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
How Paris Became Paris - The Invention of the Modern City by Joan DeJean
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: DEJEAN JOAN | Reading Level: very good
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But in a mere century Paris would be transformed into the modern and mythic city we know today.Thoug ...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
Abyss - The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
$20.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. One of its most ...Show more
Bushido - The way of the Samurai by Tsunetomo Yamamoto; Justin F Stone (ed.)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia
In the sixteenth-century Japan, Tsunetomo Yamamoto created the Hagakure which was secretly circulated among the "awakened" samurai-the samurai elite. In 1906, the book was first made available to the general Japanese public and, until 1945, its guiding principles greatly influenced the Japanese ruling ...Show more
A Collector's Guide to Modern Australian Ceramics by Janet Mansfield
$30.00 NZD
Category: Craft | Reading Level: very good
A History of the AMP 1848 1998 by Geoffrey Blainey
$40.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
The Race Underground - Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway by Doug Most
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding, horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 crippled the entire northeast, a solution had to be found. Two brothers from one of the nation's great families-Henry Melvi ...Show more