Hidden Potential - The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
$42.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: near fine
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who st ...Show more
The Noonday Demon - An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
$18.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policy makers and politicians, drug designers an ...Show more
This Is a Call - The Life and Times of Dave Grohl by Paul Brannigan
$15.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's been in bands that have changed popular music forever. He saw his best friend commit suicide. He starts supergroups. He's the nicest guy in rock. From Nirvana to Foo Fighters, from brotherhood to bitt ...Show more
Adapt - Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: good-very good
Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try again In this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most complex and important problems - including terrorism, ...Show more
In Every Tiny Grain of Sand - A Child's Book of Prayers and Praise by Reeve Lindbergh (ed.)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Myths and Legends of Aotearoa - 15 timeless tales of New Zealand by Annie Rae Te Ake Ake
$14.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: very good
Fifteen timeless and essential Maori myths and legends are retold by gifted storyteller Annie Rae Te Ake Ake in this stunning, one-of-a-kind treasury. Illustrated by young Kiwi artists, this classic collection is a testament to the many and vibrant cultures of Aotearoa past, present and future.
The Dark Valley - A Panorama of the 1930s by Piers Brendon
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The author offers an overview of the 1930s, a story of the dark, dishonset decade that determined the course of the 20th century. Dealing individually with each of the period's great powers - the USA, Germany, Italy, France, Britain, Japan and Russia - the reader is taken through ten years dominated by ...Show more
Go Fish - Recipes and stories from the New Zealand coast by Al Brown
$35.00 NZD
Category: Cooking | Reading Level: near fine
THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY OUT-OF-PRINT. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN OBTAINING A COPY PLEASE USE OUR CONTACT TAB AND WE WILL NOTIFY YOU AS SOON AS STOCK BECOMES AVAILABLE "Al Brown's best-selling and much-loved fish cookbook and nostalgic ode to the New Zealand coastline and our love of all things coastal.Al ...Show more
Assembly - New Zealand Car Production 1921-1998 by Mark Webster
$30.00 NZD
Category: motoring
New Zealand’s car assembly industry began with the Colonial Motor Company piecing together Ford Model Ts in the early 1920s, and the first true production line came in 1926 with General Motors. For the next 70 years, the assembly industry directly employed thousands of New Zealanders and indirectly supp ...Show more
A Cook's Book - The Essential Nigel Slater by Nigel Slater
$35.00 NZD
Category: Cooking | Reading Level: near fine
A Cook's Book is the story of Nigel Slater's life in the kitchen . . . . . . from the first jam tart Nigel made with his mum standing on a chair trying to reach the AGA, through to what he is cooking now. He writes about how his cooking has changed from discovering the trick to whipping cream perfectly ...Show more
From So Simple a Beginning - The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin; Edward O. Wilson (ed.)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: near fine
Never before have the four great works of Charles Darwin Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle (1845), The Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871), and The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) been collected under one cover. Undertaking this challenging endeavor 123 years after Darwin's de ...Show more
Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916 - Anzacs and the Rising by Rory Sweetman
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: new
Little has been written on Trinity College's role in Easter Week 1916 as a 'loyal nucleus' dividing the insurgents and providing an effective counterweight to rebel headquarters in the GPO. This book reveals how five New Zealanders, acting as the core of a small squad of colonial troops, provided a vita ...Show more