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
The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810 by Jenny Uglow
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was bound ...Show more
From Purdah to the People:Memoirs of Padma Shri Rani Laxmi Kumari Chundawat by Lakshmai Kumaarai Cauonodaavata; Frances Taft (Editor)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good
Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World by Hugh Pope
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good
A compellingly readable account of Turkey and its people by acclaimed author, Hugh Pope Since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire following World War I and the subsequent founding of the Turkish Republic by Ataturk, Turkey has played a prominent, albeit dependent, role in international affairs, as a v ...Show more
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