No man is an island : A Selection from the Prose of John Donne by John Donne
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction
Rise and Fall of Athens by PLUTARCH
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading pu ...Show more
The Bolivian Diary by Ernesto Che Guevara
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction
The last diary of revolutionary Che Guevara with entries up until two days before his murder."Here is Ernesto Che Guevara's account of the 1966-67 guerrilla struggle in Bolivia. A day-by-day chronicle of the campaign led by one of the central leaders of the Cuban revolution to forge a revolutionary move ...Show more
The Four Branches of the Mabinogi - Epic Stories, Ancient Traditions by J. K. Jackson (Editor); Shân Morgain (Introduction by)
$21.99 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: The\World's Greatest Myths and Legends Ser.
A popular collection of ancient Celtic myths from Wales, with Arthurian tales, and part of a grand tradition that links Irish, Scottish and European culture. The ancient Mabinogi is a great world literature, and fascinating Celtic mythology. Centuries of oral storytelling worked up its intricate art ...Show more
The History of Sexuality Volume 1 by Michel Foucault
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledgeis the first part of his influential trilogy of books on the history of sexuality. He argues that the recent explosion of discussion about sex in the West means that, far from being liberated, we are in the process of making a science of sexuality that is devoted t ...Show more
The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
$125.00 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction
The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins by Donald Horne
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "This often-oversimplified classic raises difficult questions about Australia's elites that are still worth asking. Are Australians, for example, still 'a largely non-contemplative people' who have "a limited view of the pos ...Show more
The New Penguin English Dictionary by Robert Allen
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Reference Books S.
This dictionary covers standard English, scientific and technical vocabulary, specialist terms, slang, and English of earlier periods. Other features include 21st-century neologisms and such contributors as Richard Dawkins on evolution, Helena Kennedy on feminism, and Vernon Bogdanor on devolution.
The Periodic Table: Popular Penguins by Primo Levi
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of ...Show more
The Prince: Popular Penguins by Niccolo Machiavelli
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Princeis his controversial handbook about the dynamics of power, leadership and strategy. Machiavelli's shrewd argument that sometimes it is necessary to ab ...Show more