Voyages of Discovery - A visual celebration of ten of the greatest natural history expeditions by Tony Rice
$40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Dop November 2008, Australia Hardcover 200 x 225mm 336 pages colour illus Voyages of Discovery is a mesmerising visual record of ten of the most significant natural history expeditions.Superb artworks and photographs spanning three centuries document advances and watersheds in the field of natural scien ...Show more
Messengers of Grace - Evangelical Missionaries in the South Seas 1797-1860 by Niel Gunson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Communities of Women - Historical Perspectives by Barbara Brookes (ed.); Dorothy Page (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The sense of belonging to a community is fundamental, but it is not tied to a locality; it exists in the mind. Communities can be vast -empires, nations, a huge religious community -or small isolated groups. What distinguishes them is the style in which they are imagined. This book explores communities ...Show more
Homecoming - Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child by John Bradshaw
$12.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: good-very good
Are you outwardly successful but inwardly do you feel like a big kid? Do you aspire to be a loving parent but all too often “lose it” in hurtful ways? Do you crave intimacy but sometimes wonder if it’s worth the struggle? Or are you plagued by constant vague feelings of anxiety or depression? If any of ...Show more
Gender & Popular Culture by Katie Milestone; Anneke Meyer
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
The interconnections of gender and popular culture are multiple and varied, and serious scholarly work that examines gender through the lens of popular culture--and vice versa--is of central and growing significance in the academy. This is not only because battles about gender roles, rights, and ideolog ...Show more
Mr Bligh's Bad Language - Passion, Power and Theatre on H. M. Armed Vessek Bounty by Greg Dening
$14.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: good
Captain Bligh is a cliche of our times for the extravagant and violent misuse of power. In fact, William Bligh was one of the least physically violent disciplinarians in the British navy. That paradox inspires the author to ask why, then, did Bligh have a mutiny? Its answer is to display the theatricali ...Show more
Art of the Florida Seminole and Miccosukee Indians by Dorothy Downs
$16.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
"A superbly readable piece of cultural history. . . . Downs proves that graphics and narrative can be intertwined in an entertaining and informative historical presentation. . . . Delightful and intellectually enriching."--Southern Historian "Excellent. . . . Well-documented with both historical and an ...Show more
The Invention of Tradition by Eric Hobsbawm (ed.); Terence Ranger (ed.)
$12.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Past and Present Publications | Reading Level: very good
e most stimulating history book which has come my way this year? History Today
Discourses of Difference - An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism by Sara Mills
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Discourses of Difference unravels the complexities of writings by British women travellers of the high colonial' period. Sara Mills examines the relation of women travellers to colonialism, positioned as they were at the site of conflicting discourses: femininity, feminism, and patriarchal imperialism. ...Show more
Where Good Ideas Come From - The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Where do good ideas come from? And what do we need to know and do to have more of them? In "Where Good Ideas Come From", Steven Johnson, one of our most innovative popular thinkers, explores the secrets of inspiration. Steven Johnson has spent twenty years immersed in creative industries, was active at ...Show more
World Order - Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History by Henry Kissinger
$12.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In World Order, Henry Kissinger - one of the leading practitioners of world diplomacy and author of On China - makes his monumental investigation into the 'tectonic plates' of global history and state relations. World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and state ...Show more