A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
40.00 NZD
Category: 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 awaits- his bus is involved in a horrific accident. ...Show more
Virtual Society: The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience by Herman Narula
30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
A definitive guide to the metaverse- why it's important, why it matters to society, and how to create a metaverse that works for us A definitive guide to the metaverse- why it's important, why it matters to society, and how to create a metaverse that works for all of us The metaverse is a vision of how ...Show more
CSNY: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young by Peter Doggett
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
An engaging and illuminating biography focused on the formative and highly influential early years of "rock's first supergroup" (Rolling Stone) Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young--when they were the most successful, influential, and politically potent band in America. After making their marks in popular ba ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. Winner of the Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the BookPeople Non Fic ...Show more
Optimal: How to Sustain Excellence Every Day by Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
More than twenty-five years on from the huge bestseller Emotional Intelligence, this book reframes the concept's importance for a new era, explaining how to create high performing individuals, teams and organisations Emotional intelligence is now embedded in our public discourse- an idea so pervasive a ...Show more
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
48.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Discover the most important ideas in philosophy and the individuals behind them Get to grips with the concepts that shaped the way we think about ethics, politics, and our place in the universe. Explaining the big ideas and groundbreaking theories of key philosophers in a clear and simple way, The Philo ...Show more
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
How the Tricolor Got Its Stripes and Other Stories About Flags by Dmytro Dubilet
45.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
A lively, anecdotal illustrated history of flags 'A sparkling tour through the stories of the symbols we know so well' - Tim Marshall Starting with flags that we know, this captivating history explains the origins and hidden meanings of flags, taking a chatty but always entertaining path through this u ...Show more
Dame Suzy D: My Story by Susan Devoy
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A four-time world squash champion, Dame Susan Devoy has led a remarkably varied life. She's been Race Relations Commissioner, a television star, a newspaper columnist, raised four boys and met Bill Clinton and King Charles. Fiercely driven and wildly competitive, her straight up style and hilarious turn ...Show more
Southeast Asia: An Introductory History by Milton Osborne
38.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area. Southeast Asia: An introductory historywas first published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in one of the most dynamic and diverse regi ...Show more
Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A massive, predatory bird and its place in history and myth. The legend of Pouakai, aka the extinct Haast's Eagle, takes Peter Walker on a journey from an 1860s Canterbury sheep run to a deep cave near Karamea as he learns the story of the mighty hunter that inhabited a peak in the foothills of the Sout ...Show more
The Long and Winding Road by Lesley Pearse
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Lesley Pearse didn't publish her first novel until she was 48. Now she has sold over ten million books around the world and is a constant presence on the bestseller chart.A writer of heart-stopping stories, Lesley's books are filled with heroines struggling to make it in a difficult world.Yet this descr ...Show more