A Delicate Game: Brain Injury, Sport and Sacrifice by Hana Walker-Brown
38.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
A footballer dies of dementia, younger than he should.A 14-year old-rugby player is told to play on through multiple blows. He never wakes up from the last one.A scientist reveals endemic brain disease in NFL players and is discredited.A survivor of domestic abuse can't remember details when standing up ...Show more
An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language by Ali Almossawi, Alejandro Giraldo
37.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
The creators of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments return at last with a desperately timely guide to rhetoric.Tens of thousands of demonstrators packed the city's streets on Friday. The actual count was 250,000. Why tens of thousands, then, and not a quarter million?The grocer takes woke orders on its ...Show more
How to be a Bad Muslim and Other Essays by Mohamed Hassan
35.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Funny, elegiac and chilling, these essays from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan blend storytelling, memoir and non-fiction to map the experience of being Muslim in the C21st. This is the breakout non-fiction book from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan. From Cairo to Takapuna ...Show more
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries brings together Kate's rich and detailed knowledge of unheard and under-heard women's history, and of how and why women's achievements have routinely been omitted from the history books. This beautiful illustrated book is both an alternative feminist history of ...Show more
Visual Thinking by Temple Grandin
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
'Grandin has helped us understand autism not just as a phenomenon, but as a different but coherent mode of existence that otherwise confounds us' The New York TimesDo you think in pictures, patterns or words?In a world engineered for the verbal thinker, those of us who with a visual brain can often be o ...Show more
Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education by Sola Mahfouz; Malaina Kapoor
42.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life. Sola Mahfouz was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1996. That same year, the Taliban took over her country for the first time. They banned television and photographs, p ...Show more
The Facemaker : One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of WWI by Lindsey Fitzharris
30.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thous ...Show more
A Quiet Kitchen by Nici Wickes
45.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Nici Wickes has gained a strong and loyal following for her uncomplicated approach to cooking great food. Now this much-loved food writer brings us a new collection of recipes inspired by lockdown in her little cottage by the sea.
The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris
50.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear- mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thous ...Show more
Tangata Ngai Tahu: People of Ngai Tahu, Vol 1 by Takerei Norton
50.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction | Series: Tāngata Ngāi
Tangata Ngai Tahu remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngai Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngai Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their iwi, hapu and whanau in myriad ways: here are rangatir ...Show more
New Zealand's Biggest Year by Harry Boorman
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
New Zealand’s Biggest Year is an epic birding tale of how two friends become rivals and set out to break the all-time record for the most Aotearoa New Zealand bird species seen in one calendar year. Their rivalry results in more birds being spotted in a single year than ever before and two national reco ...Show more
Don't Dream It's Over: The remarkable life of Neil Finn by Jeff Apter
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Don't Dream It's Over is the first biography to focus exclusively on Neil Finn, the man who wrote the timeless hits of Split Enz and Crowded House. In February 1980, 21-year-old Neil Mullane Finn wrote 'I Got You', which became the signature song, and the biggest hit, for the Kiwi band Split Enz, co-fo ...Show more