Square Haunting - Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE * LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * "A beautiful and deeply moving book."--Sally Rooney, author of Normal People An engrossing group portrait of five women writers, including Virginia Woolf, who moved to London's Mecklenburgh Square in search of new freedom in t ...Show more
Story or Die: How to Use Brain Science to Engage, Persuade, and Change Minds in Business and in Life by Lisa Cron
$35.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
A step-by-step guide to using the brain's hardwired need for story to achieve any goal, whether it's successfully pitching a product, saving the planet, or convincing your kids not to text and drive, from the author of Wired for Story. Story isn't just one way to persuade. It's the way. It's built i ...Show more
Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon
$22.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Optioned for a film starring Elizabeth Debicki, a rollercoaster ride full of danger, intrigue and love based on the extraordinary true story of Australia's most beloved war heroine, Nancy Wake. February 29, 1944: I am about to jump out of an aeroplane for the first time ... I don't care that every man i ...Show more
Lessons in Stoicism - What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live by John Sellars
$26.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
What aspects of your life do you really control? What do you do when you cannot guarantee that things will turn out in your favour? And what can Stoicism teach us about how to live together? In the past few years, Stoicism has been making a comeback. But what exactly did the Stoics believe? In Lessons i ...Show more
Philosophy in 40 Ideas (The School of Life) by The School The School of Life
$27.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Philosophy is a discipline committed to helping us live wiser and less sorrowful lives. This book artfully draws together 40 of the greatest and most useful ideas found in philosophy, taking us on a journey around key concepts from both Eastern and Western cultures.We are invited to sample the distincti ...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
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.
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
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
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
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century, Fifth Edition by Robert Service
$40.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Revised and updated with a new introduction and new final chapter.Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change and upheaval.In his acclaimed history, now updated to 2009, Robert Service provides a superb panor ...Show more
Life: a User's Manual - Philosophy for (almost) Any Eventuality by Julian Baggini; Antonia Macaro
$40.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
How should I live?What is my purpose?Can I find happiness?Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There are no easy answers to the big questions. And life does not follow a straight path from A to B.Since the beginning of time, people have asked questions about h ...Show more