Always Remember Your Name: The Children who Survived Auschwitz by Andra & Tatiana Bucci
$32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A haunting WWII memoir of two sisters who survived Auschwitz that picks up where Anne Frank's Diary left off and gives voice to the children we lost. On 28 March 1944, six-year-old Tati and her four-year-old sister Andra were roused from their sleep and arrested. Along with their mother, Mira, their au ...Show more
Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books by Jess McHugh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
"An elegant, meticulously researched, and eminently readable history of the books that define us as Americans. For history buffs and book-lovers alike, McHugh offers us a precious gift."-Jake Halpern, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author"With her usual eye for detail and knack for ...Show more
An Indigenous Ocean: Pacific Essays by Damon Salesa
$49.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: 1st
In this captivating collection of essays, acclaimed Pacific scholar Damon Salesa takes us on a journey through the rich cultural and historical tapestry of the Pacific. From the far-reaching indigenous civilisations that flourished in Oceania, to the colonial encounters that shaped Samoa's history, and ...Show more
Anglo-English Attitudes : Essays, Reviews and misadventures 1984-99 by Geoff Dyer
$17.50 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A collection of his best freelance work. "Pick up this book and you will find something interesting on every page" Independent
Antibiotic Resistance - The end of modern medicine? (BWB Texts) by Siouxsie Wiles
$14.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
In ten years' time, will antibiotics still work? Have we let bacteria get the upper hand in the evolutionary arms race?In the 1920s the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin started a golden age of medicine. However, experts warn that the end of that age may be just a decade away. In this BWB Text, mic ...Show more
Atlantis: A Journey in Search of Beauty by Carlo Piano; Renzo Piano; Will Schutt (Translator)
$33.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Renowned architect Renzo Piano (the New Whitney Museum, the Pompidou Center, Potsdamer Platz, Cite Internationale, New York Times Building, The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, etc.) and his son Carlo, a well-regarded journalist, set sail from Genoa one late Summer day to search for Atlantis, the perf ...Show more
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
$80.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
This 17th edition, under Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan's direction, contains over 20,000 quotations, representing 2500 authors, 90 of whom are new to "Bartlett's". Newcomers include Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tony Kishner, Tammy Wynette, Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou, Martin and Kingsle ...Show more
Beirut 2020: The Collapse of a Civilization, a Journal by Charif Majdalani
$33.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
When Charif Majdalani begins to walk the streets of his city, and to write down what he sees, the first hints of unrest within a vibrant culture creep to the fore. 'The author's home town is falling apart. Lebanon's capital ... has morphed into a symbol of devastation and hatred and madness. Majdalani i ...Show more
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister - Three women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang
$38.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good-very good
The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her country', but there was far more to the Soong sisters than thes ...Show more
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra
$30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic worldTo fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, in the United Stat ...Show more
Black Marxism by Cedric J. Robinson
$19.00 NZD
$38.00 (50% off)
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Any struggle must be fought on a people's own terms, argues Cedric Robinson's landmark account of Black radicalism. Marxism is a western construction, and therefore inadequate to describe the significance of Black communities as agents of change against 'racial capitalism'. Tracing the emergence of Euro ...Show more
Bookshop Dogs by Ruth Shaw
$39.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw's three wee bookshops in Manapouri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local dogs, holiday house dogs, travelling dogs: many have great stories, be they funny, sad, strange, bemusing, quirky or sweet. Woven throughout are tales of the very special Hun ...Show more