Nonviolent Communication : A Language of Life (2nd edition) by ROSENBERG M
$45.00 NZD
$55.00 (18% off)
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
More than one million copies sold for one simple reason - it works! An enlightening look at how peaceful communication can create compassionate connections with family, friends, and other acquaintances. The book uses stories, examples, and sample dialogues to provide solutions to communication problems ...Show more
The Sea : A Photographic Celebration of the First Wonder of the World by ADLARD COLES
$85.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'It is no coincidence that so many of the world's creation myths involve water. Out of this apparent void, all else is born. Not surprising, then, that the sea holds such a primeval fascination. We are, in so many ways, made of water.' (From the Introduction) The sea is the first wonder of the world, an ...Show more
The Things That Nobody Knows : 501 Mysteries of Life, the Universe and Everything by William Hartston
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The forward march of human knowledge has deepened our understanding of the universe and flung wide the floodgates of technological advance: we have established that the world came into being more than 4.5 billion years ago; we have deciphered the Rosetta Stone; travelled to the moon; eliminated smallpox ...Show more
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of 18th century in this ground-breaking new biography . 'The Age of Wonde ...Show more
The Maths Handbook: Everyday Maths Made Simple by Dr Richard Elwes
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
All the essential maths you need to know presented in a convenient, great value package.
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: good
What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness.Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those whose job it is to diagnose it, including ...Show more
Seventeen Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart
$36.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations, are everywhere - and they are fundamental to everyday life. In this book, the author sets out seventeen equations that have altered the course of human history. It is also an exploration - and expl ...Show more
Winner’s Bible: Rewire Your Brain for Permanent Change by Kerry Spackman
$32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: good
World-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Kerry Spackman shows you how to use and customize the groundbreaking tools he pioneered for elite athletes, Olympic champions, and upper-echelon businesspeople to permanently rewire your brain and transform your life. The Winner's Bible gives you mental and emotional to ...Show more
Woman Who Changed Her Brain by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn - or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually got lost, and was physically uncoordinated. She could make no sense ...Show more
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Memory Improvement | Reading Level: near fine
"Joshua Foer invents a new genre of nonfiction. This is a work of science journalism wrapped around an adventure story, a bildungsroman fused to a vivid investigation of human memory."--Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist On average, people squander forty days annuall ...Show more
The Tell-Tale Brain - Unlocking the Mystery of Human Nature by V. S. Ramachandran
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
John, aged sixty, suffered a stroke and recovered fully, except in one respect: although he can see perfectly, he can no longer recognise faces, even his own reflection in a mirror. Whenever Francesca touches a particular texture, she experiences a vivid emotion: denim = extreme sadness; wax = embarrass ...Show more
Floating Gold: The Search for Ambergris. the Most Elusive Natural Substance in the World by Christopher Kemp
$29.99 NZD
$34.99 (14% off)
Category: Travel
Journalist and biologist Christopher Kemp discovers, after reading an odd news report, a hidden world of money, intrigue and amazing wealth. A lump of something turns up on a beach in NZ, the lump so strange it may well have come from out of space. But it's not a dead alien, it's ambergris. Ambergris is ...Show more