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9780750938396
The Knights Templar
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NZ$ 55.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Helen Nicholson
Published by:
Sutton Publishing Ltd
A leading specialist in the history of this legendary medieval order now writes a full account of the knights of the Order of the Temple of Solomon, to give them their full title, bringing the latest findings to a general audience.
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9780297645740
The Stone of Heaven
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NZ$ 50.00 each
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Author:
Adrian Levy
Published by:
Orion Publishing Co
Diamonds, sapphires and rubies are commonly thought to be the world's most valuable gemstones but there is another that is even more precious. It is Imperial Green Jade, or jadeite. The stone's prestige derives from its intense beauty and extraordinary scarcity. Almost all of the world's jadeite comes from one place: a valley in the shadow of the Himalayas, buried deep in the bedrock of the most remote mining area in the world. Since its discovery nearly 2,000 years ago, Imperial Green Jade has been worshipped, ingested and traded. Inspired by legends of a gemstone 'that glowed as if lit by a hidden flame', armies have waged wars to seize its source, First Ladies have flaunted it and Hollywood stars have spent fortunes on pieces stolen from the tombs of Chinese Emperors. Royal collectors believed it could make them immortal. Warlords ground it into powder and drunk it as an elixir. Revolutionaries exploited it to fund coups and finance ...
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9781869403577
The New Zealand Family from 1840 - A Demographic History
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Author:
Ian Pool, Arunachalem Dharmalingam & Janet Sceats
Published by:
Auckland University Press
An authoritative, definitive demographic history of the New Zealand family from 1840, this book is not merely a collection of statistics but interprets the changing story of the family and its makeup, its members and its reach at a time when interest in the family is keen. Using detailed research spanning 165 years, the authors chart the move from the large family of the nineteenth century to the ‘Baby Boom’, the increase in family diversity and the modern trend towards unsustainably small families and late childbearing. In turn, this analysis of the ‘building blocks’ of society helps trace changing attitudes and structure of society itself, by noting the reasons for and consequences of the demographic changes the book describes.
First published 2007.
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9780500513026
Freemasonry
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Author:
W.Kirk MacNulty
Published by:
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Written by a practising Freemason, this profusely illustrated survey explores the origins, history, beliefs and symbolism of the famously secretive and often misunderstood Order. Completely international in its outlook, the book has also had the special assistance of the United Grand Lodge of England - the oldest and foremost Masonic body in the world.
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9783833125348
Andalucia Art & Architecture
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Hardback
Author:
ed
Published by:
Konemann
Al Andalus, "Europe's Orient," was for centuries a melting pot of Moorish and Christian cultures on the southern coast of Spain, producing art and architecture like nowhere else. Along with the art of Velázquez, Murillo, and de Zurbarán, this book tours such enchanting sites as the Mosque at Córdoba, the Alhambra at Granada, and Seville Cathedral. Compact enough to take on a tour, these pleasingly chunky art books focus on a particular city or region, presenting outstanding examples of the art and architecture found there. Each offers a quick orientation and art historical explanations, color photographs of the works discussed, essays on history and culture, town maps and ground plans with thumbnail views, an illustrated time chart, and a guide to architectural styles.
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9781845111236
Understanding Iraq
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
William Polk
Published by:
Forrester Books NZ Ltd
To understand Iraq, and the dynamics at work there, it is essential to know the country's history. This is self-evident to the point of being a cliche. But 12,000 years of history can be intimidating. In "Understanding Iraq", one of the world's most respected Middle East historians provides a highly readable yet intelligent digest, taking the reader on a sweeping tour from the first Sumerian settlements on to the Babylonians, the dramatic advent of Islam, the destructive invasion of the Mongols, centuries of Ottoman rule, in to the turbulent twentieth century and today's experiments in Western styles of democracy. Fast-paced and full of vivid detail "Understanding Iraq" helps the reader comprehend this complicated nation, struggling today to reconcile its diversities and contradictions: Arab and Kurd, Shii and Sunni, traditionalist and modern, secular and religious, pragmatic and radical.
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9780853319481
Silver Wonders from the East
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NZ$ 85.00 each
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Author:
Maria Menshikova
Published by:
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Filigree is a remarkable method in jewellery-making in which very pure precious metal is drawn into extremely fine threads. These threads are then ingeniously inter-woven to produce almost transparent objects. This book presents for the first time the highlights from the magnificent and unique filigree collection in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. The principal centres of filigree were to be found in China, and Chinese filigree found its way to the countries which traded with China in the 16th and 17th centuries: Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands and England. Production centres also developed in India. The Hermitage collection has a large number of works in eastern filigree from the 17th and 18th centuries, mainly from China, India and Indonesia. The 17th-century Chinese pieces are in traditional Chinese style and are ornamented with traditional Chinese motifs: peoonies, lotus flowers and plum blossom. The works from India ...
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9781862273436
Ancient and Medieval Siege Weapons
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NZ$ 95.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Konstantin S. Nossov
Published by:
Tempus Publishing Ltd
This comprehensive and highly illustrated, in colour and black and white, history of siege warfare and siege weapons, also contains a how-to guide for re-creating medieval siege weapons. Before the days of tanks and machine guns, there were scaling ladders, battering rams, siege towers, throwing machines, bores and daggers and weapons such as these symbolize power, protection, control and defiance. This book allows readers actually to re-create their own Medieval weapons with clear step-by-step instructions. Military history buffs can find siege weapons of Ancient Egypt, Judea, Assyria, Persia, Greece and Rome as well as those of the Gauls and Tueton, the Byzantine Empire, the Muslim World and Medieval Europe, all described in incredible detail accompanied by illustrations and photographs. The author offers new ways to reconstruct various siege weapons that are based on his analyses of the works of ancient and medieval authors ...
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9780750930314
Ingenious Women
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NZ$ 34.95 each
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Author:
Deborah Jaffe
Published by:
Sutton Publishing Ltd
This delightfully illustrated book examines inventions and discoveries made by women, beginning with the first patent application made in 1637 and ending with the outbreak of war in 1914. Lively accounts of the stories of the inventions are placed into the context in which their discoveries were made, and the struggle they had to acquire patents and put their inventions into production. In covering this previously obscure part of women's lives, the practical way in which women have made an enormous contribution to social change and scientific advance is revealed.
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9780750934169
Odd Tom Coryate : The English Marco Polo
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NZ$ 68.95 each
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Author:
R.E. Pritchard
Published by:
Sutton Publishing Ltd
Thomas Coryate (1576-1617) was one of the great early travellers, opening up Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, the Holy Land and Mogul India to his amazed – and sometimes disgusted – readers. In 1608 he set out to travel – mostly on foot – through France and Italy to Venice, returning through Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. His book reporting on what he had seen and experienced, Coryats Crudites, was published in 1611 and was a huge success, providing both useful information and entertainment through the reported encounters and mishaps of the apparently tireless author. Nowadays few people have actually read the work, which stretches to over a million words, but Coryate demands to be known more widely, since he was the person almost single-handedly responsible for the creation of the Grand Tour, that inescapable finishing process which was to mark a rite of passage for the aristocracy and the upper middle classes of Britain ...
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9781844152179
Black Prince's Expedition
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NZ$ 44.95 each
Paperback
Author:
H.J. Hewitt
Published by:
Pen & Sword Books / Leo Cooper
Edward, the Black Prince, is one of the legendary figures of English history. The first son of Edward III and an outstanding military leader, he is famous for his decisive victory at the Battle of Poitiers, and he is one of the most charismatic characters of the Hundred Years' War. This classic study focuses on the crucial phase of his extraordinary career - his daring campaign against the French in central and southwestern France in 1355-7. H. J. Hewitt's work is one of the key texts on the Prince, and it will be fascinating reading for anyone who is interested in medieval warfare.
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9781904132370
Seal Wars
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NZ$ 40.95 each
Paperback
Author:
Paul Watson
Published by:
Vision Paperbacks
As a young boy, Paul Watson asked his uncle to take him to the beach to see the seals. Arriving, they found trails of blood along the ice floes to the shoreline, and the skinless bodies of seals. It was a scene that would haunt Paul for years.
Seal Wars
is the story of one man's extraordinary efforts to end the slaughter of the harp seal. Driven by his childhood experience, Watson has taken on brutal sealers, obfuscating governments and even the environmental movement he co-founded. From acting as a human shield to blocking harbours and sinking boats, this self-styled buccaneer has never given up the fight to ban an unprofitable and bloody 'industry'.
In
Seal Wars
, Watson reveals the history of the seal hunt and tells the powerful and remarkable tale of his commitment to protecting the seats no matter what the personal cost.
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9780750934152
Engineering the Pyramids
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NZ$ 41.00 each
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Author:
Dick Parry
Published by:
Sutton Publishing Ltd
Pyramids are one of the wonders of the ancient world. But one mystery remains – how were they built? Using both the archaeological record and the basic principles of engineering, Dick Parry proposes the Egyptians moved these great stones into place by a system of rollers and ramps, not the sledges beloved of Egyptologists.
Engineering the Pyramids
provides a rich and accessible account of the design history of the pyramids, the techniques and organisation needed to bring about these heroic feats of effort and engineering and fascinating insights into why the pyramids were designed as they were. Was it to represent the life-giving rays of the sun, or did the Egyptians work out that this was the only way to achieve the mass they desired with the stability needed to stop the whole edifice collapsing?
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780908988570
Storms and Dreams : Louis de Bougainville : Soldier, Explorer, Statesman
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NZ$ 50.00 each
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Author:
John Dunmore
Published by:
Exisle Publishing Ltd
Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) is best known for his circumnavigation of the globe from 1766 to 1769. Throughout a long and distinguished life, however, he participated in many of the turning points of world history: the birth of the United States, the fall of French Canada, the opening of the Pacific, the French revolution and the Revolutionary Wars, the crowning of Napoleon and the modernisation of France .
Bougainville was also a witty and charming courtier, becoming one of Napoleon's senators. A true Man of the Enlightenment, he was gifted in navigation, seamanship, soldiering, mathematics, longitude and latitude – many of the arts that made his age one of most productive and creative in modern history.
John Dunmore, a distinguished historian and an expert in French Pacific exploration, brings the man and his era to life in this vivid and elegantly written biography.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780751347371
Ancient Rome: DK Eyewitness Guides
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NZ$ 19.95 each
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Author:
Simon James
Published by:
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
This Eyewitness guide focuses on Ancient Rome, from the lives of emperors and soliders on the battlefield to gladiators pitted against animals in bloody arenas in Rome.
ISBN / ISSN:
9780750927024
Buffalo Bill's British Wild West
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NZ$ 90.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Alan Gallop
Published by:
Sutton Publishing Ltd
ISBN / ISSN:
9780393322224
Buried Alive
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NZ$ 25.97 each
Paperback
Author:
Jan Bondeson (Professor, University of Wales)
Published by:
W.W. Norton & Company Ltd
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780500050903
Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors
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NZ$ 99.95 each
Hardback
Author:
Ann Paludan
Published by:
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Spanning over 2000 years, from the great First Emperor, buried with his terracotta army in the 3rd Century BC, to the last emperor, enthroned in the Forbidden City in 1911, this book details the lives and personalities of all 157 Chinese emperors.
ISBN / ISSN:
9780500051030
Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens
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NZ$ 99.95 each
Hardback
Author:
Simon Martin (Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, University College London)
Published by:
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Behind immense, ruined cities, and abandoned artworks deep in the rainforests of Central America lie the turbulent stories of the Maya monarchy. This text examines 11 of the most important Maya kingdoms, and provides biographical accounts of the 152 kings and 4 ruling queens.
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9780500050743
Chronicle of the Pharoahs
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NZ$ 99.95 each
Hardback
Author:
Peter A. Clayton
Published by:
Thames and Hudson Ltd
This work traces all the rulers and dynasties of Egypt in their chronological order, from Narmer, who first united all the lands along the Nile, to Cleopatra 3000 years later. Timelines and other visual aids are used throughout this book.
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