Which Native Forest Plant? by Andrew Crowe
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Series: Which...?
This best-selling classic by Andrew Crowe includes comprehensive information on the identification, ecology and uses of New Zealand's native plants.This best-selling classic by Andrew Crowe includes comprehensive information on the identification, ecology and uses of New Zealand's native plants.Use Andr ...Show more
Pakeha Maori - The Extraordinary Story of the Europeans who lived as Maori in early New Zealand by Trevor Bentley
32.00 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: very good
New edition. This book describes one of the most extraordinary and fascinating stories in NZ history. In the early part of the last century several thousand runaway seamen and escaped convicts settled in Maori communities. Jacky Mamon, John Rutherford, Charlotte Badger and many others this is their larg ...Show more
The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees by Robert Penn
30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General | Reading Level: very good
An exuberant tale of craftsmanship for nature lovers and rugged outdoor types everywhere. Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it. After all, ash is the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. Journeying from Wales acr ...Show more
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
30.00 NZD
Category: Business
Shop Class as Soulcraft brings alive an experience that was once quite common but now seems to be receding from society - the experience of making and fixing things with our hands. For those who felt hustled off to college, then to the cubicle, against their own inclinations, it seeks to restore the hon ...Show more
Nudge : Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness (International Edition 2009) by Richard H. THALER and Cass R. SUNSTEIN
28.00 NZD
Category: Business
Every day we make decisions: about the things that we buy or the meals we eat; about the investments we make or our children's health and education; even the causes that we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. We are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
13.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, wh ...Show more
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General | Reading Level: very good
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful ...Show more
The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes by Steven Pinker
30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
"If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this--the most inspiring book I've ever read."--Bill Gates (May, 2017) A provocative history of violence--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate, and Enlightenment Now. Believe it or not, tod ...Show more
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
31.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: good-very good
The acclaimed bestseller that will change the way you make decisions.In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices. One system is fast, intuitive, and emotional; the other is slower, more delib ...Show more
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
31.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Thrilling and revelatory, "The Shock Doctrine" cracks open the ...Show more
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (TPB) (EE) by Malcolm Gladwell
30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell revolutionises the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consis ...Show more
Roget's Thesaurus of English Words And Phrases by George Davidson
48.00 NZD
Category: Dictionaries & Atlases
Roget's Thesaurus ranks as one of the greatest English language reference works, used for generations by anyone looking for help in order to write a letter, prepare a speech, solve a crossword, or write any manner of prose or poem. Its sales now exceed 32 million copies. This edition has been revised a ...Show more