Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control by Daniel Pick
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
'A frankly brilliant book' The Guardian'An extraordinarily engrossing and wide-ranging analysis of a word and a concept. I fell under its spell immediately' Simon GarfieldIn 1953, a group of prisoners of war who had fought against the communist invasion of South Korea were released. They chose - apparen ...Show more
Photography: The Ultimate Guide by DK
$65.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Discover the history behind photography and learn the skills to get the best from your photographs. A comprehensive all-in-one guide, Photography introduces you to the art, history, and culture of photography, and shows you how to take your own fantastic professional-standard photographs. An in-depth gu ...Show more
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book by an expert professor shows us why they happen, and how to avoid themWe are now living in the world's greatest era of civil wars. While violence has declined worldwide, major civil wars are now being fought in countries including Iraq, ...Show more
Ebb and Flow: Connect with the Patterns and Power of Water by Easkey Britton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
An exploration of water's power to heal us, inspire us and offer us spiritual meaning. This is a feminist reimagining of the meaning of power through the lens of water. Easkey offers a range of wellness practices to encourage the reader to connect with water as healer, restoring a relationship of care.O ...Show more
The Joy Thief: How OCD Steals Your Happiness – And How To Get It Back by Penny Moodie
$50.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A personal and practical guide to navigating the complex world of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). When Penny Moodie hears people say that they're 'a bit OCD' about cleaning or tidying, she can't help but feel frustrated. It took her twenty-three years to be diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disor ...Show more
Gangster's Paradise by Jared Savage
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
The much anticipated follow-up to the bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in New Zealand. Gangster's Paradise is about drugs, guns, gangs and money. Lots of money. A gang which took over a small rural town. A police officer shot and killed in a routine traffic stop. A port-worker ...Show more
Jenny McLeod - A Life in Music by Norman Meehan
$50.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Born in 1941, at age five she discovered she could read music fluently. After a childhood in Timaru and Levin, she went on to study music with Douglas Lilburn and Frederick Page at Victoria University College, and in Europe with two imposing figures of mid-twentieth century modernism: Olivier Messiaen a ...Show more
The Language of Trees: How Trees Make Our World, Change Our Minds and Rewild Our Lives by Katie Holten
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
The Language of Trees is a gorgeously illustrated homage to the hidden wonders of the forest and our indelible connection to trees, filled with prose, poetry and art from over fifty collaborators, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Elizabeth Kolbert, Amitav Ghosh, Ri ...Show more
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Adam Biles (Editor)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company and the best writers of our time Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for ...Show more
Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Based on two decades of research, the five causes of wars and four ways to stop themIt's easy to overlook that most of the time, war doesn't happen. Around the world there are millions of hostile rivalries, yet only a tiny fraction erupt into violence. With a counterintuitive approach, Blattman reminds ...Show more
The Future Future by Adam Thirlwell
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Marie Antoinette meets Gossip Girl in this supermodern novel of scandal and slander, from the two-time Granta Best Young British Novelist A wild story of female friendship, language and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment- a historical novel like no other. ...Show more
Vital Organs by Suzie Edge
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts.Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's armpit led the development of antiseptics. Robert Jenkin's ear started a war. All too often, historical figures feel distant and abstract; more myth and legend than r ...Show more