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
The Story of the World in 100 Moments by Neil Oliver
$12.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
We reveal ourselves not through what we display but through what we conceal and discard; a rusty trowel, a crooked needle, the hilt of a sword, these are the objects that furnish our lives. Priceless is not just about obvious treasure, gold and jewels, but also those unexpected, unintended glimpses of t ...Show more
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
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia by Simon Barnard
$14.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in ...Show more
This Is Burning Man by Brian Doherty
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
A tour of the annual high-tech festival Burning Man discusses its history, the colorful characters that make up its participants, and the group creations that have been built at its Black Rock Desert site.
2017 War with Russia - An Urgent Warning from Senior Military Command by Richard Shirreff
$15.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: good-very good
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A History of the Bailiwick of Guernsey - The Islanders' Story by L James Marr
$25.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
A Citizen-Soldier Remembers 1942-1946 - 149th Armored Signal Company of the 9th Armored Division by George E McAvoy
$15.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good