Calculus Made EasyBeing a Very-simplest Introduction to Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning which are Generally Called by the Terrifying Names of the Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus by Silvanus Phillips Thompson
25.00 NZD
Category: Science
"Calculus Made Easy" has long been the most popular calculus primer, and this major revision of the classic math text makes the subject at hand still more comprehensible to readers of all levels. With a new introduction, three new chapters, modernized language and methods throughout, and an appendix of ...Show more
Elementary : The Explosive File of Scott Watson and the Disappearance of Ben & Olivia by Ian Wishart
38.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
OF ALL THE BOOKS ON THIS CASE, YOU NEED TO READ THIS ONE...It's a murder mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes. It even has a Watson. Yet, solving the disappearance of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope has proved anything but elementary. Some books on the case have argued so strongly for either innocence or guilt t ...Show more
Moods of Future Joys by Alastair Humphreys
21.99 NZD
Category: Cycling
This enthralling account details Alastair Humphrey's epic journey across Africa, through Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya. His experience is at times brutal, and though he faces loneliness, despair, and harsh conditions, he also survives through trust in the kindness of strangers.
The Art of Chi KungMaking the Most of Your Vital Energy by Kiew Kit Wong
46.99 NZD
Category: Fitness
Widely recognized as an effective means of stress management and healing, chi kung is also an extraordinary technique for developing a general fitness of the mind and body. In The Art of Chi Kung, fourth generation Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit explores the principles and philosophy of chi kung, explaining ...Show more
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: \
"It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life u a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. Ignoring suc ...Show more
Superstitions & Why we Have Them by Max Cryer
24.99 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
Some people casually say 'touch wood' when they speak of something they hope will happen. Others won't allow peacock feathers into the house. And almost anyone who finds a four-leafed clover will treasure it and keep it. Why? Some superstitions are so ancient and have been practised for so long that the ...Show more
Clinton Anderson's Downunder Horsemanship: Establishing Respect and Control for English and Western Riders by Clinton Anderson
39.99 NZD
Category: Animals
When Clinton Anderson wrote the book Downunder Horsemanship: Establishing Respect and Control for English and Western Riders, he was an up-and-coming clinician, and his goal was to create a practical training guide for everyday horse people to learn to better communicate with their horses. Ten years lat ...Show more
Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A. C. Grayling
29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earl ...Show more
The Battle of the Somme by Matthias Strohn
55.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Companion
Published to coincide with the commemoration of the centenary of the battle of the Somme, this new study comprises twelve separate articles written by some of the foremost military historians, each of which looks at a specific aspect of the battle. Focusing on key aspects of the British, French, and Ger ...Show more
The Morning They Came for Us Dispatches from Syria by Janine Di Giovanni
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In May of 2012, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria, marking the beginning of a long relationship with the country, as she began reporting from both sides of the conflict, through its descent into bloody war. Drawn to the stories of the ordinary people caught up in the fighting, Syria came to consume ...Show more
The ANZAC Girls: The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses by Peter Rees
24.99 NZD
Category: History
By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have ...Show more
The Book of the People: How to Read the Bible by A. N. Wilson; Lauren Finger (Editor); Margaret Stead (Editor)
26.99 NZD
Category: Religion
A. N. Wilson has been thinking about the Bible, and reading it, since he read theology for a year at university. Martin Luther King was 'reading the Bible' when he started the Civil Rights movement. When Michelangelo painted the fresco cycles in the Sistine Chapel, he was 'reading the Bible'. In The Boo ...Show more