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 Rare Metals War The dark side of clean energy and digital technologies by Guillaume Pitron
45.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals - but they are running out. And what will happen when they do? The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollutio ...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
Antiquities Sticker, Color & Activity Book: Over 500 Unique Stickers by CHARTWELL, EDITORS OF
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Immerse yourself in the intrigue and elegance of the Victorian era with this treasure trove of ephemera-with 500+ stickers, 90+ activity and coloring pages, and calling cards with envelopes. Peer inside the Victorian era with Antiquities Sticker, Color & Activity Book-with more than 500 fanciful sti ...Show more
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme ...Show more
The Physics of Climate Change by Lawrence M. Krauss
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
'Brilliant and fundamental, this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency' Ian McEwan The news is full of hotly debated and divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate change. Lawrence Krauss, one of the world's most respected physicists and science popularizers, cuts through t ...Show more