{"title":"History - International","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"9781590302255","title":"The Art of War","description":"\u003cp\u003eA comprehensive collection of the most essential versions of The Art of War , the classic Chinese military treatise considered by many as the ultimate strategy guide\u003cbr\u003eSun Tzu's Art of War , compiled more than two thousand years ago, is a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict. It is perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today. Now, this unique volume brings together the essential versions of Sun Tzu's text, along with illuminating commentaries and auxiliary texts written by distinguished strategists. The translations, by the renowned translator Thomas Cleary, have all been published previously in book form, except for The Silver Sparrow Art of War, which is available here for the first time. This collection contains:\u003cbr\u003eThe Art of War : This edition of Sun Tzu's text includes the classic collection of commentaries by eleven interpreters.\u003cbr\u003eMastering the Art of War : Consisting of essays by two prominent statesmen-generals of Han dynasty China, Zhuge Liang and Liu Ji, this book develops the strategies of Sun Tzu's classic into a complete handbook of organization and leadership. It draws on episodes from Chinese history to show in concrete terms the proper use of Sun Tzu's principles.\u003cbr\u003eThe Silver Sparrow Art of War : A version of Sun Tzu's Art of War based on a manuscript of the classic text discovered at a Chinese archeological site in China's Shandong Province in 1972, which contains previously unknown fragments.\u003cbr\u003eNote: The electronic edition of this book does not contain The Lost Art of War , as seen in the paperback edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Sun+Tzu\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eSun Tzu\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sun Tzu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376927391907,"sku":"9781590302255","price":205.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781590302255_35820f05-6534-4d79-bc57-7090e1bf2daf.jpg?v=1776567561"},{"product_id":"9780008133016","title":"Vietnam","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER `His masterpiece' Antony Beevor, Spectator `A masterful performance' Sunday Times `By far the best book on the Vietnam War' Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu, the Tet offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and less familiar battles such as the bloodbath at Daido, where a US Marine battalion was almost wiped out, together with extraordinary recollections of Ho Chi Minh's warriors. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed 2 million people. Many writers treat the war as a US tragedy, yet Hastings sees it as overwhelmingly that of the Vietnamese people, of whom forty died for every American. US blunders and atrocities were matched by those committed by their enemies. While all the world has seen the image of a screaming, naked girl seared by napalm, it forgets countless eviscerations, beheadings and murders carried out by the communists. The people of both former Vietnams paid a bitter price for the Northerners' victory in privation and oppression. Here is testimony from Vietcong guerrillas, Southern paratroopers, Saigon bargirls and Hanoi students alongside that of infantrymen from South Dakota, Marines from North Carolina, Huey pilots from Arkansas. No past volume has blended a political and military narrative of the entire conflict with heart-stopping personal experiences, in the fashion that Max Hastings' readers know so well. The author suggests that neither side deserved to win this struggle with so many lessons for the 21st century about the misuse of military might to confront intractable political and cultural challenges. He marshals testimony from warlords and peasants, statesmen and soldiers, to create an extraordinary record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Max+Hastings\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eMax Hastings\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Max Hastings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377121902755,"sku":"9780008133016","price":380.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780008133016_79fb411f-4a07-4c68-b341-cad1f22f59a8.jpg?v=1776447806"},{"product_id":"9780627024801","title":"The Organisation of Government - An Introduction","description":"\u003cp\u003eA theoretical knowledge of the macro-organization of the government and its fundamental philosophies is basic to the study of public administration and management. This text is designed to enable students to evaluate a specific government system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+J.H.S.+Gildenhuys\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJ.H.S. Gildenhuys\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+A.+Knipe\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eA. Knipe\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"J.H.S. Gildenhuys,A. 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Today, there are more than eight billion, most of which are mobile. Most people in most countries can now contact each other in a matter of seconds. Soon we'll all be connected, to each other, and to complex computer networks that provide us with instant information, but also observe and record our actions. No other phenomenon touches so many of us, so directly, each and every day of our lives.\u003cbr\u003eThis book describes how this transformation came about. It considers the technologies that underpin telecommunications - microcircuits, fibre-optics and satellites - and touches on financial aspects of the industry: privatisations, mergers and takeovers that have helped shape the $2-trillion telecom market. But for the most part, it's a story about us and our need to communicate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+John+Tysoe\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJohn Tysoe\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Alan+Knott-Craig\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAlan Knott-Craig\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"John Tysoe,Alan Knott-Craig","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377434837155,"sku":"9781928257752","price":190.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781928257752_8255d27c-4671-45bc-86e0-7524b544e971.jpg?v=1776616038"},{"product_id":"9780141977782","title":"Upheaval","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis' YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of SAPIENS ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Author of the landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond has transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, at a time when crises are erupting around the world, he explores what makes certain nations resilient, and reveals the factors that influence how nations and individuals can respond to enormous challenges. In a riveting journey into the recent past, he traces how six distinctive modern nations - Finland, Chile, Indonesia, Japan, Germany and Australia - have survived defining catastrophes, and identifies patterns in their recovery. Looking ahead, he investigates the risk that the United States and other countries, faced by grave threat, are set on a course towards catastrophe. Adding a rich psychological dimension to the in-depth history, geography, biology and anthropology that underpin all of Diamond's writing, Upheaval is epic in scope, but also his most personal book yet. 'Fascinating ... 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Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile, it chronicles the story of those at the heart of the Soviet Union who opposed Stalin, and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. A thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power, this edition of The Gulag Archipelago was abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation. 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Neil MacGregor 'A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different families. A remarkable book.' Tom Holland 'Personal and panoramic, heart-wrenching yet uplifting, this is history at its most alive.' A.D. Miller In 2013, Thomas Harding returned to his grandmother's house on the outskirts of Berlin which she had been forced to leave when the Nazis swept to power. What was once her 'soul place' now stood empty and derelict. A concrete footpath cut through the garden, marking where the Berlin Wall had stood for nearly three decades. In a bid to save the house from demolition, Thomas began to unearth the history of the five families who had lived there: a nobleman farmer, a prosperous Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, a widow and her children and a Stasi informant. 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If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. Reads like a classic thriller, with an everyman hero alone and in danger in a hostile foreign city ... but it's all true, and it's a story that needs to be told. LEE CHILD An unburdening, a witness statement and a thriller all at the same time ... electrifying. THE TIMES A shocking true-life thriller. TOM STOPPARD --- In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight police officers in a freezing cell in a Moscow prison. His crime? Testifying against Russian officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes. Red Notice is a searing expose of the whitewash of this imprisonment and murder. The killing hasn't been investigated. It hasn't been punished. Bill Browder is still campaigning for justice for his late lawyer and friend. 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With the trademark brio, wit and authority that make him Britain's favourite writer of narrative non-fiction, he brings to life a forgotten summer when America came of age, took centre stage, and changed the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Bill+Bryson\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eBill Bryson\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bill Bryson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378027741347,"sku":"9780552772563","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780552772563_0b6f94b2-6673-449f-b67a-a34a3d798168.jpg?v=1776474487"},{"product_id":"9780877735373","title":"The Art of War","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Thomas Cleary's translation of Sun Tzu's 2,000 years old The Art of War makes immediately relevant one of the greatest Chinese classical texts. Th ere's not a dated maxim or vague prescription in it. 'To win without fighting is best, ' Sun Tzu said. For him war was coeval. Absorb this book, and you can throw out all those contemporary books about managerial leadership'.--Newsweek.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Sun+Tzu\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eSun Tzu\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sun Tzu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378194923683,"sku":"9780877735373","price":230.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780877735373_de68df07-966d-43fe-92ef-ba5cf109d707.jpg?v=1776516848"},{"product_id":"9781928248279","title":"How to fight a war","description":"\u003cp\u003eHas any war in history gone according to plan? Monarchs, dictators and elected leaders alike have a dismal record on military decision-making, from over-ambitious goals to disregarding intelligence, terrain, or enemy capabilities. This not only wastes the lives of civilians, the enemy and one's own soldiers, but also fails to achieve geopolitical objectives, and usually lays the seeds for more wars down the line.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConflict scholar and former soldier Mike Martin takes the reader through the hard, elegant logic to fighting a conclusive interstate war that solves geopolitical problems and reduces future conflict. In cool and precise prose, he outlines how to orchestrate military forces, from infantry to information, and from strategy to tactics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow to fight a war explains the unavoidable, yet seemingly elusive, art of using violence to force your enemies to do what you want. 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Open democracies, where opponents respect one another even as they contest for power, are under threat from the rising tide of populism. In this stark new world, political opponents are enemies to be destroyed by fake news, and independent institutions are being used as tools to perpetuate power. In societies as diverse as Argentina, the Philippines, Tanzania and Hungary, populists have taken power, promising to restore accountability to the people. But, once in office, they have sought to hollow out democracy and to demonise the opposition as they hold onto power and oversee the economic decline of their countries. In the Name of the People examines populism from its Latin American roots to liberation movements in Africa and the rise of a new European nationalism. At its most virulent, populism has destroyed democracies from the inside out, causing social instability, economic catastrophe and, in some cases, authoritarian repression. 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As President Barack Obama's secretary of state, she set out to repair America's image around the world - and her own. For the following four years, BBC foreign correspondent Kim Ghattas had unparalleled access to Clinton and her entourage, and she weaves a fast-paced, gripping account of life on the road with Clinton in The Secretary. With the perspective of one who is both an insider and an outsider, Ghattas draws on extensive interviews with Clinton, administration officials, and players in Washington as well as overseas, to paint an intimate and candid portrait of one of the most powerful global politicians. Filled with fresh insights, The Secretary provides a captivating analysis of Clinton's brand of diplomacy and the Obama administration's efforts to redefine American power in the twenty-first century. Populated with a cast of real-life characters, The Secretary tells the story of Clinton's transformation from popular but polarizing politician to America's envoy to the world in compelling detail and with all the tension of high-stakes diplomacy. From her evolving relationship with President Obama to the drama of WikiLeaks and the turmoil of the Arab Spring, we see Clinton cheerfully boarding her plane at 3 a.m. after no sleep, reading the riot act to the Chinese, and going through her diplomatic checklist before signing on to war in Libya - all the while trying to restore American leadership in a rapidly changing world. Viewed through Ghattas's vantage point as a half-Dutch, half-Lebanese citizen who grew up in the crossfire of the Lebanese civil war, The Secretary is also the author's own journey as she seeks to answer the questions that haunted her childhood. How powerful is America really? 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This is the riveting inside account of the targeted assassinations that have been used countless times, on enemies large and small, sometimes in response to attacks against the Israeli people and sometimes pre-emptively. 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Incisive, robust and always insightful, The Best of Times, The Worst of Times is both a dazzling tour d’horizon of the world as it is today and a surprisingly optimistic vision of the world as it might become.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Michael+Burleigh\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eMichael Burleigh\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Michael Burleigh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379460587683,"sku":"9781509847945","price":285.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781509847945_ff2375a1-1cfb-48ef-9597-5b1a228c2e9c.jpg?v=1776556597"},{"product_id":"9781529015843","title":"Losing Earth - The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change – what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. 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It is not just an agonizing revelation of historical missed opportunities, but a clear-eyed and eloquent assessment of how we got to now, and what we can and must do before it's truly too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Nathaniel+Rich\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eNathaniel Rich\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Nathaniel Rich","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379463602339,"sku":"9781529015843","price":285.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781529015843_eaa972a8-97da-4082-85ae-f0709e0072e7.jpg?v=1776560279"},{"product_id":"9780330522823","title":"Among the Believers","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong the Believers is V. S. 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By telling the story of the people who hijacked the American conversation, Antisocial will help you understand the world they have created, in which we all now live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Andrew+Marantz\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAndrew Marantz\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Andrew Marantz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379491094691,"sku":"9781509882526","price":285.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781509882526_99f90f69-7a8f-4a75-845f-a584f6c0db65.jpg?v=1776557727"},{"product_id":"9781398506107","title":"Freezing Order","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing his explosive international bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin's number one enemy by exposing Putin's campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his way.\u003cbr\u003eWhen Bill Browder's young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life's mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the Americas, they were shocked to discover that Vladimir Putin himself was a beneficiary of the crime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs law enforcement agencies began freezing the money, Putin retaliated. He and his cronies set up honey traps, hired process servers to chase Browder through cities, murdered more of his Russian allies, and enlisted some of the top lawyers and politicians in America to bring him down. Putin will stop at nothing to protect his money. As Freezing Order reveals, it was Browder's campaign to expose Putin's corruption that prompted Russia's intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once a financial caper, an international adventure, and a passionate plea for justice, Freezing Order is a stirring morality tale about how one man can take on one of the most ruthless villains in the world—and win.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES NO 2 BESTSELLER ** THE NEW YORK TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e'More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true' Stephen Fry\u003cbr\u003e'Mind-blowing...Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching' Catherine Belton\u003cbr\u003e'A jaw-dropping expose by Putin's anti-corruption nemesis' Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Bill+Browder\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eBill Browder\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bill Browder","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379952599203,"sku":"9781398506107","price":340.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781398506107_77e87bc6-16e6-4c46-a72f-d3ad2babb75e.jpg?v=1776521847"},{"product_id":"9780241515525","title":"Big History","description":"\u003cp\u003e13.8 billion years of human and cosmic history summarised in one big book.  At DK, we believe in the power of discovery. So with this brand-new history book, you can easily discover how we got to where we are within the context of our Universe. Prepare to take a journey back in time to the very beginning, from the Big Bang forming our Universe, to the dawn of time, stretching across to the present day, and explore the ways in which a series of major events has changed the nature and course of life on the planet we call home. So prepare to dive deep into the past with this all-encompassing history book, which promises:\u003cbr\u003e-Unique graphics and artworks\u003cbr\u003e-Evidence spreads unpick aspects of different objects to explain how we know what we know\u003cbr\u003e-Big ideas spreads and timelines explore connections between key events\u003cbr\u003e-Optional 64-page reference section: Timelines of world history\u003cbr\u003eWith each page jam-packed with fantastic facts and extraordinary pictures, Big History brings together an incredible range of perspectives, by using multiple disciplines to examine 13.8 billion years of history and thus bringing to life the entire history of the world! 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Students and educators looking for an inspiring window into history will no doubt love this historical encyclopaedia, whereby the people and places of the past will be brought back to life before your very eyes in this riveting read.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEncompassing a foreword by Professor David Christian, whose Big History TED talk has had over 12 million views, and aligned with Bill Gates' online Big History Project, it's no wonder this extraordinary book is a global success, with 158,000 copies sold worldwide!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDK is ready to take you on an inspiring journey into the past and beyond. Are you coming with us?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+DK\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eDK\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Foreword+by++David+Christian\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eForeword by  David Christian\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"DK ,Foreword by David Christian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47380055031971,"sku":"9780241515525","price":745.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780241515525_5c24f860-987b-4ff7-a591-1068ecac171b.jpg?v=1776466308"},{"product_id":"9781509896738","title":"Innovation","description":"\u003cp\u003eInnovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. 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During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape. Its population represented a society in miniature, full of heroes and traitors, class conflicts and secret alliances, and the full range of human joy and despair. In Macintyre's telling, Colditz's most famous names--like the indomitable Pat Reid--share glory with lesser known but equally remarkable characters like Indian doctor Birendranath Mazumdar whose ill treatment, hunger strike, and eventual escape read like fiction; Florimond Duke, America's oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent; and Christopher Clayton Hutton, the brilliant inventor employed by British intelligence to manufacture covert escape aids for POWs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrisoners of the Castle traces the war's arc from within Colditz's stone walls, where the stakes rose as Hitler's war machine faltered and the men feared that liberation would not come soon enough to spare them a grisly fate at the hands of the Nazis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Ben+Macintyre\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eBen Macintyre\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ben Macintyre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47380791623843,"sku":"9780241986974","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780241986974_a02995e7-0bd6-48bc-bbb1-3e1b5f368ab1.jpg?v=1776469364"},{"product_id":"9780141997179","title":"Atoms and Ashes","description":"\u003cp\u003eCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY SUNDAY TIMES AND HISTORY TODAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and the ordinary citizen' Kai Bird\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBest-selling historian Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disasters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, and the surrounding area would be swamped in radioactive water. It is now considered one of the costliest nuclear disasters ever. But Fukushima was not the first, and it was not the worst. . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Atoms and Ashes, acclaimed historian Serhii Plokhy tells the tale of the six nuclear disasters that shook the world: Bikini Atoll, Kyshtym, Windscale, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. Based on wide-ranging research and witness testimony, Plokhy traces the arc of each crisis, exploring in depth the confused decision-making on the ground and the panicked responses of governments to contain the crises and often cover up the scale of the catastrophe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the world increasingly looks to renewable and alternative sources of energy, Plokhy lucidly argues that the atomic risk must be understood in explicit terms, but also that these calamities reveal a fundamental truth about our relationship with nuclear technology: that the thirst for power and energy has always trumped safety and the cost for future generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Serhii+Plokhy\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eSerhii Plokhy\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Serhii Plokhy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47381159149731,"sku":"9780141997179","price":345.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780141997179_e5a148f3-298d-44fa-81b7-e630a07fd496.jpg?v=1776455226"},{"product_id":"9781405953191","title":"Unruly","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCertainly, the funniest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause David Mitchell will explain how it is not all names, dates or ungraspable historical headwinds, but instead show how it's really just a bunch of random stuff that happened with a few lucky bastards ending up on top. Some of these bastards were quite strange, but they were in charge, so we quite literally lived, and often still live, by their rules.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's a great story. And it's our story. 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In re-examining the story and its players, he presents new details and a new understanding of the courage and hardship of the Endurance voyage, and reminds us of how extraordinary humans can be. Not all is lost, and what has been lost can be regained: the ocean has given us something back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat's more, we are reminded that miracles still happen: human miracles, performed by flawed people in helpless situations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Darrel+Bristow-Bovey\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eDarrel Bristow-Bovey\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Darrel Bristow-Bovey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47381547221155,"sku":"9781776193837","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781776193837_75918ba3-5748-444e-85d5-ec26b5412a9b.jpg?v=1776581265"},{"product_id":"9781776195374","title":"Liberation and Corruption","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy are liberation and independence movements often betrayed when their leaders get into government? 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Thought-provoking and accessible, this book is an essential read for anyone engaged in the fight for a better world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Peter+Hain\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003ePeter Hain\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Peter Hain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47381652078755,"sku":"9781776195374","price":375.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781776195374_9d92a07b-403a-456a-a0a2-8e065404398e.jpg?v=1776581518"},{"product_id":"9781911717096","title":"Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI - a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. If we are so wise, why are we so self-destructive?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNEXUS  considers how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age through the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems have wielded information to achieve their goals,\u003cbr\u003efor good and ill. 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NEXUS  explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and of rediscovering our shared humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Yuval+Noah+Harari\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eYuval Noah Harari\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yuval Noah Harari","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47381811691683,"sku":"9781911717096","price":505.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781911717096_2b3d1749-a423-4123-bc1b-72ea10c4bc5e.jpg?v=1776609829"},{"product_id":"9780008619978","title":"The Communist Manifesto","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel's pamphlet The Communist Manifesto is a landmark text in socialist and Marxist history – a rallying cry for the revolutionary overthrow of capitalist society by the working classes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Karl+Marx\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eKarl Marx\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Friedrich+Engels\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eFriedrich Engels\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Collins+Classics\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eCollins Classics\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Karl Marx ,Friedrich Engels,Collins Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47382531834019,"sku":"9780008619978","price":110.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780008619978_b2d39f97-4285-4730-84ad-38b9c2b5b3bc.jpg?v=1776451001"},{"product_id":"9781779950000","title":"Lost on the Map: A Memoir of Colonial Illusions","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 250 years the author's family spread across the globe, helping to expand the British Empire and paint the map red. 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Uncovering family secrets and mistaken myths, Rostron offers a unique insight into modern-day South Africa's colonial past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Bryan+Rostron\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eBryan Rostron\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bryan Rostron","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47382581018787,"sku":"9781779950000","price":340.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781779950000_d5346029-eb33-45a1-b0bd-f87671c17b72.jpg?v=1776585964"},{"product_id":"9780241635094","title":"The World War I Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the First World War - the epic conflict that was supposed to be 'the war to end all wars'.\u003cbr\u003eCombining authoritative, exciting text and bold explanatory graphics  The World War I Book  explores the historical background to the war, its causes, all of key events across the major theatres of conflict, and its aftermath.\u003cbr\u003eUsing the original, graphic-led approach of the series, entries profile more than 90 of the key events during and surrounding the conflict - from the growing tensions between Europe's major powers to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the German invasion of Belgium, the endless slaughter in the trenches, the American entry into the war, the Russian Revolution, the Armistice, and the creation of the League of Nations.\u003cbr\u003eOffering a uniquely compelling, accessible, and immediate history of the war, The World War I Book shows how certain key battles, individual leaders, political and economic forces, and technological advances influenced the course of the conflict, and the decades that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+DK\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eDK\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"DK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47382595928227,"sku":"9780241635094","price":430.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780241635094_d642cb8c-7279-43e7-a7a9-6a3b8108fdaf.jpg?v=1776467780"},{"product_id":"9781776195053","title":"The Shortest History of China","description":"\u003cp\u003eJourney across epic China - through millennia of early innovation to modern dominance in one riveting, fast-paced read. From ancient times to Xi Jinping, Covid-19 and the 'wolf warriors', here is the vast, complex history of China, distilled into just 250 pages.\u003cbr\u003eJaivin dismantles the idea of a monolithic China, revealing instead a nation of startling diversity. And she gives China's women, from ancient warriors, inventors and rebels to their 21st-century counterparts, long overdue\u003cbr\u003eattention.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Virtuoso … brings together statesmen, court chronicles, poetry, fiction, mythology, painting, pottery, pop music and myriad other sources to construct a fascinating, enormously dynamic portrait of a superpower. Essential reading.' - Professor Julia Love\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Linda+Jaivin\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eLinda Jaivin\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Linda Jaivin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47382617325731,"sku":"9781776195053","price":260.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781776195053_3a8c95c9-01e6-4645-8d0b-cab37efc515f.jpg?v=1776581471"},{"product_id":"9781776195046","title":"The Shortest History of England","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and conquest, and is fractured by its north-south divide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEngland - begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor - is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbours; and for the past millennia, it has harboured a class system like nowhere else. There has never been a better time to understand why England is the way it is - and there is no better guide. With over 100 illustrations, maps and charts. Over 150 000 sold internationally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'At last a chance to get to grips with the entire history of England, and all in a few hours.' - Mail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+James+Hawes\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJames Hawes\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"James Hawes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47382684172451,"sku":"9781776195046","price":260.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781776195046_dc538e89-9696-4ad3-9c53-46b148cc2565.jpg?v=1776581467"},{"product_id":"9781776195039","title":"The Shortest History of Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn acclaimed international bestseller which tells the story of Europe’s most admired and feared country, from the Roman age to Charlemagne to von Bismarck to Merkel. A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicentre of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern nation until 1871 – yet today, Germany is the world’s fourth-largest economy and a standard-bearer of liberal democracy. With more than 100 maps and images, this is a fresh, concise and entertaining history which since release has sold over 300 000 copies internationally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Comprehensive and vivid… I don’t know of a better short history of this great country.’ – Philip Pullman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Germany as you’ve never known it: a bold thesis; an authoritative sweep and an exhilarating read.’ – Prof Karen Leeder, Oxford University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+James+Hawes\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJames Hawes\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"James Hawes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47382717104291,"sku":"9781776195039","price":260.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781776195039_42474fde-2718-4523-8b17-5c35dc32be02.jpg?v=1776581462"},{"product_id":"9780141991832","title":"All His Spies","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor and enemies both external and internal threatened to destroy England as a Protestant state, most spectacularly with the Spanish Armada and the Gunpowder Plot.\u003cbr\u003eCecil stood at the heart of the Tudor and then Stuart state, a vital figure in managing the succession from Elizabeth I to James I \u0026amp; VI, warding off military and religious threats and steering the decisions of two very different but equally wilful and hard-to-manage monarchs. The promising son of Queen Elizabeth's chief minister Lord Burghley, for Cecil there was no choice but politics, and he became supremely skilled in the arts of power, making many rivals and enemies.\u003cbr\u003eAll His Spies is a wonderfully engaging and original work of history. Many readers are familiar with the great events of this tumultuous time, but All His Spies shows how easily these dramas could have turned out very differently. 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