Art of the Florida Seminole and Miccosukee Indians by Dorothy Downs
$16.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
"A superbly readable piece of cultural history. . . . Downs proves that graphics and narrative can be intertwined in an entertaining and informative historical presentation. . . . Delightful and intellectually enriching."--Southern Historian "Excellent. . . . Well-documented with both historical and an ...Show more
Weaving Identities - Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town by Carol Hendrickson
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Traje, the brightly colored traditional dress of the highland Maya, is the principal visual expression of indigenous identity in Guatemala today. Whether worn in beauty pageants, made for religious celebrations, or sold in tourist markets, traje is more than "mere cloth"--it plays an active role in the ...Show more
The Age of Edison - Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America by Ernest Freeberg
$18.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: Penguin History American Life | Reading Level: very good
The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense of the bir ...Show more
Roots by Alex Haley
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave ma ...Show more
Powerhouse - The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency by James Andrew Miller
$20.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
An astonishing-and astonishingly entertaining-history of Hollywood's transformation over the past five decades as seen through the agency at the heart of it all, from the #1 bestselling co-author of Live from New York and Those Guys Have All the Fun. The movies you watch, the TV shows you adore, the co ...Show more
Michelle Obama - Becoming by Michelle Obama
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesThe No. 1 BestsellerBritis ...Show more
Abyss - The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
$20.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. One of its most ...Show more
The Race Underground - Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway by Doug Most
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding, horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 crippled the entire northeast, a solution had to be found. Two brothers from one of the nation's great families-Henry Melvi ...Show more
This Is Burning Man by Brian Doherty
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
A tour of the annual high-tech festival Burning Man discusses its history, the colorful characters that make up its participants, and the group creations that have been built at its Black Rock Desert site.
A Citizen-Soldier Remembers 1942-1946 - 149th Armored Signal Company of the 9th Armored Division by George E McAvoy
$15.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good