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Cruising Through Calamity by Bev Aisbett
$12.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: very good
A book for anyone and everyone who finds themselves going through big change, hard times, bad luck or tough sh it. A book for right now, as it turns out. From Bev Aisbett, Australia's bestselling author with decades of experience helping people through anxiety, depression and panic attacks, Cruising Thr ...Show more
Churchill: Visionary, Statesman, Historian by John Lukacs
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
In previous books, Lukacs has told the story of Churchill's titanic struggle with Hitler in the early years of WWII. Now he turns his attention to Churchill the man and visionary statesman, and deals with his relationships with Stalin, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower, as well as his complex, far-sighted polit ...Show more
My Journey Starts Here - A Guided Journal to Improve Your Mental Well-Being by Jazz Thornton; Genevieve Mora
$10.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: very good
Jazz Thornton has achieved huge international recognition for her work in advocacy for mental health and the use of voices of lived experience to provide hope to those who are struggling. This journal, written with Genevieve Mora, her co-founder of the organisation Voices of Hope, provides a creative ap ...Show more
On Display: New Essays in Cultural Studies by Anna Smith and Lydia Wevers (eds.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
On Display is a stimulating collection of essays about the politics of display. The authors are some of the leading New Zealand scholars active in the interdisciplinary space called 'Cultural Studies', and their subjects range from colonial museum exhibitions, to nationalist cultural display, to contemp ...Show more
Nietzsche and Metaphor by Sarah Kofman; Duncan Large (translator)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
This book addresses the question of metaphor in Nietzsche. It provides an unusual reading of Nietzsche's ideas (particularly of the central concept of "will to power") and an incisive method for investigating his style. Developing work on Nietzsche undertaken by Derrida and the post-structuralists, Kofm ...Show more
The Judgement of Paris by Kevin D. S. Murray (ed.)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
French Philosophers in Conversation by Raoul Mortley
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
A collection of interviews with such French philosophers as Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray and Emmanuel Levinas. Each thinker represents one or more strand of the Parisien philosophical scene and feminism, literature, phenomenology and semiotics are subjects covered within this book.
The Myth of the Other - Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, Bataille by Franco Rella; Nelson Moe (Translator, Foreword by)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: PostModernPositions Ser. | Reading Level: very good
General Washington's Christmas Farewell - A Mount Vernon Homecoming 1783 by Stanley Weintraub
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
One of America's greatest Christmas stories and also one of its very first -- from the period between the end of the Revolutionary War and the ratification of the Constitution -- was a creation of none other than George Washington. The story isn't just about Washington coming home for Christmas for the ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn by Retha M. Warnicke
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Canto Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The events which led to the execution of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII?'s second queen, in 1536 have traditionally been explained by historians in terms of a factional conspiracy masterminded by Henry?'s minister Thomas Cromwell. Retha Warnicke?'s fascinating and controversial reinterpretation focuses instead ...Show more
Nigella Lawson: Forever Summer by Nigella Lawson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Cooking | Reading Level: very good
PRE LOVED - A collection of summery recipes to be enjoyed at any time of year. They range from Italian antipasti and Greek mezze to Spanish cuisine, and the occasions, anything from barbecues to beach picnics. This book ties in with Nigella Lawson's 8-part TV sereis on Channel 4. Hardback
Culinaria France by Andre Domine (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Cooking | Reading Level: very good
This work reports about every aspect of food and the culture it stems from, both practical and anecdotal, and naturally all the most important recipes from France's various regions open up a culinary universe that you can capture in your own kitchen. France has long been and remains the stronghold of cu ...Show more