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Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help. In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, "ten hundred") most common words to provide simple explanations for some of the m ...Show more
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Take Control and Master the Odds by Konnikova, Maria
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the game Maria Konnikova had never actually played po ...Show more
Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy by Bill Browder
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
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.Reads like a classic thriller, with an everyman hero alone and in danger in a hostile ...Show more
At the Pond - Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond by Esther Freud (Contribution by); Margaret Drabble (Contribution by); Leanne Shapton (Contribution by)
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond. Floating in the Pond’s silky waters, hidden by a canopy of trees, it’s easy to forget that you are in the middle of London. On a hot day, thousands of swimmers ...Show more
Dot by Kieran E. Scott
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Are you feeling a little bit (or a lottle bit) anxious?Meet DOT, who's here to help. In this beautiful little hand-drawn book, DOT offers a practical way to comfort and calm anyone anxious, stressed or overwhelmed. For anyone (big or small) who wants to take a moment and some nice, deep breaths.
Our Dogs, Ourselves. The story of a unique bond by Alexandra Horowitz
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this book Alexandra Horowitz examines what's called the 'dog-human bond': examining all aspects of the complexity of this unique interspecies pairing. From her position as a dog scientist, she uses the science of dogs and dog-human interaction to ground a consideration of the various ways that dogs, ...Show more
The Mummy Animal Book by Jennifer Cossins
$14.99 NZD
Category: Children's
An adorable and informative picture book about mummy animals and their babies from the author of The Baby Animal Book and 101 Collective Nouns. Did you know that a mother peacock is called a peahen and a baby peacock is called a peachick?The Mummy Animal Book is an adorable and informative picture ...Show more
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
$16.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A wickedly witty field guide to bookstore customers from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare. It does take all kinds. If you visit bookshops more often than the grocery store, you'll recognize the types. ...Show more
The Book of Angst - Understand and Manage Anxiety by Gwendoline Smith
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
From the author of international bestsellers The Book of Knowing and The Book of Overthinking.
Storey's Curious Compendium of Practical and Obscure Skills - 214 Things You Can Actually Learn How to Do by Editors of Storey Publishing
$74.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Readers with a hunger for knowledge and an interest in the myriad ways people have taught themselves to make, grow, and build will discover the ins and outs of how to do everything they've ever wondered about in this colorful, inviting volume. With dozens of useful and intriguing visual tutorials that c ...Show more
Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities by Paul Anthony Jones
$22.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
If you're logofascinated, you are literally spellbound by language. Word Drops is a language fact book unlike any other, its linguistic tidbits all falling together into one long interconnected chain just with each fact neatly 'dropping' into place beside the next. What's more, throughout, footnotes ar ...Show more
Pocket Eyewitness Cats (Facts at Your Fingertips) by DK
$12.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Pocket Eyewitness Ser.
A true cat-alogue of more than 100 feline breeds and cross-breeds adorn the pages of this mini-encyclopedia, which packs a whole lot of information into your pocket! Along with a photo of each breed, discover the facts and stats of each cat, including its size, where the breed originated, colours and m ...Show more
