Fidel and Che - A Revolutionary Friendship by Simon Reid-Henry
$25.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The first dual biography of the most remarkable political friendship of the twentieth century.
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
Thinking Medieval - An Introduction to the Study of the Middle Ages by Marcus Bull
$12.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This book is aimed at students coming to the study of western European medieval history for the first time, and also graduate students on interdisciplinary medieval studies programmes. It examines the place of the Middle Ages in modern popular culture, exploring the roots of the stereotypes that appear ...Show more
True Stories - Boyer Lectures 1999 by Inga Cledinnen
$10.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: good-very good
China's Great Wall of Debt - Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle by Dinny McMahon
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
'One of the clearest and most thorough statements of an argument often made about the country: that its government has relied on constant stimulus to keep growth strong, an addiction that is bound to backfire. Second, he comes closer than any previous writer to covering the Chinese economy as Michael Le ...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
Millennium - A History of Our Last Thousand Years by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$14.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Jan Compagnie in Japan 1600-1817 by C R Boxer
$20.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints | Reading Level: good
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
London - The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
$18.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
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Mapped but not Known - The Australian Landscape of the Imagination - Essay & Poems presented to Brian Elliott LXXV 11 April 1985 by P R Eaden (ed.); F. H. Mares (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
The Christian Century in Japan 1549-1650 by C R Boxer
$60.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: Aspects of Portugal | Reading Level: very good
Four hundred and fifty years ago, on 23September 1543, three Portuguese merchants travelling on a Chinese junk were blown by a storm onto the south-western tip of Japan. So at last was discovered to the West that fabled country which Marco Polo reported and Columbus sought. The chief Japanese trade link ...Show more