History & Archaeology

Summary Specs Did New Zealand have a secret poisoner? In 1992, builders demolishing...

Summary Specs The culmination of 25 years of research, Alex Bennett's groundbreakin...

Summary Specs The narrative of the Parihaka communit...

A captivating and comprehensive guide to Japan's elite class of warriors. The Samurai played a leading role in Japanese society for centuries, and...

The Art of War by Sun Tzu is the best known book on military strategy ever written. Although its wisdom is ancient, its principles and advice are t...

This exceptional analysis of the English text of the Treaty of Waitangi represents a major reassessment in our understanding of this foundational d...

In a city that has forgotten and erased much of its history, there are still places where traces of the past can be found. Deep histories, both nat...

The Maxim gun was the first fully automated machine gun to be introduced into military service at the end of the 19th century. Gradually refined to...

A new edition of the bestselling short history on New Zealand, updated to include the Helen Clark years, the rise of John Key, the Christchurch ear...

Gordon McLauchlan continues his bestselling Short History series with an in-depth look into the history of the farming industry in New Zealand. Fro...

Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest Archipelago Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and...

For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a depression from which it had ...

Summary Specs The authors of this text show that the ancient Book of Enoch, rediscov...

Summary Specs 1941. Almost all of Europe is under the Nazi heel. Great Britain still...

Summary Author Description Specs Since the 1900s the fly fisher’s mecca that is t...

Summary Reviews Author Description Specs Songs from the Shaky Isles provides ...

Summary Specs A delightfully creepy telling of Japanese ghost stories. Japanese fol...

Summary Specs Notes The definitive and bestselli...

Summary Specs Highlighting the long and intricate hi...

Summary Specs After surviving three years flying the...