The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration - NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight by John Logsdon (Editor, Introduction by); Bill Nye (Foreword by)
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History
The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of historical documents--publishing in celebration of NASA's 60th anniversary and with a foreword by Bill Nye "An extremely useful and thought provoking documentary journey through the maze of space histo ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present by Jonathan Fenby
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern Chinashows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim to brutality on an unmatched scale, to oppression, to war and to famine. This make ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern Russia - From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century by Robert Service
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change. In his acclaimed history, now updated to 2015, Robert Service provides a superb panoramic viewpoint on Russia, exploring the complex, changing interaction between ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century, Fifth Edition by Robert Service
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
Revised and updated with a new introduction and new final chapter.Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change and upheaval.In his acclaimed history, now updated to 2009, Robert Service provides a superb panor ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam by Christopher Goscha
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
'This is the finest single-volume history of Vietnam in English. It challenges myths, and raises questions about the socialist republic's political future' Guardian 'Powerful and compelling. Vietnam will be of growing importance in the twenty-first-century world, particularly as China and the US rethink ...Show more
The Penguin History of the World by J. M. Roberts
$50.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
The completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the World For generations of readers The Penguin History of the World has been one of the great cultural experiences - the entire story of human endeavour laid out in all it ...Show more
The People's History of Britain by Rebecca Fraser
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good
The Perfect Horse by Elizabeth Letts
$38.00 NZD
Category: World History
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the remarkable story of the heroic rescue of priceless horses in the closing days of World War II In the chaotic last days of the war, a small troop of battle-weary American soldiers captures a German spy and makes an astonis ...Show more
The Perfect King : The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation by Ian Mortimer
$32.00 NZD
Category: World History
He ordered his uncle to be beheaded; he usurped his father's throne; he taxed his people more than any other previous king, and he started a war which lasted for more than a hundred years. Yet for centuries Edward III (1327-77) was celebrated as the most brilliant of all English monarchs. In this first ...Show more
The Perfect Summer - Dancing into shadow in 1911 by Juliet Nicolson
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good
The summer of 1911 was one of the high sunlit meadows of English history but on the horizon lurked a gathering storm. A new king was on the throne and the aristocracy were at play. Yet, as temperatures soared, cracks appeared under the surface with strikes, class divisions and the seeds of war to come. ...Show more
The Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History
Internationally bestselling historian Antonia Fraser's new book brilliantly evokes one year of pre-Victorian political and social history - the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832. For our inconclusive times, there is an attractive resonance with 1832, with its 'rotten boroughs' of Old Sarum and th ...Show more
The Phantom Army of Alamein: How the Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel by Rick Stroud
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
In 1940 a group of artists, sculptors, film makers, theatre designers and set painters came together to form the Camouflage Unit. Led by Major Geoffrey Barkas and including among their number the internationally renowned stage magician Jasper Maskelyne, the unit's projects became a crucial battlefield w ...Show more