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Twitterature - The Worlds Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter (Popular Penguin) by Alexander Aciman
19.95 NZD
Category: Humour
From "Oedipus": Party in Thebes!!! Nobody cares I killed that old dude, plus this woman is all over me. Total MILF. "From Paradise Lost": OH My God I'm in Hell. Perhaps you once asked yourself, 'What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince his words, muse in lyricism and, in short, whack ...Show more
Tyna of the Lake: Gamayun Tales Vol. 3 by Alexander Utkin
29.99 NZD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: The\Gamayun Tales Ser.
The latest installment in the Gamayun Tales series introduces a clever heroine who has a secret even she doesn't know about. Tyna of the Lake rescues the Hunter's son from a life of servitude to her father the Water Spirit. Their attempt to make an escape to the surface world is interrupted when they a ...Show more
Universal Play - How Videogames Reveal Who We Are and Show Us Who We Could Be by Alexander Kriss
37.99 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology:
Even as the popularity of videogames has skyrocketed, a dark cloud continues to hang over them. Many people who play games feel embarrassed to admit as much, and many who don't worry about the long-term effects of a medium often portrayed as dangerous and corruptive. Drawing on years of experience worki ...Show more
Unusual Uses for Olive Oil: A Von Igelfeld Novel by Alexander McCall Smith
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Von Igelfeld Novels
Life is so unfair, and it sends many things to try Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, author of Portuguese Irregular Verbs and pillar of the Institute of Romance Philology in the proud Bavarian city of Regensburg. There is the undeserved rise of his rival (and owner of a one-legged dachshund), Detl ...Show more
Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture by Samuel Alexander
37.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
This progressive book is essential reading for the thoughtful non-conformist. Intended as an invitation to an alternative way of life, this anthology brings together some of the most important literature on the post-consumerist living strategy known as 'voluntary simplicity.' By examining afresh our re ...Show more
Westbound, Warbound by Alexander Fullerton
25.00 NZD
27.95 (10% off)
Category: Fiction
Andy Holt, is a 20-year-old 3rd Mate on the PollyAnna carrying coal in the South Atlantic to be off-loaded, before picking up a cargo of iron ore. There are rumours of German raiders in the area which are confirmed when the seamen come across what's left of a boat and its crew, in a rapid state of decom ...Show more
What Should I Do?: Philosophers on the Good, the Bad, and the Puzzling by Alexander George (ed)
32.99 NZD
41.99 (21% off)
Category: Philosophy
Is it ever OK to be dishonest? Is it wrong to enjoy violent video games, or to cheat on one's tax returns? Should we be vegetarians? When is war justified? Are there any moral facts, or is morality relative? Life throws ethical questions at us every day. Some are momentous and difficult, while others ar ...Show more
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith
33.99 NZD
Category: Language | Series: Writers on Writers | Reading Level: very good
When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie - Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith - often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated by ...Show more
Wild Lands by Nicole Alexander
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From bestselling author Nicole Alexander comes an epic novel of bravery, loyalty and impossible love that takes the reader on a spellbinding journey from the streets of early Sydney to the heart of Australia's wild, untamed lands. New South Wales, 1838, and settlers in search of fertile country are vent ...Show more