The Original Australians - Story of the Aboriginal people by Josephine Flood
$50.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
This fascinating and intelligent volume tells the remarkable story of Australian Aboriginal history from its distant beginnings in the age of Dreamtime, through the first contact with Europeans and other outsiders, right up to the present day. "The Original Australians" offers stunning insights into the ...Show more
The Origins Of Political Order: From pre-human times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the p ...Show more
The Origins of the Irish by J.P. Mallory
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
Written as an engrossing detective story by the leading authority, this is the first major account in nearly eighty years to deal with the core issues and multiple influences in the creation of the Irish people. Essential reading, with over 120 informative line drawings and maps, for anyone interested i ...Show more
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 by Sean McMeekin
$75.00 NZD
Category: World History
The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume history of the Ottoman empire's decade-long war for survival. Beginning with Italy's invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September 1911, the opening salvo in what would soon spiral into a European conflict, the book concludes with the establishm ...Show more
The Paper Trail - An Unexpected History of the World's Greatest Invention by Alexander Monro
$50.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of how you came to be holding this book, how you came to be following its printed words across dozens of pages, pages made not from bamboo, silk, parchment or papyrus, but from paper. The emergence of paper in the imperial court of Han China brought about a revolution in the transmissi ...Show more
The Paras : An Oral History by Max Arthur
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
Published to coincide with 75th anniversary of its formation, this is the definitive history of the iconic Parachute Regiment, told through the voices of more than 200 of the soldiers themselves. From the daring raids of World War 2 through Northern Ireland, The Falklands, Bosnia and Afghanistan, the Pa ...Show more
The Party - The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor
$32.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good-very good
China's Communist Party is the largest, most powerful political machine in the world. Here, for the first time, Richard McGregor delves deeply into its inner sanctum, revealing how this secretive cabal keeps control of every aspect of the country - its military and media, legal system and businesses, ev ...Show more
The Past From Above by Charlotte Trumpler
$145.00 NZD
Category: World History
249 locations in 51 countries comprise this magnificent collection of aerial photos of the world's foremost archaeological sites. From Hadrian's Wall to Uluru, the Tower of Babel to the Nasca Lines, Tara to Jerusalem, we can now view the familiar from a new perspective - from above. Leading aerial p ...Show more
The Past from Above by Charlotte Tumpler
$80.00 NZD
Category: World History
For more than forty years, Georg Gerster has been travelling the world photographing archaeological sites from the air. In "The Past from Above", archaeologist Charlotte Trumpler introduces 250 of his photographs, taken in more than fifty countries in Europe, North and South America, Asia, Australia, an ...Show more
The Patient Assassin - A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence by Anita Anand
$26.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
The "compelling and] vivid" (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate twenty-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions. When Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the Lie ...Show more
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj by Anita Anand
$38.00 NZD
Category: World History
Anita Anand tells the remarkable story of one Indian's twenty-year quest for revenge, taking him around the world in search of those he held responsible for the Amritsar massacre of 1919, which cost the lives of hundreds. When Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, ordered Brigadier G ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches by Brian MacArthur
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
From Moses to Nelson Mandella, speeches have helped both change the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped. A great orator, however, has to have the right words and the right message to inspire his or her followers. "The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches" gathers together the world's great ...Show more