The Alternative How to Build a Just Economy by Nick Romeo
$39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A Cold Spell: A Human History of Ice by Max Leonard
$39.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Taking us from the beginning of our story to the present day, A Cold Spell examines how ice has shaped our thoughts, actions and societies - and what it means for us that it is rapidly disappearing from our planet. 'In a bracingly original book, Max Leonard makes something we all take for granted into ...Show more
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern
$39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme ...Show more
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph Stiglitz
$40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more ...Show more
The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922 by Ryan Gingeras
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
The story of the fall of the Ottoman Empire offers a new way of understanding the twentieth century. The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religiou ...Show more
Cromwell: Our Chief of Men by Antonia Fraser
$13.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. In Cromwell, award-winning biographer Antonia Fraser tells of one of England's most celebrated and controversial figures, often misunderstood and demonized as a puritanical zealot. Oliver Cromwell rose from humble beginnings to spearhead the rebellion against King Charles I, who was beheade ...Show more
Great Italian Stories / Grandi Racconti Italiani: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
$30.00 NZD
Category: Learning Languages
A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the ...Show more
Great Spanish Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
$30.00 NZD
Category: Learning Languages
A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an ...Show more
Ratana the Prophet by Keith Newman
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
The Ratana movement gains national coverage every February as politicians make the pilgrimage to its headquarters near Whanganui, yet the history and workings of the religion are less widely recognised. In this new edition of his standard biography, Keith Newman reveals the life and times of Tahupotiki ...Show more
Nelson's Purse : An extraordinary historical detective story shedding new light on the life of Britain's greatest naval hero by Martyn Downer
$18.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. For nearly two centuries, a red morocco dispatch box lay forgotten in a castle attic. When Martyn Downer opened the box and broke its spell, he uncovered a cache of fascinating and intimate letters relating to the life of Britain's greatest naval hero, Horatio Nelson.As Downer explored the ...Show more
The Plot: A Biography of an English Acre by Madeleine Bunting
$16.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. "Guardian" columnist Madeleine Bunting is one of the most high-profile commentators in Britain. Her father was deeply conservative, with romantic, old-fashioned views about England. After his death, wanting to understand him better, Bunting began to explore his passionate, lifelong attachme ...Show more