Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish by Dovid Katz
$32.00 AUD
Category: History
Words on Fire offers a rich, engaging account of the history and evolution of the Yiddish language. Drawing on almost thirty years of scholarship, prominent Yiddish scholar Dovid Katz traces the origins of Yiddish back to the Europe of a thousand years ago, and shows how those origins are themselves an ...Show more
People of the Book: The Forgotton History of Islam and the West by Zachary Karabell
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
We live in a world polarized by the ongoing conflict between Muslims, Christians and Jews, but - in an extraordinary narrative spanning fourteen centuries - Zachary Karabell argues that the relationship between Islam and the West has never been simply one of animosity and competition, but has also compr ...Show more
Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$26.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Classics of Reportage Ser.
In 1964, renowned reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent, and for the next ten years he was 'responsible' for fifty countries. He befriended Che Guevara in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. He reported on ...Show more
Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This journalist's portrait of life in Iran just after the Revolution is "a book of great economy and power with] a supreme sense of the absurd" (New Republic). Iran, 1980: the revolutionaries have taken charge. In a deserted Teheran hotel, Ryszard Kapuściński tries to make journalistic and human sense o ...Show more
Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
"Imperium" is the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was submerged under a single identity for most of the twentieth century - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This is Kapuscinski's vivid, compelling and personal report on the life and death of the Soviet superpower, from the e ...Show more
Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinksi
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
During his career as a foreign correspondent, Ryszard Kapuscinski has witnessed twenty-seven revolutions and coups. Imperium is the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was submerged under a single identity for most of this century the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. During the ye ...Show more
Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ryszard Kapuscinski is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's preeminent journalists, demonstrating an almost mystical ability to discover the odd or overlooked and incorporating these sometimes surreal details into narratives that go beyond mere reportage and enter the realm of literature. A ...Show more