Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects by Noah Angell
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
What if the British Museum isn't a house of learning, but a vast sinkhole of still-bubbling historic injustice? What if it presents us not with a carefully ordered cross section of history but is instead a palatial trophy cabinet of colonial loot swarming with volatile and errant spirits? When artist a ...Show more
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert by Brian Herbert
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This science fiction epic combines politics human evolution and ecology and has captured the imagination of generations of readers. It is one of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, has won awards, sold millions of copies around the world and spawned ...Show more
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with CINEMA SPECULATION, the time has come, and the results ...Show more
All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles - An Oral History by Those Who Were There by Steven Gaines, Peter Brown
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, containing ...Show more
The Ship Beneath the Ice - The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Over one hundred years after its wreck, Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the depths of the most hostile sea on Earth. The Ship Beneath the Ice is the astonishing story of the ship and its discovery, told by Mensun Bound, the Director of Exploration on the Endurance22 Expedition.'As ...Show more
The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen
28.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
A Spectator Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the Year'An illuminating and riveting read.' - Jonathan DimblebyJeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present.In The Making of ...Show more
The Story of Things by Neal Layton
20.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Take a fascinating journey through time to explore a world full of ideas, inventions, discoveries and many, many ... things! Have you ever wondered how us humans came to have so many 'things'? Starting with the early humans who had very few things, through to the jam-packed world we live in today, d ...Show more
The Seaweed Forager by Rebecca Gouldhurst
46.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Step into the enchanting world of The Seaweed Forager, your guide to the treasures of the coastal shores. Learn to identify, harvest and prepare a myriad of seaweed species found along the stunning coastlines of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Uncover the astonishing nutritional properties of seaweed and the rema ...Show more
Grow Richer with the Property Cycle: The Property Cycle Reference Guide by Kieran Trass
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Grow richer from residential property investment. Regardless of the property cycle phase - boom, slump or recovery - the trick is having the right knowledge and information. Grow RICHER with the Property Cycle will help you recognise the specific opportunities the cycle provides to make more money from ...Show more
Long Road - Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Steven Hyden
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A leading music journalist's riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and how their legacy and longevity have transcended generations. Ever since Pearl Jam first blasted onto the Seattle grunge scene three decades ago with their debut album, Ten, they have sold 85M+ albums, pe ...Show more
The Genesis Machine - Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology by Amy Webb; Andrew Hessel
38.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
A breakthrough investigation of synthetic biology: the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence and has the potential to program biological systems like we program computers. Synthetic biology is the technique that enables us not just to read and ...Show more
Dinosaur Roar!: 30th Anniversary Edition by Henrietta Stickland
22.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Celebrate 30 years of Dinosaur Roar! with this beautiful anniversary edition of a beloved children's classic. With rhythmic, rhyming text and exuberant illustrations, this much-loved picture book will delight dinosaur fans young and old alike. Dinosaur Roar! is endorsed by the Natural History Museum, Lo ...Show more