The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War by Gavin McLean, Ian McGibbon & Kynan Gentry
$45.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
The New Zealand Wars of the 1840s and 1860s, other nineteenth-century military encounters, the South African War, the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, the Gulf War, modern-day peacekeeping ...The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War contains the best, widest range of published and n ...Show more
The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King
$36.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Second hand. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce a full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more inte ...Show more
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
$26.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: very good
'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone' Inspired by the rhythms of the "Periodic Table", Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From his birth into an Italian Jewish family through his training as a chemist, to the pai ...Show more
The Phoenix - St. Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London by Leo Hollis
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
'A tour de force of biography, history, politics, philosophy and experimental science' ECONOMISTThe remarkable and inspiring story of how London was transformed after the Great Fire of 1666 into the most powerful city in the world, and the men who were responsible for that achievement.'Wonderfully rich ...Show more
The Plimmer Legacy by Bee Dawson
$50.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The Plimmers of Wellington were an influential family in the early days of the settlement - John Plimmer (of Plimmer Steps) was known as 'the father of Wellington'. From a busy store located in a ship (Plimmer's Ark) through the hard days of farming in the Depression, to today's busy world, the Plimmer ...Show more
The Plot to Subvert Wartime New Zealand by Hugh Price
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This is a true story of events in New Zealand at the most desperate time of World War II, when Japanese invasion seemed likely, and the outcome of the terrible world struggle between the Allied and Axis powers could have gone either way. At this perilous moment, early in 1942, a prison inmate by the nam ...Show more
The Prison Diary of A.C. Barrington: Dissent and Conformity in Wartime New Zealand by John Pratt
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
A.C. (Archie) Barrington was a leading New Zealand pacifist during World War 2. Incarcerated in Mount Crawford Prison for his beliefs in 1941, he kept an illicit diary, scrawled in the margins of books. Many years later his son John happened across the diary and painstakingly reconstructed it. Such docu ...Show more
The Quest for Origins - Who First Discovered and Settled New Zealand and the Pacific Islands by K. R. Howe
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From space, from Egypt, from the Americas? From other ancient civilizations? These are but some of today's more fanciful claims about the first settlers of New Zealand and the islands of the Pacific. But none of them correctly answer the question: where did the Polynesians come from? This book is a thou ...Show more
The Quest for Origins : Who first discovered and settled New Zealand and the Pacific Islands? (revised edition 2008) by Kerry Howe
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
A fascinating book that re-examines countless theories about who discovered and first settled in NZ and the Pacific Islands. Media speculation about who 'discovered' NZ (Spanish? Phoenician? Portuguese?) has provided continuing evidence of New Zealanders' fascination with our origins and where we've com ...Show more
The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain by Tristram Hunt
$32.00 NZD
Category: History
A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from acclaimed historian and director of the Victoria and Albert Museum Josiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his kilns ...Show more
The Royal New Zealand Ballet at Sixty by Jennifer Shennan, Anne Rowse, Keith McEwing
$60.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
In 2013 the Royal New Zealand Ballet marks the company’s sixtieth anniversary. This is a triumph for the vision of Poul Gnatt, who in 1953 established a dance company which undertook national touring. Follow the story of those sixty years, much of it in the words of the artistic directors, dancers and o ...Show more
The Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
An illuminating account of the war in Ukraine - its historical roots, its course, its possible outcomes - from the bestselling, award-winning author of Chernobyl On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who we ...Show more