How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book by an expert professor shows us why they happen, and how to avoid themWe are now living in the world's greatest era of civil wars. While violence has declined worldwide, major civil wars are now being fought in countries including Iraq, ...Show more
Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Based on two decades of research, the five causes of wars and four ways to stop themIt's easy to overlook that most of the time, war doesn't happen. Around the world there are millions of hostile rivalries, yet only a tiny fraction erupt into violence. With a counterintuitive approach, Blattman reminds ...Show more
The Illustrated Compendium of Essential Modern Slang - Including Cray, Lit, Basic, and More by Tyler Vendetti; Rebecca Pry (Illustrator)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Illustrated Compendium Ser.
The Illustrated Compendium of Essential Modern Slang is an illustrated dictionary of the zaniest jargon, including everything from ankle-biter to zazzy! Complete with definitions, roots, and absurd usage quotes, these 300+ words are sure to make you go, "What does that mean?"What do your grandmother, yo ...Show more
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian Writers on the Home, Identity and Culture They Know by Various
$30.99 NZD
$34.99 (11% off)
Category: Non Fiction
To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa’s most populous nation through words or images. And yet here, through personal essays from 24 of its writers, a more accurate picture comes into ...Show more
The Shadow Drawing : How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint by Francesca Fiorani
$42.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Leonardo da Vinci has long been celebrated as the epitome of genius. He was the masterful painter who gave us the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, and the visionary inventor who anticipated airplanes, hot-air balloons, and other technological marvels. But what was the connection between Leonardo the paint ...Show more
1923 The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler's Coup by Mark Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The astonishing year when German democracy faced crisis and near destruction. 1923 was one of the most remarkable years of modern European history. In January, France and Belgium militarily occupied Germany's economic heartland, the Ruhr; triggering a series of crises that almost spiralled out of contro ...Show more
Bushline - A Memoir by Robbie Burton
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Robbie Burton is a tramper, mountain-lover and book publisher, who has had a life-long infatuation with the wild places of New Zealand. In this memoir he recalls a childhood in which the natural world played a central part, and led to a youthful obsession with tramping, skiing and mountaineering. In hi ...Show more
The Inside Story - The Surprising Pleasures of Living in an Aging Body by Susan Sands
$49.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Do you fear that growing old means being trapped in a body filled with aches, pains, sags, and losses? Too many of us do--especially women. Though our youth-obsessed society is partly to blame, Dr. Susan Sands explains there is a deeper and unrecognized factor: we have never really gotten to know our bo ...Show more
Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov
$36.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a 21st-century war. Andrey Kurkov has been a consistent satirical commentator on his adopted country of Ukraine. His most recent work, Grey B ...Show more
Proof - Two Decades of Printmaking by Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand Pcanz
$70.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A superb showcase of some of the best examples of contemporary fine art printmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand today. With 180 works by 127 artists, Proof covers a huge breadth of printmaking processes and display the incredible diversity of this artform, from the more traditional woodcuts and etchings to ...Show more
The Comic Book Lesson (Graphic) by Mark Crilley
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
An aspiring young creator learns the fundamentals of visual storytelling from three comic book mentors in this charming illustrated tale--a graphic novel that teaches you how to turn your stories into comics! Acclaimed illustrator and graphic novelist Mark Crilley returns with a new approach to learning ...Show more
Mobilising Hate: The Story of Hitler's Final Solution by Martin Davidson
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Praise for The Perfect Nazi:'Absorbing, highly readable and painstakingly researched' NIALL FERGUSON'Unforgettable, haunting reading' SIMON SCHAMA'A fascinating and extraordinary journey into the banality of evil at the heart of Nazism' BEN MACINTYRE'Riveting' THE TIMES'Fascinating, scrupulously researc ...Show more