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
What's Left? by Nick Cohen
39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
How Liberals Lost Their WayFrom the much-loved, witty and excoriating voice of journalist Nick Cohen, a powerful and irreverent dissection of the agonies, idiocies and compromises of mainstream liberal thought. Nick Cohen comes from the Left. While growing up, his mother would search the supermarket she ...Show more
What's Wrong With You?: An Insider’s Guide To Your Insides by Sarah Holper
38.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Take a tour through your body and its common medical symptoms with What's Wrong with You? an insider's guide for anybody with a body - particularly one that itches, aches, or malfunctions. Over a billion health-related Google searches - more than one in every 15 Google enquiries - are made every day. A ...Show more
When America Stopped Being Great: A history of the present by Nick Bryant
40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The presidency of Donald Trump is commonly seen as an historical accident. In When America Stopped Being Great, Nick Bryant argues that by 2016 it had become almost historically inescapable. In this highly personal account, drawing on decades of covering Washington for the BBC, Bryant shows how the bill ...Show more
When the Heavens Went on Sale - The misfits and geniuses racing to put space within reach by Ashlee Vance
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Acid-dropping NASA renegades and the new the space race no one knows is coming. When the Heavens Went on Sale is a fast-paced, exclusive, behind-the-scenes narrative about the race for space that's happening under our noses and over our heads. While the billionaire battles of Bezos vs Branson vs Musk do ...Show more
Where the Universe Came From - How Einstein's Relativity Unlocks the Past, Present and Future of the Cosmos by New Scientist
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Ex Ser.
How did it all begin? Where is it all going?WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. He overturned centurie ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more
Wild Grass - China's Revolution from Below by Ian Johnson
26.00 NZD
Category: History
A compelling history of Chinese resistance to state oppression, told through the stories of three remarkable individuals In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the desire for change percolating up from below and the ossified political structure above. He recou ...Show more
Wild Kinship - Conversations with Conscious Entrepreneurs by Monique Hemmingson
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: very good
Wild Kinship features 28 creative entrepreneurs in a wide range of industries across Australasia who have environmental sustainability at their core. Meet the industry leaders who are foraging a new path and changing the world in their wake. From tiny homes builders, permaculture growers and muesli bar ...Show more
Wild Places (Inspired Traveller's Guide) by Sarah Baxter
33.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Guides | Series: Inspired Traveller's Guides
A guide to 25 untameable or rewilded places throughout the world, with beautiful illustrations and great tips for the mindful traveller, as well as commentary on conservation of these special places.