200 Women by Ruth Hobday, Geoff Blackwell, Kieran Scott
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography
200 women from around the world, famous and unknown, answer the same five questions, such as “What really matters to you?” and “What would you change in the world if you could?” The answers are inspiring, moving, sometimes funny, sometimes painful, but always powerful. Interviewees include Graca Michel, ...Show more
Great Thinkers School of Life (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$50.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: The\School of Life Library
Typically, great thinkers have been included in encyclopedic works on the basis of reputation and historic influence. The School of Life takes a different approach, focusing instead on the thinkers whose ideas are the most helpful to our lives now. This is a collection of sixty of the most important and ...Show more
What is Culture For? (The School of Life) by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life | Series: Essay Bks.
Our societies frequently proclaim their enormous esteem for culture. Music, film, literature and the visual arts enjoy high prestige and are viewed by many as getting close to the meaning of life. But what is culture really for?This book proposes that works of culture were all made, in one way or anothe ...Show more
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein
$32.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
A lively and accessible history of humanity's greatest - and strangest - creation: money.
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Georges Perec
$12.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order' One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and seeing the extraordinary in the everyday. In these vi ...Show more
Silence - in the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge
$24.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge once spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, his radio broken. This breathtaking, inspiring little book teaches us how to find precious moments of silence - whether we are crossing the Antarctic, climbing Everest, or on the train at rush hour. 'Quietly, wisely, ...Show more
A Mini Guide to the Identification of New Zealand Native Trees by Andrew Crowe
$14.00 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Environment | Series: Mini Guide to the Identification of New Zealand...
A handy, pocket-sized guide to the identification of New Zealand native trees.Condensed from Andrew Crowe's popular Which Native Tree?, this mini guide has been designed to fit into a pocket, day pack or bag. Full of essential information for quick and accurate identification of native trees, this class ...Show more
Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain
$26.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
The little book with a very big idea that has everyone talking Quiet, the Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller by Susan Cain, will permanently change how we see introverts - and how you see yourself. Our lives are driven by a fact most of us can't name and don't understand- whether we're an introv ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
$30.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen Ghodsee
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
'Funny, angry, urgent. Ghodsee is going to start a revolution' - Daisy Buchanan Unregulated capitalism is bad for women. Socialism, if done properly, leads to economic independence, better labour conditions, better work/family balance and, yes, even better sex. If you like the idea of such outcomes, the ...Show more
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
$15.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Timeless advice on the art of living well, from the celebrated Penguin Great Ideas series The writings of the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into stoicism, morality and the importance of reason, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity ...Show more
Someone's Wife - A Memoir of Sorts by Linda Burgess
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A brilliant collection of personal essays from a quietly subversive writer. 'A work written with brio, Someone's Wife is hilarious and devastating, a sliver of New Zealand culture and history told through a single vibrant life and its entanglements with others. Slouching towards Aotearoa, perhaps Burges ...Show more