The Birth Space: A Doula's Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond by Gabrielle Nancarrow
$40.00 NZD
Category: Health and Wellbeing
‘In The Birth Space … you will find the information and support that will take you from conception through matrescence, with deeper calm, confidence and power.’ Aviva Romm, MD The Birth Space is a doula's guide to conception, pregnancy, birth and postpartum that highlights choice and rights in the peri ...Show more
The Invention of Surgery by David Schneider
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
"Bold and compelling... Uniformly excellent, and often wryly amusing."" - The Wall Street Journal"A globetrotting historical adventure, told from the inside of the operating room... Medical writing at its most exhilarating." - Michael Paul Mason"Comprehensively researched, deftly told, and radiating bot ...Show more
The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future by Jonathan E. Hillman
$36.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks. Its vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa's megacities into rural America. China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, re ...Show more
Astroquizzical - The Illustrated Edition: Solving the Cosmic Puzzles of our Planets, Stars, and Galaxies by JILLIAN SCUDDER
$45.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A beautifully illustrated, enlightening edition of astronomer Jillan Scudder's exploration of our universe. Looking up at the night sky, it is almost impossible to imagine that we can trace our common ancestry with the distant stars and galaxies back over 13.8 billion years. Astroquizzical explores this ...Show more
North Korea Undercover by John Sweeney
$27.99 NZD
Category: Politics
North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. It is Orwell's 1984 made reality. The regime controls the flow of information to its citizens, pouring relentless propaganda through omnipresent loud speakers. Free speech is an illusion: one word out of line and the gulag awaits. State spies are everywhere ...Show more
The XX Brain by Lisa Mosconi
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: The Female Brain
The XX Brain is the first book to explain how hormonal changes makes a woman's brain especially vulnerable to Alzheimer's, and shows how this risk and also other forms of dementia can be reduced by preventive medicine and lifestyle modifications designed specifically for women.
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
$24.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
One of the most important philosophical works of all time, in a new Penguin Classics translation. Aristotle's classic treatise is based on his famous doctrine of the golden mean, which advocates taking the middle course between excess and deficiency. Reacting against Plato's absolutism, Aristotle insist ...Show more
The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton, The School of Life
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
What does it mean to live wisely and well in the twenty-first century? And how should we go about doing it? These are the most important questions to ask ourselves and the ones we most often avoid dealing with. This insightful, witty and generous book reveals one simple answer to the question of a good ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international ...Show more
The Massive Book of Maps by Lorna Hendry
$29.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Humans have used maps for thousands of years. They have been hugely important to our understanding of the world, and continue to be valuable tools in our everyday life. While some elements remain the same, the maps of today are very different to those of the past. Learn all about these fascinating devic ...Show more
Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the twenty-first century, and what her journey through time reveals about what matters to us as humans.Charting Venus's origins in pow ...Show more
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II by Serhii Plokhy
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
In November 1943, with the outcome of the Second World War hanging in the balance, the Allies needed a new plan. The Americans' audacious suggestion to the Soviets was to open a second air front, with the US Air Force establishing bases in Soviet-controlled territory. Despite Stalin's obvious reservatio ...Show more