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Failosophy - A Handbook for When Things Go Wrong by Elizabeth Day
$22.99 NZD
Category: Personal Development
'Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure' Stylist 'A beautiful timely and humane book' Alain de Botton 'Most failures can teach us something meaningful about ourselves if we choose to listen' In Failosophy Elizabeth Day brings together all the lessons she has learned, from conversatio ...Show more
On Connection by Kae Tempest
$16.99 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine | Series: Faber Social Ser.
Staggering talent Kae Tempest's first work of non-fiction: a hopeful theory of creativity - the power of creative connection to act as the antidote to numbness.The increasingly hyper-individualistic, competitive and exploitative society that we live in has caused a global crisis at the turn of the new d ...Show more
Dot by Kieran E. Scott
$26.00 NZD
Category: Personal Development
Are you feeling a little bit (or a lottle bit) anxious?Meet DOT, who's here to help. In this beautiful little hand-drawn book, DOT offers a practical way to comfort and calm anyone anxious, stressed or overwhelmed. For anyone (big or small) who wants to take a moment and some nice, deep breaths.
All of This Is for You by Ruby Jones
$24.00 NZD
Category: Personal Development
In this new book, celebrated artist Ruby Jones shares dozens of luminous, heartfelt, hand-lettered artworks and messages. Life can be a bit overwhelming sometimes, but Ruby's witty, compassionate, beautifully observed drawings never fail to bring a smile of recognition, while her practical words of advi ...Show more
Stories of Hope: Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives by Heather Morris
$32.99 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
Heather Morris, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand. On her way back across the paddocks from school, Heather would visit her great-grandfather and listen to his experiences of war - stories he told only ...Show more
Being Mortal : Illness Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
$24.99 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Wellcome Ser.
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mort ...Show more
Also Human: the Inner Lives of Doctors by Caroline Elton
$28.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
_____________________________ 'A furious dispatch from the front line of the hospital system.' THE TIMES, Book of the Week _____________________________ Doctors are the people we turn to in our darkest moments. We trust them with our lives. But what does that stress do to a person? What does it take to ...Show more
The 52 Week Project - How I Fixed My Life by Trying a New Thing Every Week for a Year by Lauren Keenan
$32.99 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
Life is short. Make the most of it.
Permission to Feel: Unlock the power of emotions to help yourself and your children thrive by Marc Brackett
$37.99 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
The mental wellbeing of children and adults is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, knows why. And he knows what we can do. Marc Brackett is a professor in Yale University's Child Study Center and founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. In his 25 years ...Show more
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
$40.00 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
The Sunday Times Bestseller and New York Times Bestseller. A book of hope for uncertain times. 'Feeling a little blue? Meet the new Winnie the Pooh.' The Daily Mail 'A wonderful work of art and a wonderful window into the human heart' Richard Curtis Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, di ...Show more
The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics by Arthur W. Frank
$37.99 NZD
Category: Medicine
Since it was first published in 1995, "The Wounded Storyteller" has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a "remission society" of those who suffer from some type of illness or disability and a cogent analysis of their stories within a larger framework o ...Show more