God Has Ninety-Nine Names - A Reporter's Journey Through a Militant Middle East by Judith Miller
$20.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Reading Level: very good
His Life, to His Children by Theodore-Agrippa D'Aubigne; John Nothnagle (Editor, Translator)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux by James O. Gump; James Gump
$15.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: good
In 1876 Sioux and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer's Seventh Cavalry on the Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. In both cases the total defeat of regular army troops by forces regarded as undiscipline ...Show more
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$5.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Shadow of the Sunencompasses forty years of incisive and moving reportage about Africa by one of the world's greatest journalists. From newly independent Ghana to war-torn Rwanda, Kapuscinski captures the sights, sounds, smells and, above all, the real lives of this vast contin ...Show more
Rhodes and Barnarto Architect by Leasor James
$25.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good
The story of Cecil Rhodes and Barney Barnato is a catalogue of huge risks taken, of pledges made and broken, of blackmail, murder and betrayal.
The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold by Frank T. Kryza
$12.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good
The incredible true story of Alexander Gordon Laing and the race to discover Timbuktu during the early part of the 19th century--a time when the African continent was still largely uncharted. In the first decades of 19th century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers-- ...Show more
Putting Islam to Work - Education, Politics, and Religious Tranformation in Egypt by Gregory Starrett
$16.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Series: Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The development of mass education and the mass media have transformed the Islamic tradition in contemporary Egypt and the wider Muslim world. In Putting Islam to Work, Gregory Starrett focuses on the historical interplay of power and public culture, showing how these new forms of communication and a gro ...Show more
The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity by Thomas Burkhalter (Editor); Kay Dickinson (Editor); Benjamin J. Harbert (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Series: Music / Culture Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The essays in this collection investigate the plethora of compositional and improvisational techniques, performance styl ...Show more
In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade by Robin Wright
$10.00 NZD
Category: Middle East
An examination of the period in Iranian history between 1979 and 1989. The author looks at different aspects of this time - before, during and after the reign of Ayatollah Khomeini. She tells the stories of the American hostages and Iran's campaign against the western powers.
The Victorians by A.N. Wilson
$20.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
People, not abstract ideas, make history and in this volume A.N. Wilson has pieced together hundreds of different lives to tell a story - one that is still unfinished in our own day. Here are the poor and obscure as well as the lofty and famous - each in the very act of creating the Victorian age. Hardb ...Show more