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Busy Beaver by Nicholas Oldland (Illustrator)
$19.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Life in the Wild Ser.
The busy but careless beaver spends his days following random impulses, rarely thinking things through and leaving in his wake a devastated forest filled with stumps, half-nibbled trees and injured, homeless animals. But then one day the beaver finds himself on the wrong side of a falling tree, which as ...Show more
Cradle to Cradle: (Patterns of Life) by Michael Braungart; William McDonough
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Series: Patterns of Life Ser.
Michael Braungart and William McDonough propose a plan for our planet in this stunning new edition of their radical ecological manifesto. This book proposes a new vision for modern industry. Instead of our current wasteful and polluting methods of manufacturing, we could be taking nature as a model for ...Show more
DREAM DESTINATIONS: WORLD'S 100 GREATEST PLACES by LIFE MAGAZINE
$60.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Life Ser.
This is a book of enticements or memories -or both. The things we remember best and longest are the lovely times on holiday with family or friends. That sublime afternoon on the secluded beach on Martha's Vineyard, or that unforgettable crimson sunset as seen from the top of Coppertop Mountain. That ext ...Show more
Elizabeth Taylor: A Life in Pictures by Pierre-Henri Verlhac (Editor); Yann-Brice Dherbier
$60.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: A\Life in Pictures Ser.
Larger than life and sparkling like diamonds, there was only one violet-eyed screen goddess--only one Liz Elizabeth Taylor was one of the first great actresses to embrace the Hollywood lifestyle. Accomplished in her field and revered for her beauty, Liz's career firmly placed her in the limelight from a ...Show more
Grace Kelly a Life in Pictures by Pierre-Henri Verlhac
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: A\Life in Pictures Ser.
An illustrated celebration of Grace Kelly, one of Hollywoods brightest stars, is already long overdue. Following on from the popular full-sized edition, this must-have gift-sized version was published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Grace Kelly's death and is now reissued to coincide with the r ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life) by Jared Diamond
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Patterns of Life Ser.
Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the c ...Show more
How To Think More About Sex by Alain De Botton, The School of Life
$28.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
In this rigorous and supremely honest book Alain de Botton helps us navigate the intimate and exciting - yet often confusing and difficult - experience that is sex.Few of us tend to feel we're entirely normal when it comes to sex, and what we think we're supposed to be feeling rarely matches up with the ...Show more
How to Be a Leader (The School of Life series) by School of Life Staff (Compiled by); Martin Bjergegaard; Cosmina Popa
$25.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
No one is born to lead. This is the idea at the heart of this thoughtful book on leadership. Popular culture feeds us images of the square-jawed, strong-armed leader - charismatic, powerful, decisive - but the truth is, with the right amount of self-knowledge and authenticity, anyone can be a good leade ...Show more
How to Deal with Adversity: The School Of Life by Christopher Hamilton
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
In How to Deal with Adversity, Christopher Hamilton explores how we face trials and tribulations in everyday life, and why adversity, from small setbacks to larger, more life-defining problems, affects and shapes us so fundamentally. In this book from The School of Life series, drawing upon history, phi ...Show more
How to Enjoy Poetry by Frank Skinner
$24.99 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult | Series: Little Ways to Live a Big Life Ser.
'Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever, in the twenty-first century, because people don't have a lot of time and 'novels are often quite big while poems are often quite small'. I referred them to Doctor Who's Tardis.'Frank ...Show more
How to Skim a Stone by Ralph Jones
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Series: Little Ways to Live a Big Life Ser.
This is the ultimate guide to skimming a stone. Stone skimming is an art and a science: a brief distraction on a country walk and an international sport with highly competitive championships. Ralph Jones covered last year's World Stone Skimming Championships and here, he investigates the physics, the ...Show more
How to Think About Exercise (School of Life) by Damon Young
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: School of Life Ser.
We tend to regard exercise as pure physical exertion, a working of the muscles to develop (or show) bodily strength and vitality. We do not exercise to improve our minds or to learn something new; we commonly make this division of the body and mind. But this was not always so; the ancient Greeks rarely ...Show more