We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People by Eliot Higgins
25.00 NZD
Category: Politics
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'John le Carré demystified the intelligence services; Higgins has demystified intelligence gathering itself' Financial Times'Uplifting . . . Riveting . . . What will fire people through these pages, gripped, is the focused, and extraordinary investigations that Bellingcat runs ...Show more
We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa by Chris McDowall
70.00 NZD
Category: Atlases | Reading Level: near fine
An extraordinary visual data book like no other. Clustered yet scattered, we New Zealanders live across the country's physical landscapes, experiencing its varied weather and environments. We co-create its political, economic and social systems on a daily basis. Each of us has a particular view of Aotea ...Show more
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 by Fintan O'Toole
27.00 NZD
Category: History
The #1 Irish Times bestseller. WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards. 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Tóibín, Guardian 'With the pace and twists of an enthralling novel and the edge of a fine sword' Diarmaid Ferriter ...Show more
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City by Justin Fenton
25.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
The astonishing true story of 'one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation' (New York Times).
What If?2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates'Totally brilliant' Tim HarfordWHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe?And WHAT IF Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist and xkcd creator, were prepared to move mountains, fill the solar system with soup and alt ...Show more
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science. The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask. The millions of people around the world who rea ...Show more
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: good
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love h ...Show more
What Is Inside a Black Hole? by Stephen Hawking
15.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Brief Answers, Big Quest Ser.
'If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out'What is inside a black hole?Is time travel possible?Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. In What Is Inside a Black Hole? Hawkin ...Show more
What We Owe the Future: The Million-Year View by William MacAskill
35.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
We are remarkably early in the story of human civilisation. We are still five hundred million years away from the sterilisation of the Earth by the Sun, and one hundred trillion years away from the dying of the last stars. Leaving a shard of broken glass on the ground may harm someone tomorrow or one hu ...Show more
Whatever Happened to Tradition? by Tim Stanley
43.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us. The central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a proper sense of tradition - political, social and religi ...Show more
What's Inside A Flower?: And Other Questions About Science & Nature by Rachel Ignotofsky
21.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference | Series: What's Inside
From the creator of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science, comes a nonfiction picture book series ready to grow young scientists by nurturing their curiosity about the natural world--starting with what's inside a flower. Budding backyard scientists can start exploring their world with this stun ...Show more