China's Great Wall of Debt - Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle by Dinny McMahon
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
'One of the clearest and most thorough statements of an argument often made about the country: that its government has relied on constant stimulus to keep growth strong, an addiction that is bound to backfire. Second, he comes closer than any previous writer to covering the Chinese economy as Michael Le ...Show more
Millennium - A History of Our Last Thousand Years by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$14.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Jan Compagnie in Japan 1600-1817 by C R Boxer
$20.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints | Reading Level: good
Nga Ahurea Iwi Taketake - Nga Kupu no Parihi 19/ Indigenous Cutlures - Texts From Brazil 19 by Filipe Eduardo Moreau; Lucia Hussak van Velthem; Jose Afonso Botura Portocarrero; Marcio Alves Roiter; Lucia Maria de Assuncao Barbosa; Fernanda Tonelli; Vincent Carelli; Maria Ines de Almeida; Martin Cesar Tempass; Gersem Baniwa; Roberio Nunes dos Anjos Filha
$25.00 NZD
Category: Arts | Reading Level: very good
Includes - Indians as seen by the first Jesuits; Indian Art - Everyday Life in the Cosmic Order of Things; Indigenous Architecture and Cultures in Brazil - Appropriate Technology; Modernist Pindorama - Indigenous Influence on Brazilian Art Deco; Every Day was Indians Day - Indians in Brazilian Song Lyri ...Show more
Mapped but not Known - The Australian Landscape of the Imagination - Essay & Poems presented to Brian Elliott LXXV 11 April 1985 by P R Eaden (ed.); F. H. Mares (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress by James Morris
$20.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good-very good
Depicting the rise and decline of the British Empire, this text tells the story from Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 to her diamond jubilee in 1897.
The Bridge - A Journey Between Orient and Occident by Geert Mak
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Istanbul's Galata Bridge has spanned the Golden Horn since the sixth century AD, connecting the old city with the more Western districts to the north. But the bridge is a city in itself, peopled by merchants and petty thieves, tourists and fishermen, and at the same time a microcosmic reflection of Turk ...Show more
The Encircled Sea - The Mediterranean maritime civilisation by Sarah Arenson
$14.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Prince of the Church - Patrick Francis Moran 1830-1911 by Philip Ayres
$25.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
A biography of Patrick Francis Moran (1830-1911), cardinal archbishop of Sydney, based on research in Australia, Italy and Ireland. It places Moran within the historical contexts of his life's work: Rome of the 1848 revolution, Italy of the risorgimento, Ireland in the age of rebellion, and Australia in ...Show more
The Bully of Asia - Why China's Dream Is the New Threat to World Order by Steven W Mosher
$16.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
THE ONCE AND FUTURE HEGEMON In a world bristling with dangers, only one enemy poses a truly mortal challenge to the United States and the peaceful and prosperous world that America guarantees. That enemy is China, a country that invented totalitarianism thousands of years ago whose economic powe ...Show more
A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: near fine
An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works--and really doesn'tAs a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school teacher--an ambitious goal, given her family's m ...Show more
The Reconquest Kings of Portugal - Political and Cultural Reorientation on the Medieval Frontier by Stephen Lay
$15.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Examines the political development of Portugal between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Taking place amid the struggle between Christendom and the Islamic world for control over the Iberian Peninsula, the formation of Portugal also depended on the growing European influence felt throughout the pen ...Show more