Sunlight and Seaweed - Argument for How by Tim Flannery
26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
''Sunlight and Seaweedis the beginning of a new way of helping the planet we live on.'' AU Review Acclaimed scientist Tim Flannery investigates exciting new technologies currently being developed to address our most pressing environmental threats in a book that presents a positive future for us and our ...Show more
Post- Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It by Evan Davis
37.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Low-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of exaggeration, selective use of facts, economy with the truth, careful drafting - from Trump and the Brexit debate to companies that tell us 'your call is important to us'. How did we get to a place where bullshit is not just rife but apparently so ...Show more
Finding Gobi: The True Story of a Little Dog and an Incredible Journey by Dion Leonard
25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
Like A Streecat Named Bob before it, Finding Gobi is a truly heart-warming story for animal lovers worldwide...In 2016, Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner, unexpectedly stumbled across a little stray dog while competing in a gruelling 155 mile race across the Gobi Desert. The lovable pup, who ...Show more
Farewell to the Horse by Ulrich Raulff
65.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
'A beautiful and thoughtful exploration of the role of the horse in creating our world...Farewell to the Horse is a grown-up, but also lyrical and creative, history book, and I very much enjoyed it.' James Rebanks The relationship between horses and humans is an ancient, profound and complex one. For mi ...Show more
OFF. Your Digital Detox for a Better Life by Tanya Goodin
13.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General | Series: Digital Detox
Feeling frantic? Lost without your phone? Exhausted? Unable to relax or focus? It's time to switch OFF and reset. We tap, swipe and click on our devices 2,617 times per day. We spend more time online than we do asleep. With so many ways to stay connected, procrastinate and distract yourself, it's not ea ...Show more
Charles Darwin - Victorian Mythmaker by A N Wilson
39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General | Reading Level: very good
Darwin was described by his friend and champion, Thomas Huxley, as a 'symbol'. But what did he symbolize? In Wilson's portrait, both sympathetic and critical, Darwin was two men. On the one hand, he was a naturalist of genius, a patient and precise collector and curator who greatly expanded the possibil ...Show more
Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing by Daniel Tammet
36.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
From the bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers, a delightful and eclectic exploration of language, and what it can teach us about ourselves and our lives.Why is the name 'Cleopatra' not allowed in Iceland? Why do clocks 'talk' to the Nahua people of Mexico? And if we are what ...Show more
Tisha: Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness by Robert Specht
22.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
The beloved real-life story of a woman in the Alaskan wilderness, the children she taught, and the man she loved. "From the time I'd been a girl, I'd been thrilled with the idea of living on a frontier. So when I was offered the job of teaching school in a gold-mining settlement called Chicken, I accep ...Show more
I Am a Secret Service Agent: My Life Spent Protecting the President by Dan Emmett
29.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
Dan Emmett was just eight years old when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. From that moment forward, he knew he wanted to become a Secret Service agent, one of an elite group of highly trained men and women dedicated to preserving the life of the President of the United States at any cost, inc ...Show more
A Woman's Place: Life, Leadership and Lessons from the Boardroom by Joan Withers
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'Successful women rarely set out to become role models. They just do the best they can, and hopefully that becomes inspirational for other women.' Joan Withers left high school with School Certificate at the age of 16 and from those unassuming beginnings has gone on to manage one of New Zealand's leadin ...Show more
2020: World of War by Paul Cornish
37.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
The year is 2020 and civilisation is on the verge of a Third World War. Will the Russian invasion of the Arctic trigger the military response called for in the NATO treaty? Will the simultaneous Chinese cyber-attack on the Pentagon cripple the world's biggest military machine? Who's arming the refugees ...Show more