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Beautiful Assassin by Michael C. White
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Elizabeth Moynihan, a young journalist, has hit the jackpot. It's 1992 and a chance remark has sent her to a small farm in the middle of nowhere in Colorado. There resides Russia's most notorious sniper-turned-spy, the one-time beautiful assassin, Tat'yana Levchenko, and she's ready to tell her story.Du ...Show more
C. S. Lewis, the Boy who Chronicled Narnia: A Biography by Michael White
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Clive Staples Lewis is one of a rare group of writers with universal appeal. His most popular work, the seven-book Chronicles of Narnia, has sold over a hundred million copies since The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe appeared in 1950. But Lewis was much more than a novelist. He was a brilliant acad ...Show more
Coffee with Shakespeare by Michael White
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: Coffee with... S.
A chat with William Shakespeare turns into an evocative journey into the personal and professional worlds of the greatest writer in the English language. Over the past four centuries his iconic status as a poet and dramatist has come to represent what it means to be a genius, and his words have given us ...Show more
Darwin : A Life in Science by John Gribbin & Michael White
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Today Charles Darwin is regarded as one of the most -- if not the most -- influential scientists of all time. Yet in his lifetime his radical new intepretation of evolution based on natural selection earned him as much antagonism as it did accolades. In fact he faced a huge barrage of criticism for his ...Show more
Einstein : A life in science by Michael White & John Gribbin
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
As much as we all know that 'E = mc2' was Einstein's most important and groundbreaking equation, do we really know what it means or why Einstein is regarded as one of history's foremost thinkers? In this absorbing biography Michael White and John Gribbin reveal the man behind the physics and introduce u ...Show more
Equinox by Michael White
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Laura Niven, a former New York journalist turned thriller-writer, returns to Oxford University, where she studied twenty years earlier, to help her daughter, Joanna, settle in to life as a first-year student. Visiting Oxford also prompts her to journey into her own personal history, and Laura stays wit ...Show more
Galileo Antichrist: A Biography by Michael White
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
A giant of science, Galileo's achievements allow him to be bracketed alongside Newton, Einstein and Darwin. A devout Roman Catholic, his genius threw him into conflict with his Church and his refusal to back down turned him into a martyr for many. Here, bestselling author Michael White gets to grips wit ...Show more
Machiavelli : A man misunderstood by Michael White
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
'Machiavellian: a person who adopts the principles recommended, or supposed to have been recommended, by Machiavelli in his treatise on statecraft; a person who practises expediency in preference to morality; an intriguer or schemer. Usu. derogatory.' For more than five hundred years the name Machiavell ...Show more
Soul Catcher by Michael White
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Augustus Cain is a war-scarred wanderer with an uncanny, if unwelcome, ability to track the most elusive runaway slaves. To repay a debt and keep his horse, which he carelessly gambled away, he must head north from Virginia and retrieve a runaway named Rosetta. In the tradition of Cold Mountain comes th ...Show more
Soul Catcher by Michael C. White
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Augustus Cain is a man with his back against the wall. A war-scarred wanderer, he faces a past he wants to forget, a present without prospect or fortune, and an uncertain future marred by the loss of his most prized possession - his horse - which he has carelessly gambled away. But he is not without ski ...Show more
The Fruits of War : How Military Conflict Accelerates Technology by Michael White
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
Since man first wielded a stick in anger, war and conflict have been prime movers in the progress of science and technology. In our earliest days the impetus may have been as simple as protecting territory or a food supply; more recently science has benefited from massive injections of cash when nationa ...Show more
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