The Angina Monologues: Stories of Surgery for Broken Hearts by Samer Nashef
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The Angina Monologues speeds from the transporting of a donor's heart up the motorway hard shoulder, to cautionary stories of excessive intervention gone awry in US hospitals, to a traumatic trip to bring advanced cardiac surgery to the Palestinian West Bank. Nashef tells heart-stopping stories of trans ...Show more
The Animal Sanctuary - The Inspirational Story of a New Zealand Animal and Wildlife Refuge by Shawn Bishop; Allison Jones
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Meet Shawn Bishop - she and her husband Michael own a substantial block of land north of Auckland. But that's where the similarity with other rural landowners begins and ends, because Shawn had a special purpose in mind when they bought their property: to establish an animal sanctuary. Over the last 10 ...Show more
The Animals Among Us: The New Science of Anthrozoology by John Bradshaw
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The bestselling author of Dog Sense and Cat Sense explains why living with animals has always been a fundamental aspect of being humanIn this highly original and hugely enjoyable work, John Bradshaw examines modern humans' often contradictory relationship with the animal world. Why, despite the apparent ...Show more
The Animals Among Us: The New Science of Anthrozoology by John Bradshaw
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The bestselling author of Dog Sense and Cat Sense explains why living with animals has always been a fundamental aspect of being human In this highly original and hugely enjoyable work, John Bradshaw examines modern humans' often contradictory relationship with the animal world. Why, despite the apparen ...Show more
The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature by Viv Groskop
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Viv Groskop has discovered the meaning of life in Russian literature. As she knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened in life has already happened in these novels- from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina) to being in love with someone who doesn't love you ba ...Show more
The Ant and the Ferrari - Lifting the Hood on Truth, Society and the Universe by Kerry Spackman
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: 14
Is there life after death? Can we prove the big bang theory? In his engrossing and accessible style, Dr Kerry Spackman uses everyday examples to answer these questions and other diverse issues. the Ant and the Ferrari is a magical tour-de-force that takes on the big questions in life and answers them in ...Show more
The Antarctic : An anthology by Francis Spufford (ed)
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
"The Antarctic" features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works of cultural history, natural science and fiction about the South Pole. Contributors include British, American, Australian, Scandinavian, Japanese and Russian explorers such as Er ...Show more
The Antiquarian Sticker Book: Bibliophilia by Odd Dot
$58.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Series: Antiquarian Sticker Book Ser.
Luxuriate in the pages of THE ANTIQUARIAN STICKER BOOK: BIBLIOPHILIA, a compendium of thousands of gorgeous stickers for lovers of beauty and books.Here, quotes from classic pieces of literature are illuminated in sticker form. Adorn your collage or junk journal with a quote or sticker to add another di ...Show more
The "Antiques Roadshow" by Fiona Malcolm & Paul Atterbury & Hilary Kay
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
A celebration of the continuing success of the Antiques Roadshow, which after 27 years is still one of the most popular series on television. Fiona Malcolm uncovers its origins and lists all the locations visited over the years. She introduces the current team with illustrated biographies of all the exp ...Show more
The "Antiques Roadshow" Book of Collectables: What's Hot, What's Not and How to Create a Collectables Collection by Antiques Roadshow
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
This title helps the readers to know what's hot, what's not and how to create the perfect collectables collection from The Antiques Roadshow. If you're a serious collectables investor or an enthusiastic beginner then pick up this must-have guide to identifying and assessing collectables from The Antique ...Show more
The Ants Are My Friends by Martin Toseland
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Linguistic mistakes. We all make them. And if your name is George W Bush or Jade Goody, you might make them more often than others. In THE ANTS ARE MY FRIENDS (delightfully misheard from Bob Dylan's 'Blowing in the Wind') Martin Toseland has collected the very best (and very worst) linguistic gifts of t ...Show more
The Anxious Triumph by Sassoon, Donald
$32.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
The long-awaited magnum opus of one of Britain's most wide-ranging historians Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since ancient times, but the globalization and dominance of capitalism as a system began in the 1860s when, in different forms and supported by different political forces, state ...Show more