Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking by Jessica Mitford
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Jessica Mitford was a member of one of England's most legendary families (among her sisters were the novelist Nancy Mitford and the current Duchess of Devonshire) and one of the great muckraking journalists of modern times. Leaving England for America, she pursued a career as an investigative reporter a ...Show more
Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next by John D. Kasarda & Greg Lindsay
$19.99 NZD
$40.00 (50% off)
Category: General Non-Fiction
From Dubai to Amsterdam, Memphis to South Korea, a phenomenon reshapes the way we live and transforming the way we do business: the aerotropolis. This title looks at how the metropolis brings us together - and how, in our globalized, 'flat' world, connecting people and goods is as important as digital c ...Show more
50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know by Ben Dupre
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
At a time of corrosive popular cynicism and profound international unease, the need for clarity over the fundamental concepts of politics has never been greater: the forces of Terrorism and Fundamentalism endanger our Security, while government responses to it pose a basic threat to Liberty, Democracy a ...Show more
On the State of Egypt: What Caused the Revolution by Alaa Al Aswany
$32.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
In the novels and short stories of Alaa Al Aswany, characters struggle with class differences, police brutality, poverty, sexual harassment and political corruption; now, in a new collection of essays, Al Aswany considers these same issues that torment modern Egyptian society. He has a great deal to say ...Show more
Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia by Thant Myint-U
$49.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching and timely book about a remote region that is suddenly becoming a geopolitical center of the world. From their very beginnings, the civilizations of China and India have been walled off from each other, not only by the towering summits of the Himalayas, but ...Show more
A Point of View by Clive James
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The BBC Radio 4 series, "A Point of View", has been on the air since 2007. This is the book of the radio series. Over the years, it's had a variety of presenters - including the national treasure that is Clive James - talking for ten minutes about anything and everything that has captured their imagina ...Show more
Spills and Spin: The Inside Story of BP by Tom Bergin
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
DON'T VOTE - It Just Encourages the Bastards by P.J. O'Rourke
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Best-selling humorist P.J. O'Rourke is back with his latest political masterpiece, DON'T VOTE - It Just Encourages the Bastards. Using his signature wit and keen observational skills, O'Rourke reflects on his forty year career as a political commentator, spanning his addled hippie youth to his current s ...Show more
Quantum Warrior: The Future of the Mind by John Kehoe
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In Quantum Warrior: The Future of the Mind, John Kehoe combines the most up-to-date scientific discoveries with mystical teachings from our major religions to create a vision of the quantum warrior and the possibilities of our future as a species.
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
" Frank, enraging and captivating. The New Yorker Australian writer Geraldine Brooks is now known internationally for her bestselling novels, but as a foreign correspondent Geraldine spent six years covering the Middle East. And when her poised and sophisticated assistant at the Cairo bureau of the Wall ...Show more
The Library Book by Alan Bennett & others
$29.99 NZD
Category: General 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