Straight Flush by Ben Mezrich
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Straight Flush is the true story of a group of University of Montana frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local bar into one of the largest online poker companies in the world. At its height, the group's online empire was bringing in revenues of over a million dollars a day. ...Show more
Strange Days Indeed: The Golden age of paranoia by Francis Wheen
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
'Strange Days Indeed' tells the story of how the paranoia exemplified by Nixon and Wilson became the defining characteristic of Western politics and culture in the 1970s.
Strange Stars - David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded by Jason Heller
$40.30 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
A Hugo Award-winning author and music journalist explores the weird and wild story of when the sci-fi world met the rock 'n' roll world of the 1970sAs the 1960s drew to a close, and mankind trained its telescopes on other worlds, old conventions gave way to a new kind of hedonistic freedom that celebrat ...Show more
Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded by Jason Heller
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
As the 1960s drew to a close, and mankind trained its telescopes on other worlds, old conventions gave way to a new kind of hedonistic freedom that celebrated sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. Derided as nerdy or dismissed as fluff, science fiction rarely gets credit for its catalyzing effect on this revol ...Show more
Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town: The Second Official Novel by Adam Christopher
$24.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Chief Jim Hopper reveals long-awaited secrets to Eleven about his old life as a police detective in New York City, confronting his past before the events of the hit show Stranger Things. Christmas, Hawkins, 1984.All Chief Jim Hopper wants is to enjoy a quiet first Christmas with Eleven, but his adopted ...Show more
Strangers in Their Own Land - Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild (Contribution by)
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR NONFICTION A 2016 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEWSDAY TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2016 One of "6 Books to Understand Trump's Win" according to the New York Times the day after the election The Nat ...Show more
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
$52.99 NZD
Category: Social commentary
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas ...Show more
Strangers on a Pier - Portrait of a Family by Tash Aw
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
'So wise and so well done. It made me wish it were much longer than it is' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and We, The Survivors comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage. If we are lucky we wil ...Show more
Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets by James Bowen
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
'[Bob] has entranced London like no feline since the days of Dick Whittington.' (Evening Standard) The uplifting true story of an unlikely friendship between a man on the streets of Covent Garden and the ginger cat who adopts him and helps him heal his life. Now a major motion picture starring Luke Trea ...Show more
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Sesame Street is the longest-running, and arguably most beloved,children's television program ever created. Today, it reaches some six million preschoolers weekly in the United States and countless others in 140 countries around the world. Street Gang is the compelling, comical, and inspiring story of a ...Show more
Street T by Louis Bou
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The T-shirt may be the most ubiquitous, affordable, and popular item of clothing. Over the years it has served as a means to broadcast social, musical and political affiliations. Most recently, the T-shirt has become a creative tool for expressing inventive design. "Street T" takes an off-beat look at t ...Show more
Stress-free Traveler by Sandy Paton
$27.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
A guide which shows how to get rid of stress while you're on the go. It includes exercises which show how to: shrug shoulders to unload anxieties; flex the spine to recharge batteries; walk fingers to sharpen wits; overcome travel rage with alternate-nostril breathing; and, scratch the back to eliminate ...Show more