By Any Other Name by Simon Morley
$53.51 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
The rose is bursting with meaning- over the centuries it has come to represent love and sensuality, deceit, death and the mystical unknown. Today the rose enjoys unrivalled popularity across the globe, ever present at life's seminal moments.Grown in the Middle East two thousand years ago for its pleasi ...Show more
Canal Builders - How Britain's Canal Network Evolved by Anthony Burton
$49.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Canal Builders is a classic history book for anyone interested in the development of Britains canal system. The book, which was first published in the 1970s, is now republished here in a new fifth edition. It takes the reader from the middle of the eighteenth century, to the start of the railway age in ...Show more
Charles Dickens and His Circle by Lucinda Hawksley
$11.00 NZD
$21.99 (49% off)
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: NPG Companions
'When I was at primary school, my teacher asked if any of us had heard of Charles Dickens. I was amazed she knew his name, because, until that moment, I had only known him as one of my ancestors.' -- Lucinda Hawksley Those who had known Charles Dickens as a child must have been astonished at his rise f ...Show more
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion by Peter Heather
$45.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
'A fascinating story about a religion in a surprisingly precarious position' Dan Jones, Sunday Times'Superb storytelling ... captivating and profound' Literary Review'A page-turner' The SpectatorIn the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded out of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of Rome, and conve ...Show more
Dad Law: The Definitive Reference for All Things Dad by Ally Probst, Joel Willis
$37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Finally, the unwritten rules of Dadhood have been written in Dad Law. Since the dawn of time, all dads have understood that there are a set of rules for fathers--both old and new alike--that guide them to gleefully repeat terrible puns as well as to hone the perfect deadpan joke delivery. This hands ...Show more
Dad, You've Got Dementia by Kristen Phillips
$27.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Dad, You’ve Got Dementia shows people living with dementia and their whānau that it’s possible to stay connected with those they love. When Kristen’s father, Don, was diagnosed with dementia the signs had been there for five years. He’d gone out less and less, given up driving and table tennis and rel ...Show more
Dance, Sex, and Gender - Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance, and Desire by Judith Lynne Hanna
$19.50 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Ambitious in its scope and interdisciplinary in its purview. . . . Without doubt future researchers will want to refer to Hanna's study, not simply for its rich bibliographical sources but also for suggestions as to how to proceed with their own work. Dance, Sex, and Gender will initiate a discussion th ...Show more
Darkness Falling: The Strange Death of the Weimar Republic, 1930-33 by Peter Walther
$25.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
'Gripping and all too timely' James Hawes'A brilliant mix of detailed research and vivid storytelling' Julia Boyd'History at its very best and a fabulous translation, too' Graham HurleyIn March 1930, after the collapse of the coalition that had ruled Germany since 1928, President Hindenburg asked Heinri ...Show more
Democracy Rules by Jan-Werner Müller
$30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
After the acrimony of Brexit, the shock of Trump, and the continued pull of Putin and Xi it seems that democracy is in a state of decay. And as governments around the world struggle to combat the coronavirus - often adopting draconian measures as a response - there is a sense, a panic, that democracy's ...Show more
Demonising a Good Doctor: A Medical Scandal that Wasn't by Helen Overton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Demonising a Good Doctor details every aspect of an inquiry that should go down as one of the worst travesties in New Zealand’s legal and medical history. Screening is more complex than many people realise. Public controversy over screening issues broke out in the 1980s in New Zealand leading to a jud ...Show more
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Andrew Scull
$32.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
In this acclaimed work, Andrew Scull, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry, sheds light on its troubled history. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of reason, cognition and emotion - the sort of things that were once called 'madness' - have been described and treated ...Show more
Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut by Samantha Cristoforetti
$24.00 NZD
$48.00 (50% off)
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
'Today I woke up on Earth. And I will fall asleep in space' In space the sun rises and sets 16 times a day. You fly over every sea, every mountain and desert, every city and every port. The most ordinary things -- eating, sleeping, brushing your teeth or cutting your hair -- have to be relearned, until ...Show more