Somebody Always Singing You by Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees
$27.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
As the child of African-American and Native American parents, Kaylynn TwoTrees grew up hearing herself called "half breed" and "mixed blood," terms which now, after many transforming experiences, have positive and powerful meanings for her. This book spanning the first fifty years of her life is the acc ...Show more
A Survey of New Guinea Languages by A. Capell
$32.50 NZD
Category: Learning Languages
Secondhand. Fine study of the many different languages of New Guinea. It has often been said that New Guinea is a linguistic Babel. A fresh language seems to be found every few miles and often to be totally unlike its neighbour. This fascinating book is to show how this babel may be de-babelized with t ...Show more
Across New Guinea: From the Fly to the Sepik by Ivan F.Champion
$75.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Rare exploration book. First published in 1931. This edition 1966. Map on the rear. C.H. Karius was an Assistant Resident Magistrate in the Public Service of the Territory of Papua. He led an expedition, with Ivan Champion, from sea to sea across PNG in its widest part and by way of the hea ...Show more
Dear Colin, Dear Ron: The Selected Letters of Colin McCahon and Ron Reilly by Peter Simpson
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
This substantial book of letters selected by esteemed Colin McCahon scholar Peter Simpson shines a light on one of the most remarkable relationships in New Zealand art. The painter Colin McCahon and the librarian Ron O'Reilly first met in 1938, in Dunedin, when McCahon was 19 and O'Reilly 24. They rem ...Show more
Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts
$40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
"The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life. In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Car ...Show more
Thank You Andy Warhol by Catherine Johnson
$21.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. The 'Thank You Andy Warhol' project began one morning in January, 2011, when author Catherine Johnson realised she was in the middle of the economic depression that was crippling her creative community and felt herself 'frozen.' She wondered, 'What would Andy do?' and realised he would adap ...Show more
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds by Simon Ings
$40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writers - once the faithful servants of authority - into figures of political consequence. Maurice Barres, who first wiel ...Show more
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Rise and Fall of the American Dream by DAVID. LEONHARDT
$40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR) The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times's "The Morning" newsletter. Two decades into the twenty-first ...Show more
Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land by Rachel Cockerell
$40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
On June 7th 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail into the Atlantic. It is heading not to Jerusalem or New York, as many on board have dreamt, but to Texas. The man who persuades the passengers to go is David Jochelmann, Rachel Cockerell's great-grandfather. It marks the beginning of the Galve ...Show more
The Doctor of Hiroshima: His heart-breaking and inspiring true life story by Dr. Michihiko Hachiya
$37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
"With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care for her little baby? To conceal the fear and terror in my heart I left her, trying to put up a cheerful front. But no one could conceal from her the ominous ...Show more
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East by Nicholas Morton
$29.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
'Brain-stretching . . . pulsating . . . irresistable' The Sunday Times'Deeply researched and elegantly written - essential reading' Dan Jones'Erudite, often thrilling and much-needed' Daily TelegraphHow the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages.For cent ...Show more