The Dark Valley - A Panorama of the 1930s by Piers Brendon
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The author offers an overview of the 1930s, a story of the dark, dishonset decade that determined the course of the 20th century. Dealing individually with each of the period's great powers - the USA, Germany, Italy, France, Britain, Japan and Russia - the reader is taken through ten years dominated by ...Show more
Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916 - Anzacs and the Rising by Rory Sweetman
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: new
Little has been written on Trinity College's role in Easter Week 1916 as a 'loyal nucleus' dividing the insurgents and providing an effective counterweight to rebel headquarters in the GPO. This book reveals how five New Zealanders, acting as the core of a small squad of colonial troops, provided a vita ...Show more
The End Game - The Final Chapter in Britain's Great Game in Afghanistan by Susan Loughhead
$16.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Beginning by drawing parallels between the author's experiences at the British Embassy in Kabul from 2010 to 2013 and her grandfather's experiences of the same just after Indian Independence from 1948 to 1950, this book takes a thematic approach to analyse the role of Britain in Afghanistan since the co ...Show more
Elizabeth's Spymaster - Francis Walsingham and the Secret War That Saved England by Robert Hutchinson
$10.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good-very good
Francis Walsingham was the first 'spymaster' in the modern sense. His methods anticipated those of MI5 and MI6 and even those of the KGB. He maintained a network of spies across Europe, including double-agents at the highest level in Rome and Spain - the sworn enemies of Queen Elizabeth and her Protesta ...Show more
Roots by Alex Haley
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave ma ...Show more
Henrietta Howard - King's Mistress, Queen's Servant by Borman, Tracy
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Sacred Mountains - How the Revival of Daoism is Turning China's Ecological Crisis Around by Allerd Stikker
$15.00 NZD
Category: Ecology | Reading Level: very good
Allerd Stikker witnessed and actively participated in the Daoist resurgence, together with the Alliance of Religions and Conservation. Stikker shares his fascination for Daoism, and explains how nature conservation is deeply rooted in its philosophy and practice. He tells the story of his cooperation wi ...Show more
Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne
$18.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
In this luminous portrait of Paris, the celebrated historian gives us the history, culture, disasters, and triumphs of one of the world's truly great cities. While Paris may be many things, it is never boring. From the rise of Philippe Auguste through the reigns of Henry IV and Louis XIV (who abandoned ...Show more
Powerhouse - The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency by James Andrew Miller
$20.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
An astonishing-and astonishingly entertaining-history of Hollywood's transformation over the past five decades as seen through the agency at the heart of it all, from the #1 bestselling co-author of Live from New York and Those Guys Have All the Fun. The movies you watch, the TV shows you adore, the co ...Show more
Michelle Obama - Becoming by Michelle Obama
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesThe No. 1 BestsellerBritis ...Show more