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Smoothing the Ground - Essays on the Native American Oral Literature by Brian Swann (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: good-very good
The World As It Is - Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes
$18.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From one of Barack Obama's most trusted aides comes a revelatory behind-the-scenes account of his presidency--and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive."The closest view of Obama we're likely to get until he publishes his own memoir."--George Packer, The N ...Show more
The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton
$20.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Trump's National Security Advisor took detailed notes. The result is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration from a senior advisor who had served three previous presidents over 30 years, with stunning revelations about happened inside the most powerful room in the nati ...Show more
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: good-very good
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national ...Show more
Trump/Russia - A Definitive History by Seth Hettena
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Is the 45th President of the United States under the control of a foreign power? Award-winning Associated Press reporter Seth Hettena untangles the story of Donald Trump's long involvement with Russia in damning detail - including new reporting never before published. As Special Counsel Robert Mueller' ...Show more
Framing American Divorce - From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians by Norma Basch
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Divorce has become one of the most widely discussed issues in America. In this innovative exploration of the phenomenon of divorce in American society, Norma Basch uses a variety of analytic perspectives to enrich our understanding of the meaning of divorce during the formative years of both the nation ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist 'From a former marine and Yale graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. 'Hillbilly Elegy' is a passionate and pers ...Show more
Trans America: A Counter-History by Barry Reay
$18.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Trans seems to be everywhere in American culture. Yet there is little understanding of how this came about. Are people aware that there were earlier periods of gender flexibility and contestability in American history? How well known is it that a previous period of trans visibility in the 1960s and earl ...Show more
Daughters of the Earth - The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women by Carolyn Niethammer
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: good
She was both guardian of the hearth and, on occasion, ruler and warrior, leading men into battle, managing the affairs of her people, sporting war paint as well as necklaces and earrings. She built houses and ground corn, wove blankets and painted pottery, played field hockey and rode racehorses. Freque ...Show more
Tree of Rivers - The Story of the Amazon by John Hemming
$30.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
This enthralling book brilliantly describes the passionate struggles that have taken place in order to utilize, protect and understand the wonder that is the Amazon. Hemmings riveting account recalls the adventures and misadventures down the centuries of the explorers, missionaries, indigenous Indians, ...Show more
Conquistadors by Michael Wood
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Following in the footsteps of the greatest Spanish adventurers, Michael Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hern
The Journal of Prince Alexander Liholiho by Jacob Adler (ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good