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
Augustus - The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt
$15.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. Yet ...Show more
The Archimedes Codex - How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist by Reviel Netz; William Noel
$25.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
At a Christie's auction in October 1998, a battered medieval manuscript sold for two million dollars to an anonymous bidder, who then turned it over to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore for further study. The manuscript was a palimpsest-a book made from an earlier codex whose script had been scraped o ...Show more
Midnight in Chernobyl - The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
--THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER-- 'An invaluable contribution to history.' Serhii Plokhy, Evening Standard'Tells the story of the disaster and its gruesome aftermath with thriller-like flair. Midnight in Chernobyl is wonderful and chilling ... written with skill and passion.' Luke Harding, The Observer' ...Show more
Waiting for the Weekend by Witold Rybczynski
$10.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"We work," Aristotle wrote, "in order to have leisure." Today, this is still true. But is the leisure that Aristotle spoke of--the freedom to do nothing--the same as the leisure we look forward to each weekend? There have always been breaks from the routine of work--taboo days, market days, public fest ...Show more
Among the Believers - An Islamic journey by V.S. Naipaul
$14.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Reading Level: very good
An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic fundamentalism.Among the Believers is V. S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia. The 'Believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battl ...Show more
A Crime in the Family by Sacha Batthyany
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World War In the spring of 1945, at Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batt ...Show more
Open Veins of Latin America - Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Tracing five centuries of exploitation in Latin America, a classic in the field, now in its twenty fifth year Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cult ...Show more