The Apple Revolution: Steve Jobs, the Counterculture and How the Crazy Ones Took Over the World by Luke Dormehl
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
This is the story of how the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll generation changed the world for ever. Meet the Crazy Ones who created Silicon Valley - the hippies who started the Homebrew Computer Club; the young ad executive who first sketched out Apple's iconic logo; the engineers who met lying down in a c ...Show more
The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy by Greg Miller
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
From Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Greg Miller comes an exclusive book uncovering the truth behind the Kremlin's attempt to destroy Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump win the presidency, Trump's steadfast allegiance to Vladimir Putin and Robert Mueller's ensuing investigation of the ...Show more
The Arab Awakening: Islam and the New Middle East by Tariq Ramadan
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Tariq Ramadan is one of the most acclaimed figures in the analysis of Islam and its political dimensions today. In "The Arab Awakening" he explores the opportunities and challenges across North Africa and the Middle East, as they look to create new, more open societies. He asks: Can Muslim countries bri ...Show more
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
In his extraordinary new book, Alain de Botton explores the importance of buildings in our lives, pondering our attachment to our homes and considering such questions as: Why do people disagree about taste? Can beautiful surroundings make us good? Not to mention: What makes a window frame attrac ...Show more
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we're surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture o ...Show more
The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations by Jane Armstrong
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Arden Shakespeare Library
Who said "Neither a lender or borrower be", who loved "not wisely but too well" and whose "salad days" are now behind her? If you have ever struggled to remember a Shakespeare quote, this is the book for you. It has over 3,000 quotes from single lines to quite long extracts, organized by topic and by pl ...Show more
The Arden Shakespeare Miscellany by Jane Armstrong
$29.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Arden Shakespeare Library
An ideal reference companion for students and enthusiasts of Shakespeare, this informative and entertaining Miscellany gives a wealth of contextual and biographical information to enhance your understanding and enjoyment of his work. There is an entry for every play, summarising its plot and outlining i ...Show more
The Armchair General - Can You Defeat the Nazis? by John Buckley
$45.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW - Re-write the course of WWII with this revolutionary new approach to history. Take the chair of Winston Churchill and other leaders. Make the decisions that will change the war - and the world. What might have happened if Poland was never invaded? Or if Hiroshima never happe ...Show more
The Art Book by Phaidon Editors
$60.00 NZD
Category: Art, Photography and Design | Reading Level: very good
The Second Edition of The Art Book is a substantially expanded and updated version of the hugely successful original. Introducing 100 new artists selected from all periods and from across the globe, the new edition includes for the first time leading figures from the fields of photography and performanc ...Show more
The Art Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany by Paul E. Doros
$90.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The Art Of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More by Annie Raser-Rowland, Adam Grub
$43.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
It sounds too good to be true. You can save money and the world, inoculate yourself against many of the ills of modern life, and enjoy everything more on both the sensual and profound levels? Preposterous Yet here is a toolkit to help you do just that. A tweak here, a twiddle there; every strategy in T ...Show more
The Art & Science of Food Pairing by Peter Coucquyt
$69.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
"We build tools to create culinary happiness" - Foodpairing.com" "There is a world of exciting flavour combinations out there and when they work it's incredibly exciting" - Heston Blumenthal Foodpairing is a method for identifying which foods go well together, based on groundbreaking scientific research ...Show more