The Black Swan - The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own personal lives. A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle chara ...Show more
Persepolis - The Story of A Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
$14.00 NZD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Pantheon Graphic Library | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Notable Book A Time Magazine "Best Comix of the Year" A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best-seller Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic str ...Show more
The New Parent Code - 12 Vital Clues to Achieving Modern Family Sanity by Marilyn McLachlan
$12.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: good-very good
The truth about modern parenting is that many of us are . . .- time poor but rich in reasons to feel guilty- confused about all the latest research and what it means- anxious about childcare options versus staying at home- keen to know more about our children's development- eager to raise happy, confide ...Show more
The Whole Nine Yards - The story of an ANZAC P-40 by John King
$14.00 NZD
Category: Aviation | Reading Level: very good
This is a book about an aeroplane, a 1943 Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk flown for several months under difficult conditions in a remote tropical corner of the southwest Pacific. Abandoned at the side of an airstrip after a landing mishap, it lay forgotten for decades until it was retrieved and shipped to New Z ...Show more
Compost - How to Make and Use Organic Compost to Transform Your Garden by Clare Foster
$10.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: very good
In this new edition of her hands-on guide to the art of composting, House & Garden garden editor, Clare Foster, shows you how to build a compost box, select the best ingredients and put the resulting organic compost to the best use in your outdoor space. By taking some dead leaves, grass cuttings an ...Show more
Stockholm Style Guide by Lisa Arnold
$14.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
The perfect travel guide for discovering Stockholm's trendiest places to visit.
Homework for Grown-ups - Everything You Learnt at School... and Promptly Forgot by E Foley; B Coates
$10.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
Don't know your isosceles from your equilateral? Forgotten what actually happened in 1066? Do you know when you've left a participle hanging? And are you left slack-jawed when your children ask you what 'quid pro quo' means? Bewildered already? Fret no longer. HOMEWORK FOR GROWN-UPS is a brilliantly inf ...Show more
State Experiments in Australia & New Zealand Volume I and Volume II by W Pember Reeves
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
$14.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good-very good
Hallucinations, for most people, imply madness. But there are many different types of non-psychotic hallucination caused by various illnesses or injuries, by intoxication - even, for many people, by falling sleep. From the elementary geometrical shapes that we see when we rub our eyes to the complex swi ...Show more
Hidden Potential - The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
$42.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: near fine
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who st ...Show more
The Noonday Demon - An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
$18.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policy makers and politicians, drug designers an ...Show more
This Is a Call - The Life and Times of Dave Grohl by Paul Brannigan
$15.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's been in bands that have changed popular music forever. He saw his best friend commit suicide. He starts supergroups. He's the nicest guy in rock. From Nirvana to Foo Fighters, from brotherhood to bitt ...Show more