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1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap; ...Show more
Big Lies - From Socrates to Social Media by Mark Kurlansky; Eric Zelz
$43.99 NZD
Category: Social commentary
Mark Kurlansky's bestselling works of nonfiction view the history of the world through unexpected lenses, including cod, salt, and paper. In this new book for young readers his lens is the art of the big lie. Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast b ...Show more
Big Oyster: New York in the World - A Molluscular History by Mark Kurlansky
$37.00 NZD
Category: World History
When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 - his first New York real estate killing - he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770.From the Minuit purchase until centuries of pollution finally destroyed the beds in the 1920s ...Show more
Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man by Mark Kurlansky
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. However, he observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds froze in a way that maintained their integrity after thawing. As a res ...Show more
Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man by Mark Kurlansky
$55.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us" Cod," "Salt," and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture.
Boogaloo On 2nd Avenue by Mark Kurlansky
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It's the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels outside his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighbourhood. In between paralyzing bouts of claustrophobia, Nathan wonders whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry maker whose pare ...Show more
COD: a Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
$29.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
"A loving eulogy not only to a fish, but to the people whose lives have been shaped by the habits of the fish, and whose way of life is now at an end". -- New York Newsday A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it ...Show more
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Cod" spans a thousand years and four continents. From the Vikings, who pursued the codfish across the Atlantic, and the enigmatic Basques, who first commercialized it in medieval times, to Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602, and Clarence Birdseye, who founded an industry on frozen cod in t ...Show more
Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Mark Kurlansky
$39.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Reading Level: very good
A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has co ...Show more
International Night: A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World Including More Than 250 Recipes by Mark Kurlansky
$37.00 NZD
Category: World Cookbooks
Once a week in the Kurlansky home, Mark spins a globe and wherever his daughter's finger lands becomes the theme of that Friday night's dinner. Their tradition of International Night has afforded Mark an opportunity to share with his daughter, Talia--and now the readers of International Night--the recip ...Show more
Milk! A 10,000 year old Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky
$35.00 NZD
Category: World Cookbooks
Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy--with recipes throughout. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk becam ...Show more
Nonviolence by Mark Kurlansky
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare. According to this view, all the important ideas and significant changes of humankind were put forward in an effort to win one violent bloody conflict or another. This approach to history is only one of many examples of how so ...Show more