Lapsed by Monica Dux
$38.88 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Losing your religion is harder than it looks ... From devout ten-year-old performing the part of Jesus in a primary school play to blaspheming, undergraduate atheist, Monica Dux and her attitude to the Catholic Church changed profoundly over a decade. Another ten years and she'd calmed right down. Now s ...Show more
Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal
$37.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo -- the owner of a Parisian palace filled with beautiful objects, turned into a memorial for his lost son -- by the bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes. 'Consistently illuminating... considered, compassionate and appreciative... T ...Show more
Facing The Mountain by Daniel James Brown
$40.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
On December 7th 1941, the Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor. For many Americans, the surprise attack was a call to arms - but for the soldier sons of Japanese-American immigrant parents, it brought prejudice and scrutiny over where their loyalties lay.In Facing the Mountain, Daniel James Brown tells the ...Show more
The Dickens Boy by Tom Keneally
$24.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
In this joyful novel, our narrator is Charles Dickens's tenth child, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn. Sent, as his brother Alfred had been before him, at sixteen years of age, to Australia to learn to 'apply himself'. We follow his early Australian adventures in outback NSW learning to beco ...Show more
Mudlarking - Lost and Found on the River Thames by Lara Maiklem
$24.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
'Enchanting' SUNDAY TIMES ... 'Driven by curiosity, freighted with mystery and tempered by chance, wonders gleam from every page' MELISSA HARRISON ... 'Brilliant. No one has looked at these odd corners since Sherlock Holmes' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ... 'Fascinating. There is nothing that Maiklem does not know ...Show more
Londonopolis: A Curious and Quirky History of London by Martin Latham
$22.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
A paperback reissue of Londonopolis (9781849941655) This curious history of London whisks you down the rabbit hole and into the warren of backstreets, landmarks, cemeteries, palaces, markets, museums and secret gardens of the great metropolis. Meet the cockneys, politicians, fairies, philosophers, gang ...Show more
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha
$24.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history.Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Pales ...Show more
On Tyranny - Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
$24.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapse ...Show more
Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease by Charles Kenny
$32.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
A vivid, sweeping history of mankind's battles with infectious disease, for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari's Sapiens and John Barry's The Great Influenza.For four thousand years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection. Stri ...Show more
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
$37.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
The never-before-told story of three women who courageously reported from the frontlines of the Vietnam War. One spent twenty-three days in captivity. Another jumped off planes to get the perfect aerial shot. The other reported from war-torn slums and villages. Catherine Leroy, Frankie Fitzgerald and Ka ...Show more
The Kennedy Curse: The shocking true story of America's most famous family by James Patterson
$24.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
JAMES PATTERSON'S MASTERPIECE________________________________Kennedys were always taught to win at all costs. And they did - but the costs were unimaginable...Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel. Their name is synonym ...Show more
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox
$24.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her 10 years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in 16 countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter.