The almost-perfect marriage: one-minute relationship skills by Stephanie Dowrick
$25.00 NZD
Category: General
There is no greater treasure on earth than a deeply shared experience of love.In this wise and beautiful book, Stephanie Dowrick gently and confidently leads readers towards the attitudes and actions that will best support a genuinely loving intimate relationship - even with the extreme demands of conte ...Show more
There Are Mums Way Worse Than You: Irrefutable Proof That You Are Indeed a Fantastic Parent by BOOZAN GLENN
$34.99 NZD
Category: Pregnancy, Babies and Parenting
A rhyming illustrated humour book for mums who feel they're not doing a good job (and that's all mums, right?). Packed with scientifically true examples of terrible parents in the animal kingdom, to remind and reassure any mother that there are way worse mums out there. A mum giraffe is pretty nice unti ...Show more
They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life by Oliver James
$29.99 NZD
Category: General
Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Do you feel trapped by your family's expectations of you? Does your life seem overwhelmingly governed by jealousy or competitiveness or lack of confidence? In this ground-breaking book, clinical psychologist Oliver James shows that it is ...Show more
Third Millennium Thinking by Saul Perlmutter
$39.99 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
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
This Close to Happy : A Reckoning with Depression by Daphne Merkin
$28.00 NZD
Category: General
“One of the most accurate, and therefore most harrowing, accounts of depression to be written in the last century...Ms. Merkin speaks candidly and beautifully about aspects of the human condition that usually remain pointedly silent (John Kaag, The Wall Street Journal).Daphne Merkin has been hospitalize ...Show more
This Here Flesh - Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
$50.00 NZD
Category: General
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her family alongside contemplative reflections to discover the "necessary rituals" that connect us with our belonging, dignity, and liberation."This is the kind of book that makes y ...Show more
This Is Not How It Ends - How Rewriting your Story can Save Your Life by Jehan Casinader
$35.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
A BOOK OF HEALING AND HOPE BY NEW ZEALAND TV JOURNALIST JEHAN CASINADER As an award-winning TV journalist, Jehan Casinader told other people's stories - until he lost control of his own. Severely depressed, he tried everything - from mindfulness to massage; Prozac to Pilates. Was something missing? Th ...Show more
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
$40.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain | Reading Level: very good
Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness- to stimulate, calm, or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium, caffeine, and ...Show more
Thriving Under Five by Royal NZ Plunket Society
$25.00 NZD
Category: General
Plunket has been providing new parents with guidance, advice and support for 100 years. This book of indispensable advice from New Zealand's acknowledged experts on childcare is given to every mother of a new baby born in New Zealand. Previously produced in magazine/pamphlet form, this is the first time ...Show more
Time Out for Tots, Teens and Everyone in Between by Diane Levy
$29.99 NZD
Category: General
Time out is a vital parenting tool and in this book Diane Levy explains how best to use it in all situations for children of all ages. She believes children must be taught to experience and handle their emotions and they must learn self- discipline. Her two main parenting tenets - emotional support and ...Show more
Top Tips from the Baby Whisperer - Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night by Tracy Hogg
$26.99 NZD
Category: General
'I can't get my five-week-old to sleep in her cot'. 'My six-week-old resists his naps'. 'My baby is three months old and is still waking up throughout the night'. Sleep is the number one issue that plagues parents from the moment they bring their baby home from hospital. Even the lucky ones, whose babie ...Show more
Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory by Peter A. Levine
$48.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our memories? While some argue that traumatic memories are unreliable and not useful, others insist ...Show more