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A Brief History of the Amazons: Women Warriors in Myth and History by Lyn Webster Wilde
$27.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories
'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wil ...Show more
A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers by Jeremy Black
$27.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
A concise history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to the present day This is a concise history, intended for travellers, but of inestimable value to anyone looking for an overview of the Caribbean and its mainland coastal states, with a focus on the past f ...Show more
A Brief History of the Celts by Peter Berresford Ellis
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
For centuries the Celts held sway in Europe. Even after their conquest by the Romans, their culture remained vigorous, ensuring that much of it endured to feed an endless fascination with Celtic history and myths, artwork and treasures. A foremost authority on the Celtic peoples and their culture, Peter ...Show more
A Brief History of the Martial Arts: East Asian Fighting Styles, from Kung Fu to Ninjutsu by Jonathan Clements
$39.99 NZD
Category: Technology & Transport | Series: Brief Histories
Folk tales of the Shaolin Temple depict warrior monks with superhuman abilities. Today, dozens of East Asian fighting styles trace their roots back to the Buddhist brawlers of Shaolin, although any quest for the true story soon wanders into a labyrinth of forgeries, secret texts and modern retellings. T ...Show more
A Brief History of the Middle East by Christopher Catherwood
$33.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories
For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more powerful. It took another three hundred centuries for the West to catch up, and overtake, the Middle East. Why does it seem different now? This title explains these issues ...Show more
A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II, Updated Edition by Michael Paterson
$28.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about the lives of her subjects than they often realize. She has known every Prime Minister since Winston Churchill and every American President since Eisenhower. Yet what of t ...Show more
Doctor Who: The Complete Guide by Mark Campbell
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Category: Science Fiction | Series: Brief Histories
Doctor Who is now officially the most popular drama on television, From humble beginnings on 23rd November 1963 and eventual resurrection in 2005, the show has always been a quintessential element of British popular culture. Eleven Doctors, a multitude of companions, and a veritable cornucopia of monste ...Show more
Freemasons - True Story World's Most Powerful Secret Society by RIDLEY Jasper
$33.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
The history of the Freemasons has been often shrouded in mystery and suspicion. Since 1717, with the establishment of the Grand Lodge in London, the Freemasons have been a power within the nation, withstanding attacks from the Catholic Church, Hitler and public disapproval. Throughout the last three h ...Show more
His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill by Christopher Catherwood
$33.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
This is a new and dynamic reappraisal of Winston Churchill, and his finest hour in 1940-1. Who was Winston Churchill? Even fifty years after his death he is one of the most iconic figures in British history: as a young man he was a maverick journalist, his many positions in politics before 1940 marked h ...Show more
The Birth Of The Nazis by Jones, Nigel H.
$29.95 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and a narrow escape from Communist revolution brought not peace but five chaotic years (1918-1923) of civil war, assassination, plots, putsches and murderous mayhem to Germany. The savage world of the tr ...Show more
Thomas Aquinas A Very Brief History by DAVIES BRIAN
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Category: No Category | Series: Very Brief Histories
Utopias: A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities by Howard P. Segal
$39.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion
This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to present day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise. * Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about the societies who conceive them, and how utopias have changed o ...Show more