A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - A sweeping, genre-bending "masterpiece" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all their glory and complexity - from Soul Train, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Whitney Houston, and Beyoncé . ONE OF THE TEN B ...Show more
Shark: Why We Need to Save the World's Most Misunderstood Predator by Paul De Gelder
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
From shark attack survivor to the shark’s biggest advocate, Paul de Gelder tells us just why these majestic diverse animals need our help as much as we need them. Something happens to you the first time you dive with sharks… We have a perennial fascination with sharks. Portrayed in the media and popular ...Show more
Your Baby and Child by Penelope Leach
$48.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Penelope Leach's Your Baby & Child is the most loved, trusted and comprehensive book in its field--with almost two million copies sold in America alone. Newsweek says that it is not only one of the best parenting books, but also "by far the most pleasurable to read." This 1997 version, completely r ...Show more
The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World by Jennifer Higgie
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men - including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Paul ...Show more
Gordon Collier's 3 Gardens: Titoki Point, Anacapri, The White House by Gordon Collier
$60.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Few have advanced the art of gardening in this country as much as Gordon Collier. New Zealand’s most passionate plantsman and garden designer extraordinaire needs no introduction to garden lovers, but in this beautiful celebration of his three famous gardens – created and nurtured over 60 years – friend ...Show more
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life by Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A bold, provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes - and what we can do about it.
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin DiAngelo
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
An incisive follow-up to the Sunday Times bestseller White Fragility asserting that it is white progressives who are responsible for inflicting the most daily harm on people of colourRacism is not a simple matter of good people versus bad. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a sys ...Show more
Table for Two: Recipes for the Ones You Love by Bre Graham
$48.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Recipes, menus, and tablescapes to delight your lover, best friend, sister, mother, or brother - this book will become a reference cookbook for a generation that loves to entertain at home Whether it's your Mum, your best friend, or your significant other, sweep the person you love off their feet with ...Show more
Elixir - A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life by Theresa Levitt
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'Dizzying and fragrant, elegant and riveting . . . truly a captivating achievement!' Aimee Nezhukumatathil'If you read this book you will be changed . . . this book feels like an actual elixir. Absolutely stunning' Kiese LaymonTwo friends in a Parisian perfume shop make a discovery that will transform o ...Show more
Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age by Ed Coper
$36.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts', a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era. Would your younger self, even from a few years ago, believe the news of today? An entire block of a major city blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers s ...Show more
Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930 by John Darwin
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order Steam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutioni ...Show more
The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know by David Hone
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Palaeontologist Dr David Hone tells us everything we know about dinosaurs - and everything we don't yet know. We have made more discoveries about dinosaurs in the last 20 years than we have in the previous 200, and there is a wealth of cutting edge research that has never been written about before, from ...Show more