Vulture Capitalism: Corporate crimes, backdoor bailouts, and the death of freedom by Grace Blakeley
39.00 NZD
Category: Business and Law
All over the world, democracy is in crisis. Liberal political systems are straining under the pressure imposed by authoritarian strong men undermining institutions, the rule of law and the international system that governs relations between countries. Obvious examples include Donald Trump and Boris Joh ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
** Winner 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction ** A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy ...Show more
City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Epoque by X MICHAEL. RAPPORT
40.00 NZD
Category: History
Paris in the Belle Epoque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The period between the revolutionary 1870s and the outbreak of war in 1914 saw the modern French capital take shape: by day Parisians could admire the rising Eiffel Tower and Sacre-Coeur Basilica, whi ...Show more
In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea by Jonathan White
45.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A revealing history of the future as a political idea, from the Enlightenment to the current climate crisis Democracy is future-oriented and self-correcting: today's problems can be solved, we are told, in tomorrow's elections. But the biggest issues facing the modern world - from climate collapse and p ...Show more
The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger'. Look at the green organism across the room or through the window: the potted plant, or the grass, or a tree. Think h ...Show more
Footprints on the Land - How Humans Changed New Zealand by Richard Wolfe
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Reading Level: near fine
Less than a thousand years of human occupation have massively altered Aotearoa. In this fascinating work, cultural historian Richard Wolfe explores how and why settlers have impacted on nature and what this means for our future. Footprints on the Land is a timely review of the human place in our environ ...Show more
The New Zealand Night Sky by Alistair Hughes
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
The night sky in Aotearoa New Zealand is not only spectacular but it's different from the rest of the world. Explore the constellations, planets and galaxies above us while learning more about Māori astronomy and the inspiring New Zealanders who have made famous discoveries about the exploration of spac ...Show more
Children's Illustrated Atlas by Andrew Brooks
27.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference
A world atlas for kids - packed full of beautiful illustrations and incredible photographsSet off on a thrilling journey around the world. DK's Children's Illustrated Atlas brings the world to life with colourful maps and fascinating facts about the countries of the world.Each map is bursting with infor ...Show more
Gangster's Paradise by Jared Savage
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Reference
The much anticipated follow-up to the bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in New Zealand. Gangster's Paradise is about drugs, guns, gangs and money. Lots of money. A gang which took over a small rural town. A police officer shot and killed in a routine traffic stop. A port-worker ...Show more
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs by Johann Hari
39.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus takes a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it sharing his personal experience on Ozempic and examining our ability to heal society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight and our bodies. In January 2023, ...Show more
Saturated Facts - The Real Science Behind Diet Myths by Idz
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Incredibly well written, accessible and a must in every household.' Dr Nighat Arif, author of The Knowledge and resident doctor on ITV This Morning'A fabulous read!' Rhiannon Lambert, Registered Nutritionist and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Science of NutritionAre carbs the enemy? Am I gettin ...Show more
The Body Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
75.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A new, beautifully illustrated edition of the Number One Bestseller and Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, which takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. A directory of wonders' - Guardian 'Jaw-dropping' -The Times 'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts in ...Show more