The House of the Dead by Daniel Beer
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017 THE TIMES, BBC HISTORY and TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'Masterful, gripping ...filled with astonishing, vivid and heartbreaking stories of crime and punishment, of redemption, love and terrifying violence. It has an amazing cast of despots, murderers, whores ...Show more
The Household Tips of the Great Writers by Mark Crick
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
'As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with a Great Writer and his house.' Great Writer's Household Tips covers all your household needs, indoors and outdoors, from pruning a rose bush with Pablo Neruda to mending a dripping tap with John-Paul Sartre. Throwing a tea ...Show more
The How Not to Diet Cookbook: Over 100 Recipes for Healthy, Permanent Weight Loss by Michael Greger MD
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
From Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM, the author of the New York Times bestseller How Not to Die, comes a four-color, fully illustrated cookbook that shares the science of long-term weight-loss success.Dr. Michael Greger founded the viral website Nutritionfacts.org with the aim to educate the public about w ...Show more
The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene by Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin
$24.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Pelican Bks.
'Brilliantly written and genuinely one of the most important books I have ever read' - Ellie Mae O'Hagan A remarkable exploration of the science, history and politics of the Anthropocene, one of the most important scientific ideas of our time, from two world-renowned experts Meteorites, methane, mega-vo ...Show more
The Human Tide - How Population Shaped the Modern World by Paul Morland
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
'Superbly explained' Washington Post'Fascinating' Sunday Times 'Engrossing' Evening Standard Every phase since the advent of the industrial revolution - from the fate of the British Empire, to the global challenges from Germany, Japan and Russia, to America's emergence as a sole superpower, to the Ara ...Show more
The Human Touch : Our Part in the Creation of a Universe by Michael Frayn
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
What would the universe be like if human beings were not here to observe it? Would there still be numbers, or scientific laws? Would the universe even be vast, without our tininess to give it scale? The author of award-winning novels (such as "Spies"), plays ("Copenhagen" and "Noises Off") and films ("C ...Show more
The Human Voice : The story of a remarkable talent by Anne Karpf
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Can you tell the mood of your loved ones by their tone of voice on the phone? Are you surprised to learn that Margaret Thatcher never had voice coaching? Would you be interested in learning how to intuit much of what you struggle to know about someone through listening in the right way? For most people, ...Show more
The Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers Are Transforming the Lives of Animals by Wayne Pacelle
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER "ESSENTIAL READING." -- JANE GOODALL "A CRITICALLY IMPORTANT BOOK." -- JACK WELCH From the leader of the nation's most powerful animal-protection organization comes a frontline account of how conscience and creativity are driving ...Show more
The Hundred Years' War: All Blacks vs Springboks by Jamie Wall
$36.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
The All Blacks and the Springboks have the most fearsome and controversial rivalry in rugby. The Hundred Years' War is the story of the intense competition between the All Blacks and the Springboks over the past 100 years, the games they've played and the battles that have raged from parliaments to the ...Show more
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid I. Khalidi
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict ' Noam Chomsky The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denia ...Show more
The Hunt for MH370 by Ean Higgins
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Somewhere out in the wild seas of the southern Indian Ocean, in the underwater canyons of Broken Ridge near the alien sub-terrain known as the Seventh Arc lies the answer to the world's greatest aviation mystery.Why, on the night of 8 March 2014, did Malaysia Flight MH370 suddenly U-turn on the trip fro ...Show more
The Hunters: The Precarious Lives of New Zealand's Birds of Prey by Debbie Stewart
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
From an extinct giant eagle and an owl that sounded like the devil, to the morepork we hear calling at night, the falcon that appears on our $20 note and the hawks we see swooping on the grisly remains of dead critters on the road, this book takes a close look at these fascinating birds and the people w ...Show more