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A Life on Our Planet - My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
$20.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
Fake Law: The Truth about Justice in an Age of Lies by The Secret Barrister
$20.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: very good
Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn't be deported because he had a pet cat? Are unelected judges truly enemies of the people? Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we even think of it at all. But the law touches ev ...Show more
Who Cares Wins: Reasons for Optimism in our Changing World by Lily Cole
$18.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: near fine
Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naïve and it is not impossible. We are living in an age of turmoil, destruction and uncertainty. Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human expansion has caused the extinction of countless species, and Neolibera ...Show more
Nala's World: One Man, His Rescue Cat and a Bike Ride Around the Globe by Dean Nicholson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: near fine
Instagram phenomenon @1bike1world Dean Nicholson reveals the full story of his life-changing friendship with rescue cat Nala and their inspiring adventures together on a bike journey around the world. When 30-year-old Dean Nicholson set off from Scotland to cycle around the world, his aim was to learn ...Show more
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield - What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb
$16.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
‘A wake-up call … These women’s stories will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.’ Amal Clooney From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the first major account to address the scale of rape and sexual violence in modern conflict. Christina Lamb has wor ...Show more
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: near fine
The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in g ...Show more
The World As It Is - Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes
$18.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From one of Barack Obama's most trusted aides comes a revelatory behind-the-scenes account of his presidency--and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive."The closest view of Obama we're likely to get until he publishes his own memoir."--George Packer, The N ...Show more
Gotta Get Theroux This - My Life and Strange Times in Television by Louis Theroux
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography
In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic religious sects. Gawky, socially awkward and totally unqualified, his first reaction to this exciting opportunity was panic. But he'd always been drawn to off-beat charact ...Show more
Nau 'a'ai no te mau ta'amotu - Legendes des archipels - Legends of the Archipelagos
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Generations - Grandmothers, Mothers and Daughters by Diane Bell
$16.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: good-very good
In this work, women from around Australia tell of the significant objects in their lives - hierlooms and hand-me-downs, teapots and prayer books, routines and rituals, cuttings from familiar gardens and the Singer sewing machines - which make plain the patterns of this place.
New Zealand's Best Trout Flies by Peter Scott and Peter Chan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fishing | Reading Level: very good
Flyfishing for trout in New Zealand. Articles from 30 well-regarded New Zealand flyfishing personalities about their favourite fly patterns, together with tying instructions, colour photographs and illustrated with colour and black & white sketches. First published May 2007.
Anahulu - The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii Volume Two: The Archaeology of History by Patrick Vinton Kirch; Marshall D. Sahlins
$55.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routes and markets crisscrossed the islands. Reflecting many years of collaboration between Marshall Sahlins, a prominent social anthropologist, and Patrick V. Kirch, a leadin ...Show more