The Storm - What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--The Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist by Ivor Van Heerden; Mike Bryan
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The ultimate inside story: how bureaucracy, politics, and a disregard of science combined to cripple -- perhaps forever -- a great American city As deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, Ivor van Heerden had for years been warning state and local officials about New Orlean ...Show more
Captain James Cook in Atlantic Canada - The Adventurer and Map Maker's Formative Years by Jerry Lockett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
The skills, knowledge and experience that took Captain James Cook to the South Seas and around the world seemed to come out of nowhere. In fact, as author Jerry Lockett has discovered, their foundation was laid during the time he spent in Atlantic Canada. His experiences on Canada's east coast and the n ...Show more
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
$25.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Pivotal Moments in American History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washingto ...Show more
Field of Battle - The Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J. Halsey by Thomas J Halsey; Karen M. Kostyal
$15.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
The Shaping of America - A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History Volume 3 - Transcontinental America 1850-1815 by Donald W. Meinig
$20.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: Shaping of America Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This volume on America's development from the mid-19th century to 1915 begins with the struggle over where to build the Pacific railway. Meinig portrays the settlement of the American West, examines the South as an imperial province, and considers America's pressures upon Canada and Mexico.
Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts - How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers by Carl J. Richard
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
This lively and engaging book is the only popular work to explore the profound impact of Ancient Greece and Rome on the Founding Fathers. The classical education they imbibed as young students inspired them to undertake the American Revolution and influenced their approach to a host of constitutional an ...Show more
Freedom in a Slave Society - Stories from the Antebellum South by Johanna Nicol Shields
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South | Reading Level: very good
Before the Civil War, most Southern white people were as strongly committed to freedom for their kind as to slavery for African Americans. This study views that tragic reality through the lens of eight authors - representatives of a South that seemed, to them, destined for greatness but was, we know, on ...Show more
A Crack in the Edge of the World - The great American earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous sub ...Show more
The Eagle Aloft - Two Centuries of the Balloon in America by Tom D Crouch
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aviation | Reading Level: very good
Breach of Faith - Hurricane Katrina and the near Death of a Great American City by Jed Horne
$20.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans' daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prize--winning Times-Picayune, Jed Horne has had a ...Show more
George Washington - His Excellency by Joseph J Ellis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest Passage, 1741-1747 - Volume I - The Voyage of Christopher Middleton, 1741-1742 by William Barr (ed.); Glyndwr Williams (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 177 | Reading Level: very good
The 18th century saw a resurgence of hope that a Northwest Passage - that elusive target of European seamen over the centuries - might yet be found. Prompted by the Irish MP Arthur Dobbs, the Admiralty sent the Furnace and Discovery to Hudson Bay in 1741 in search of a navigable passage to the Pacific. ...Show more