Steaming to the Sunrise - A History of Railways in the Gisborne Region by Chris Wood
$40.00 NZD
Category: railway | Reading Level: near fine
A history of railways in the Gisborne region.
Everest - The Best Writing and Pictures from Seventy Years of Human Endeavour by Peter Gillman (Editor); Edmund Hillary (Foreword by)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good
A collection of photographs and writing about climbing Mount Everest. The authors and photographers range from climbers on the attempts in the 1930s, such as Edward Norton, through to Sir Edmund Hillary in the 1950s, contemporary figures such as Chris Bonington and Kurt Diemberger.
Wainwright in the Valleys of Lakeland by A. Wainwright
$15.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Joseph Banks - A Life by Patrick O'Brian
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Triggers - Sparking Positive Change and Making it Last by Marshall Goldsmith
$12.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: very good
In business, the right behaviours matter. But getting it right is tricky. Even when we acknowledge the need to change what we do and how we do it, life has a habit of getting in the way, upsetting even the best-laid plans. And just how do we manage those situations that can provoke even the most rationa ...Show more
Gone to New York - Adventures in the city by Ian Frazier
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Frazier makes us fall in love with America's greatest city all over again just the way he did In the early 1970s, the writer Ian Frazier left a small town in Ohio to move to a loft in lower Manhattan. Gone to New York is Frazier's account of the city over the thirty years he's lived there, a boo ...Show more
Foucault for Architects by Gordana Fontana-Giusti
$14.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: Thinkers for Architects | Reading Level: very good
From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture have been wide-ranging. His archaeological and genealogical approaches to knowledge have transfor ...Show more
Six Frames for Thinking about Information by Edward De Bono
$10.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: very good
Attention is a key part of thinking clearly and productively, and yet we pay very little attention to attention itself. If you see someone lying injured in the middle of the road, for example, your attention would go to that person but, if a bright pink dog wandered past at the same time, your attention ...Show more
Jenny Diski - The Sixties by Jenny Diski
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
This is Jenny Diski at her essayistic best in a highly personal and entertaining exploration of the twentieth century's most colourful decade. Many books have been written on the Sixties: tributes to music and fashion, sex, drugs and revolution. In "The Sixties", Jenny Diski breaks the mould, wryly dism ...Show more