Trains and Railways of Australia by Jim Powe
$25.00 NZD
Category: railway | Reading Level: very good
Jim Powe has released his exclusive and unique photographic collection of Australian railways from the 1940s to the present day. There are over 300 pages and many colour photographs. Organised into states, each section includes an introduction, with images captioned in detail.
The Transformation of St Pancras Station by Alastair Lansley
$20.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
At the end of 2007, St Pancras became the new London terminus for the high-speed channel tunnel rail link to continental Europe, taking over from Waterloo International. Central to this change, the entire structure and area around St Pancras have been renovated and transformed as one of the largest civi ...Show more
The Age of Edison - Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America by Ernest Freeberg
$18.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: Penguin History American Life | Reading Level: very good
The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense of the bir ...Show more
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings - Revised Edition by Olaudah Equiano; Vincent Carretta (Introduction by)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative ...Show more
The Office - A Hardworking History by Gideon Haigh
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In 'The Office: A Hardworking History', Gideon Haigh traces from origins among merchants and monks to the gleaming glass towers of New York and the space age sweatshops of Silicon Valley, finding an extraordinary legacy of invention and ingenuity, shaped by the telephone, the typewriter, the elevator, t ...Show more
The Stones of London - A History in Twelve Buildings by Leo Hollis
$20.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
In a sweeping narrative, from its mythic origins to the glittering towers of the contemporary financial capital, THE STONES OF LONDON tells the story of twelve London buildings in a kaleidoscopic and unexpected history of one of the world's most enigmatic cities. From the Roman forum to the Gherkin, Reg ...Show more
Princess Masako - Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne - The Tragic True Story of Japan's Crown Princess by Ben Hills
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good-very good
"There are two families in Japan which you can never leave - The Yakuza (crime gangs) and the royal family..." Diana, Princess of Wales, had it easy compared with another lonely princess, Crown Princess Masako of Japan. A thoroughly modern woman in collision with an ancient and unreformed system ...Show more
Maximum City - Bombay lost and found by Suketu Mehta
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Winner Of The 2005 Kiriyama Prize For Non-FictionSuketu Mehta Left Bombay At The Age Of 14. Twenty-One Years Later He Returned To Rediscover The City. The Result Is This Stunning, Brilliantly Illuminating Portrait Of The Megalopolis And Its People-A Book, Seven Years In The Making, That Is As Vast, As D ...Show more
The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Containing, I. An Account of the Chancellor's Life from his Birth to the Restoration in 1660. II. A Continuation of the same, and of his History of the Grand Rebellion, from the Restoration to his Banishment in 1667
$200.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Fortress Kent by Roy Ingleton
$25.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Since the dawn of civilization, Britain has been menaced by foreign powers and invasive hordes, anxious either to pillage and plunder or to invade and rule over this green and pleasant land.
State Experiments in Australia & New Zealand Volume I and Volume II by W Pember Reeves
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good