Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
A massive, predatory bird and its place in history and myth. The legend of Pouakai, aka the extinct Haast's Eagle, takes Peter Walker on a journey from an 1860s Canterbury sheep run to a deep cave near Karamea as he learns the story of the mighty hunter that inhabited a peak in the foothills of the Sout ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians by James Patterson
40.00 NZD
Category: History
Featuring original interviews with booksellers and librarians, James Patterson presents a new non-fiction title that highlights the magic of books. To be a bookseller or librarian . . . You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. A brilliant listener. A person who creates a kind of m ...Show more
Footprints on the Land - How Humans Changed New Zealand by Richard Wolfe
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Reading Level: near fine
Less than a thousand years of human occupation have massively altered Aotearoa. In this fascinating work, cultural historian Richard Wolfe explores how and why settlers have impacted on nature and what this means for our future. Footprints on the Land is a timely review of the human place in our environ ...Show more
The New Zealand Night Sky by Alistair Hughes
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
The night sky in Aotearoa New Zealand is not only spectacular but it's different from the rest of the world. Explore the constellations, planets and galaxies above us while learning more about Māori astronomy and the inspiring New Zealanders who have made famous discoveries about the exploration of spac ...Show more
Children's Illustrated Atlas by Andrew Brooks
27.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference
A world atlas for kids - packed full of beautiful illustrations and incredible photographsSet off on a thrilling journey around the world. DK's Children's Illustrated Atlas brings the world to life with colourful maps and fascinating facts about the countries of the world.Each map is bursting with infor ...Show more
The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the ...Show more
Fevered Planet: How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature by John Vidal
39.00 NZD
Category: Environment
A timely and urgent investigation from John Vidal, Environment Editor of the Guardian for nearly thirty years, into how the destruction of nature is releasing disease into our societies 'Urgent, fascinating and essential' GEORGE MONBIOT 'A searing, vital work' BETTANY HUGHES Covid-19, mpox, bird flu, ...Show more
Gangster's Paradise by Jared Savage
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Reference
The much anticipated follow-up to the bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in New Zealand. Gangster's Paradise is about drugs, guns, gangs and money. Lots of money. A gang which took over a small rural town. A police officer shot and killed in a routine traffic stop. A port-worker ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa; Timothy Revell
40.00 NZD
Category: History
A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths. Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journ ...Show more
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong
28.00 NZD
Category: History
‘Lucid and damning … an absorbing – and infuriating – tale of complicity, coverup and denial’ PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II – and how the world allowe ...Show more
The Body Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
75.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A new, beautifully illustrated edition of the Number One Bestseller and Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, which takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. A directory of wonders' - Guardian 'Jaw-dropping' -The Times 'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts in ...Show more
2024 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A Month-by-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa by Storm Dunlop, Wil Tirion, Collins Astronomy
23.00 NZD
Category: Astronomy
The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January–December 2024. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from ...Show more