Africa: A Companion to the PBS Series by JOHN READER
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Combines photography and text to capture the diverse landscapes, wildlife, and peoples of Africa, from the Sahara of northern Africa to the Southern Veld, from Kilimanjaro to the Niger River.
Oxford Encyclopedia of World History
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
With over 4,000 entries, arranged in a clear A-Z format, Encyclopedia of World History provides an unparalleled breadth and depth of information on events, figures, and concepts from prehistory right up to the present day. From the megaliths and menhirs at Carnac and the mound-builders of the Mississipp ...Show more
Transatlantic Slavery - Against Human Dignity by Anthony Tibble (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Accompanying the opening of Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity, a new gallery at Merseyside Maritime Museum, this volume describes the objects in the gallery and includes essays by curators and staff. Topics discussed include women in slavery and the rise of Atlantic empires.
A Promise to Remember - The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors by Michael Berenbaum
$16.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
A PROMISE TO REMEMBER is a concise and accessible history of the Holocaust presented in an interactive format that includes graphics, detailed sidebars, an audio CD and removable facsimiles of documents from the period. Michael Berenbaum, bestselling author and former director of the US Holocaust Memori ...Show more
Histories of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina by William Byrd
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
A masterpiece of American prose and history, here is an early 18th-century account of surveying expedition. Official, printed account by Byrd on facing pages with private manuscript of secret-history, telling scandals, bawdy exploits of commissioners among Indians, settlers. Map, reproduction of manuscr ...Show more
Unmeltable Ethnics - Politics and Culture in American Life by Michael Novak (Introduction by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
This new, enlarged edition of an influential book--originally published in 1972 as The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics--extends the author's wise and generous view of ethnicity. Its aim "is to raise consciousness about a crucial part of the American experience: to involve each reader in self-inquiry. Who ...Show more
God Has Ninety-Nine Names - A Reporter's Journey Through a Militant Middle East by Judith Miller
$20.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Reading Level: very good
His Life, to His Children by Theodore-Agrippa D'Aubigne; John Nothnagle (Editor, Translator)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux by James O. Gump; James Gump
$15.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: good
In 1876 Sioux and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer's Seventh Cavalry on the Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. In both cases the total defeat of regular army troops by forces regarded as undiscipline ...Show more
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$5.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Shadow of the Sunencompasses forty years of incisive and moving reportage about Africa by one of the world's greatest journalists. From newly independent Ghana to war-torn Rwanda, Kapuscinski captures the sights, sounds, smells and, above all, the real lives of this vast contin ...Show more