The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
$50.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
An exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann- the lost genius who invented our worldThe smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nanotechnology and nuclear weapons. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable man- John von Neumann.B ...Show more
The Outside Man: Jack Hides of Papua by James Sinclair
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Sinclair’s excellent book on Moresby born Jack Hides whose work took him deep into uncharted territory in Papua New Guinea. One of Australia’s greatest adventurers … certainly not given the recognition he desrves.
The Science Museum Stephen Hawking Genius at Work: Explore His Life, Mind and Science Through the Objects in His Study by Roger Highfield
$48.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
An intimate exploratory tour of Stephen Hawking's office, providing a unique insight into the mind of a genius and the things that inspired him A behind-the scenes tour of the inner sanctum of one of the world's most prominent scientific thinkers. In 2021, the Science Museum made a once-in-a-lifetime ac ...Show more
The Sun Is High by Rita F. Snowden
$20.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
An autobiography of Rita F. Snowden
The Test: My Autobiography by Brian O'Driscoll
$12.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
This is the bestselling autobiography of the greatest rugby player of our time: Brian O'Driscoll. Since 1999, when he made his international debut, there has been no greater player in world rugby than Brian O'Driscoll. In 2010 Rugby World magazine named him its world player of the decade - and since the ...Show more
Thomas Bewick: My Life by Thomas Bewick
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. Edited and with an introduction by Iain Bain with numerous wood-engravings and watercolours by the author.
Thomas Jefferson - An Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Here for the first time we meet Jefferson as a man of feeling and passion. With a novelist's skill and meticulous scholarship, Fawn M. Brodie shows Jefferson as he wrestled with issues of revolution, religion, power, race, and love-ambivalences that exerted a subtle but powerful influence on his politic ...Show more
Thurgood Marshall - American Revolutionary by Juan Williams
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK . The definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice, from the bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize"Magisterial . . . in Williams' richly detailed portrait, Marshall emerges as a born rebel."-Jack E. White, TimeThurgood Marshall was the t ...Show more