The Importance of Being Trivial by Mark Mason
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
If you're not remotely interested in the fact that Pete Conrad was the first man to fall over on the moon or that the stretch of road between the Strand and the Savoy is the only public highway in Britain where you are legally obliged to drive on the right, then "The Importance of Being Trivial" is very ...Show more
The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future by Victor Cha
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Much discussed and often maligned, precious little is known or understood about North Korea, the world's most controversial and isolated country. Victor Cha pulls back the curtain, providing an unprecedented insight into North Korea's history, the rise of the Kim family dynasty, and the obsessive person ...Show more
The Impulse Society - What's Wrong with Getting What We Want by Paul Roberts
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
What do soaring debt, endemic narcissism, road rage, political attack ads and killer drones share in common? All are symptoms of a society that moves, reflexively and relentlessly, to exploit the fastest, most efficient means to any end, without regard to cost. This is the 'impulse society' in which we ...Show more
The Inaugural Address, 2009 by Barack Obama
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Tying into the official theme for the 2009 Inauguration, 'A New Birth of Freedom' from Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address, Penguin presents a keepsake edition commemorating the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama with words of the two great thinkers and writers who have helped shape him politi ...Show more
The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia's greatest explorer by Peter FitzSimons
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
The extraordinary, must-read story of the brave, bold Hubert Wilkins - Australia's most adventurous explorer, naturalist, photographer, war hero, aviator, spy and daredevil - brought to life by Australia's greatest storyteller. Sir Hubert Wilkins is one of the most remarkable Australians who ever lived ...Show more
The Industries of the Future by Alec Ross
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
This book answers the question: 'What's next?' The Internet had a world-changing impact on businesses and the global community over the twenty years from 1994 to 2014. In the next ten years, change will happen even faster. As Hillary Clinton's Senior Advisor for Innovation, Alec Ross travelled nearly a ...Show more
The Inequality Debate - An Introduction by Max Rashbrooke
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
The divide between New Zealand's poorest and wealthiest inhabitants has widened alarmingly over recent decades. Differences in income have grown faster than in most other developed countries. Max Rashbrooke's succinct introduction to these changes in our society, drawn from the larger work Inequality: A ...Show more
The Infiltrator: Undercover in the World of Drug Barons and Dirty Banks by Robert Mazur
$26.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Robert Mazur spent five years undercover infiltrating the criminal hierarchy of Colombia's drug cartels. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befriended knew him as Bob Musella, a wealthy, mob-connected big shot living the good life. Together they partied in expensive hotels, drank the world's finest ch ...Show more
The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis by Norman Ohler
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
The incredible true story of two idealistic young lovers who led the anti-Nazi resistance in the darkening heart of Berlin, by the author of the internationally bestselling Blitzed. A Daily Telegraph History Book of the Year 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony Beevor 'Gripping... Will ap ...Show more
The Infiltrators - The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis by Norman Ohler
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony BeevorSummertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet - and one of history's greatest conspiracies is born.Harro Schulze-Boysen had already shed blood ...Show more
The Infinite Game - How to live well together by Niki Harre
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
n The Infinite Game, Niki Harre asks us to imagine our world anew. What if we are all part of a different type of game entirely - a game in which playing matters more than winning, a game that anyone can join at any time, a game in which rules evolve as new players turn up - an infinite game? Harre look ...Show more
The Inner Level : How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everybody's Wellbeing by Kate Pickett; Richard Wilkinson
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level, now published in more than twenty languages, has been one of the most influential non-fiction books published in the last decade, showing conclusively how less equal societies fare worse than more equal ones across a whole range of social measures - ...Show more