A Small Book About Drugs: The Debate We Need to Have About Recreational Drugs by Lisa Pryor
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Shakespeare on Stage : Thirteen Leading Actors on Thirteen Key Roles by Julian Curry
$41.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The performers interviewed represent a Who's Who of stage and screen actors (between them they have seventeen Oscar nominations), and range across all generations. They include Judi Dench talking about her acclaimed Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1960 production; Ian McKellen whose Macbeth at the RSC in ...Show more
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. His vivi ...Show more
Nostradamus and the Third Antichrist: Napoleon, Hitler and the One Still to Come by Mario Reading
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Although many people know that Nostradamus prophesied the coming of the three Antichrists allegedly foretold in St John's Epistles (and also, in the guise of the Beast, the Dragon, the False Prophet, and the Whore of Babylon, in Revelation), they don't know who the first two Antichrists were, nor who th ...Show more
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble - Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother by Simon Schama
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A treasure trove of Schama's writing with subjects ranging from cookery to Barack Obama.
Churchill in Quotes : Wit and Wisdom from the Great Statesman by Ammonite Press
$19.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: In "Quotes" Ser.
Sir Winston Churchill, statesman, orator and former Prime Minister was a man whose words gave hope and inspiration to the British people and many are as relevant today as they were during the war years. Churchill's speeches were not always confined to serious political rhetoric and motivation: his off-t ...Show more
Engineers of the Soul by Frank Westerman
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
"Engineers of the Soul" draws the reader into the wild euphoria of the Russian Revolution, as art and reality are bent to radically new purposes. Writers of renown, described by Stalin as 'engineers of the soul', were encouraged to sing the praises of construction. But the initial enthusiasm of Soviet w ...Show more
The Illustrated Guide to Pigs: How to Choose Them - How to Keep Them by Celia Lewis
$49.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The Illustrated Guide to Pigs covers the 35 most familiar breeds of pigs in Europe and North America. The breed profiles are written in engaging text that covers the history of each breed, its main characteristics and information about how to look after them. Each breed has been illustrated with delight ...Show more
The Fix by Damian Thompson
$36.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Obsessed with your iphone/crackberry? Does your day only start when you grip your second morning skinny cappuccino tightly in hand? Are your social life and your nightly large glasses of wine prompted more by habit than by pleasure? Drugs, food, alcohol, sex and technology are all obsessions that consu ...Show more
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families by Colm Toibin
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In his essay on Tennessee Williams, Colm Toibin reveals an artist profoundly tormented by his sister's mental illness. Through the relationship between W.B. Yeats and his father, Toibin examines a world of family relations, and in Roddy Doyle's writing on his parents illuminates an Ireland reinvented. F ...Show more
Lost Key by Robert Lomas
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The Lost Key contains revelations that only an initiate of the highest orders of esoteric Freemasonry is in a position to make. Here is the truth behind the hints in Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol that Freemasonry is concerned to reawaken the hidden potentialities and powers of the human mind.The thrilling ...Show more
Vultures' Picnic by Greg Palast
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The bestselling author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either. This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed on the weak ...Show more