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
Engineers by Adam Hart-Davis
$60.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
This is an epic visual guide to the great engineers who have built our world. Full of great tales of achievement and ingenuity, "Engineers" celebrates 80 of the greatest engineers that ever lived and the stamp they have left on the world. Learn all about how their projects have changed the course of his ...Show more
Continental Shift: A Journey into Africa's Changing Fortunes by Kevin Bloom
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
AFRICA IS FAILING. AFRICA IS SUCCEEDING. Africa is betraying its citizens. Africa is a place of starvation, corruption, disease. African economies are soaring faster than any on earth. Africa is squandering its bountiful resources. Africa is a roadmap for global development. Africa is turbulent. Africa ...Show more
Has the West Lost It?: A Provocation by Kishore Mahbubani
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'A compelling warning ... It is hard to disagree with this advice from such a well-informed friend of the west' Martin Wolf, Financial Times The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will the West react ...Show more
The Future of Humanity (HB) by Michio Kaku
$55.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies. Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to ...Show more
It's Even Worse Than You Think by David Cay Johnston
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
From David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administration's policies will affect our jobs, savings, taxes, and safety--completed revised and updated. New York Times ...Show more
The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times by Mohamed ElBaradei
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
When he was unanimously elected Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency in 1997, few could have forecast the dramatic role Mohamed ElBaradei would play in every key nuclear confrontation of the next twelve years. Dealing with the nuclear aspirations of Libya and North Korea, standing ...Show more
Daily Rituals: Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work by Mason Currey
$27.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The much-anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed and resoundingly fascinating Daily Rituals.Filled with the innovative, inspiring and wonderfully prolific accounts of some of the world's best female creators, Daily Rituals Women at Work is the powerful and championing sequel to Mason Currey's first book, ...Show more
The School: The Ups and Downs of One Year in the Classroom by Brendan James Murray
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
A portrait of one teacher and his class as they journey through the ups and downs of a school year. Brendan James Murray has been a secondary school teacher for more than ten years. In that time he has seen hundreds of kids move through his classes - troubled, brilliant, funny, passionate, struggling: e ...Show more
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearIn his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues - sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals the astonishing new culture wars playing out in our workplac ...Show more
Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism by Laura Bates
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND FOUNDER OF THE EVERYDAY SEXISM PROJECT, LAURA BATES. 'Following [Everyday Sexism] will make most women feel oddly saner.' Caitlin Moran'Piercingly astute.' StylistLaura Bates, pioneering feminist, activist and bestselling author, has given voice to hu ...Show more
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