Wilding - The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
'The remarkable story of an astounding transformation' George Monbiot, author of Feral.In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the 'Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Part gripping memoir, part fa ...Show more
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
$32.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States--Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL--to illuminate the origins of America's political fury. Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 aft ...Show more
Wildlife of the Past (All About New Zealand...) by Dave Gunson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: All About New Zealand...
Including a timeline that spans the Age of Dinosaurs through the Age of Change to the Age of Settlement, this book is a superb introduction to the subject of New Zealand's past. Children will learn about extinct wildlife and indentify current endangered species. Terrific illustartions by Dave Gunson alo ...Show more
Wilful Blindness - Why We Ignore the Obvious by Margaret Heffernan
$27.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Why, after every major accident and blunder, do we look back and ask, how could we have been so blind? Why do some people see what others don't? And how can we change? Drawing on studies by psychologists and neuroscientists, and from interviews with business leaders, whistleblowers and white collar crim ...Show more
Will by Will Smith, Mark Manson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: near fine
One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned. Along the way, Will tells the story in full of o ...Show more
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
What happens if someone dies on a plane?Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral?Why don't animals dig up all the graves?Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried?Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. In this book she offers factual, hilarious an ...Show more
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death by Caitlin Doughty
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, Doughty blends her mortician's knowle ...Show more
Will Shortz Presents Hard Sudoku : 200 Challenging Puzzles by Will Shortz
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Will Shortz Presents Hard Sudoku
William Burroughs and the Cult of Rock and Roll by Casey Rae
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented-until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the Cult o ...Show more
Win: Proven Strategies for Success -- Sport. Life. Mental Health. by Brent Pope; Jason Brennan
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
'Visualise your goals and achieve your potential.'Easy-to-follow and extremely effective, Win will change the way you think about all aspects of your life. From well-known personality and rugby commentator Brent Pope and psychotherapist and mental skills coach Jason Brennan, Win: Proven Strategies for ...Show more
Winds of Change - Britain in the Early Sixties by Peter Hennessy
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter Hennessy's magnificent new history - famously said in 1960 that the wind of change was blowing over Africa and the remaining British Empire. But it was blowing over Britain too - its society; its relationship with Europe; its nuclear and defence policy. A ...Show more
Wine Girl by Victoria James
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
An affecting memoir from a young sommelier, struggling to make her way into the glamorous but notoriously toxic restaurant world. At just twenty-one, Victoria James became America's youngest sommelier at a Michelin-starred restaurant. Even as Victoria was selling bottles worth hundreds and thousands of ...Show more