theory was a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus. In around 1514 Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial ...Show more
A Night of Terror: Wairarapa's 1942 Earthquake by Jan McLaren
$20.00 NZD
Category: History
"A Night of Terror' traces the history of Wairarapa and Wellington region earthquakes and the reasons for them. It recreates the dramatic events of June 24, 1942 and the aftermath in Masterton and the other towns in the valley and Wairarapa's countryside. There are the frantic efforts to remove the dang ...Show more
A Passion For Flight: New Zealand Aviation Before the Great War (Volume 1: Ideas, First Flight Attempts and the Aeronauts 1868 to 1909)
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Volume One: Ideas, first flight attempts and the aeronauts 1868-1909. Volplane Press in association with the Aviation Historical Society of New Zealand is proud to announce publication of the first volume of Errol Martyn's new trilogy - A Passion for Flight, a history of New Zealand aviation before the ...Show more
A Place for Everything - The Story of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: FLANDERS, JUDITH
A celebration of alphabetical order, from its humble beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the sum of the world's knowledge. While we emphasize our subconscious appreciation for the importance of the alphabet, it is alphabetic order, its organization, that allows us to sift thr ...Show more
A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace by Jonathan Holslag
$26.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Pelican Bks.
A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peace In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent ...Show more
A Savage Country: The untold Story of New Zealand in the 1820s by Paul Moon
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. New Zealand in the 1820s had no government or bureaucratic presence; no newspapers were published; the literate population was probably no more than a couple of dozen people at any one time. Early explorers' assessments of New Zealand were haphazard at best - few knew what to make of this f ...Show more