Set the Night on Fire - L. A. in the Sixties by Mike Davis; Jon Wiener
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: near fine
A magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the '60s.Los Angeles in the '60s was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power - where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to th ...Show more
Mayflower - A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
$10.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: good
"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--The New York Times Book Review Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryNew York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurric ...Show more
The Woman They Could Not Silence: Elizabeth Packard's Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men who Tried to Make her Disappear by Kate Moore
$18.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman whose incredible journey still resonates today. Elizabeth Packard was an ordinary Victorian housewife and mother of six. That was, until the first Woman's Rights Convention was held in 1 ...Show more
A World on the Wane by Claude Levi-Strauss
$25.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: good-very good
Roosevelt & Churchill - Men of Secrets by David Stafford
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good-very good
Dreams From My Father - A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of ...Show more
Poor Richard's Women - Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father by Nancy Rubin Stuart
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: near fine
Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin--the thrifty inventor-statesman of the Revolutionary era--but most don't know about his love life. Poor Richard's Women reveals the long-neglected voices of the women Ben loved and lost during his lifelong struggle between passion and prudence. The most prominent among t ...Show more
Lost New York by Nathan Silver
$25.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good
Rare and vivid photographs recapture the beauty of old New York City buildings that have vanished forever, such as the original Madison Square Garden, landmarks from both World Fairs, the old Waldorf-Astoria, and others.
Letters to Jackie - Condolences from a grieving nation by Ellen Fitzpatrick
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Tomorrow, the World - The Birth of U. S. Global Supremacy by Stephen Wertheim
$10.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year "Even in these dismal times genuinely important books do occasionally make their appearance...You really ought to read it...A tour de force...While Wertheim is not the first to expose isolationism as a carefully constructed myth, he does so with devastating effect ...Show more
A Question of Character - A Life of John F. Kennedy in Image and Reality by Thomas C. Reeves
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
A biography of John F. Kennedy which probes the discrepancy between his loose private morals and his statesman-like public behaviour. This book investigates the origins and development of Kennedy's character in his family, school and military experiences and traces these influences in his career.
Engineers of Dreams - Great Bridge Builders and The Spanning of America
$14.00 NZD
Category: Architecture