Reproducing Empire - Race, Sex, Science, and US Imperialism in Puerto Rico by Laura Briggs
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: American Crossroads Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, femini ...Show more
The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation by Lynne Cheney
$30.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: near fine
Exotics at Home - Anthropologies, Others, and American Modernity by Micaela Di Leonardo
$30.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: Women in Culture and Society Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this pathbreaking study, Micaela di Leonardo reveals the face of power within the mask of cultural difference. From the 1893 World's Fair to Body Shop advertisements, di Leonardo focuses on the intimate and shifting relations between popular portrayals of exotic Others and the practice of anthropolog ...Show more
Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Will Bagley
$30.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky
$12.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015 Emma Sky was working for the British Council during the invasion of Iraq, when the ad went around calling for volunteers. Appalled at what she saw as a wrongful war, she signed up, expecting to be gone for months. Instea ...Show more
American Scoundrel by Tom Keneally
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Charming and ambitious, Dan Sickles literally got away with murder. His protector was none other than the President himself, the ageing James Buchanan; his political friends quickly gathered round; and Sickles was acquitted. His trial is described with all Thomas Keneally's powers of dash and drama, aga ...Show more
Catch and Kill - Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: good-very good
Ray: "Riveting. Compelling. The story of how Ronan Farrow held his ground against the powerful media establishment, unprincipled lawyers, public relations spinmasters, spies, to expose the sexual predations of Hollywood mogul Henry Weinstein. An Australian-born media executive tried to stop the book fro ...Show more
Malinche's Conquest by Anna Lanyon
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
An engrossing and evocative quest into Mexico's past, to uncover the story of the legendary Amerindian woman who became translator and concubine to Cortes in the Spanish Conquest. 'Lanyon has spent more than a decade pursing this elusive woman, Malinche---in archives, in churches, in forgotten corners o ...Show more
The Making of the Mosaic - A History of Canadian Immigration Policy by Ninette Kelley; M. Trebilcock
$35.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Immigration policy has always been and continues to be a subject of intense political and public debate. This book examines the ideas, interests, institutions, and rhetoric that have shaped Canada's immigration history.Beginning their study in the pre-Confederation period, the authors tell of the dramat ...Show more
Washington's God: Religion, Liberty and the Father of Our Country by Jana Michael; Novak Novak
$20.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good