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 Smallest Lights in the Universe - A Memoir by Sara Seager
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
In this luminous memoir, an MIT astrophysicist must reinvent herself in the wake of tragedy and discovers the power of connection on this planet, even as she searches our galaxy for another Earth. "Sara Seager's exploration of outer and inner space makes for a stunningly original memoir."--Abraham V ...Show more
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf
$19.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
"Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?" Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How Should One Read a Book? celebrates the enduring importance of ...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
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
There was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bo ...Show more
Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes
$39.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar. Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look ...Show more
Ikigai by Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
$35.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER - Find purpose, meaning and joy in your work and life We all have an ikigai. It's the Japanese word for 'a reason to live' or 'a reason to jump out of bed in the morning'. The place where your needs, ambitions, skills and satisfaction meet. A place of balance. This bo ...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 by Charlie Mackesy
$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
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