The Alphabet - Unraveling the mystery of the alphabet from A to Z by David Sacks
$27.90 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
There is a story behind each letter of the alphabet. Why is X the Unknown or shorthand for a kiss? Which letter came last, historically, in the alphabet? (J). How did a few squiggles, invented a thousand years ago to denote sounds of a now vanished Semitic language, survive to become our letters today? ...Show more
The Amazing Book is Not on Fire: The World of Dan and Phil by Dan Howell
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Hello reader, In this book is a world. A world created by two awkward guys who share their lives on the internet! We are Dan and Phil and we invite you on a journey inside our minds! From the stories of our actual births, to exploring Philâe(tm)s teenage diary and all the reasons why Danâe(tm)s a fail ...Show more
The Amazing Life of Cats by CANDIDA BAKER
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
'If you want to know the character of a man, find out what his cat thinks of him.' - Anonymous. Few animals make their presence felt in our lives the way cats do. Even those who know cats are still awed by their daring and determination, their fearlessness and curiosity, and their astonishing powers of ...Show more
The American Future: A History from the Founding Fathers to Barack Obama by Simon Schama
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
In November 2008, the United States elected a new President. But the collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it came to find itself in multiple crises and how an America that began ...Show more
The American Quilt by Roderick Kiracofe & Mary Elizabeth Johnson
$59.90 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
For more than two hundred years, American women have been recording their hopes and dreams, their fears and frustrations in the exacting stitches and exuberant designs of their quilts. The American Quilt shows how these virtuoso textiles, long appreciated for their bold graphic appeal and naive charm, a ...Show more
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Follow our greatest travel writer (and rusty Mandarin speaker) along the far eastern river that separates Russia from China, the two great ex-Communist giants, taking in Mongolia, Siberia and the Sea of Japan A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writer Colin Thubron, at 79, will ...Show more
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writerColin Thubron, at 79, will travel the important but almost unknown Amur River - the tenth longest river in the world - that separates Russia from China in the Far East. The river rises in the mountains of north-east Mongolia (heartland o ...Show more
The Anatomist : A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Gray's Anatomy still sets the standard in medical textbooks even after 150 years. Little has been written about its author, Henry Gray and less is told about Henry Carter, the illustrator who brought the text to life. This is the true story of the lives of these two men, balancing biography with the aut ...Show more
The Anatomy of Buzz Revisited : Real-Life Lessons in Word-Of-Mouth Marketing by Emanuel Rosen
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
How do people decide which car to buy, which book to read, or which movie to see? Buzz. But what exactly do you do to get buzz going? Among this book's many insights: * Most buzz is positive. There are concrete ways to get more of it * New opportunities in the era of MySpace, YouTube, and blogs *Th ...Show more
The Anatomy of Inequality: Its Social and Economic Origins - and Solutions by Per Molander
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Why is it that the richest countries in the world-those that have the highest rates of education and wealth-are also the countries with the highest levels of inequality? As long as there have been humans, there has been inequality among them. The ancients wrote poetry about it. And it has always been ab ...Show more
The Anatomy of Peace - Resolving the Heart of Conflict by The Arbinger Institute
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
From the authors of Leadership and Self-Deception comes a new edition of an international bestseller that instills hope and inspires reconciliation. What if conflicts at home, conflicts at work, and conflicts in the world stem from the same root cause? What if we systematically misunderstand that cause? ...Show more