Non Fiction > History > Asia
Japanese Gardens by Günter Nitschke
$30.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: very good
Nature crafted by man The Japanese garden, like all gardens, is more than mere nature; it is nature crafted by man. It needs the hands of the designer to give it meaning. The Japanese garden belongs to the realm of architecture; at its best, it is nature as art. The phases of its history document the co ...Show more
Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire by James Morris
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Series: Pax Britannica Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
Clerks and Craftsmen in China and the West - lectures and addresses in the history of science and technology by Joseph Needham; Ho Ping-Yü (As told to); Wang Ling (As told to); Lu Gwei-Djen (As told to)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Japanese Illustrated Books by Leonard G Dawes
$15.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue
China Shakes the World - The Rise of a Hungry Nation by James Kynge
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Hands and Minds Together - Rewi Alley's Gung Ho School by Thomas Oliver Newnham; Bangzhen Deng
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister - Three women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang
$15.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good-very good
The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her country', but there was far more to the Soong sisters than thes ...Show more
Encountering China - New Zealanders and the People's Republic by Duncan Campbell (ed.); Brian Moloughney (ed.)
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good
December 2022 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of diplomatic relationsbetween China and New Zealand. In 1972, when the communiqué was signed, itmarked the end of New Zealand's keeping China at arm's length, in deference to theUnited States' unwillingness to treat with it. In 2022, the Unite ...Show more
Harvesting Pa Chay's Wheat - The Hmong and America's Secret War in Laos by Keith Quincy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
America's secret war in Laos from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s sounds like the stuff of conspiracy theories, but it actually happened. Keith Quincy uncovers the secret war America denied for over 30 years. From the Hmong's war of independence with France to America's use of Laos as a military stagin ...Show more
The Unforgettable Army - Slim's XIVth Army in Burma by Michael Hickey
$25.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good