Tolkien Maker of Middle Earth by Catherine McIlwaine
$125.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing | Reading Level: very good
The range of J. R. R. Tolkien's talents is remarkable. Not only was he an accomplished linguist and philologist, as well as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature and Norse folklore, but also a skillful illustrator and storyteller. Drawing on these talents, he created a universe which is for m ...Show more
Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Winnie Yeung
$34.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria ' just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque and s ...Show more
Emotions of Protest by James M Jasper
$54.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
In Donald Trump's America, protesting has roared back into fashion. The Women's March, held the day after Trump's inauguration, may have been the largest in American history, and resonated around the world. Between Trump's tweets and the march's popularity, it is clear that displays of anger dominate Am ...Show more
and Time Matter Space Universe as It Really Is: Earth by Thomas R Scott, James Powell
$65.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
The universe that science reveals to us can seem far outside the human mind's comfort zone. Subjects near and far open up dizzying vistas, from the infinitesimal to the colossal. We inhabit a tumultuous universe that extends from our immediate environs to the most distant galaxies and beyond. And humani ...Show more
Becoming the Story: War Correspondents since 9/11 by Lindsay Palmer
$46.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
The dangerous new realities of reporting on war The September 11 attacks produced great changes in journalism and the lives of the people who practiced it. Foreign reporters felt surrounded by the hate of American colleagues for ''the enemy.'' Americans in combat areas became literal targets of ant ...Show more
Lingua Cosmica: Science Fiction from around the World by Dale Knickerbocker
$54.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Forging a new canon for international sf Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars and students alike face a problem: Where does one begin to explore global SF in the absence of an established c ...Show more
Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto by Mark Polizzotti
$44.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty'summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment. In this nuanced ...Show more
Essential Tversky by Amos Tversky
$66.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Amos Tversky (1937--1996) was a towering figure in the cognitive and decision sciences. His work was ingenious, exciting, and influential, spanning topics from intuition to statistics to behavioral economics. His long and extraordinarily productive collaboration with his friend and colleague Daniel Kahn ...Show more
and Processing Acquisition Creating Language: Integrating Evolution by Morten Christiansen, Nick Chater
$56.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique in the biological world. In this book, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater argue that to understand this astonishing phenomenon, we must consider how language is created: moment ...Show more
Wellington : Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814–1852 by Rory Muir
$49.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
From the leading Wellington historian, a fascinating reassessment of the Duke’s most famous victory and his role in the turbulent politics after Waterloo Wellington’s momentous victory over Napoleon was the culminating point of a brilliant military career. Yet Wellington’s achievements were far from ove ...Show more
John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age by Annelise K Madsen, Mary Broadway, Richard Ormond
$64.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
This groundbreaking study focuses on John Singer Sargent’s sustained, yet largely overlooked, involvement with Chicago’s vibrant Gilded Age culture. Documenting the artist’s personal connections to the city and the prominence of his work in Chicago collections, Annelise K. Madsen explores Sargent’s vari ...Show more
Bela Bartok by David Cooper
$49.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
The definitive account of the life and music of Hungary’s greatest twentieth-century composer This deeply researched biography of Béla Bartók (1881–1945) provides a more comprehensive view of the innovative Hungarian musician than ever before. David Cooper traces Bartók’s international career as an arde ...Show more
