Improbable Destinies: How Predictable Is Evolution? by Jonathan Losos
55.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General | Reading Level: very good
A dazzling tour of evolution in action that sheds light on one of the greatest debates in scienceThe natural world is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. Convergence suggests that evolution ...Show more
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy by Noam Chomsky
35.00 NZD
Category: Business
What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren? How are the discontents kindled today likely to blaze and explode tomorrow? From escalating climate change to the devastation in Syria, pandemic state surveillance to looming nuclear war, Noam Chomsky takes stock of the world today. Over the course ...Show more
Silence: In the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge
35.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General | Series: Exploring Ser.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThis breathtaking, inspiring little book teaches us how to find precious moments of silence - whether we are crossing the Antarctic, climbing Everest, or on the train at rush hour. 'Quietly, wisely, Silence makes a case for dumbing the din of modern life, and learning to lis ...Show more
Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions by John Kotter
32.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
This charming story about a penguin colony in Antarctica illustrates key truths about how we deal with the issue of change: handle the challenge well and you can prosper greatly; handle it poorly and you put yourself at risk. The penguins are living happily on their iceberg as they have done for many ye ...Show more
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey
37.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion comprehensively and deliberately extinguished the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to 'one true faith'. Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, g ...Show more
The Little Bullet Book: Be Gorgeously Organized by Sinden David
19.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
Here is a creative and productive organisational system to combine your sketchbook, planner, to do lists and journals. Start by filling out the The Little Bullet Book's planners with monthly and weekly goals, select simple codes to mark important and long-term tasks and keep track of them all with your ...Show more
King of Spies by Blaine Harden
37.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
In King of Spies, prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden, reveals one of the most astonishing -- and previously untold -- spy stories of the twentieth century. Donald Nichols was "a one man war", according to his US Air Force commanding general. He won the ...Show more
Atlas of Untamed Places: An Extraordinary JourneyThrough our Wild World by Chris Fitch
45.00 NZD
Category: Dictionaries & Atlases
In a world that has increasingly become tamed by human activity, the true wild holds a growing mysticism. Rugged landscapes with unspoilt scenery invoke romantic visions of paradise, but there are also intense and powerful wildernesses that produce fear and awe alike and unexplored zones where feral wil ...Show more
The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms by Rebecca Solnit
27.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.In h ...Show more
1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over by John Lloyd
24.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
The eye-popping, gob-smacking, rib-tickling phenomenon that is QI serves up a brand new selection of 1,423 facts to bowl you over.Bees can play football.Cholesterol is good for you.Camels gave humans the common cold.English has 3,000 words relating to drunkenness.In 1851 all the 436,800 sandwiches sold ...Show more
The Age of Genius - The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A C Grayling
21.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: good-very good
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 Growth of New Zealand Towns
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Researcher Hugh Dickey recently completed a book on The Growth of New Zealand Towns. He sees a need for a revised definition of just what urban means in a New Zealand context, based on the urban functions a town provides. But before detailed research is done into the urban functions of each small to med ...Show more