Stasiland by Anna Funder
$26.00 NZD
Category: World History
Winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson PrizeTruth can be stranger - and more heartbreaking and hilarious - than fiction.In this now classic work, Funder tells extraordinary stories from the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy of ...Show more
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard
$75.00 NZD
Category: World History
Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar ( ...Show more
History of the World Map by Map by SNOW PETER (FOREWORD BY)
$75.00 NZD
Category: World History
Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map by map. Come on a journey through global history, told in more than 130 specially made maps that each offer a window on a key event. Step into the action an ...Show more
The Wager by David Grann
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on ...Show more
Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
$38.00 NZD
Category: World History
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, The Ibis Trilogy, ten years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in e ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 193 ...Show more
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the ...Show more
China and Russia - Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord by Philip Snow
$60.00 NZD
Category: World History
A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the presentRussia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for four centuries. In addition to a four-thousand-kilome ...Show more
Freezing Order: Vladimir Putin, Russian Money Laundering and Murder - A True Story by Bill Browder
$28.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good-very good
‘More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true’ Stephen Fry ‘Mind-blowing...Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching’ Catherine Belton ‘A jaw-dr ...Show more
History's Worst Decisions and the People Who Made Them by Stephen Weir
$38.00 NZD
Category: World History
"This is a new illustrated, paperback edition of the best-selling History's Worst Decisions and the People Who Made Them, one of the very successful popular history titles on the Pier 9 list. History is a catalogue of errors and History's Worst Decisions shines a light on fifty of the biggest. From the ...Show more
Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$24.99 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Granta Editions
Imperium is a classic of reportage and a literary masterwork by one of the great writers and witnesses of the twentieth century. It is the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was submerged under a single identity for most of the century-the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. From the ...Show more
Jack's Journey by Trish McCormack (Andrew Gibson co-editor)
$36.00 NZD
Category: World History
When Jack Pryce sailed to war in 1915 with the Otago Infantry Battalion he was restless, wanting to "make good" of his life. Experiencing the carnage of Gallipoli and Passchendaele and other epic battles on the Western Front, he rose through the ranks to gain his commission. From the hell of the trenche ...Show more