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
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The inspiration for the film 'Nomadland' starring Frances McDormand. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labour pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualti ...Show more
The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree by Nice Lengete
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
HOW ONE GIRL FOUGHT TO SAVE HERSELF, HER SISTER AND THOUSANDS OF GIRLS WORLDWIDE An inspirational story of one girl who changed the minds of her elders, reformed traditions from the inside, and is creating a better future for girls and women throughout Africa Born in a remote village in Kenya, Nice Leng ...Show more
Totalitaria: What If the Enemy is the State? by Ian Wishart
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Never before in human history have governments had the power to totally control your life. Today, they do. That sort of power does strange things to human ambition. Even with the best of intentions, Lord Acton famously noted, absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely. Hard-won freedoms that our grandpa ...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
Missionary Position: Mother Teresa In Theory And Practice by Christopher Hitchens; Thomas Mallon (Foreword by)
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Among his many books, perhaps none have sparked more outrage than The Missionary Position, Christopher Hitchens's meticulous and searing study of the life and deeds of Mother Teresa--and it is now available as a Signal deluxe paperback. A Nobel Peace Prize recipient canonized by the Catholic Church ...Show more
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by James A. Robinson, Daron Acemoglu
$36.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good
This is a provocative bestseller that explains why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? "Why Nations Fail" sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down t ...Show more
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
The Good Doctor - What patients want by Ron Paterson
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
What makes a good doctor? Are there really bad doctors out there? If so, how can we patients protect ourselves? Can more information, more trust and more assured competence be injected into the medical system to solve these problems? Drawing on his years of dealing with patient concerns, former Health a ...Show more
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump : 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President by Bandy Lee
$44.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
More than two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists offer their consensus view that Trump's mental state presents a clear and present danger to our nation and individual well-being. This is not normal. Since the start of Donald Trump’s presidential run, one question has quietly but urgently permeated th ...Show more
Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery
$48.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Tim Flannery is one of the world's great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' This definitive collection of his work brings together thirty years of essays, speeches 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