To the Ends of the Earth: How the Greatest Maps Were Made by Philip Parker
59.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
This lavishly illustrated book provides a unique insight into the evolution of mapmaking and the science behind it, from the stone age to the digital age. Britain's leading cartographic author takes us on a historical journey through how the greatest maps were created. Exploring key cartographers a ...Show more
A Lab of One's Own - Science and Suffrage in the First World War by Patricia Fara
28.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
2018 marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by revealing the untold lives of female scientists, doctors, and engineers who undertook endeavours normally reservedfor men. It ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa; Timothy Revell
40.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
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
Why Knowledge Matters - Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories by E. D. Hirsch
65.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
In Why Knowledge Matters, influential scholar E. D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform and shows how cherished truisms about education and child development have led to unintended and negative consequences.Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, draws on recent find ...Show more
The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage by Ryan Holiday
27.99 NZD
Category: Business | Reading Level: very good
We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at nineteen to serve as an apprentice to bestselling 'modern Machiavelli' Robert Greene and is now a media consultant for bil ...Show more
The Outback Court Reporter by Jamelle Wells
39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
Outback Court Reporter is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic look at the comings and goings on inside the country courtrooms dotted across Australia. From the case of the stolen cat flap, to missing lollipops and exploding chocolate milk in a country supermarket, to a custody dispute over a camel - Ja ...Show more
Being Extraordinary By Confronting Your Ordinary
45.00 NZD
Category: Business
If business is your life, you need to read this exciting new book.....Mike Bennetts will lead you on a journey to become extraordinary business leader. Mike was CEO of the year in 2016 and he didn't get there by accident!
Merriam Webster's Crossword Puzzle Dictionary by MERRIAM-WEBSTER
24.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries & Atlases
New Edition! Created especially for crossword puzzle lovers. More than 340,000 clues and answer words with over 20,000 new words. Organized alphabetically, by number of letters, and by common categories. New answer and clue words include: freegan, goji, pho and tweep. Comprehensive coverage of "crosswor ...Show more
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
42.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new scientist and writer. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Ca ...Show more
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel
26.00 NZD
Category: Economics
______________________'A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times ... If you're looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.' KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of Doughnut Economics Featured in FT Best Books of the Year 2020______________________The world has finally awoken to the ...Show more
The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness by Morgan Housel
34.99 NZD
Category: Economics
Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do ...Show more
Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life by Morgan Housel
34.99 NZD
Category: Economics
When planning for the future we often ask, "What will the economy be doing this time next year?" Or, "What will be different ten years from now?" But forecasting is hard. The important events that will shape the future are inherently unpredictable. Instead, we should be asking a different question: Wha ...Show more