Ford Tough: 100 Years of Ford Trucks by Patrick Foster
69.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
In July 1917 Ford Motor Company introduced a one-ton chassis for commercial trucks, marking what many historians feel was its official entry into the dedicated truck business. Prior to this the company had offered commercial cars, including depot hacks and delivery van bodies mounted on its standard pas ...Show more
The Fate of the West by Bill Emmott
36.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
When faced with global instability and economic uncertainty, it is tempting for states to react by closing borders, hoarding wealth and solidifying power. We have seen it at various times in Japan, France and Italy and now it is infecting all of Europe and America, as the vote for Brexit in the UK has v ...Show more
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans De Waal
27.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
What separates your mind from the mind of an animal? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future - all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the pre-eminent species on Earth. But in recent decades, claims of human superiority have been ...Show more
Granta #140 : The Mind by Sigrid (EDT) Rausing
27.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General | Series: Granta: the Magazine of New Writing | Reading Level: General Adult
We know how the brain works, but do we understand the mind? In an age when we are finally taking mental health as seriously as physical health, this issue of Granta explores the conscious self: how it perceives, judges and lives in the world. With new fiction, reportage, poetry, photography, and art add ...Show more
Things That Matter: Stories of life and death by David Galler
32.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
In this highly articulate, down to earth, generous and thoughtful book, Dr David Galler tells stories of life and death from his position as head of intensive care at a busy city hospital. Weaving his own personal stories throughout - including the death of his parents - David frames a number of chapte ...Show more
The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discovery by David L. Mearns
36.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
The underwater worlds of past and present collide in the depths of the ocean in this gripping and suspenseful narrative by David Mearns, a true expert on the mysteries of the deep sea.' CLIVE CUSSLER David Mearns has found some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. His deep-water searc ...Show more
The Great New Zealand Robbery by Scott Bainbridge
32.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
It should be remembered as New Zealand's answer to Britain's Great Train Robbery, but instead it's been almost completely forgotten. In the dead of the night, robbers broke into the commission building and made off with an audacious loot equivalent to almost $1 million today. This 1956 heist, which even ...Show more
Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden
24.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
Includes enhanced CD with exclusive video of the actual hunt for Pablo Escobar On July 22, 1992, Colombian druglord Pablo Escobar walked out of the luxurious prison he built for himself and disappeared into the Colombian jungle. His audacious escape destroyed the nation's tenuous ceasefire with its inf ...Show more
Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life by Brenda Maddox
32.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These first geologists were made up primarily, and inevitably, of gentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests, yet boosting their number ...Show more
Warren Buffett's Ground Rules: Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World's Greatest Investor by Jeremy Miller
24.99 NZD
Category: Business | Reading Level: good-very good
At the age of 26, Warren Buffett founded Buffett Partnership Limited, which lasted from 1956 to 1970. During this time he wrote 33 letters to his small but growing group of partners. These letters chronicle his thoughts, approaches and reflections in the period immediately prior to his Berkshire Hathawa ...Show more
The Ten Types of Human - A new understanding of who we are and who we can be by Dexter Dias
40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: near fine
This book will introduce you to ten people. In a way, you already know them. Only you don't - not really. In a sense, they are you. Only they're not entirely. They inform and shape the most important decisions in your life. But you're almost certainly unaware of their intervention. They are the Ten Type ...Show more
Faster, Higher, Farther: The Inside Story of the Volkswagen Scandal by Jack Ewing
38.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General | Reading Level: very good
A shocking expose of Volkswagen's fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal. When news of Volkswagen's clean diesel fraud first broke in September 2015, it sent shockwaves around the world. Overnight, the company long associated with quality, reliability and trust became a universal s ...Show more