The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
"THE BRILLIANT AND CONTROVERSIAL CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN CULTURE WITH NEARLY A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT" In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published "The Closing of the American Mind," an appraisal of contemporary America that "hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock ther ...Show more
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Family by David Talbot
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Robert F. Kennedy was the first conspiracy theorist about his brother's murder. In this astonishingly compelling and convincing new account of the Kennedy years, acclaimed journalist David Talbot tells in a riveting, superbly researched narrative why, even on 22 November 1963, RFK had reason to believe ...Show more
Nga Ahurea Iwi Taketake - Nga Kupu no Parihi 19/ Indigenous Cutlures - Texts From Brazil 19 by Filipe Eduardo Moreau; Lucia Hussak van Velthem; Jose Afonso Botura Portocarrero; Marcio Alves Roiter; Lucia Maria de Assuncao Barbosa; Fernanda Tonelli; Vincent Carelli; Maria Ines de Almeida; Martin Cesar Tempass; Gersem Baniwa; Roberio Nunes dos Anjos Filha
$25.00 NZD
Category: Arts | Reading Level: very good
Includes - Indians as seen by the first Jesuits; Indian Art - Everyday Life in the Cosmic Order of Things; Indigenous Architecture and Cultures in Brazil - Appropriate Technology; Modernist Pindorama - Indigenous Influence on Brazilian Art Deco; Every Day was Indians Day - Indians in Brazilian Song Lyri ...Show more
A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: near fine
An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works--and really doesn'tAs a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school teacher--an ambitious goal, given her family's m ...Show more
Another Great Day at Sea by Geoff Dyer
$8.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: good
As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier. Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer's experiences on the USS George H.W. Bush as he navigates the routines and protocols of 'c ...Show more
Collision of Power - Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post by Martin Baron
$18.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
"A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil." --The New York Times Book ReviewPolitics. Money. Media. Tech. ...It's all here in Collision of Power."All the President's Men for a new generation." --Town & CountryMarty Baron took charge of The Washingt ...Show more
Desk 88 - Eight Progressive Senators who changed America by Sherrod Brown
$18.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2006, Ohio's Sherrod Brown has sat on the Senate floor at a mahogany desk with a proud history. In Desk 88, he tells the story of eight of the Senators who were there before him. Despite their flaws and frequent setbacks, each made a decisive contribution to the ...Show more
Liberty! The American Revolution by Thomas Fleming
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: good-very good
Liberty! brings to life one of the most important and compelling stories in America's history: the struggle for independence and the birth of the nation. New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming's gripping narrative captures the high drama of the revolutionary years and the unyielding courage ...Show more
America's War of Independence 1763-1783 - A Concise Illustrated History of the American Revolution by David Rubel
$8.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Each book in the Family Ties series explores a particular aspect of how families stay together, play together, learn together, grow together, and resolve conflicts together.The series celebrates the differences among various cultures, both here and abroad, while emphasizing the similarities among them a ...Show more
New Orleans - Elegance and Decadence by Randolph Delehanty (Text by); Richard Sexton (Photography)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Reading Level: good
The lush, seductive, Old World elegance of New Orleans is gloriously revealed in this photographic tribute to the Venice of North America. Richard Sexton's photographs capture balcony-lined streets, French-style parks, Caribbean-inspired gardens, and ornate public buildings, and take us inside some of t ...Show more
Abraham Lincon - The War Years in four volumes by Carl Sandburg
$150.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The Storm - What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--The Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist by Ivor Van Heerden; Mike Bryan
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The ultimate inside story: how bureaucracy, politics, and a disregard of science combined to cripple -- perhaps forever -- a great American city As deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, Ivor van Heerden had for years been warning state and local officials about New Orlean ...Show more