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The Queen's Conjuror
by Benjamin Woolley
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- As New
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- March 4, 2002
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- 9780006552024
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NZ$19.01
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Unread. Light shelf wear.
A spellbinding portrait of Queen Elizabeth's conjuror – the great philosopher, scientist and magician, Dr John Dee (1527–1608) and a history of Renaissance science that could well be the next 'Longitude'.
John Dee was one of the most influential philosophers of the Elizabethan Age. A close confidant of Queen Elizabeth, he helped to introduce mathematics to England, promoted… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$19.01
The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010
by Selina Todd
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- Used, like new
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- Used, like new
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- 1st
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- 2014
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- 9781848548817
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or background. And yet I looked in vain for any aspect of my family's story when I went to university to read history, and continued to search fruitlessly for it throughout the next decade. Eventually I realised I would have to write this history myself.'
What was it really like to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
by TIMOTHY SNYDER
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- Used - Very Good+
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- 2015
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- 9781784701482
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German… Read more about this item Item Price
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17 Carnations: The Windsors, The Nazis and The Cover-Up
by Andrew Morton
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- As New
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- As New
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- 1st
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- 2015
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- 9781782434566
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The true story of Edward Windsor and Wallis Simpson's involvement with the Nazi regime, and the post-war cover-up. The story of the love affair between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII, and his abdication, has provoked endless fascination. However, the full story of their links with the German aristocracy and Hitler has remained untold. * 17 Carnations chronicles Hitler's attempts… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rasputin
by Douglas Smith
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- Used - Very Good
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- 2017
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- 9781447245858
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NZ$21.13
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Drawing on major new sources hitherto unexamined by western historians, Douglas Smith's Rasputin is the definitive biography of this extraordinary figure for a generation.
Nearly a century after his murder, Rasputin remains as divisive a figure as ever.
Was he really a horse thief and a hard-drinking ruffian in his youth? Was he a a devout Orthodox Christian, or was he in… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Lost Tribes of Israel
by Tudor Parfitt
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- As New
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- as new
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- 1st
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- October 1, 2003
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- 9780297819349
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NZ$200.91
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Tudor Parfitt examines a myth which is based on one of the world's oldest mysteries - what happened to the lost tribes of Israel? Christians and Jews alike have attached great importance to the legendary fate of these tribes which has had a remarkable impact on their ideologies throughout history. Each tribe of Israel claimed descent from one of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Lost Tribes of Israel
by Tudor Parfitt
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- As New
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- as new
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- 1st
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- October 1, 2003
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- 9780297819349
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Tudor Parfitt examines a myth which is based on one of the world's oldest mysteries - what happened to the lost tribes of Israel? Christians and Jews alike have attached great importance to the legendary fate of these tribes which has had a remarkable impact on their ideologies throughout history. Each tribe of Israel claimed descent from one of the… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$200.91
The Secret History of MI6
by Keith Jeffery
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- used, like new
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- light shelf wear
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- 2010-09
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- 9781594202742
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The authorized history of the world's oldest and most storied foreign intelligence service, drawing extensively on hitherto secret documents.
Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (also commonly known as MI6) was born a century ago amid fears of the rising power of other countries, especially Germany. The next forty years saw MI6 taking an increasingly important-and, until now, largely hidden-role in shaping the… Read more about this item Item Price
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ALBION - THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH IMAGINATION
by Peter Ackroyd
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- Used, like new
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- Light shelf wear
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- 1st
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- 2002
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- 9781856197212
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This title covers the whole of English cultural history from its roots in the Anglo-Saxon period, through the centuries, to numerous examples from contemporary times. Explorations include: forgery and plagiarism; ruins and antiquarianism; the English love of miniatures; and drag acts. Item Price
NZ$21.13
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A Three-Foot Stool
by Peter Wright
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- Used - Good
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- none
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- 1st
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- 1909
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- Cloth
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NZ$761.33
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"Excerpt from Three-Foot Stool It is still at the present day in the United States of Mexico that the model of the ranch is found, where the area is measured by scores of miles and the increase by tens of thousands of calves, and where owners live in paternal simplicity and state. AS it is in the State of Chihuahua… Read more about this item Item Price
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Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men
by Win Blevins
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- 2005-11
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- 9780765314352
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NZ$12.67
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Mountain man Hugh Glass's harrowing journey 300 miles to civilization after being mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead is just one of the incredible adventures Spur Award Winning author Win Blevins explores in the New York Times bestseller, Give Your Heart to the Hawks.
In addition to the captivating story of Hugh Glass, Win Blevins presents a poetic… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tracing Your Ancestors in the National Archives The Website and Beyond
by Amanda Bevan
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- Used - Very Good-
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- 7th
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- June 1, 2006
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- 9781903365892
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NZ$16.90
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The British public's hunger to meet their ancestors continues, and this unrivalled guide offers one of the best ways to explore people in the past through the holdings of The National Archives at Kew and the Family Records Centre at Islington. Aimed at researchers on all levels from family historians to academics, "Tracing Your Ancestors" fully explains the institution, the… Read more about this item Item Price
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How to Write Your Family History
by Terrick FitzHugh
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- Used - Very Good
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- October 27, 2005
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- 9781899296286
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NZ$31.72
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Bringing ancestry hunting to life, with examples, top tips and illustrations. CONDITION: bright and clean, except for dusting to top edge. CONDITION: hardly used, bright and clean, except for dusting to top edge. Item Price
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Practical Chemistry
by George Gore, Marcus Sparling, John Scoffern
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- 1st
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- 1856
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NZ$370.09
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First edition. No DJ issued. Marcus Sparling was Assistant to Roger Fenton, Esq. in taking the Crimea photographs. This book provides a rare insight into the chemical knowledge of the mid-eighteen hundreds, surrounding the new sciences of photography, food chemistry and street lighting. Marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine and corners and gilt raised bands to spine. Marbled end papers… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Secret Life of Lady Liberty: Goddess in the New World
by Robert; Cortner, Laura E. Hieronimus
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- New
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- 2016
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- 9781594774935
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Uncovering the forgotten lineage of the Statue of Liberty, Bob Hieronimus and Laura Cortner explain how she is based on a female symbol representing America on the earliest maps of the continent in the form of a Native American "Queen." The image of a woman symbolizing independence was embraced by the American revolutionaries to rally the populace against the King,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The High History of the Holy Grail
by Sebastian Evans
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- 2016
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- 9781906621438
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In an epilogue to his translation, Evans declares this to be 'the original story of Sir Perceval and the Holy Graal, whole and incorrupt as it left the hands of its first author' and he commends it to all who love the Arthurian legends. The translation is of Potvin's 1866 edition of the anonymous 13th-century romance, Perceval le Gallois. Item Price
NZ$16.90
A History of Rome Down to The Reign of Constantine
by M. Cary
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- Fair
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- 1967
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NZ$52.87
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Academic text. Includes fold-out plan of the Roman Forum. Dust jacket very worn at edges (not price clipped). Book good - ownership inscription on ffep. Dust marked on edges. Internally clean. Item Price
NZ$52.87
The Gunpowder Plot
by Alan Haynes
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- Like new. Edge wear and edge darkening
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- 2005
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NZ$10.55
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Historical account of the famous plot to blow up the British Houses of Parliament in 1605. Item Price
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The Life and Times of William I
by Maurice Ashley
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- Used - Fine
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- Light shelf wear
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- 1973
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NZ$21.13
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Well illustrated and easily readable in bitesize sections. This is the history of William the Conqueror, the winner of The Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the father of England as we know it. Item Price
NZ$21.13
History in the Making
by Valentin Berezhkov
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- Used - Good
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- acceptable
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- 1st English
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- 1983
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NZ$21.15
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First English translation by Dudley Hagen and Barry Jones. Book is in very good condition, with no marks or inscriptions. DJ is moderately worn and has a scuff mark where a price sticker was removed. Item Price
NZ$21.15