The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast by Tom; Sand Goalhanger; Holland Podcasts
$26.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys - there's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland a ...Show more
The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
$39.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the leg ...Show more
Wrens of World War II: Bletchley's Secret Source by Peter Hore
$35.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from in the first place? This is the extraordinary unt ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
$36.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
This is a story studded with extraordinary achievements and historic moments, from the building of the pyramids and the conquest of Nubia, through Akhenaten's religious revolution, the power and beauty of Nefertiti, the glory of Tutankhamun's burial chamber, and the ruthlessness of Ramesses, to Alexande ...Show more
How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator by Theodore Papakostas
$36.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a spectacularly iconoclastic take on the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeology Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do you do?’, becomes the springboard for a dialogue that ...Show more
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
$34.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
The Hill: The brutal fight for Hill 107 in the Battle of Crete by Robert Kershaw
$44.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
The Hill - The Brutal Fight for Hill 107 in the Battle of Crete. From the critically acclaimed author of Dünkirchen 1940, this is a groundbreaking history of the epic three-day battle for Hill 107 that changed the course of the war in the Mediterranean. In this remarkable history, we discover each of t ...Show more
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple
$44.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. Major religions that rose to dominate Earth's largest con ...Show more
A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze
$58.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
A Thousand Plateaus is the second part of Deleuze and Guattari's landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia - a project that still sets the terms of contemporary philosophical debate. Written over a seven year period, A Thousand Plateaus provides a compelling analysis of social phenome ...Show more
Anti-Oedipus by Felix Gilles;Guattari Deleuze
$54.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
The collaboration of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari has been one of the most profoundly influential partnerships in contemporary thought. Anti-Oedipus is the first part of their masterpiece, Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Ranging widely across the radical tradition of ...Show more
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine by Andrew Harding
$27.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
The Russians are invading. But the locals have a plan.
Dunkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk by Robert Kershaw
$34.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion