Burning the Books - A History of Knowledge Under Attack by Richard Ovenden
$25.68 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital existence, Burning the Books shows how the preservation of knowledge is vital for the survival of civilizati ...Show more
Open - The Story of Human Progress by Johan Norberg
$27.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARHumanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas or people - has led to stunning achievements in science, technology and culture. As a result, we live at a time of unprecedented wealth and opportunity. ...Show more
The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present by Ralph Hope
$32.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
"By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. During forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Overnight, almost a hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access ...Show more
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
$27.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
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
Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City Beneath the Mountains by Edmund Richardson
$33.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
'Full, extraordinary, heart-breaking ... utterly brilliant' - William Dalrymple 'Impressive ... Masson has at last found the intrepid biographer he has so long deserved' - John Keay For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 18 ...Show more
The Seed of Compassion by Dalai Lama XIV
$18.98 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
One of today's most inspiring world leaders was once an ordinary child named Lhamo Thondup. In a small village in Tibet, his mother was his first great teacher of compassion. In everyday moments from his childhood, young readers begin to see that important lessons are all around us, and they, too, can g ...Show more
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$26.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
In a quiet English village in 1942, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, the woman known to her neighbours as Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her rati ...Show more
This Present Crisis - The Seven-Step Path to Restoring a World Gone Mad by Michael Youssef
$45.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Our culture has lost its mind. Now, we are waging a bigger fight--a war for our soul. Is it possible our world has gone mad? We are under siege and the war is not from without; it is from within. The collapse of the Roman Empire occurred in a single generation and was not so much the result of invasion ...Show more
Going Home - A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation by Raja Shehadeh
$27.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
In a dazzling mix of reportage, analysis, and memoir, the leading Palestinian writer of our time reflects on aging, failure, the occupation, and the changing face of Ramallah"Few Palestinians have opened their minds and their hearts with such frankness."--The New York Times In Going Home, Raja Shehadeh ...Show more
Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
$19.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
"Dr. Durant's outline includes not only lucid explanations of the great philosophies, but the careers of the philosophers and interpretations based upon the two-fold view, together with a host of good tales and merry quips by and about famous scholars from Socrates to Professor John Dewey."
Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs
$39.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
In her groundbreaking and essential debut Three Mothers, Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's ...Show more