Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger
$37.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war” (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain.) ‘The book we need right now’ Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal. What do ...Show more
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 by Paul Stephenson
$32.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' The TimesLong before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique empire, the glittering Constantinople: New Rome. In thi ...Show more
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
$24.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
The international bestseller about life, the universe and everything. When 14-year-old Sophie encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own life. Why does she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? Who is the other girl? And who, for that matter ...Show more
The Medici by Mary Hollingsworth
$26.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy - and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to become the standard work of reference on the members of the family that dominated Florence' TLS 'A lucid and beautifully illustrated family history' The Times ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
$34.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past', George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four. In this glorious work of history, Orlando Figes argues that the maxim is truer for Russia than for any other country in the world. The Story of Russia begins in the firs ...Show more
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton by Antonia Fraser
$29.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals' Sunday TimesCAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century heroine who wanted justice for women.Poet, pamphleteer and artist's muse, Caroline Norton dazzled nineteenth-century s ...Show more
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse
$39.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries brings together Kate's rich and detailed knowledge of unheard and under-heard women's history, and of how and why women's achievements have routinely been omitted from the history books. This beautiful illustrated book is both an alternative feminist history of ...Show more
Tao Te Ching by TZU, LAO
$19.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is the source of Zen Buddhism, and is probably the most broadly influential spiritual text in human history. Complete & Unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. T ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$40.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
The bestselling historian with the real story of WW2's 'inescapable' Nazi prison camp In a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop, an unlikely band of prisoners plotted a daring escape from the clutches of their Nazi captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchanged and unchallenged for 70 years. ...Show more
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox
$30.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth ...Show more
The Irish Assassins by Julie Kavanagh
$27.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2021 'The tale of the Phoenix Park murders is not unfamiliar, but Kavanagh recounts it with a great sense of drama... Kavanagh's account reminds me of the very best of true crime.' The Times (Book of the Week) On a sunlit evening in l882, Lord Frederick Cavendis ...Show more
New Jerusalem by Paul Ham
$50.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
IN FEBRUARY 1534 a radical religious sect whose disciples were being persecuted throughout Europe seized the city of M nster, in the German-speaking land of Westphalia.They were convinced that they were God's Elect, specially chosen by the Almighty to be the first to ascend to Paradise on Judgement Day, ...Show more