Run for Your Life: The Remarkable True Story of a Family Forced Into Hiding After Leaking Russian Secrets by Sue Williams
40.00 NZD
Category: History
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world. Nick moved to R ...Show more
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization by Yuval Noah Harari
48.00 NZD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
The second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's internationally bestselling phenomenon. When nomadic Homo sapiens settled to live in one place, they started working harder and harder. But why didn't they get a better life in return? In Th ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ab ...Show more
The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage by Ryan Holiday
28.00 NZD
Category: Business and Law | Reading Level: very good
We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at nineteen to serve as an apprentice to bestselling 'modern Machiavelli' Robert Greene and is now a media consultant for bil ...Show more
The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
40.00 NZD
Category: History
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Montefiore takes us on ...Show more
50 Math Tricks That Will Change Your Life - Mentally Solve the Impossible in Seconds by Tanya Zakowich
50.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Insane Number Hacks For Curious Adults And Daring Students! In this epic book, you'll uncover 50 unbelievable ways you can manipulate numbers to solve equations, word problems and brain teasers in a flash, no calculator required. Math wizard Tanya Zakowich uses colorful diagrams and quirky explanations ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Bryson | Reading Level: very good
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him.A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got ...Show more
A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination by Mary Haverstick
45.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The true story of a filmmaker whose unexpected investigation of her film's subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she'd stumbled onto the project of a lifetime - a biopic of a ...Show more
Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World by Tim James
40.00 NZD
Category: History
We may imagine that science is a process of breakthroughs and light bulb moments. But in reality, science goes wrong 99% of the time.Almost every idea a scientist comes up with is quickly disproved by a failed experiment or rival research. Science moves at a rate of inches per decade and we like it that ...Show more
Bad Girls Throughout History by Ann Shen
45.00 NZD
Category: History
Looking for coffee table books that do more than look great on your table? Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World, delivers on both counts. Featuring 100 women who made history, it's a book you can be proud to display in your home.Aphra Behn, first female professional w ...Show more
Budget Like a Legend by Cameron Wislang
35.00 NZD
Category: Business and Law
Don't want money to rule your every waking thought? Look no further. Big Dollar Energy is a no-nonsense guide to change your money mindset, build a budget, and begin your path to wealth, no matter where your starting point. If you picked up this book, chances are money stresses you out. The good news ...Show more
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk by Buddy Levy
40.00 NZD
Category: History
<b>The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.</b> In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine <i>Karluk</i> departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the wo ...Show more