Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds by Anne Salmond
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand, where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes, and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with maps and clocks, grids and fences, and they too adapted to a new island home. In this remo ...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
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters by Andrew H. Knoll
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
Harvard's acclaimed geologist "charts Earth's history in accessible style" (AP) "A sublime chronicle of our planet." -Booklist, STARRED review How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you're standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of i ...Show more
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival by Daniel Finkelstein
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
‘Epic, moving and important’ Robert Harris From longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein, a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his father’s devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War. Daniel’s mother Mirjam Wiener w ...Show more
The Galveston Diet - The Doctor-Developed, Patient-Proven Plan to Burn Fat and Tame Your Hormonal Symptoms by Mary Claire Haver
$65.00 NZD
Category: Health
WALL STREET JOURNAL AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER - A patient-proven eating and lifestyle program to balance nutrition, help manage middle age weight "creep," and reduce uncomfortable symptomsduring menopause and perimenopause--including more than 40 delicious recipes and 6 weeks of meal plans--tail ...Show more
Cows Save the Planet: and Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth by Judith D. Schwartz
$45.00 NZD
Category: Farming
In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems--climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnut ...Show more
Climate Worrier: a Hypocrite's Guide to Saving the Planet by Colm O'Regan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Environment
Bestselling author Colm O'Regan is a worrier. A professional one. Caution is his watchword. Risk aversion is his love language. Now Colm is grappling with the biggest worry of all: the whole 'planet being on fire' thing and how exactly we can help. Don't worry, this isn't a book telling you how to live ...Show more
200 Women by Ruth Hobday, Geoff Blackwell, Kieran Scott
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
200 women from around the world, famous and unknown, answer the same five questions, such as “What really matters to you?” and “What would you change in the world if you could?” The answers are inspiring, moving, sometimes funny, sometimes painful, but always powerful. Interviewees include Graca Michel, ...Show more
Ash Barty: Champion by Ash Barty
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A young readers edition of Ash Barty's #1 bestselling memoir. It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where and who I am today.My story is about the power and joy of doing that thing you love and seeing where it can take you, from the first time I ...Show more
Don Binney - Flight Path by Gregory O'Brien
$90.00 NZD
Category: Art + Design
Painter, printmaker, teacher, writer and ornithologist Don Binney (1940 - 2012) was a mercurial presence on the New Zealand cultural scene from the time of his meteoric rise to fame in the early 1960s. His unmistakable, stylised depictions of birds have come to define an era in the development of the na ...Show more
Routes, Glutes and Two Pairs of Boots A Young Woman's Journey Through the Wilds of Aotearoa by Holly Kipling
$33.00 NZD
Category: Walks, Hikes + Tramps
"At nineteen years old, my journey on Te Araroa was not prompted by the need to heal, but the need to continue pushing the limits of what I believed myself capable of. For me, the outdoors had always been a place of learning, of solace and of adventure." Holly Kipling was a month shy of seventeen when ...Show more
Literary Cats by JUDITH ROBINSON, SCOTT PACK
$40.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia
‘Everything you ever wanted to know about cats in books. A wonderful idea, beautifully executed.’ - Viv GroskopCats have provided the inspiration for an incredible range of fiction, memoir and poetry, from ancient myths and fables to much-loved children’s books, and from classic tales to contemporary no ...Show more