Beyond Genius - A Journey Through the Characteristics and Legacies of Transformative Minds by Bulent Atalay
$70.00 NZD
Category: History
An in-depth and unified exploration of genius in the arts and sciences through the life and works of five seminal intellectual and cultural figures: Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Ludwig von Beethoven, and Albert Einstein. Who among us hasn't read Hamlet, listened to the Fifth Sym ...Show more
The Philosophers' Library: Books that Shaped the World by Adam Ferner, Chris Meyns
$65.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Liber Historica Ser.
The Philosophers' Library features the most important philosophy manuscripts and books as stepping stones to take your through the history of philosophy. By cataloguing the history of philosophy via its key works, this book reflects the physical results of human thinking and endeavour; brilliant thought ...Show more
Mythos: The stunningly iIllustrated story by Stephen Fry
$95.00 NZD
Category: History
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld ...Show more
DK World War I by DK
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
Learn everything you need to know about the first war to shake the world and change the course of history. World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide takes you from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the Treaty of Versailles, through beautifully illustrated and easy to understand timelines. ...Show more
Great Naval Battles - From Medieval Wars to the Present Day by Helen Doe
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
From an era when oar-driven ships clashed in messy, bloody conflict to the golden age of sail and the incredible innovations that led to ironclads, dreadnoughts, and the aircraft carriers and nuclear-powered submarines of today, Great Naval Battles steers a course through some of history's most epic eng ...Show more
A Nasty Little War: The Western Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
In the closing months of WW1, with the world exhausted and depleted by a long a brutal war, fifteen nations cobbled together an army of nearly 200,000 men and embarked on one of the most extraordinary and ambitious military ventures of the twentieth century. The Intervention in Russia's civil war was sp ...Show more
The Rest is History (The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast) by Tom Holland; Dominic Sandbrook
$39.00 NZD
Category: History
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past from Alexander the Great to Tolkein, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland ...Show more
To the Ends of the Earth: How the Greatest Maps Were Made by Philip Parker
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
This lavishly illustrated book provides a unique insight into the evolution of mapmaking and the science behind it, from the stone age to the digital age. Britain's leading cartographic author takes us on a historical journey through how the greatest maps were created. Exploring key cartographers a ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
$42.00 NZD
Category: History
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all n ...Show more
This is Europe The Way We Live Now by Ben Judah
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has always called it home, and who has newly arrived from elsewhere? Who are the people who drive our long-distance lorries, steward our criss-crossi ...Show more
Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar. Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look ...Show more
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Two leading authorities – a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time – collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analy ...Show more