Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Family by David Talbot
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Robert F. Kennedy was the first conspiracy theorist about his brother's murder. In this astonishingly compelling and convincing new account of the Kennedy years, acclaimed journalist David Talbot tells in a riveting, superbly researched narrative why, even on 22 November 1963, RFK had reason to believe ...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
London - The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
$18.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
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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
The Christian Century in Japan 1549-1650 by C R Boxer
$60.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: Aspects of Portugal | Reading Level: very good
Four hundred and fifty years ago, on 23September 1543, three Portuguese merchants travelling on a Chinese junk were blown by a storm onto the south-western tip of Japan. So at last was discovered to the West that fabled country which Marco Polo reported and Columbus sought. The chief Japanese trade link ...Show more
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.
Visions of China - Stories from Macau by David Brookshaw (ed.)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Visions of China: Stories from Macau is an anthology of stories from the Portuguese, set against the backdrop of that former colony and, to a slightly lesser degree, its close neighbor Hong Kong during the second half of the twentieth century.
The Proudest Day - India's Long Road to Independence by Anthony Read; David Fisher
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good-very good
"At midnight on 14 August 1947, Britain finally granted independence to the peoples of India. Throughout the world, the end of the colonial era was in sight. India was the first great domino to fall, setting off a train of events that was so spread across Asia and Africa, culminat-ing in the collapse of ...Show more
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
Daughters of the Samurai - A journey from East to West and back by Janice P Nimura
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassador ...Show more