The Future of Food (WIRED guides): How to Feed the Planet Without Destroying It by Matthew Reynolds
$24.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
With a global population estimated to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050 we face a huge challenge in feeding everyone on the planet. How is that to be achieved? In this brilliantly insightful, one stop guide WIRED journalist Matt Reynolds assesses the limits and drawbacks of current food production and loo ...Show more
The Future of Humanity (HB) by Michio Kaku
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies. Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to ...Show more
The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis by Garry Wills
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Secondhand. The New York Times bestselling historian takes on a pressing question in modern religion--will Pope Francis embrace change?Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope and the first from the Americas, offers a challenge to his church. Can he bring about significant change? Should he? Garry Wills ...Show more
The G'Day Country Redux: an Illustrated Rail Journey Back into New Zealand by David McGill
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
In February 1985 David McGill set off to travel New Zealand rail in guards' vans, with guards as companionable dispensers of local knowledge. The Minister of Transport Richard Prebble launched the book at Wellington Railway Station, with traditional servings of block cake, ham sandwiches and thick NZR c ...Show more
The Game Changer by A.G. Lafley
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
How every leader can drive everyday innovation.A.G. Lafley, chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble, and Ram Charan, named the 'hottest management consultant in America' by "Newsweek", show how to change your business by making innovation the centrepiece of activity, driving everything from hiring and ...Show more
The Gardens Of Mars by John Gimlette
$67.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
A portrait of Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island and a place of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity (including a plethora of endemic species), as well as for its tangled and troubled history. A journey – both historical and contemporary – among the fantastical landscapes, beguiling ...Show more
The Gatekeepers of Galatas: The Untold Story by Brian Taaffe
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
The untold story of ANZACS and Cretans who fought side by side, defending the highly strategic village of Galatas on the island of Crete during World War II. New Zealand Divisional Petrol Company â a bunch of drivers and fitters â fought an epic, almost personal, battle. This isolated, non ...Show more
The Gecko's Foot : How scientists are taking a leaf from nature's book by Peter Forbes
$27.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
This is a cutting-edge science book in the style of "Fermat's Last Theorem" and "Chaos" from an exciting and accessible new voice in popular science writing. Bio-inspiration is a form of engineering but not in the conventional sense. Extending beyond our established and preconceived notions, scientists, ...Show more
The Geeks of War: The Secretive Labs and Brilliant Minds Behind Tomorrow's Warfare Technologies by John Edwards
$45.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Wars are fought on the battlefield, but the technologies that enable 21st century warfare are developed in research laboratories.Within the walls of corporate, government, and academic labs, researchers are probing the edges of science to uncover technologies that will make warfare more efficient - and ...Show more
The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain by Gina Rippon
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Gendered brains- a sexist myth, or a fact of life?Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? We live in a gendered world where we are bombarded with messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis we face deeply ingrained beliefs that your sex determines your skills and preferences, from toys and ...Show more
The Gendered Brain - The New Neuroscience that Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain by Gina Rippon
$26.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
An agenda-setting, myth-debunking book by neuroscientist Professor Gina Rippon that demolishes the idea of biology as destiny and the myth of the male or female brain. Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? Do you have a female brain or a male brain? Or is that the wrong question? We live i ...Show more
The General Grant's Gold: Shipwreck and Greed in the Southern Ocean by Madelene Ferguson Allen
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The wreck in 1866 of the General Grant in the desolate sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands is one of the world's great nautical mysteries, a story that still tantalises and thrills. When the ship was crushed in a cave beneath a sheer cliff face, a few crew members and a handful of passengers managed to escap ...Show more