Mom and Me and Mom (#7) by Maya Angelou
$27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.'So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines, purveyor of a gambling business and rooming house, and mother to Maya Angelou, b ...Show more
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (#1) by Maya Angelou
$27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
Maya Angelou becomes a Virago Modern Classics author, with brand-new jackets and a major campaign for her seven volumes of memoir, starting with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGSThe international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a ...Show more
The Heart Of A Woman (#4) by Maya Angelou
$27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
From the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, this memoir chronicles Maya Angelou's involvement with the civil rights movement. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to t ...Show more
Richard Nixon - The Life by John A. Farrell
$26.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. Richard Nixon opens with Navy lieutenant 'Nick' Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes quickly gave way to unapologetic ruthless ...Show more
Fire In The Night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia, and Zion by John Bierman and Colin Smith
$16.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. Orde Charles Wingate. Winston Churchill thought him a military genius; others considered him greatly over-rated; a few even thought him mad. His overriding passion was for Zionism, a cause which he embraced when posted to British-ruled Palestine in 1936. There he raised the Special Night Sq ...Show more
Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters by Gordon, Robert, Richards, Keith
$18.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. 'Can't Be Satisfied is that rare thing in musical biographies: a book that maps out not just a single, extraordinary life but the cultural forces that shaped it' Sean O'Hagan, Observer Muddy Waters was the greatest blues musician ever, and the most influential. He invented electric blues, i ...Show more
New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle To Defend the West by David E Sanger
$50.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry against the other two great nuclear powers--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of a half century ago. New Cold Wars--the latest from Pulitze ...Show more
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World by Tom Chivers
$40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Thomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied the profound impact of his work. Like most research into probability at the time, his theorem was mainly seen as relevant to games of chance, like dice and cards. But its implications soon be ...Show more
The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the leg ...Show more
Lincoln's Autocrat - The Life of Edwin Stanton by William Marvel
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Series: Civil War America Ser.
Secondhand. Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's secretary of war during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction. In the first full biography of ...Show more
Blessington-d'Orsay: A Masquerade by Michael Sadleir
$47.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. Biography of an Irish woman born Margaret Power who was very poorly treated by the men in her life even though she was the most famous Lady Blessington.