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Calm the F**k Down by Sarah Knight
$34.99 NZD
Category: Self Improvement | Series: A\No F*cks Given Guide Ser. | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The latest no-f**ks-given guide from New York Times bestselling author of the international sensation The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, Get Your Sh*t Together, and You Do You Do you waste time overthinking things you can't do anything about? Do you freak out when things don't go to plan? Do ...Show more
The Book of Knowing: Know How You Think, Change How You Feel by Gwendoline Smith (Dr Know)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Self Improvement
Written in an accessible and humorous style, this book teaches you to know what's going on in your mind and how to get your feelings under control. It'll help you adapt and feel better about your place in the world. Psychologist Gwendoline Smith uses her broad scientific knowledge and experience to exp ...Show more
Unquiet Women - From the Dusk of the Roman Empire to the Dawn of the Enlightenment by Max Adams
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
Unquiet Womenis an exquisitely crafted patchwork of the forgotten lives of some of the most remarkable women in history. Wynflæd was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who owned male slaves and badger-skin gowns; Egeria a Gaulish nun who toured the Holy Land as the Roman Empire was collapsing; Gudrid an 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
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 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
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 . 'Everyone's afraid that their daughters might be hurt. No one seems to be scared that their sons might be the ones to do it ... This book ... is th ...Show more
The Dream of Rome by Boris Johnson
$26.99 NZD
Category: History
Focussing on how the Romans made Europe work as a homogeneous civilisation and looking at why we are failing to make the EU work in modern times, this is an authoritative and amusing study from best-selling author Boris Johnson. In addition to his roles as politician, editor, author and television prese ...Show more
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an int ...Show more
The End of Procrastination - How to Stop Postponing and Live a Fulfilled Life by Petr Ludwig
$22.99 NZD
Category: Self Improvement
Explains why we all procrastinate and arms us with weapons to help defeat this powerful foe and live life to its full potential every day.
