Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City by Samira Shackle
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
A fast-paced journey around Karachi in the company of those who know the city inside out - from an electrifying new voice in narrative non-fiction. Karachi. Pakistan's largest city is a sprawling metropolis of 20 million people. It is a place of political turbulence where those who have power wield it w ...Show more
How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks by Witold Szablowski
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
A devastatingly original look at the world's worst dictators, through the eyes of their personal chefs, by award-winning Polish author Witold Szablowski. In this darkly funny and fascinating book, Witold Szablowski travels across four continents in search of the personal chefs of five dictators. From th ...Show more
The Shortest History of India by John Zubrzycki
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
An illuminating and concise telling of the 5000 years of turbulent history that led India from the ruins of ancient civilisations to emerging global superpowerOne of the oldest civilisations and the largest democracy in the world, India is an amalgam of customs, races, castes, languages and spiritual be ...Show more
Written In Bone by Sue Black
$24.00 NZD
Category: History
From the world's foremost forensic anthropologist and bestselling author of All That Remains, this book is an exploration - from skull to feet - of how our bones reveal all that happens to us in life.THE TIMES- BEST MEMOIRS OF THE YEAR. WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'Gripping from the sta ...Show more
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning by Justin E. H. Smith
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it — and explains why they have died today.Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What Yo ...Show more
A Short History of the Russian Revolution - Revised Edition by Geoffrey Swain
$33.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Short Histories Ser.
The 1917 Revolution sent shockwaves throughout the globe, setting a chain of events in motion that would change the entire course of the 20th century. With the overthrow of the Romanov Dynasty, Russia was plunged into the political unknown and, from the crucible of social unrest, ideological conflict an ...Show more
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
The story of an empire made and an empire undone - and what emerged from the ashes - by one of the world's leading authorities on Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia arrived in the world accidentally and departed unexpectedly. More than a hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the tumultuous history of t ...Show more
Whatever Happened to Tradition? by Tim Stanley
$43.00 NZD
Category: History
The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us. The central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a proper sense of tradition - political, social and religi ...Show more
The Western Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
'A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration . . . Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War' Lawrence James, The Times'This well-researched, well-written and cogently argued new analysis . . . will undoubtedly now take its rightful place as the standard ...Show more
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The History of England
'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaug ...Show more
The Last Assassin - The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar by Peter Stothard
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'Written with passion, authority and insight... a political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' - Hilary Mantel Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers. From the spring of 44 BC through one of the most dramatic and influential periods in history, Caesar's ...Show more
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ... A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ... 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry ... 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford ...Show more