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A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next by Tom Standage
$32.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
From the New York Times bestselling author comes a timely and illuminating history of personal transportation, and how it has transformed the world we live in.Beginning around 3,500 BC with the wheel, and moving through the eras of horsepower, trains and bicycles, Tom Standage puts the rise of the car a ...Show more
A Brief History of Seven Killings: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 by Marlon James
$26.99 NZD
Category: No Category
JAMAICA, 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a dazzling display of masterful storytelling exploring this near-mythic event. Spanning three decades and ...Show more
A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World by Tom Phillips
$34.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
"Do you feel like we're living in the end times? Does it seem like everything is on fire, and one disaster follows another? Here's a small comfort: you're not the first to feel that way. If there's one thing that people throughout history have agreed on, it's that history wasn't going to be around f ...Show more
A Brief Welcome to the Universe: A Pocket-Sized Tour by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott
$29.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
A pocket-style edition based on the New York Times bestseller A Brief Welcome to the Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes and time loops. Bestselling authors and acclaimed astrophysicists Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richa ...Show more
A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay
$38.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Internationally bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay's latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy, with an extraordinary cast of characters. In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man looks back on his youth and the people who shaped his life. Danio Cerr ...Show more
A Brightness Long Ago: A profound and unforgettable historical fantasy novel by Guy Gavriel Kay
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy
'The greatest living author of epic fantasy' - Brandon Sanderson'The finest in his field' - Tor.com'Guy Gavriel Kay's A Brightness Long Ago is a masterpiece; perhaps the finest work of one of the world's greatest living storytellers' - Fantasy Book Review***One of Goodreads' Most Anticipated SFF Books o ...Show more
A Brilliant Life: My Mother’s Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust by Rachelle Unreich
$40.00 NZD
Category: No Category
As her mother, Mira, nears the end of her life, journalist Rachelle Unreich wants to find out more about how Mira survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed - which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that always happened around ...Show more
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
$27.99 NZD
Category: Sci Fi
The classic science fiction novel of a future dark age and humanity's new renaissance It is a new dark age of fear and ignorance. An atomic Flame Deluge has ravaged the earth, and humanity's survivors have turned against science. In the depths of a hellish desert, the Order of St Leibowitz preserves ...Show more
A Case of Conscience by James Blish
$27.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez S.J., is a part of a four man scientific commission to the planet Lithia, there to study a harmonious society of aliens living on a planets which is a biologist's paradise. He soon finds himself troubled: how can these perfect beings, living in an apparent Eden, have no concept ...Show more
A Case with a Bang (#5 Detective Gordon) by Ulf Nilsson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adults | Series: Detective Gordon
Illustrated in full colour and packed with character and humour, this is the fifth whodunnit mystery in the awardwinning Detective Gordon series, fun to read alone or aloud. A Case with a Bang is the final book in the series of funny detective stories for early readers set in a friendly forest in which ...Show more
A Celebration of David Attenborough Activity Book by Joyce Nathan
$17.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
A highly diverting celebration of television's favourite naturalist, packed with games, trivia and Attenborough-inspired activities. Attenborough. Just saying the name makes everyone feel better. Words like 'dependable', 'inspiring' and 'soothing' cascade like the rains returning to the sun-parched s ...Show more
A Children's Bible: A Novel by Lydia Millet
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adults
Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel--her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven--follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, who pass their day ...Show more