The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast by Tom; Sand Goalhanger; Holland Podcasts
$26.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys - there's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland a ...Show more
The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
$39.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the leg ...Show more
Want by Gillian Anderson
$38.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A collection of confessions from women around the world, Want is a revelatory, sensational and game-changing exploration of women's sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous? What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you wan ...Show more
The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life by Clare Carlisle
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who explored the complexities of marriage. In her mid-thirties Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot--an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those ye ...Show more
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A ground-breaking book that examines the place of women in twentieth-century philosophy and is a call to arms for the present dayWINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWNAN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOKElizabeth Anscombe- defiantly brilliant, chain-smoking, trouser-wear ...Show more
Enchantment by Katherine May
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography
From the internationally bestselling author of Wintering comes this balm for anxious times and an invitation to rediscover the feelings of awe and wonder available to us all. Our sense of enchantment is not only triggered by grand things. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time ...Show more
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: The Animated Story
$50.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
Ahead of the long-awaited film on BBC One this C hristmas Day, a breathtaking new imagining of the original record-breaking story. Charlie Mackesy's beloved The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse has been adapted into an animated short film, coming to BBC One and iPlayer this Christmas. This beautiful ...Show more
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
$40.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with reade ...Show more
Pesticides and Health - How New Zealand Fails In Environmental Protection (BWB Texts) by Neil Pearce
$17.99 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Environment | Series: BWB Texts
New Zealand has been one of the world's heaviest users of pesticides, including some contaminated with dioxin, a notorious toxic chemical. In this BWB Text a leading epidemiologist uses the example of dioxin to illustrate how badly New Zealand handles problems of environmental pollutants, and why we can ...Show more
The Knowledge Machine - How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science by Michael Strevens
$26.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
It is only in the last three centuries that the formidable knowledge-making machine we call modern science has transformed our way of life and our vision of the universe - two thousand years after the invention of law, philosophy, drama and mathematics. Why did we take so long to invent science? And how ...Show more
Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
$26.00 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Environment
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A scientific memoir as gripping as any HBO drama series' Kate Kellaway, Observer A dazzling scientific detective story from the ecologist who first discovered the hidden language of trees No one has done more to transform our understanding of trees than the world-renowned s ...Show more
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor: Now a major BBC comedy-drama by Adam Kay
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Now A Major BBC Series Starring Ben Whishaw. The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards. 'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior do ...Show more