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A History of the American Revolution by John R. Alden
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: Quality Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The history of the American rebellion against England, written by one of America's preeminent eighteenth-century historians, differs from many views of the Revolution. It is not colored by excessive worship of the Founding Fathers but, instead, permeated by sympathy for all those involved in the conflic ...Show more
Andy Warhol - Films and Paintings: The Factory Years by Peter Gidal
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Quality Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: good
In 1961 a fashionable commercial artist named Andy Warhol created an artistic furor in New York with his deadpan versions of the Campbell’s Soup can. Since then he has become the most talked about but least understood artist of the late 20th century. Warhol made acceptable the use of industrial techniqu ...Show more
Hell in a Very Small Place - The Siege of Dien Bien Phu by Bernard B. Fall
$18.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Quality Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Like Gettysburg, Stalingrad, Midway, and Tet, the battle at Dien Bien Phu--a strategic attack launched by France against the Vietnamese in 1954 after eight long years of war--marked a historic turning point. By the end of the fifty-six-day siege, a determined Viet Minh guerrilla force had destroyed a la ...Show more
Lawrence of Arabia by B H Liddell Hart
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Quality Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
T. E. Shaw, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, was one of the most romantic, heroic, and enigmatic figures of his day. The subject of myth and hagiography, he was equally accomplished in several fields -- as archaeologist, diplomat, writer, and soldier -- and he worked throughout World War I and after ...Show more
Transcendental Style in Film - Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer by Paul Schrader
$14.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Quality Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
The acclaimed director of Mishima, American Gigolo, Hard Core, Blue Collar, Cat People also the screenwriter for Taxi Driver, Paul Schrader here analyzes the film style of three great directors--Yasajiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyer--and posits a common dramatic language by these artists from diverg ...Show more
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