The Great Books: From The Iliad and The Odyssey to Goethe's Faust: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature by Anthony O'Hear
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Anthony O'Hear presents a personal tour of the most impressive, influential and era-defining books mankind has ever produced."Paradise Lost", "The Canterbury Tales", "Dom Quixote": great literature can be read by anyone, with a little help. Anthony O'Hear leads the way with this captivating journey thro ...Show more
The Great Brain Robbery by Tom Scott & Trevor Grice
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Everything you need to know about teenagers and drugs - completely updated. What everyone should know about teenagers and drugs ...People, particularly the young, take drugs because they enjoy the effects they have on their moods. But for every high there is a low. For every trip, a return journey.All c ...Show more
The Great Crash by Selwyn Parker
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
DoP - December 2008 This is the story of the financial cataclysm that started with the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929, and set in motion a series of economic, political and social events that affected many millions of people in America, Britain, Europe and Australia. The Crash rolled across the ...Show more
The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Crash that Follows the Greatest Boom in History by Harry S. Dent
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
From the author of the international bestseller The Roaring 2000s comes a new book that predicts a major economic crash and offers advice on how to survive it. Harry S. Dent has predicted changes in the market with uncanny accuracy for over a decade. He foresaw the recession of 1990-91, the expansion of ...Show more
The Great Disruption: How the Climate Crisis Will Transform the Global Economy by Paul Gilding
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
It's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. Instead we need to brace for impact, because global crisis is no longer avoidable. The 'Great Disruption' started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological change like the melting polar icecap. It is not sim ...Show more
The Great Divide: the Story of New Zealand & its Treaty by Ian Wishart
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
New Zealand was catapulted kicking and screaming from the stone age to the space age within 200 years of Captain Cook setting foot there… and they’re still arguing about it! Who really got to New Zealand first? Which version of the Treaty of Waitangi is the most accurate translation? Did the Treaty ever ...Show more
The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today by Linda Yueh
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Since the days of Adam Smith, economists have grappled with a series of familiar problems - but often their ideas are hard to digest, even before we try to apply them to today's issues. Linda Yueh is renowned for her combination of erudition, as an accomplished economist herself, and accessibility, as a ...Show more
The Great Global Treasure Hunt on Google Earth by Tim Dedopulos
$19.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The interactive puzzle book is reinvented in 2011 with The Great Global Treasure Hunt on Google Earth, which challenges readers to take a virtual adventure right around the world in search of fabulous hidden treasure, for a whopping prize of 50,000. The beautiful full-colour artworks and evocative text ...Show more
The Great Imperial Hangover - How Empires Have Shaped the World by Samir Puri
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: near fine
'An excellent read.' -- Robert D. Kaplan. For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's imperial legacies are still shaping the thorniest issues we face tod ...Show more
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history' Bill Gates 'Easily our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject' New York Times Book Review In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can th ...Show more
The Great Kiwi Pub Crawl by Ned Bartlett
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
An intriguing, hilariously funny and quintessential crawl around 50 of New Zealand's tried and true Kiwi pubs. 'There's a totem pole at the Mussel Inn. It stands as a sentinel monument warning incoming visitors that they're in a different world; a world without insistent notifications, instant access an ...Show more
The Great Kiwi Pub Quiz Book by Gillian Whitley
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Publication cancelled - unavailable. Here is the one-stop, indispensable reference to pub quizzes, a fine and long-standing Kiwi tradition. A wide array of subject areas are covered, including sport and recreation, history, geography, the arts, flora/fauna, general knowledge - over 1000 questions and ...Show more