Turkey Unveiled: Ataturk and After by Nicole and Hugh Pope
$15.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good
In this work, the authors offer a picture of 20th-century Turkey and its formative past: the strengths and weaknesses of the Ottomans, the Armenian tragedy, the Kurdish struggle, and the controversial legacy of the brilliant but autocratic founder of the Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. They also examin ...Show more
The Turks Today by Andrew Mango
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Eighty years have passed since Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded the Turkish Republic out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire and set it on the path of modernisation. He was determined that his country should be accepted as a member of the family of civilised nations. Today Turkey is a rapidly developing cou ...Show more
Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict by Edwin Black
$16.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
New York Times and international bestselling author Edwin Black uncovers Iraq's hidden economy and the companies that profit from its upheaval. Big business and global warfare have long been fiery and symbiotic forces in Iraq. Banking on Baghdad tells the dramatic and tragic history of a land along t ...Show more
White Mughals - Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple
$10.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good
White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair-un-Nissa
Critiques of Confucius in Contemporary China by Kam Louie
$25.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: near fine
Falling Leaves - The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
$8.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. A story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic dramais played against the extraordinary political events in ...Show more
Wild Swans -Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$10.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.
The King's Peace: 1637-1641 by C. V. Wedgwood
$16.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Abbotsford to Zion: The Story of Scottish Place-Names Around the World by Elspeth Wills
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Over the centuries countless Scots have travelled to every conceivable corner of the globe - some to start a new life, others asentrepreneurs, explorers, missionaries, colonial administrators, soldiers and in a multitude of other contexts. This book takes the reader on a journey from the wastes of Antar ...Show more
April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici by Lauro Martines
$10.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family miscarried dramatically in the cathedral of Florence. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and connoisseur escaped. A bloodbath followed in reprisal. All Italy was at once a ...Show more
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski
$16.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe. In 1920 the new Soviet state was a mess, following a brutal civil war, and the best wa ...Show more
Alliance: The Inside Story of how Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began Another by Jonathan Fenby
$10.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Throughout the war the 'Big Three' -- Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin -- met in various permutations and locations to thrash out ways to defeat Nazi Germany -- and, just as importantly, to decide the way Europe would look after the war. This was the political rather than military struggle: a battle of w ...Show more