The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way along the Long Arc of Loss by Edelman, Hope
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Shouldn't I be over this by now? Why do I still feel the pain?Because of the common assumption that grief should be time-limited, too many of us believe we've done it 'wrong' when sadness reemerges months or even years after loss. In The Aftergrief, Hope Edelman offers a new andreality-affirming paradig ...Show more
The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
A reassessment of the 20th century exploring topics such as the breakdown of the Old World, the lack of international accord, the failure of the Arts in recent years and the influence of the Third World.
The Age of A. I. - And Our Human Future by Henry A. Kissinger; Eric Schmidt; Daniel Huttenlocher
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Not since the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason have we changed how we approach knowledge, politics, economics, even warfare. Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore what it means ...Show more
The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes it Hard to be Happy by Michael Foley
$32.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The good news is that the great thinkers from history have proposed the same strategies for happiness and fulfilment. The bad news is that these turn out to be the very things most discouraged by contemporary culture. This knotty dilemma is the subject of The Age of Absurdity - a wry and accessible inve ...Show more
The Age of Consent: A Manifesto For A New World Order by George Monbiot
$31.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Having made a hugely significant contribution to the increasingly irrefutable, if alarming, diagnosis of the ills of early 21st-century consumerist culture and its free-market myths, George Monbiot now sets out to offer something more constructive, a set of proposals
The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times by Mohamed ElBaradei
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
When, in 1997, the International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously elected Mohamed ElBaradei as its next Director General, few observers could have forecast the dramatic role he would play over the next 12 years. Certainly, the stage onto which Dr. ElBaradei stepped - featuring Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Kim ...Show more
The Age of Earthquakes by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland & Hans Ulrich Obrist
$26.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Planet Earth needs a self-help book, and this is it the future is happening to us far faster than we thought it would and this book explains why fifty years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture. The Medium is the Massage, Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland ...Show more
The Age of Fallibility : The consequences of the War on Terror by George Soros
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Tyranny, violence, ignorance, arrogance - the celebrated financier and bestselling author of The Bubble of American Supremacy takes on the policies of post-September 11 America. George Soros made billions anticipating seismic changes in the financial markets and has used that money to try and change the ...Show more
The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement by Jürgen Martschukat
$47.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
We live in the age of fitness. Hundreds of thousands of people run marathons and millions go jogging in local parks, work out in gyms, cycle, swim, or practice yoga. The vast majority are not engaged in competitive sport and are not trying to win any medals. They just want to get fit. Why this modern pr ...Show more
The Age of Football: the Global Game in the Twenty-First Century - The Global Game in the Twenty-First Century by David Goldblatt
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The epic exploration of society, politics, and economics in the twenty-first century through the prism of football, by the critically acclaimed author of The Ball is Round.'David Goldblatt is not merely the best football historian writing today, he is possibly the best there has ever been'Dominic Sandbr ...Show more
The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
This is essential reading for anyone interested in the collapse of the Middle East, and the devastating role of the West in the creation of this hellish crucible. In Age of Jihad Cockburn exposes the dominant conflict of our time-the Sunni-Shia war, and the subsequent origins of ISIS. As he shows this d ...Show more
The Age of Oversupply: Overcoming the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy by Daniel Alpert
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
The Age of Oversupply looks at why Western capitalism is broken and how the US can recover its global economic leadership status. The invisible hand of capitalism is broken. Economic and political forces are preventing markets from correcting themselves. Governments and central banks across the develope ...Show more