New Zealand the Way I want It by Bob Jones
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. 'In the best-selling Jones On Property Bob Jones pointed the way to financial success. Now he broadens his canvas and, in his outspoken style, he lets loose on a whole range of subjects concerning New Zealand today (1978). Here is Bob Jones in full flight on politics, the economy, inflation ...Show more
Prancing Pavonine Charlatans(...and other follies) by Bob Jones
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The second collection of Bob Jones's newspaper columns.
My Property World by Bob Jones
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Hilarous anecdotes of Bob Jones New Zealand property's investment experiences.
Wowser Whacking by Bob Jones
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Selections from the 1992 columns of Sir Robert Jones. With introduction by Alan Duff.
Jones on Management by Bob Jones
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: new
Secondhand. For three decades Bob Jones has entertained and informed with his books, both fiction and non-fiction. Given his commercial success, Bob is well-placed to write on management, but this is no dry exposition as one might anticipate with such a subject. Rather, an eclectic range of topics, ind ...Show more
Thoroughly A Man of the World: A Biography of Sir David Monro by Rex E. Wright-St Clair
$22.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The biography of the early surgeon and politician Sir David Monro(1813-1877).
Algorithmic Thinking, 2nd Edition - A Problem-Based Introduction by Daniel Zingaro
$110.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Knowing how to design algorithms will take you from being a good programmer to a great programmer. This completely revised second edition teaches you how to design your own rocket-fast, right-for-the-task algorithms-minus the proofs and complex math. Forget the useless pseudocode and played-out examples ...Show more
Never Succumb to Beige by Frances Manwaring
$38.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Not succumbing to beige is about wearing your metaphorical high viz vest with flair and panache—being true to who you are and what you bring to the world. In extended essays drawn from her own colourful life, and traversing the joys of schadenfreude, strategic giftbuying, the value of teeth, and lessons ...Show more
Kippenberger - An Inspired New Zealand Commander by Glyn Harper
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
Secondhand. First edition. Major General Sir Howard Karl Kippenberger, KBE, CB, DSO and Bar, ED, was an exceptional New Zealander and one of the truly great military commanders of World War Two. Here Glyn Harper examines his formative years, including his WW1 experiences, and shows how they influenced ...Show more
Four-Legged Major by Graham Spencer
$21.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Major was the mascot of the 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment of the NZ Army from 1940 to 1944, serving in North Africa, and Italy, wounded in the former and dying of illness in Italy in 1944, to be buried alongside two officers from the regiment. Such was Major's military status that an e ...Show more
Third Millennium Thinking by Saul Perlmutter
$39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, a primer on how to think critically, make sound decisions, and solve problems--individually and collectively--using scientists' tricks of the trade. In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradic ...Show more
The Number Ones - Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music by Tom Breihan
$37.99 NZD
Category: Politics and Economics
Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of game-changing #1 singles from the Billboard Hot 100. When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"--a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in th ...Show more