World History

	God's Bankers - Gerald Posner God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican by Gerald Posner traces the political intrigue and inner workings of the Catholic Church. Decidedly not about faith, belief in God, or religious doctrine, this book is about the church's accumulation of wealth and its byzantine entanglements with financial markets across the world.	ZAR 160.00
	The Dark Defile - Dianna Preston The Dark Defile: Britain's Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan, 1838-1842 by Diana Preston vividly recounts the drama of this First Afghan War, one of the opening salvos in the strategic rivalry between Britain and Russia for supremacy in Central Asia.	ZAR 150.00
	30-Second Twentieth Century - Jonathan T Reynolds 30-Second Twentieth Century: The 50 Most Significant Ideas and Events, Each Explained in Half a Minute edited by Jonathan T Reynolds refresh your memory with these pacey profiles on everything from Sputnik to Stonewall.	ZAR 140.00
	The Celts - Alice Roberts The Celts: Search for a civilization by Alice Roberts goes in search of the Celts and their treasures in a narrative history to accompany a new BBC series.	ZAR 135.00
	How Carrots Won the Trojan War - Rebecca Rupp How Carrots Won the Trojan: Curious (but true) stories of common vegetables War by Rebecca Rupp is a delightful collection of little-known stories about the origins, legends, and historical significance of 23 of the world's most popular vegetables. Vegetables are more than just food for humans: they've been characters, companions, and even protagonists throughout history.	ZAR 60.00
	Dead Certainties - Simon Schama Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations by Simon Schama is an imaginative comment on the nature of historiography. On 13 September 1759, General James Wolfe, having led the British troops up the St Lawrence to victory in the Battle of Quebec, died on the Heights of Abraham.	ZAR 150.00
	He Had a Dream - Flip Schulke He Had a Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement by Flip Schulke is a personal photographic memoir of a special friendship. As a young photojournalist just out of college in the early fifties, Flip Schulke moved to Miami and began covering social issues. In 1958, while working as a freelancer for Jet and Ebony, he was assigned to photograph Martin Luther King.	ZAR 195.00
	Black Ranching Frontiers - Andrew Sluyter Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900 by Andrew Sluyter is a groundbreaking book in which the author demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas.	ZAR 120.00
	Coronation Peep-Show Book - Edwin Smith Coronation Peep-Show Book by Edwin Smith is an entertaining souvenir depicting the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 in pop-up form, and includes commentary on the ceremony and regalia. Includes small coronation booklet.	ZAR 175.00
	The Reckoning - Jacob Soll The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Making and Breaking of Nations by Jacob Soll shows how the use and misuse of financial bookkeeping has determined the fates of entire societies. Time and again, Soll reveals, good and honest accounting has been a tool to build successful companies, states and empires.	ZAR 160.00
	Classical Civilization - Nigel Spivey Classical Civilization: A History in Ten Chapters by Nigel Spivey is a concise and accessible study of the foundations, development and enduring legacy of the cultures of Greece and Rome, centred on ten locations of seminal importance in the development of Classical civilisation.	ZAR 160.00
	The Venetians - Paul Strathern The Venetians: A new history: from Marco Polo to Casanova by Paul Strathern is a refreshing and authoritative new look at the history of the most evocative of city states. The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world.	ZAR 175.00
	The Death of Caesar - Barry Strauss The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination by Barry Strauss is an original, fresh perspective on an event that seems well known, this book sheds new light on this fascinating, pivotal moment in world history. Thanks to William Shakespeare, the death of Julius Caesar is the most famous assassination in history.	ZAR 135.00
	The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911 - William C Summers The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911:The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease by William C Summers is a fascinating case history, relating how this plague killed as many as 60,000 people in less than a year, and uses the analysis to examine the actions and interactions of the multinational doctors, politicians, and ordinary residents who responded to it.	ZAR 135.00
	Exorcising Hitler - Frederick Taylor Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany by Frederick Taylor tells the story of Germany's year zero and what came after. Not since the end of the Roman Empire, almost fifteen hundred years earlier, is there a parallel, in Europe at least, to the fall of the German nation in 1945.	ZAR 175.00
	History of the Indian Ocean - Auguste Toussaint History of the Indian Ocean by Auguste Toussaint covers many events in South-East Asia and the China Sea. The emphasis is on the emergence and significance of Asian and European contact which later became a conflict between East and West.	ZAR 60.00
	In God's Shadow - Michael Walzer In God's Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew bible by Michael Walzer reveals political theorist Michael Walzer's findings after decades of thinking about the politics of the Hebrew Bible.	ZAR 215.00
	Our Supreme Task - Philip White Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance by Philip White is a detailed yet eminently readable account of Churchill's famous speech.	ZAR 120.00