The Book of Joy by Desmond Tutu, Dalai Lama
$37.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
I want to wish all of you joy-because there is no better gift. Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships - or, as they would say, because of them - ...Show more
This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free by Martin Hagglund
$36.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
A serious and original philosopher explores the purpose of your life.
Dead Letters by Davidson Jared
$35.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
In 1918, from deep within the West Coast bush, a miner on the run from the military wrote a letter to his sweetheart. Two months later he was in jail. Like millions of others, his letter had been steamed open by a team of censors shrouded in secrecy. Using their confiscated mail as a starting point, Dea ...Show more
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
$30.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: Bryson Ser.
In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everythingone of the most lauded books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about ...Show more
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
$28.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf H ss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children.In the aftermath of the Second World War, the ...Show more
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
$27.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
New York Times Bestseller - National Book Critics Circle Finalist - Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2015 - Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 - Economist Books of the Year 2015 - New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2015 A sweeping, "magisterial" history of the Roman Empire from one of our f ...Show more
History of Architecture by Michael Stephenson
$29.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference by William MacAskill
$24.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Almost all of us want to make a difference. So we volunteer, donate to charity, recycle or try to cut down our carbon emissions. But rarely do we know how much of a difference we're really making. In a remarkable re-examination of the evidence, Doing Good Better reveals why buying sweatshop-produced goo ...Show more
How to Find Fulfilling Work - The School of Life by Roman Krznaric
$24.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: The School of Life
This is a book about how to take working life in new directions how to negotiate the labyrinth of choices, how to think about personal ambitions and motivations, and ultimately how to take concrete steps to finding a fulfilling career. It is a self-help book with a difference. Standard career guides are ...Show more
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan
$24.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
From the bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes an updated, timely, and visionary book about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now--as seen from the perspective of the rising powers of the East. "All roads used to lead to Rome. Today they lead to Beijing." So argues P ...Show more
Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold by Stephen Fry
$26.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
Mortals and Monsters. Quests and Adventures . . . There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes ...Show more
Silk Roads: A New History of the World: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
$27.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed- where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more