I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from the great 'art-historical odd man out'. "Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light". How does a painter see the world? Philip Guston, one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, spoke about art with ...Show more
You Don't Understand Me: A Young Woman's Guide To Life by Tara Porter
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Being a teenager or a young woman now is hard, harder than ever before. Writing directly to young women, Dr Tara Porter's empathetic, highly expert approach can guide you through these years. For parents, this book will provide an insight into what their daughter is experiencing.
Towards a Warmer World: What Climate Change Will Mean for New Zealand's Future (BWB Texts) by Veronika Meduna
$14.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
2014 was the hottest year since record keeping began back in 1880. July 2015 was recently confirmed as the globe's hottest month ever recorded, both on land and in the oceans. This December a major international meeting, to be held in Paris, seeks a new agreement to address climate change. Against th ...Show more
More Zeros and Ones: Digital Technology, Maintenance and Equity in Aotearoa New Zealand (BWB Texts) by Anna Pendergrast (Edited by) , Kelly Pendergrast (Edited by)
$17.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Many of today's digital technologies inadvertently amplify the power structures and prejudices of wider society. By examining the way digital tools and platforms are designed, built, and maintained, this BWB Text aims to identify where and what we can do better for everyone in Aotearoa. Following on fro ...Show more
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future by Steven Novella
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Pre-order now: the new book from the bestselling authors and hosts of the wildy popular 'The Skeptics Guide to the Universe'__________Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance. Whether they be the outlandish leaps predicted ...Show more
The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry by Gwen Adshead, Eileen Horne
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A fascinating window into criminal minds, suffused with compassion. 'Deeply moving.' GUARDIAN 'Brilliant . . . a powerful myth buster.' SUNDAY TIMES 'Unmissable.' OBDERVER 'Shocking and unflinching.' i 'Compulsive reading.' MIRROR Dr Gwen Adshead is one of Britain's leading forensic psychologists. She h ...Show more
Bedside Companion for Book Lovers: An Anthology of Literary Delights for Every Night of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
$42.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A glorious treasury of literary curiosities for every night of the year, Bedside Companion for Book Lovers contains an eclectic mix of fact and fiction, letters, diaries, essays and dedications, all suffused with the joys of books and reading. The perfect gift for the bibliophile in your life, it conta ...Show more
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
From the author of the powerful, prescient Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicBreathless is the story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.Here is the story of SARS-C ...Show more
Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown by Craig Brown
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and One Two Three Four, a selection of Craig Brown's finest writing collected together for the first time.'The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, Mail on SundayMixing parody, literary criticism, profiles, satire, light ve ...Show more
The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea by Guy Standing
$50.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Pelican Books
The sea provides more than half the oxygen we breathe, food for billions of people and livelihoods for hundreds of millions. But giant corporations are plundering the world's oceans, aided by global finance and complicit states, following the neoliberal maxim of Blue Growth. The situation is dire: rampa ...Show more
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire by Priya Satia
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story was still very much in the making. While they wrote of conquest, imperial rule in India, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean was consolidated. While they described the development of imperial governance, rebellions were b ...Show more
Connections: A Story of Human Feeling by Karl Deisseroth
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A world-renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist takes us on a riveting journey into the origins of human emotion, examining what mental illnesses can reveal about us all.Mental illness is one of the greatest causes of human suffering, but the reasons we bear this burden, and the nature of these disease ...Show more