A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000 by John Gibney
$28.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first centuryFive centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the beginning of Ireland's modern period and continues through ...Show more
The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story by Gwen Strauss
$32.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
The thrilling, cinematic untold story of nine young women, WWII resistance fighters, captured by the Nazis, who launched a breathtakingly bold escape and found their way home. The nine were ordinary women, some still in their teens, who joined the French and Dutch Resistance in the face of Nazi horror ...Show more
The Spy who was left out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski by Tim Tate
$39.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Spring 1958- a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West. His name was Michal Goleniewski and he remains one of the most important, least known and most misunderstood spies of the Cold War. Even his death is shrouded in mystery and ...Show more
How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss
$26.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
'This acutely argued book will engender a thousand conversations' Cynthia OzickThe prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call exposing the alarming rise of anti-semitism -- and explains what we can do to defeat itOn 27 October 2018 Bari Weiss's childhood synagogue in Pittsburgh beca ...Show more
Latitude: The Astonishing Adventure that Shaped the World by Nick Crane
$37.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
By knowing the shape of our earth we can create maps, survive the oceans, follow rivers, navigate the skies, and travel across the globe. This is the story of our world, of how we discovered what no one thought possible - the shape of the earth. A thrilling and page-turning account of the first major e ...Show more
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition by Emma Dabiri
$24.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Stop the denial Abandon guiltInterrogate capitalismWhen it comes to racial justice, how do we transform demonstrations of support into real and meaningful change? Shortly after the death of George Floyd, Emma Dabiri shared a resource on Instagram called 'What White People Can Do Next'. Within days, she ...Show more
The Evening and the Morning: A Prequel to The Pillars of the Earth (#0.5 Kingsbridge) TP by Ken Follett
$38.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: PREQUEL TO PILLARS OF THE EARTH
From the bestselling author Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning is a historical epic that will end where The Pillars of the Earth begins. A Time of ConflictIt is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king's grip on the country is fragile and chaos reigns. A young boat builder dreams of a better fu ...Show more
The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President by Jill Wine-Banks
$37.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy and women stood up for equal treatment. At the crossroads of the Watergate scandal and the women’s movement stood a young lawyer named Jill Wine Volner (as she was then known), barely thirty years old and in charge o ...Show more
Maiden Voyages - Women and the golden age of transatlantic travel by Siân Evans
$27.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
A VIVID PORTRAIT OF WOMEN'S LIVES DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL Before convenient air travel, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners and never more so than in the glory days of the interwar years. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women. Some trav ...Show more
Maiden Voyages - Women and the Golden Age of Transatlantic Travel by Siân Evans
$37.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
A VIVID PORTRAIT OF WOMEN'S LIVES DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL Before convenient air travel, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners and never more so than in the glory days of the interwar years. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women. Some trav ...Show more
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