Red Carpet - Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy by Erich Schwartzel
$50.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
"This is a fascinating book. It will educate you. Schwartzel has done some extraordinary reporting." -- The New York Times Book Review "In this highly entertaining but deeply disturbing book, Erich Schwartzel demonstrates the extent of our cultural thrall to China. His depiction of the craven charact ...Show more
Remembering Christopher Robin - Escaping Winnie-The-Pooh by Kevin Last
$89.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
This story began a hundred years ago when a child became the inspiration for his famous father, A. A. Milne, who created one of the best known children's characters in recent history. His parents wanted a girl and to begin with treated him as one. They were initially quite distant from him and his upbri ...Show more
Rise of the Robots Technology and the threat of mass unemployment by Martin Ford
$35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
If a 'robot' could do your job quicker than you and better than you for no pay, would you still be employed? Today it's travel agents, data-analyst and paralegals whose jobs are under threat. Soon it will be doctors, taxi-drivers and, ironically, even computer programmers. Without a radical reassessment ...Show more
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
$70.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A BEAUTIFUL NEW HARDBACK ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE MULTI-MILLION COPY SENSATION WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FOR YUVAL NOAH HARARI A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensation INCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARI What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What ...Show more
She Is Not Your Rehab: One Man's Journey to Healing and the Global Anti-Violence Movement He Inspired by Matt Brown
$35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Cycles repeat until one person has the courage to say, 'This stops with me.' At My Fathers Barbers, Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Malietoa Brown offers men a haircut with a difference - a safe space to be seen and heard without judgement. From his barbershop chair, Matt has inspired a new generation of New Ze ...Show more
Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
$37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, The Ibis Trilogy, ten years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in e ...Show more
Southeast Asia: An Introductory History by Milton Osborne
$38.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area. Southeast Asia: An introductory historywas first published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in one of the most dynamic and diverse regi ...Show more
Spare Parts - A Surprising History of Transplants by Paul Craddock
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world, but it's a lot older than you think. As ancient as the pyramids, its history is even more surprising. In Spare Parts, cultural historian Paul Craddock takes us on a fascinating journey, from Indian surgeons regrafting lost ...Show more
Spies and Lies: The Mysterious Dr Dannevill by Julie Glamuzina
$35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Hjilmar Dannevill travelled the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, sometimes using aliases, sometimes disguised as a male, and claiming to be researching venereal diseases on behalf of a wealthy Austrian businessman. She arrived in New Zealand in 1911 and falsely presented hers ...Show more
Stalin - Passage to Revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny
$70.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative years This is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth from the provinces of tsarist Russia was transformed into a c ...Show more
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$42.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero- a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. Now, renowned historian Felipe Fern indez-Armesto draws on extensive and meticulous research to conduct a dazzli ...Show more