100 Things to Know About Numbers, Computers & Coding by Various
$22.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT | Series: 100 Things to Know
When was the webcam invented and why? Do imaginary numbers exist? What is fuzzy logic? Find the answers these questions about the amazing world of numbers, computers and coding, along with loads of other curious, amazing and mind-boggling facts, in this eye-catching book that is absolutely bursting with ...Show more
Going Solo by Ronald Dahl
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: The Centenary Collection
In 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing the Centenary Collection, a series of six classic books highlighting the skill, heroism esprit de corps that have characterised the Royal Air Force throughou ...Show more
New Zealand Wines 2021 by Michael Cooper
$39.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life | Series: Michael Cooper's Buyer's Guide to New Ze Ser.
Designed to help the buyer to make informed choices about the best quality wines available, this title is firmly established as the most authoritative and sought-after guide to New Zealand wines. Updated yearly with new tasting notes and ratings, this is a 'must-have' publication for the new initiate a ...Show more
The Artist's Garden: The secret spaces that inspired great art by Jackie Bennett
$55.00 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Environment
The Artist's Garden will feature up to 20 gardens that have inspired and been home to some of the greatest painters of history. These gardens not only supplied the inspiration for creative works but also illuminate the professional motivation and private life of the artists themselves - from Cezanne's h ...Show more
Zero Fail - The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig
$40.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
'This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work -- the determinative work -- in this field ... Terrifying.'--Rachel Maddow The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years ...Show more
Me, According to the History of Art by Dick Frizzell
$65.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
Throughout his long career, New Zealand painter Dick Frizzell has often gone way out on a limb to see where it would take him. From his early Pop art influenced approach to his experiments with landscape and the contested area of appropriation, he's always been brave. Now, he takes on the history of art ...Show more
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy by Adam Tooze
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business, Economics and Law
From the author of Crashed comes a short, high-speed history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us nowWhen the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they coul ...Show more
The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle
$23.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language | Series: Classics Ser.
With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils - and even for ordinary citizens in the courts of law. In response, the technique of rhetoric rapidly developed, bringing virtu ...Show more
The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History by Roland Ennos
$36.99 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Environment
Roland Ennos' The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world's most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how wood has shaped our human experience from the earliest foragers to the modern four poster bed. In a journey to appreciate how much wood matters – and has done since prehistory ...Show more
A Game of Two Halves - The Best of Sport 2005 2019 by Fergus Barrowman
$35.00 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Environment
Sport was conceived in the back of Damien Wilkins’ yellow Ford Escort – he tells the story in the introduction to Great Sporting Moments – and born in spring 1988. A Game of Two Halves: The Best of Sport 2005–2019 chronicles the second half of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most exciting literary magazine’s lif ...Show more
Can't Get There from Here: New Zealand Passenger Rail Since 1920 by Andre Brett
$65.00 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Environment
Urban passenger rail patronage in Auckland and Wellington is now booming after many years of decline. Outside these two centres, however, the situation is quite different: intercity and regional passenger rail services are scarce, and no other city possesses suburban rail. Can't Get There from Here tra ...Show more
The Gosden Years - A New Zealand Film Festival Legacy by Bill Gosden
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Bill Gosden was at the forefront of Aotearoa film culture from 1980 to 2019. The Gosden Years is a record of his enormous legacy as director of the New Zealand International Film Festival—the country’s leading annual cinema event and a constant wellspring of film discovery and appreciation. Conceived by ...Show more