Stripping Bare the Body - Politics, Violence, War by Mark Danner
$25.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
For the past two decades, Mark Danner has reported from Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans, and the Middle East. His perceptive, award-winning dispatches have not only explored the real consequences of American engagement with the world, but also the relationship between political violence and power. InS ...Show more
Torture and Truth by Mark Danner
$18.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Includes the torture photographs in color and the full texts of the secret administration memos on torture and the investigative reports on the abuses at Abu Ghraib. In the spring of 2004, graphic photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured by American soldiers in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison flashed a ...Show more
The Bureau - The Secret History of the FBI by Ronald Kessler
$18.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The Bureau takes listeners behind the scenes of the FBI, from its creation in 1908 to the scandals of present day. Based on exclusive interviews, Kessler reveals the inside story surrounding the events of September 11 and the investigation into the anthrax mailings. The Bureau delves deep within the age ...Show more
Redcoats and Rebels - The War for America 1770-1781 by Christopher Hibbert
$16.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
Redcoats and Rebels provides a thorough introduction to the Revolutionary War. Told with great authority and clarity it describes and details the effects of each notable event from 1770 to 1781, examining each of the major battles and skirmishes but not getting bogged down in deep analysis of battle for ...Show more
The Real War - The Classic Reporting on the Vietnam War with a New Essay by Jonathan Schell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
Jonathan Schell's extraordinary on-the-scene writing about Vietnam has stood the test of time in our continuing attempt to understand how and why the United States went to war-and how and why it lost. In "The Village of Ben Suc" written "with skill that many a veteran reporter will envy" (New York Times ...Show more
Military Uniforms in Canada, 1665-1970 by Jack L. Summers; Rene Chartrand; R. J. Marrion (Illustrator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
Histories of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina by William Byrd
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
A masterpiece of American prose and history, here is an early 18th-century account of surveying expedition. Official, printed account by Byrd on facing pages with private manuscript of secret-history, telling scandals, bawdy exploits of commissioners among Indians, settlers. Map, reproduction of manuscr ...Show more
Unmeltable Ethnics - Politics and Culture in American Life by Michael Novak (Introduction by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
This new, enlarged edition of an influential book--originally published in 1972 as The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics--extends the author's wise and generous view of ethnicity. Its aim "is to raise consciousness about a crucial part of the American experience: to involve each reader in self-inquiry. Who ...Show more
American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon by Stephen R. Prothero
$20.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Jesus the Black Messiah; Jesus the Jew; Jesus the Hindu sage; Jesus the Haight-Asbury hippie: these Jesuses join the traditional figure of Jesus Christ in American Jesus, which was acclaimed upon publication in hardcover as an altogether fresh exploration of American history--and as the liveliest book a ...Show more
The Prince of Darkness : 50 Years Reporting in Washington by Robert D. Novak
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
New York Times Bestseller A landmark achievement The Prince of Darkness is not simply the stunningly candid memoir of one of the country's most influential reporters but also a riveting history of the past half century in American politics.
Narrative Of The United States Exploring Expedition During The Years 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 Condensed And Abridged by Charles Wilkes
$30.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good