Jacob's Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading by Susan Hill
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and gloriously wedded, as Hill shows in Jacob's Room Is Full of Books. Considering everything from Edith Wharton's novels through to Alan Bennett's diaries, Virginia Woolf and t ...Show more
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen
$29.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
The explosive, untold story of the Cold War's biggest secret. The REAL X-Files. It is the most famous military installation in the world. And no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside of it. Until now. This is the first book based on interviews with scientists, pilots and eng ...Show more
A Place for Everything - The Story of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
$39.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life | Series: FLANDERS, JUDITH
A celebration of alphabetical order, from its humble beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the sum of the world's knowledge. While we emphasize our subconscious appreciation for the importance of the alphabet, it is alphabetic order, its organization, that allows us to sift thr ...Show more
Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books by Clare Pollard
$37.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? What has Meg and Mog got to do with Polish embroidery? Why is death in picture books so often represented by being eaten? We've read Green Eggs and Ham, laughed at Mr Tickle and whetted our appetites with The Very Hungry Caterpillar. But what lies behind t ...Show more
The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
$40.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
TheNew York Times-bestselling author ofStart With Why, Leaders Eat Last, and Together Is Betteroffers a bold new approach to business strategy by asking one question- are you playing the finite game or the infinite game?In The Infinite Game, Sinek applies game theory to explore how great businesses achi ...Show more
Wayfinding: How We Find – and Lose – our Way by Michael Bond
$37.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
The physical world is infinitely complex, yet most of us are able to find our way around it. We can walk through unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction, take shortcuts along paths we have never used and remember for many years places we have visited only once. These are remarkable ach ...Show more
Mind Blown by Dan Marshall
$32.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
Did you know space is only an hour's drive away? Did you know there is a jellyfish that is biologically immortal? Or that of all life that has ever existed on Earth, 99.9% of it is extinct? Dan Marshall's slick new book is packed to the brim with facts that will BLOW YOUR MIND. Delightful illustrations ...Show more
The Little Book of Lost Words - Collywobbles, Ultracrepidarian and Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting (HB) by Joe Gillard
$22.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
An A-Z collection of some of the most unique words in history, this delightful book deals with surprisingly modern issues - such as sleeping in and procrastination - proving that while our language may change, humans do not!The Little Book of Lost Words presents each term ready for modern-day use, comp ...Show more
Esquire Dress Code - A Man's Guide to Personal Style by Esquire
$54.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
Esquire's definitive guide to dressing in style. Clothes make the man--and Esquire Dress Code helps you put together a great wardrobe. Visually bold, and told with Esquire's signature wit and humor, this sophisticated guide explains how to dress for any occasion, no matter your age, shape, or size. It c ...Show more
The Cat (Ladybird Book How It Works) by Jason Hazeley; Joel Morris
$21.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life | Series: Ladybird How It Works
THE PERFECT GIFT for those who value elegance, affection, cold hearted killing and expensive, clawed to death furniture. __________________________________ 'A pet can be great fun. Cats are warm and fluffy, like cuddly toys, and their owners give them lots of time and affection. And, just like cuddly to ...Show more
The Dog (The Ladybird How it Works) by Jason Hazeley; Joel Morris
$21.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life | Series: Ladybird How It Works
THE PERFECT GIFT for people who value friendship, uncompromising love, dribble, chewed up furniture and miles and miles of walking to go to the toilet. __________________________________ 'The dog is often called a man's best friend. Dogs are reliable, loyal and loving, like all best friends. They also s ...Show more
The Dad (Ladybird How It Works) by Jason Hazeley; Joel Morris
$21.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life | Series: Ladybirds for Grown-Ups
The PERFECT GIFT for that superhero, saint, figure of worship or, if none of those apply, your plain dear old dad. 'Shawn has set up his own firework display in the garden. "Those big displays are rubbish," he tells his son. "You can't see a thing." When Shawn's son has seen the firework, they will go b ...Show more