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"History is a distillation of rumour"
Thomas Carlyle
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1968 : The Year that Rocked the World
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Mark Kurlansky
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Vintage (Random House imprint)
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It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. It was also the year of the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, the Chicago Convention, The Tet Offensive, the French student rebellion, Civil Rights, the generation gap, the birth of the Women's movement and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union.
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Mark Kurlansky has recorded the cultural and political history of a world changing year in which television's influence on global events first became apparent and spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously all around the world.
1968
encompasses the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media. This book shows us how one restless, volatile year has helped shape us into who we are today.
First published 2004.
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9780733620171
A Book of Scientific Curiosities: A Book of Scientific Curiosities : Facts and Feats
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Cyril Aydon
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A selection of nearly 200 famous scientists, and their discoveries. This work pulls together elements of mystery and intrigue, with accounts that bring science to life.
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A Briefer History of Time
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Stephen Hawking with Leonard Mlodinow
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Bantam Press
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Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another: the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and future of the universe. But it is also true that in the years since its publication, readers have repeatedly told Professor Hawking of their great difficulty in understanding some of the book's most important concepts. This is the origin of and the reason for A BRIEFER HISTORY OF TIME: its author's wish to make its content accessible to readers - as well as to bring it up-to-date with the latest scientific observations and findings. Although this book is literally somewhat 'briefer', it actually expands on the great subjects of the original. Purely technical concepts, such as the mathematics of chaotic boundary conditions, are gone. Conversely, subjects ...
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A Forest Journey : The story of wood and civilization (updated edition 2005)
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John Perlin
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Countryman Press (US)
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The destruction of the world's forests is one of the major concerns of our age. Each year the world loses some 37 million acres of forests. But this book is more than just a chronicle of deforestation.
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"Outstanding...profusely documented and illustrated...with a story-teller's pace and ability to surprise...This book takes one of those bold imaginative sweeps through history that leave you full of excitement, as suddenly events seem to fall into a pattern for the first time."< DD>
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A contemporary view of the effects of wood, as used for building and fuel, and of deforestation on the development of civilization.
Until the ascendancy of fossil fuels, wood has been the principal fuel and building material from the dawn of civilization. Its abundance or scarcity greatly shaped, as "A Forest Journey" ably relates, the culture, demographics, economy, internal and external politics, and ...
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An End to Suffering : The Buddha in the World
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Pankaj Mishra
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Picador
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The Buddha, his life and legacy – refracted through one man's search for identity and one nation's experience of independence.
An accomplished history of the Buddha,
An End to Suffering
is also a deeply personal story – the story of Pankaj Mishra's search for meaning, for truth and peace in the modern world and, specifically, in post-colonial, independent India.
As he describes his travels to unearth the origins of the Buddha, Mishra offers glimpses into his own quest for enlightenment, from childhood to September 11, from family background to friends met and made, from lessons learned to achievements as a writer.
Through this, Mishra reveals the parallels between his time and the Buddha's, between their respective journeys – and that of their country – in search of progress and reconciliation.
First published 2004.
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A Problem from Hell : America and the Age of Genocide
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Samantha Power
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Winner of the US National Book Critics' Circle Award
'The United States has never in its history intervened to stop genocide and has in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred.'
In this convincing and painstaking interrogation of the last century of American history and foreign policy, Samantha Power draws upon declassified documents, private papers, unprecedented interviews and her own reporting from the modern killing fields to tell the story of American indifference and American courage in the face of man's inhumanity to man.
Tackling the argument that successive US leaders from Wilson to Bush were unaware of genocidal horrors as they were occurring – against Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Kurds, Rwandans, Bosnians – during the past century, Samantha Powers seeks to establish precisely how much was known and when, and proposes that much human misery and tragedy could readily have been ...
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