The Library Book by Alan Bennett & others
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Ten Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in 2020. Lionel Shriver thin ...Show more
DON'T VOTE - It Just Encourages the Bastards by P.J. O'Rourke
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Best-selling humorist P.J. O'Rourke is back with his latest political masterpiece, DON'T VOTE - It Just Encourages the Bastards. Using his signature wit and keen observational skills, O'Rourke reflects on his forty year career as a political commentator, spanning his addled hippie youth to his current s ...Show more
The Good Doctor - What patients want by Ron Paterson
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
What makes a good doctor? Are there really bad doctors out there? If so, how can we patients protect ourselves? Can more information, more trust and more assured competence be injected into the medical system to solve these problems? Drawing on his years of dealing with patient concerns, former Health a ...Show more
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump : 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President by Bandy Lee
$44.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
More than two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists offer their consensus view that Trump's mental state presents a clear and present danger to our nation and individual well-being. This is not normal. Since the start of Donald Trump’s presidential run, one question has quietly but urgently permeated th ...Show more
Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery
$48.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Tim Flannery is one of the world's great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' This definitive collection of his work brings together thirty years of essays, speeches a ...Show more
On the State of Egypt: What Caused the Revolution by Alaa Al Aswany
$32.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
In the novels and short stories of Alaa Al Aswany, characters struggle with class differences, police brutality, poverty, sexual harassment and political corruption; now, in a new collection of essays, Al Aswany considers these same issues that torment modern Egyptian society. He has a great deal to say ...Show more
A Point of View by Clive James
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The BBC Radio 4 series, "A Point of View", has been on the air since 2007. This is the book of the radio series. Over the years, it's had a variety of presenters - including the national treasure that is Clive James - talking for ten minutes about anything and everything that has captured their imagina ...Show more
Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs and the Greatest Wealth in History by Ben Mezrich
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
This is a gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House. Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the larger-than-life billionaire oligarchs who surfed the wav ...Show more
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
**A Stylist Book Club pick** 'In a time when women are under constant attack, I am so grateful for Anne Helen Petersen's sharp and topical book. Petersen nails the magnetism of women who break boundaries and the punishment that often comes along with it. All women will see a bit of themselves in the "un ...Show more
Dick Smith's Population Crisis by Dick Smith
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
In 2011 the world's population exceeded 7 billion. Each year we add nearly 80 million people and by mid-century we will require twice as much food and double the energy we use today. Australia will be deeply affected by these trends - we have the fastest growing population of any developed nation. These ...Show more
The Last Refuge by Gregory Johnsen
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
A gripping account of how al-Qaeda in Yemen rebounded from an initial defeat to once again threaten the United States.
This Changes Everything - Capitalism vs the Climate by Naomi Klein
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bests ...Show more