What Dogs Want: An illustrated guide for happy dog care and training by MAT WARD
27.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
How to have fun AND be a fantastic dog owner! Mat Ward is a leading behaviourist and he really can understand what our dogs are thinking. His advice comes with funny but accurate pictures explaining everything you need to know including what different woofs might mean, how to read a dog's ears and why ...Show more
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
26.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal, Braiding Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nat ...Show more
What Cats Want: An Illustrated Guide for Truly Understanding Your Cat by Yuki Hattori
27.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
From the top feline doctor in Japan comes a fun, practical, adorably illustrated "cat-to-human" translation guide to decoding your cat's feelings.When your cat's tail is upright, she's saying hello. If it's quivering? She's happy to see you. But if it swishes ominously from side to side across your livi ...Show more
The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers The story of philosophy is an epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents. It explores some of the most creative minds in history. B ...Show more
Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend by Flea
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star. Michael Peter Balzary was born i ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
26.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | 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
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, when technology and so-called progress have made us richer but more uncertain than ever before. We have questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party is providing us with the answers. We need a new movemen ...Show more
Silk Roads: A New History of the World: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
28.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed- where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more
Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six ...Show more
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2016 WINNER OF THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE Surfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study, a passionate way of life. William Finnegan first started surfing ...Show more
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy by Bill Browder
26.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...Show more
Being Mortal - Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
28.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Wellcome Collection Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mort ...Show more