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A Brief Guide to Doctor Who by Mark Campbell
$25.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Brief Histories
"Doctor Who" is now officially the most popular drama on television, From humble beginnings on 23rd November 1963 and eventual resurrection in 2005, the show has always been a quintessential element of British popular culture. Ten Doctors, a multitude of companions, and a veritable cornucopia of monster ...Show more
A Brief Guide to Secret Religions : A Complete Guide to Hermetic, Pagan and Esoteric Beliefs by David V. Barrett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
This wide-ranging book explores the diversity of esoteric and occult beliefs. Neo-Paganism is one of the fastest-growing new religions in the western world where witchcraft or Wicca, Druidry, and Urban Shamanism are thriving. Alongside this there has been an upsurge in New Age ideas of an even wider va ...Show more
A Brief History of Hitmen and Assassinations by Richard Belfield
$33.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories
We live in a new age of political assassination; within our lifetimes all the senior members of the UN Security Council have used it as an extension of political policy in all corners of the globe. In every case, the orders came from the very top. This book tells the true stories behind some of the most ...Show more
A Brief History of London by Jeremy Black
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
As the United Kingdom left the European Union, during a period of international and domestic turmoil, London found itself at a turning point. This critical moment presents an opportunity to look back, with a distinctive perspective, a focus on London in its national and, perhaps even more importantly, i ...Show more
A Brief History of the Age of Steam by Thomas Crump
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Brief Histories
In 1710, an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years, the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the fortunes of nations. Passionately written and insigh ...Show more
A Brief History of the Middle East by Christopher Catherwood
$33.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories
For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more powerful. It took another three hundred centuries for the West to catch up, and overtake, the Middle East. Why does it seem different now? This title explains these issues ...Show more
Brief History Of The British Army by Jock Haswell, John Lewis-Stempel
$19.99 NZD
$27.99 (28% off)
Category: Overseas Military | Series: Brief Histories
The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken disorder. It involves many of the most vital preoccupations in the history of the island - the struggle against Continental domination by a single power, the batt ...Show more
The Birth Of The Nazis by Jones, Nigel H.
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and a narrow escape from Communist revolution brought not peace but five chaotic years (1918-1923) of civil war, assassination, plots, putsches and murderous mayhem to Germany. The savage world of the tr ...Show more
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