The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
$39.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
On 21 November 1915, the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's ship, finally succumbed to the immense pressures of the surrounding ice. Its crew watched in silence as the stern rose twenty feet in the air and then, just like that, it was gone. Over a century later, an audacious plan to locate the ship was hatc ...Show more
Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner
$32.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
From the internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society. The Bloomsbury Girls is a compelling and heart-warming story of post-war London, a century-old bookshop and three women determined to find their way in a fast-changing world. Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book s ...Show more
Rock Me on the Water - 1974 The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics by Ronald Brownstein
$39.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
"An electric story filled with gripping personalities, compelling backstage histories, and a clear message for the divided America of today: the forces that fear change can win for a time, but in America the future always gets the last word. A lyrical recreation of a magical moment."- Jake Tapper Now i ...Show more
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A. C. Grayling
$30.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5 per cent of the universe; pre-history is still be ...Show more
Make Her Praises Heard Afar: The Untold story of New Zealand Women in WW1 by Jane Tolerton
$25.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: 1st
The history books tell us that about 550 New Zealand nurses went to World War One while other women stayed home, knitting, fundraising and looking after families and farms while the men were away. But many women went too, as doctors and ambulance drivers, munitions workers and mathematicians, civil serv ...Show more
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace by HASTINGS MAX
$39.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
‘A fascinating collection of military stories … The sort of book that can be picked up at intervals … [but] once tasted, is hard to put down' - Washington Post. From bestselling author Max Hastings, a collection of the most extraordinary stories of war, courage, tragedy, strategy and survival. Soldiers ...Show more
On this Day: A History of the World in 366 Days by DK
$37.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Ever wonder what happened 100 years ago on your birthday? What about on Christmas Day in the year 800? Or Halloween in the distant past? You might be surprised by what you find out. On This Day is a history book with a difference. Travel back in time and discover the weird and wonderful things that happ ...Show more
Berlin: The Story of a City by Barney White-Spunner
$27.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Telling the story of its people and its rulers, from its medieval origins up to the present day, Berlin is a fascinating and informative history of an extraordinary city from the author of the international bestseller Partition.Berlin is Europe's most fascinating and exciting city. It is and always has ...Show more
Square Haunting - Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE * LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * "A beautiful and deeply moving book."--Sally Rooney, author of Normal People An engrossing group portrait of five women writers, including Virginia Woolf, who moved to London's Mecklenburgh Square in search of new freedom in t ...Show more
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance by Judy Batalion
$34.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
Judy Batalion, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, discovered an extraordinary story of women who fought the Nazis. The "ghetto girls" paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with Nazis, bought them ...Show more
Story or Die: How to Use Brain Science to Engage, Persuade, and Change Minds in Business and in Life by Lisa Cron
$35.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
A step-by-step guide to using the brain's hardwired need for story to achieve any goal, whether it's successfully pitching a product, saving the planet, or convincing your kids not to text and drive, from the author of Wired for Story. Story isn't just one way to persuade. It's the way. It's built i ...Show more