Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke
27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Culture
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER"Brilliant... riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued."--Beth Macy, author of DopesickAs heard on Fresh Air This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and wh ...Show more
Personal Effects - What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me about Caring for the Living by Robert A. Jensen
39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Culture
The owner of the world's leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the yellow tape, and explores what it means to be human after a lifetime of caring for the dead. You have seen Robert A. Jensen--you just never knew it. As the owner of the world's largest disaster managemen ...Show more
The Palace Papers by Tina Brown
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Culture
William, Harry, Kate, Meghan, Andrew, Charles, Camilla, Diana . . . and the Queen. Based on unprecedented sources and research, bestselling author Tina Brown takes readers behind the palace walls to tell the real story of the Windsors over the last twenty years since the death of Diana. Full of powerful ...Show more
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Culture
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics--an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and ...Show more
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? and other thoughts on modern life by Pandora Sykes
24.00 NZD
Category: Popular Culture | Reading Level: very good
Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessness; like we're somehow failing to live our best life. What does doing it right even look like? And why do so many women feel like they're g ...Show more
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Culture
'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.' - Sebastian Barry. Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohn's essays and reviews h ...Show more
The Spinoff Book by Toby Manhire
38.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Five years ago, The Spinoff burst onto New Zealand's media scene with smart, screamingly funny and seriously relevant writing. Since then, it has enraged and inspired all the right people, respectably won Website of the Year at the 2019 Voyager Media Awards, and expanded into television, podcasts and no ...Show more
Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for the Simpsons by Mike Reiss; Mathew Klickstein; Judd Apatow (Foreword by)
35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Culture
One of Vulture's Top-10 Comedy Books of 2018 A "Must" pick by Entertainment Weekly An A.V. Club "Best Books of June" selection A "New and Noteworthy" selection by USA Today In celebration of The Simpsons thirtieth anniversary, the show's longest-serving writer and producer offers a humorous look at ...Show more
We Are Bananas by Charles Saatchi
39.99 NZD
49.99 (20% off)
Category: Popular Culture
In his new book, Charles Saatchi looks at hard-to-believe bewildering facts. Amongst the startling images, these mystifying hidden stories are explained in Saatchi's entertaining, succinct style.
Chic Geek's Fashion, Grooming and Style by Jayne Marcus
9.99 NZD
34.99 (71% off)
Category: Popular Culture
The geek look (casual, comfortable, and just a little offbeat) is in And Chic Geek is the online magazine that teaches today's geeks (and geek wannabes) how to achieve it. Marcus Jaye, men's style guru for the magazine, takes the guesswork out of achieving geekness in this comprehensive guide, covering ...Show more
Supernatural Psychology - Roads Less Traveled by Travis Langley (Editor); Jonathan Maberry (Foreword by); Mark R. Pellegrino (Introduction by); Lynn S. Zubernis (Editor)
24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Culture
Who hunts monsters and why? What drives heroes to keep going no matter how bad things get? This compendium of 21 chapters offers a fascinating look into the shadows and the psychology behind the poplar TV series Supernatural. Book jacket.
Tattoo Street Style by Alice Snape
50.00 NZD
Category: Popular Culture
Celebrate your uniqueness. Inspiring and captivating,Tattoo Street Styleis a tribute to creativity and self-expression, a celebration of body, beauty and style, a manifesto for redefining the rules.Over four hundred original portraits capture extraordinary tattooed people from around the world, in New Y ...Show more