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 Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty (History of Communication)Best Price: $13.99 As N. Chomsky brilliantly states, `Alex Carey draws the veil of deceit and imposed ignorance in... |  Discoveries: Easter Island (Discoveries (Abrams))Best Price: $11.06 Some mysteries may never be solved. Where did the Sumerian language come from? Who built the... |  The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the TalibanBest Price: $7.01 "The Punishment of Virtue" gives the reader great insight into the political... |  The Enigmas of Easter IslandBest Price: $75.00 Flenley and Bahn have created an incredibly comprehensive reconstruction of Easter Island's... |  View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer EverestBest Price: $8.92 Sir Edmund Hillary was clearly a remarkable man with his life marked particularly by the first... |
 Alaska (Traveller's Wildlife Guides)Best Price: $17.43 I found the book to be very informative and well organized. The photos were a tremendous aid to... |  Antarctica: Life on the Ice (Travelers' Tales)Best Price: $7.25 I lived and worked in McMurdo Station, Antarctica, for a few seasons. Reading the Traveler's... |  Mission Possible: The Wonderful Story of God and a Wyclife Translator in the Jungles of Papua New GuineaBest Price: $3.07 I first bought this book after hearing Marilyn speak. It is almost as good as hearing her in... |  The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New EnglandBest Price: $40.10 This is a great book by a brilliant historian who is deeply revered on both sides of the... |  Australian Language & Culture (Language Reference)Best Price: $4.45 This is an interesting book for someone who has not been to Australia. Although there are... |
 Tiki of HawaiiBest Price: $8.00 This little book is a great read -- the first chapter is an accurate history of Tikis in... |  Hawaii The Big Island Revealed; The Ultimate GuidebookBest Price: $39.00 I compared it with three other guidebooks, and this one is hands down by far the best. I also... |  The Girl From Botany BayBest Price: $1.99 I BOUGHT THIS BOOK THINKING IT WAS A NOVEL. I WAS DISSAPOINTED WHEN I FOUND IT WAS NOT. I WAS... |  Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime (Inner Traditions)Best Price: $11.98 Well well well, I fully expected to find a five star reader rating here. I guess I forgot that... |  In the South Seas (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.60 If you read only one "South Seas" book from the 1920s back, this should be the one. ... |
 Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity, 4)Best Price: $26.95 In a world of swift and sweeping cultural transformations, few have seen changes as rapid and... |  The Indian Ocean (Seas in History)Best Price: $30.74 This is a splendid book that I would love to use as the core text in a new course on the Indian... |  The Proving GroundBest Price: $39.83 I read An Extreme Event (about the 98 Sydney-Hobart race) prior to reading Knecht's book, so... |  Arctic Village: A 1930's Portrait of Wiseman, Alaska (Classic Reprint Series)Best Price: $18.00 interesting stuff but written not very well. reading this book makes me feel like eating dry... |  Arts of the Pacific IslandsBest Price: $7.54 |
 Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea HighlandsBest Price: $16.99 I have used *Kuru Sorcery* for several university courses. It's a great book for its time... |  Aboriginal Art A&I (Art and Ideas)Best Price: $16.49 Over the past two decades, Aboriginal art from Australia has been gathering momentum as a major... |  The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the BountyBest Price: $2.62 Ms. Alexander's work is carefully researched and beautifully written. She also has clear biases... |  Through the Eye of the Needle: A Maori Elder Remembers (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)Best Price: $37.95 Book brings in technical case-study of the Maori culture and mixes it with easier-to-follow... |  Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's LandBest Price: $10.98 Literary historian Sven Linqvist was introduced to Australia at a young age. An 1896 book... |
 Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul - Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War IIBest Price: $6.99 Darkest Hour is not only an excellent historical account of one of the most important... |  The Mardu Aborigines: Living the Dream in Australia's Desert (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)Best Price: $65.83 I used the book for an tourism Assignment. I must say it supplied sufficient information form me... |  A History of India (Blackwell History of the World)Best Price: $31.99 Academic in style, Stein's text provides a useful survey of Indian history from antiquity to the... |  Native American Estate: The Struggle over Indian and Hawaiian LandsBest Price: $18.00 |  Handbook of Japanese Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology)Best Price: $16.70 Japanese gods, too numerous to count, are known collectively as yaoyorozu-no-kamigami--the eight... |
 Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson CrusoeBest Price: $1.11 I liked this book. It is well researched about the background of Alexander Selkirk which is... |  Shackleton's Boat JourneyBest Price: $10.36 This book is an interesting first hand account of the Shackleton expedition and their journey by... |  The Manchus (Peoples of Asia)Best Price: $34.81 Read your typical history book covering Chinese history and you'll get a very distinct picture... |  The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies (Religious Forces in the Modern World Series)Best Price: $2.00 this was a required text in a college political science class. the book gave concise examples... |  The Life of Captain James CookBest Price: $17.90 J.C. Beaglehole has brought to life in this book, not only the greatest seaman and navigator... |
 Australia the Land (Lands, Peoples, and Cultures)Best Price: $3.93 |  True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the PoleBest Price: $6.59 There were no winners in this race, as expertly laid out by author Bruce Henderson. While the... |  Crooked Past: The History of a Frontier Mining CampBest Price: $8.95 The crookedest street in Fairbanks, an Alaskan sourdough once said, is rightly named for town... |  To Steal a Kingdom: Probing Hawaiian HistoryBest Price: $14.88 I bought this book as research for a project that I am doing concerning the life of... |  Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island RevealedBest Price: $17.79 |
 Voices of the Vietnam POWs: Witnesses to Their FightBest Price: $14.93 Unsure whether they would be greeted as traitors or heroes, POWs returning from Vietnam... |  Pitcairn Island, the Bounty Mutineers and Their Descendants: A HistoryBest Price: $44.00 This book is rich with detail. The author goes beyond the story of the Mutiny on the Bounty and... |  Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in HistoryBest Price: $12.24 Ms. Simpson, Thank you for not only the thrilling prose, but also for the objective research you... |  Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter IslandBest Price: $19.96 An excellent detailed history of Easter Island and the Rapanui people confirmed by the... |  Mau Moko: The World of Maori TatooBest Price: $39.20 |
 The Archaeology of Ancient AustraliaBest Price: $43.01 This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the... |  Eastern Arctic Kayaks: History, Design, TechniqueBest Price: $35.10 The collaborative work of the late John Heath (1923-2003) who was an acknowledged expert in... |  Birds of Australia: Seventh Edition (Princeton Field Guides)Best Price: $26.03 Thorough field guide, easy to use, compact and suitable size to truly call itself a field guide.... |  Popular Quilling (Milner Craft Series)Best Price: $4.51 There are some beautiful projects in this book, and if you're pretty good at quilling, you... |  The Second World War in the Pacific (Origins Of Modern Wars)Best Price: $28.00 Akira Iriye is Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University, and is a... |
 Jan Ken Po: The World of Hawaii's Japanese AmericansBest Price: $8.94 This is a book about Japanese Americans living in Hawaii. It is a useful book for people... |  Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North PoleBest Price: $2.09 This book is not only a wonderful look at the fascinating men who were obsessed with reaching... |  History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 8: New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944-August 1944 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II)Best Price: $6.26 My 86 year old father served in the New Guinea campaign. Only now, in his later years, has he... |  A History of the Pacific IslandsBest Price: $17.88 I read this book back in 1995 and am surprised I am the first Amazon user to review it. I found... |  Remember World War II: Kids Who Survived Tell Their Stories (Remember)Best Price: $6.44 I am especially fond of this book because my mother-in-law tells her story as a 6 year old child... |
 The Voyage of the Catalpa: A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels' Escape to FreedomBest Price: $4.25 Eyed this book at a friend's home in New Bedford & had to read it. You can't get a better... |  The Book of Honu: Enjoying and Learning About Hawaii's Sea Turtles (A Latitude 20 Book)Best Price: $14.78 |  Going Back: Australian Veterans Return to Viet NamBest Price: $13.57 Historian and veteran Gary McKay details the experiences of Australian Vietnam War heroes as... |  Fruit of the MotherlandBest Price: $93.50 Challenging the portrayal of sexual inequality as a universal condition, Lepowsky presents a... | |
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