The Godzone Dictionary - Of Favourite New Zealand Words and Phrases by Max Cryer
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
This concise A-Z dictionary, now updated in a new expanded edition, is a quick and easy reference to understanding the words and phrases that make the New Zealand language and speech patterns so different. Language expert Max Cryer not only provides helpful definitions for the various entries, but also ...Show more
The Golden Mole, And other living treasure by Katherine Rundell
$36.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world's most extraordinary endangered animals - a treasure trove of vanishing wonders. A pangolin's tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch near the hip.A swift flies 200,000 miles in its lifetime. That's far enough to ...Show more
The Golden Section : Nature's Greatest Secret by Scott Olsen
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Wooden Books
The Golden Section - otherwise known as phi, the golden mean, or golden ratio - is one of the most elegant and beautiful ratios in the universe. Defined as a line segment divided into two unequal parts, such that the ratio of the shorter portion to the longer portion is the same as the longer portion to ...Show more
The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing by Ewan Clayton
$29.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
"The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political progress. From the simple representative shapes used to ...Show more
The Goldilocks Enigma : Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul Davies
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
"The Goldilocks Enigma" is Paul Davies spectacular and eagerly awaited return to cosmology. Here he tackles all the 'big questions' and introduces the latest discoveries that have allowed scientists to piece together the story of the universe in unprecedented detail. And he explains why, despite all thi ...Show more
The Good Country Equation by Anholt, Simon
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
"Not only does Anholt explain the challenges facing the world with unique clarity, he also provides genuinely new, informative, practical, innovative solutions. . . . The book is a must-read for anyone who cares about humanity's shared future." --H. E. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (Farmaajo), President of ...Show more
The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945 by Catrine Clay
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis - some 40 million people - tried to keep their heads down and protect their families. They moved to the country, or pretended to support the regime to avoid being denounced by neighbour ...Show more
The Good Granny Guide : Or how to be a modern grandmother by Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall (illus Alex Fox)
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
A whole range of practical advice to hlp you make the most of the time you spend with your grandchildren. First published 2005.
The Good Granny Guide, or how to be a modern grandmother by Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Hilarious, indispensable and full of useful tips for the modern grandmother.Grandparents know the most precious gift they can offer their grandchildren is time. In The Good Granny Guide you will find a whole range of practical advice to help you make the most of the time that you spend with your grandch ...Show more
The Good Life: Four Glorious Seasons in My Country Garden by Sarah O'Neil
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
An inspiring and joyous account of a year of living 'the good life'. When Sarah and her young family moved from an urban metropolis to the rural backblocks, the first thing she did was to build a large garden. Being self-sufficient soon became a family affair. THE GOOD LIFE is a funny and inspiring sli ...Show more
The Good Life: The Moral Individual in an Antimoral World by Cheryl Mendelson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
The Good Life is an engaging, reasoned look at American values: how the angry political right hijacks and corrupts ideas about morality, how the fringe political left abandons the moral outlook, and how antimoralism from many sources results in cruelty, harsh law, dangerous irrationality, corrupt religi ...Show more
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder by Charles Graeber
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
'...aside from the murders , Charles Cullen might have been a pretty good nurse...'The true story of the most prolific serial killer in US history, The Good Nurse is 'a stunning book... that should and does bring to mind In Cold Blood' New York Times