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All You Need To Know...World War Two - A Brilliant Account of the Most Terrible Event in Human History by Max Hastings
23.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Within Western culture, World War Two continues to exercise an extraordinary fascination for generations unborn when it took place. The obvious explanation is that it was the greatest and most terrible event in human history. Within the vast compass of the struggle, some individuals scaled summits of co ...Show more
All the Maths You Need to Know by Age 7 by Katie Daynes
23.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction | Series: All You Need to Know by Age 7 Ser.
A fun, friendly introduction to maths, covering all the topics taught in school. Join a cast of entertaining bugs as they explore maths through everyday examples, from handling numbers and times tables to weighing ingredients and telling the time. Fun puzzles allow readers to practise what they've learn ...Show more
Christianity - The Faith That Inspired and Shaped the Western World by Thomas Small
23.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
More than any other, Christianity is the world's first truly global faith. Lying at the heart of Western civilization, Christianity has spread everywhere, and today is still winning converts in Africa, China, and throughout the world. How is it that a movement which began more than 2,000 years ago in Pa ...Show more
How to Write Well (All You Need to Know): Bring Your Prose to Life. Make Your Sentences Sparkle by Tim de Lisle; Nick Newman
24.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Writing matters. We all do it, and we all admire it when it's done well. It doesn't just express us; it represents us. We write to connect with other people - to make them laugh, or cry, or think. We also write to work out what we think ourselves: there's nothing like it for concentrating the mind. So w ...Show more
Napoleon - A Brilliant Leader Who Helped Shape the Modern World? or a Brutal Tyrant? by Adam Zamoyski
23.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Born in Corsica, and a brilliant military leader during the French revolution, Napoleon became Emperor in 1804 and dominated European and indeed global affairs for the next ten years, leading France against a series of coalitions in what were later called the Napoleonic wars. His victories are the stuff ...Show more
Slavery - The History and Legacy of One of the World's Most Brutal Institutions by James Walvin
23.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Western slavery goes back 10,000 years to Mesopotamia, today's Iraq, where a male slave was worth an orchard of date palms. Female slaves were called on for sexual services, gaining freedom only when their masters died. This book traces slavery from classical times to the present. It shows how the enfor ...Show more
Stalin - The Georgian Student Priest Who Became One of the 20th Century's Most Notorious Mass Murderers by Claire Shaw
23.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Tells the terrible story of Stalin, whose monstrous rule was directly responsible for millions of deaths, with 1,500 people a day being killed during the Great Purge of 1932-33.
The British Empire - How It Was Built and How It Fell by Piers Brendon
23.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
The sun never set upon the British Empire, its critics liked to say, because God didn't trust the British in the dark. The joke was a backhanded tribute to the astonishing achievement of the inhabitants of small island kingdom off the European mainland. Beginning in the 17th century with a few colonia ...Show more
The Great Explorers - The Brave Adventurers Who Risked Their Lives to Understand How Our Planet Works by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
23.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Throughout history, a handful of unusually driven individuals have been inspired to explore the limits of the known world, inspiring us and changing our perceptions of our planet through their courageous adventures. What is it that makes these men and women risk their lives in desperate, often fatal eff ...Show more
The Prophet Mohammed - The Epic Tale of the Illiterate Orphan Who Became the Founder of Islam by Barnaby Rogerson
23.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Ignorance about Islam runs deep in the West - ignorance of its rites, its beliefs, and above all its prophet. Who was Mohammad, the founder of Islam, and the man Muslims believe was God's last prophet on earth? In this concise and colorful account, the acclaimed writer and broadcaster Barnaby Rogerson ...Show more
The Third Reich - How Was a Brutal Dictatorship Possible in a Civilised Nation in the Mid 20th Century? by Caroline Sharples
23.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Between 1933 and 1945, Germany was under the grip of the Third Reich. Headed by Adolf Hitler, this National Socialist state endeavoured to control every aspect of the nation's political, social, economic, religious and cultural life, and indoctrinate every German citizen in its ideology. This intrinsica ...Show more
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