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Blood Matters : A Journey Along the Genetic Frontier by Masha Gessen
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. The discovery initiated Gessen into a club of sorts: the small (but exponentially expanding) group of people in possession of a new and different way of knowing themselves through what is ...Show more
Blood Matters : A journey along the genetic frontier by Masha Gessen
$29.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. As she wrestled with a wrenching personal decision - what to do with such knowledge - Gessen explored the landscape of this brave new world, speaking with others like her, and with expert ...Show more
Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In 2000, the Clay Institute in Boston named it one of seven g ...Show more
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
$25.00 NZD
Category: History and Politics
"When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen." --The New York Times "A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact." --InterviewAs seen on MSNBC's Morning Joe and heard on NPR's All Things Considered the bestselling, National Book Award-winning jo ...Show more
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recen ...Show more
The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
$36.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, ...Show more
The Man Without A Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
$29.99 NZD
Category: World History
The Man without a Face is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress, making his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world. Handpicked as a successor by the " ...Show more
The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Handpicked in 1999 by the 'Family' surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, with very little governmental or administrative experience beyond having served as deputy mayor of St Petersburg, seemed like the perfect choice in the eyes of an oligarchy bent on moulding ...Show more
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