The Leader In Me : How Schools And Parents Around The World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child At A Time by Stephen R. Covey
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
To hear the parents of AB Combs Leadership Elementary School in Raleigh talk about the school is to be amazed. In 1999, the school introduced a new leadership program that taught The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to a pilot group of students. Students are taught to identify their talents and find ...Show more
The Leader's Way: Business, Buddhism and Happiness in an Interconnected World by Dalai Lama
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Stronger, more effective leaders can improve their decision-making and influence their organisations and ultimately the global market place in a way that brings about good for the whole of society. The Leader's Way takes leaders on a progressive path, first learning new techniques for themselves, then ...Show more
The Lean Startup: The Million Copy Bestseller Driving Entrepreneurs to Success by Eric Ries
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures are preventable. "The Lean Startup" is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. It is changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. "The Lean Startup" is about learning what your customers really want. It ...Show more
The Legend of the Seven Whales / Te Pakiwaitara ō Ngā Tāhora Tokowhitu by Mere Whaanga; Epanaia Whaanga
$17.99 NZD
Category: Childrens picture NZ | Reading Level: 8+
An ancient legend of Ngai Tahu Matawhaiti, hapu of Ngati Kahungunu, this is the tale of how the islands east of Wairoa came to be. Originally published by Mahia Publishers in 1988 and then by Scholastic NZ Ltd in 1990. Mere made the commitment to her father Te Hore (Horace) Epanaia Whaanga that this st ...Show more
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh; Nancy Mitford
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
With an Introduction by Charlotte Mosley 'Their correspondence can make you rock with helpless laughter'Independent on SundayNancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were two of the twentieth century's most amusing and gifted writers, who matched wits and traded literary advice in more than five hundred letters o ...Show more
The Liar by Stephen Fry
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violin ...Show more
The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
mountweazel n. a fake entry deliberately inserted into a dictionary or work of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. It is the final year of the nineteenth century and Peter Winceworth has reached the letter 'S', toiling away for the much-anticipated and multi-volume Swans ...Show more
The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light by Jean Edward Smith
$33.00 NZD
Category: History
Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the "rousing" (Jay Winik, author of 1944) story of the liberation of Paris during World War II--a triumph achieved only through the remarkable efforts of Americans, French, and Germans, racing to save the city from destruction. Following th ...Show more
The Library: A Fragile History by Arthur der Weduwen, Andrew Pettegree
$55.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Princes, collectors, bookworms and thieves: the extraordinary story of the library, from Alexandria to the age of Google. 'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched, of that extraordinary and enduring phenomenon: the library' - Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge ...Show more
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, "Once that first stack got going, it was `Goodbye, Charlie ...Show more
The Library Book by Alan Bennett & others
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Ten Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in 2020. Lionel Shriver thin ...Show more
The Library of Ice : Readings from a Cold Climate by Nancy Campbell
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: 3 Biography
A vivid and perceptive book combining memoir, scientific and cultural history with a bewitching account of landscape and place, which will appeal to readers of Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin and Olivia Laing. Long captivated by the solid yet impermanent nature of ice, by its stark, rugged beauty, accl ...Show more