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Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
____________________________________BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its fate a mystery. In 2014, it was found.This is i ...Show more
Government for the Public Good: The Surprising Science of Large-Scale Collective Action: 2018 by Max Rashbrooke
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
In this wide-ranging book, Max Rashbrooke goes beyond anecdote and partisanship, delving deep into the latest research about the sweeping changes made to the public services that shape our collective lives. What he unearths is startling: it challenges established thinking on the effectiveness of market- ...Show more
The Beauty Guide by Libby Weaver
$39.99 NZD
Category: Health
In a world where so many women feel deflated by what they see in the mirror, tempted into the realm of ;enhancements; or drawn to anything that will help mask their flaws;, The Beauty Guide shines a spotlight on what it means to be beautiful and acts as a guide to help the reader feel and look their bes ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship by Clementine Ford
$36.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the best-selling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl .
To Obama: Diary of a Nation by Jeanne Marie Laskas
$34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from constituents. Every night, he read ten of them before going to bed. This is the story of the profound ways in which they shaped his presidency. Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama was given ten handpicked letters wr ...Show more
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
$38.00 NZD
Category: Science
The Number One Bestseller Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or ...Show more
The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill, in which Sam Neill retraces Cook's footsteps, in the 250th anniversary year of Cook's first voyage. Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768 - 250 years ago. These vast waters, ...Show more
The New Silk Roads: the Present & Future of the World by Peter Frankopan
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
'All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to Beijing.' When The Silk Roads was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major reassessment of world history, it compelled us to look at the past from a different perspective. The New Silk Roads brings this story up to date, addressing the ...Show more
Godley by Terry Kinloch
$59.99 NZD
Category: Military
A comprehensive biography of General Sir Alexander Godley, presenting for the first time a fair and balanced look at his time as commander of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) and II ANZAC Corps during World War I. While Godley is generally remembered as being a poor field commander, Terry Kinl ...Show more
The Colour of Time: A New History of the Modern World 1850-1960 by Marina Amaral (Illustrator); Dan Jones
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
The top five Sunday Timesbestseller. 'Breathtaking'Daily Mail. 'Astonishing'Sun. 'Shimmering'Spectator. 'Extraordinary'Daily Telegraph. The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning o ...Show more
The Book of Humans - The Story of How We Became Us by Adam Rutherford
$34.99 NZD
Category: Science
'Charming, compelling and packed with information. I learned more about biology from this short book than I did from years of science lessons. A weird and wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but is there really anything special about us that sets us apar ...Show more
Fed Up: Navigating and Redefining Emotional Labour for Good by Gemma Hartley
$29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
No more grin and bear it: how and why we all need to reset the domestic balance. Gemma Hartley is a mother and journalist on a mission: to throw fresh light on the hidden burden of 'emotional labour' (washing, wiping, worrying, soothing, shopping, preparing, planning, cooking, caring), and find out why ...Show more
