Ways of Being - Animals, Plants, Machines - The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
$32.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something uni ...Show more
Bill Frisell Beautiful Dreamer The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music by Philip Watson
$33.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist Bill Frisell.FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon Giddens; The Bad Plus; Gavin Bryars; Van Dyke Parks; Sam Amidon; Hal Willner; Jim Woodring; Martin Hayes & D ...Show more
Artists' Letters - Leonardo Da Vinci to David Hockney by Michael Bird
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
A treasure trove of noteworthy letters, arranged thematically to provide an insight into the lives and work of great artists.
Flight-Free Europe (Lonely Planet) by Lonely Planet
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Discover how to explore Europe sustainably with this ultimate collection of 80 no-fly itineraries. Featuring trips that range from a weekend to a month, we show you how to avoid chaotic airports and reduce the carbon footprint of your travel with detailed route maps and transport connection information ...Show more
Time's Echo The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
A stirring account of how music acts as a witness to history and a medium of cultural memory in the post-Holocaust world. When it comes to how societies commemorate their own distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of books, archives, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, Jeremy E ...Show more
Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschlager
$82.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A magnificent new biography of the founder of Impressionism. In the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in western art. Misunderstood and mocked at the beginning of his career, he risked everything to pursue his ...Show more
Antarctica by Claire Keegan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry 'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' Observer A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sist ...Show more
Property - The Myth That Built the World by Rowan Moore
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of ...Show more
Generations: Does when you're born shape who you are? by Bobby Duffy
$33.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A compelling exploration of generational divides informed by exclusive studies from around the world. Are millennials entitled and lazy? Are baby boomers the most sexually liberal generation? Was generation X the last group to show loyalty to political parties? In this original and deeply researched boo ...Show more
Signs of Life - To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor by Stephen Fabes
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
The cycling doctor: Round the world with a stethoscope.
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present by Christopher Harding
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th century to the present, through the eyes of people who always had their doubts about modernity - who greeted it not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's familiar mode ...Show more
Feminist City - Claiming Space in a Man-Made World by Leslie Kern
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for women as mothers, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a ...Show more