Being Gay, Being Christian

By Dr Stuart Edser(Paperback)

He Korero: Words Between Us: First Maori-Pakeha Conversations on Paper

By Alison Jones, Kuni Jenkins(Paperback)

This book traces Maori engagement with handwriting from 1769 to 1826. Through beautifully reproduced written documents, it describes the first encounters Maori had with paper and writing and the first relationships between Maori and Europeans in the earliest school.

'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: 50 Moments That Changed Music

By Paolo Hewitt(Hardback )

From the moment that Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm conceived 'Rocket 88' to the suicide of Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain and Lennon's Anniversary concert, 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky chronicles 50 moments in history that shaped rock and roll as we know it.

A History of the World in 100 Objects

By Neil MacGregor(Hardback )

This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and the lives of the men and women who lived in them. The book's range is enormous. It begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by....

Words of Life

By Salvation Army(Paperback)

Four months' worth of inspirational and informative daily Bible notes for prayer and reflection

Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

By Wade Davis(Paperback)

If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war. Of the twenty-six British climbers who, on three expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 miles off the....

Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

By Wade Davis(Hardback )

If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war. Of the twenty-six British climbers who, on three expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 miles off the map....

Hungry Heart: Journeys with William Colenso

By Peter Wells(Hardback )

'I love doubters: of a truly honest doubter I have great hope.' Printer, botanist and missionary, William Colenso was a nineteenth-century maverick, a true original. He protested at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, arguing that Maori did not fully understand its implications. He became a troubled conscience during the white-hot period of colonisation, maintaining his dissident voice throughout....

The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible 1611-2011

By Melvyn Bragg(Paperback)

The King James Bible has often been called the Book of Books both in itself and in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611 it has been the best selling book in the world, and many believe, had the greatest impact.

Jerusalem

By Simon Sebag Montefiore(Paperback)

The epic story of Jerusalem told through the lives of the men and women who created, ruled and inhabited it. Jerusalem lies at the centre of the world, the capital of three faiths, the prize of many conquerors, the jewel of many empires and the eye of the storm of today's battle of civilisations. But the city lacks a biography.....

A History of Ancient Britain

By Neil Oliver(Hardback )

Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A HISTORY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain; on the first people to occupy these islands and their battle for survival.

New Zealand in the Twentieth Century: The Nation, the People

By Paul Moon(Paperback)

As the first history to encompass the entire century, New Zealand in the Twentieth Century can be said to be following on from the survey histories of the last century. However, this epic work is much more than a traditional chronology of events.

Otiwhiti Station

By The Duncan Family(Paperback With dust jacket)

The Duncans have been farming Otiwhiti in the Turakina River valley since the 1880s, when they purchased the land from the local iwi. The backstory of this station is rich and fascinating. The remarkable, generous family that has farmed this unforgiving Rangitikei hill country has also directed the farm's profits towards charitable projects, most notably the Duncan Hospital, which pioneered....

Foundation: A History of England: Volume 1

By Peter Ackroyd(Paperback)

This is the first volume in a new six-part history of England from acclaimed author Peter Ackroyd. Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself.

The Elizabethans

By A N Wilson(Paperback)

With all the panoramic sweep of his bestselling study The Victorians, A. N. Wilson relates the exhilarating story of the Elizabethan Age. It was a time of exceptional creativity, wealth creation and political expansion. It was also a period of English history more remarkable than any other for the technicolour personalities of its leading participants.

No Higher Honour

By Condoleezza Rice(Hardback )

The long anticipated chronicle of Condoleezza Rice’s years in the Bush administration as national security adviser and secretary of state. President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney have weighed in with their thoughts, leaving it to Secretary Rice to sum up the meaning of what occurred in those eight years and to reveal her private thoughts on what the Bush....

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

By Jared Diamond(Paperback)

From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes the epic, visionary book, now in a revised edition with a new afterword, on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder?

Killer Elite:: The Real Story Behind SEAL Team Six and the Bin Laden Raid

By Michael Smith(Paperback)

America's most secret Special Forces unit does not even have a name. Formed as the 'Intelligence Support Activity', it has had a succession of innocuous titles to hide its ferocious purpose. It exists to 'undertake activities only when other intelligence or operational support elements are unavailable or inappropriate'.

Brutal Simplicity of Thought: How it Changed the World

By Maurice Nathan Saatchi(Hardback )

Simplicity looks easy. It's not. It's easier to complicate than simplify. This book presents stunningly simple examples of concepts that have changed the world - from the single piece of paper that became the American Declaration of Independence, giving birth to the most powerful nation in the history of the world, to the symbol and line that enables us to....

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

By Sir Max Hastings(Paperback)

The seminal narrative history of the Second World War from one of our finest historians. A book which depicts what the war was like to live through -- whether you were a starving child in Leningrad, a soldier in North Africa, or a civilian in Dresden. With its battlefields dispersed across the globe, the vastness of the Second World War....