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Why Nations Fail: The Origins Of Power, Prosperity, And Poverty

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson · 2013

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Profile Books 2013 Paperback 529 Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions. Drawing o...

What You Did Not Tell - A Russian Past And The Journey Home

Mark Mazower · 2018

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Penguin Publishing Group 2018 Paperback 400 SHORLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Uncovering his family's remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and thei...

The Stone Book Quartet

Alan Garner · 2006

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Harper Perennial 2006 Paperback 194 A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain's greatest children's novelists. Through four interconnected fables of a way of living in rural England that has now disappeared, Alan Garner vividly brings to life a landscape situat...

Finding Flow: The Psychology Of Engagement With Everyday Life

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 1997

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Basic Books 1997 Paperback 182 From one of the pioneers of the scientific study of happiness, an indispensable guide to living your best life. What makes a good life? Is it money? An important job? Leisure time? Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi believes our obsessive focus on such meas...

Cookin' With Queen Ida

Queen Ida Guillory and Naomi Wise · 1990

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Prima Publishing 1990 Spiral Bound 240 A celebrity cookbook with a difference--from the Grammy Award-winning Queen of Zydeco music. Reflecting her family's traditions from the remote areas of Louisiana, her recipes are both authentic and tantalizing generation-to-generation fa...

The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society

Mary Ann Shaffer · 2008

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Allen & Unwin 2008 Hardback 275 "A glorious, gorgeous, completely irresistible novel, Guernsey will win hearts everywhere. An affecting, emotional epistolary novel recalling the charm and warmth of 84 Charing Cross Road and the gentle wit of Alexander McCall Smith, Guernsey te...

The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society Film Tie-In

Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer · 2018

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Allen & Unwin 2018 Paperback 276 It's 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer's block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey-- a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book--she...

Engines of Creation: the Coming Era of Nanotechnology

K. Eric Drexler · 1987

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Anchor 1987 Paperback 320 This brilliant work heralds the new age of nanotechnology, which will give us thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter.  Drexler examines the enormous implications of these developments for medicine, the economy, and the environment...

The Penguin History of New Zealand

Michael King · 2003

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

Penguin Books (NZ) 2003 Paperback 563 New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflic...

Lilac Girls

Martha Hall Kelly · 2017

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Ballantine Books 2017 Paperback 502 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of The Nightingale and Sarah’s Key, inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom...

Denn Die Seele Ist in Deiner Hand

Batya Gur · 2003

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Goldmann 2003 Hardback 447 DJ; Heavy. 'April 2017' written in pen on title page. Good

The Bee Balm Murders: a Martha's Vineyard Mystery

Cynthia Riggs · 2011

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Minotaur Books 2011 Hardback 302 The one-of-a-kind sleuth Victoria Trumbull must solve another puzzling mystery on Martha’s Vineyard, her Island home. It’s spring on the Island, and at the suggestion of her beekeeper, Victoria takes in a new boarder, Orion Nanopoulos. Orion is...

Clean Break

Jacqueline Wilson · 2005

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Doubleday 2005 Hardback 301 If you loved Jacqueline Wilson's Best Friends, here is another superb, thought-provoking novel for readers of 8+. Em adores her funny, glamorous dad - who cares if he's not her real father? He's wonderful to her, and to her little brother and sister...

Memoirs Of Li Hung Chang

Li Hung Chang and William Francis Mannix · 1923

$79.00 (€71.68 | £59.80 | ¥12,615)

Houghton Mifflin 1923 Hardback 298 With a story of a literary forgery by Ralph D. Paine. The Memoirs of Li Hung Chang (titled Memoirs of the Viceroy Li Hung Chang in the United Kingdom) is a book by American writer William Francis Mannix, first published in October 1913 by Hou...

Let Us Speak Rarotongan Maori: Ka Tuatua Maori Tatou

Floribert van Lier

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

Stapled 90 Third edition undated. The typing for the publication was done by Mr R. J. Wilson and drawings done by Mr R. D. McEwan - author's note on back cover. Staples rusty; cover foxed; stain on text block edge. Good

Consumer Law In New Zealand

Kate Tokeley · 2014

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Lexis Nexis 2014 Paperback 543 This second edition incorporates all the recent developments in consumer law. The most important of these include the introduction of a prohibition on unfair terms in standard form consumer contracts; the introduction of responsible lending oblig...

Law of Contract in New Zealand

John Burrows and Jeremy Finn and Stephen Todd · 2012

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Lexis Nexis 2012 Softcover 960 Heavy. Publisher sticker on cover. Good

Deus Ex Universe: Children's Crusade Vol. 1

Alex Irvine · 2016

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Titan 2016 Stapled With society still reeling from the Aug Incident - the Illuminati orchestrated event which caused augmented individuals to mindlessly attack their 'natural' counterparts: anti-aug sentiment is at an all-time global high. Task Force 29 - an Interpol-funded co...

The Fine Art Of Russian Lacquered Miniatures

Vladimir Guliayev · 1993

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Robert Hale 1993 Softcover 287 Heavy. Ex library, plastic cover, hinges reinforced with tape. Good

Citrus: How To Select, Grow, And Enjoy

Richard Ray and Lance Walheim · 1980

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Horticultural Publications 1980 Paperback 180 A guide to growing and enjoying fruits such as oranges, lemons and kumquats, with information on correct climate, varieties, selection, grove landscaping, and uses of citrus in cooking. Good