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Asteroid Hunters by Carrie Nugent
$23.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Ted 2
Dr Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter - one of the select group of scientists working diligently to map our cosmic neighbourhood. For the first time ever we are reaching the point where we may be able to prevent a natural disaster resulting from an asteroid collision. Nugent will delve into the impact ...Show more
Hat-Trick Teddy by James Tedesco
$17.99 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult | Series: Hat-Trick Teddy Ser.
A fun and exciting story of footy, family, friends and fair play from one of Australia's favourite rugby league players.Twelve-year-old Teddy is woken by his dad in the middle of the night. A freak storm is raging, and there's an emergency at the rugby league fields. They have become a mud-pit, and the ...Show more
How to Fix a Broken Heart by Guy Winch
$23.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: Ted 2 Ser.
'HOW TO FIX A BROKEN HEART PROVIDES THE VALIDATION, COMFORT AND HOPE ANYONE WHO IS HEARTBROKEN DESPERATELY NEEDS.' ESTHER PEREL, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE STATE OF AFFAIRS AND MATING IN CAPTIVITY Every one of us has or will have our heart broken at some point in our lives. Heartbreak, whether it comes ...Show more
In Praise of Wasting Time by Alan Lightman
$23.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Ted 2 Ser.
In this timely and essential audiobook that offers a fresh take on the qualms of modern day life, Professor Alan Lightman investigates the creativity born from allowing our minds to freely roam, without attempting to accomplish anything and without any assigned tasks. We are all worried about wasting t ...Show more
TED: Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes by Margaret Heffernan
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: TED
A powerful manifesto for CEOs and employees alike, this book reveals how organizations can make huge changes with surprisingly small steps. In an age of 'radical' shifts and 'disruption', business leader Margaret Heffernan lays the groundwork for a new kind of thinking, arguing that organizations can cr ...Show more
TED: Follow Your Gut: How the Bacteria in Your Stomach Steer Your Health, Mood and More TED by Robert Knight
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: TED
Part of the TED series: Follow Your Gut Today we study the brain with painstaking detail. But we largely ignore what might prove to be the most important part of our body: the trillions of microbes that live inside us, especially in our gut. Increasingly, it looks like the harmless bacteria we each have ...Show more
TED: Judge This by Chip Kidd
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Ted Ser.
A fun, playful look at the importance of first impressions--in design and in life--from acclaimed book designer Chip Kidd. First impressions are everything. They dictate whether something stands out, how we engage with it, whether we buy it, and how we feel. In Judge This, renowned designer Chip Kidd t ...Show more
TED: The Boiling River by Andrés Ruzo
$23.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Ted
Part of the TED series: The Boiling River This fantastical tale - which sent scores of Spanish conquistadores to their death during the great age of discovery - paints an intoxicating image of shamans and spells, forest-dwelling creatures and a river so hot it can boil your tea - or cook you alive. Ruzo ...Show more
TED: The Mathematics of Love by Hannah Fry
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: TED
Part of the TED series: The Mathematics of Love There is no topic that attracts more attention-more energy and time and devotion- than love. Love, like most things in life, is full of patterns. And mathematics is ultimately the study of patterns. In her book The Mathematics of Love - and TEDxTalk of the ...Show more
Thanks a Thousand - A Gratitude Journey by A. J. Jacobs
$29.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Series: Ted 2 Ser.
The idea was deceptively simple: New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs decided to thank every single person involved in producing his morning cup of coffee. The resulting journey takes him across the globe, transforms his life, and reveals secrets about how gratitude can make us all happier, mor ...Show more
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer
$22.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: TED | Reading Level: very good
Part of the TED series: The Art of Stillness In this age of constant movement and connectedness, when so many of us are all over the place, perhaps staying in one place - and locating everything we need for peace and happiness there - is a more exciting prospect, and a greater necessity than ever before ...Show more
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: TED | Reading Level: near fine
The Laws of Medicine follows Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, Dr Mukherjee as he investigates some of the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career - the cases that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine. As a young medical student, Mukherjee discovered The ...Show more