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
The Fifties in Pictures by James Lescott
$10.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Series: In Pictures | Reading Level: very good
One of a series of books that together provide a comprehensive pictorial history of the 20th century, decade by decade. Presented in chronological order. About 250 photographs. Topics include the Korean War, the bomb, Marilyn Monroe, the Hungarian uprising, the space race, the Cuban revolution, films, a ...Show more
The Silk Road - Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia by Frances Wood
$20.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
The Silk Road, a series of ancient trade routes stretching across Central Asia to Europe, evokes exotic images of camel trains laden with bales of fine Chinese silk, spices, and perfume, of desert oases surrounded by snow-capped mountains, of bustling markets thronging with travellers buying and selling ...Show more
Xi Jinping - The Backlash by Richard McGregor
$6.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: Pengun Special | Reading Level: very good
Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and aggression that few foresaw when he came to power in 2012. Finally, he is meeting resistance, both at home among disgruntled officials and disillusioned technocrats, and abroad from an emerging coalition of Western nations that seem de ...Show more