Browse by category
City of Light The Reinvention of Paris by Rupert Christiansen
40.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a 'City of Light' ...Show more
Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
23.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Plantagenets comes a beautifully produced account of the signing, impact, and legacy of a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracyOn a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgru ...Show more
Messiah by Jonathan Keates
23.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses of robust grandeur. Coolly received in London at first, after Handel's death Messiah enjoyed an extraordinary surge in popularity: it was performed at festi ...Show more
Messiah: The Landmark Library by Jonathan Keates
45.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: The Landmark Library
In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses of robust grandeur. Coolly received in London at first, after Handel's death Messiah enjoyed an extraordinary surge in popularity: it was performed at festi ...Show more
Railways by Christian Wolmar
33.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: The\Landmark Library
From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world's continents acted as a spur for economi ...Show more
Skyscraper by Dan Cruickshank
40.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: The Landmark Library
Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its construction - metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding - it pioneers all the key elements of twentieth-century high- ...Show more
Stonehenge by Francis Pryor
23.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
A concise, beautifully illustrated account of the history and archaeology of an iconic feature of the English landscape. Perched on the chalk uplands of Salisbury Plain, the megaliths of Stonehenge offer one of the most recognizable outlines of any ancient structure. Its purpose - place of worship, sacr ...Show more
The Arab Conquests: The spread of Islam and the first caliphates by Justin Marozzi
38.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In the 7th and 8th centuries AD, armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula. These Arab conquests followed immediately after the Prophet Mohammed's death in 632. By this time, against all the odds, he h ...Show more
The Royal Society & the Invention of Modern Science by Adrian Tinniswood
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: The Landmark Library
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge has been at the forefront of scientific endeavour for more than 350 years, since receiving its royal charter from Charles II in 1662. Philosophical Transactions, published in 1665, established the concepts of scientific priority and peer review ...Show more
Versailles by Colin Jones
40.00 NZD
Category: Coffee Table | Series: The\Landmark Library
The vivid story of the creation, renovation, and enduring legacy of the most famous building in France: the palace of Versailles. Nothing represents the glorious and fraught history of France quite like the Palace of Versailles. Made famous by the absolutist king Louis XIV, Versailles became legenda ...Show more
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas
30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year'Highlights a dizzying burst of new research' The Economist'A refreshing addition to the canon of literature that contemplates Oceanic navig ...Show more
Voyagers: The settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas
38.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
From an award-winning scholar, the extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. Thousands of islands, inhabited by a multitude of different peoples, are scattered across the vastness of the Pacific. The first European explorers to visit Oceania, from the sixteenth ...Show more
1 - 12 of 12