Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
45.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book — against a background of today’s 'sculpture wars' — Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and fam ...Show more
Goth: A History by Lol Tolhurst
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
GOTH is an entertaining and engaging historical memoir of the genre of Goth music and culture, exploring creative giants like The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division and many more great bands that offered a place of refuge for the misfits of the 80s and ever since. Written by Lol Tol ...Show more
Your Name is Not Anxious: A very personal guide to putting anxiety in its place by Stephanie Dowrick
33.00 NZD
Category: Self-help
Anxiety is restricting millions of lives. Award-winning writer, Stephanie Dowrick, PhD, shows how new mind-body insights and research can emphatically restore the inner security that anxiety takes away. Restoring the wellbeing that anxiety takes away Of all the possible blows to your emotional health, ...Show more
High Hopes Big Dreams: 165 New Zealand Small Towns in their twilight by Peter Janssen; Elizabeth Anderson
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Across New Zealand, once flourishing towns have faded into the twilight. Over the years, hopes and dreams turned to disappointment.This rise and fall is linked to our social, economic, and political history. Some of these towns have vanished completely while others have discovered a new purpose and are ...Show more
Little Doomsdays (Korero series) by Nic Low; Phil Dadson (Artist)
45.00 NZD
Category: Coffee Table
A unique collaboration in words and art It’s said — in the quiet between buses, down the back of the pub, in the hushed elevator rising to the penthouse — that in the late twentieth century an unstable grouping of scholars, writers and fanatics from several Ngāi Tahu hapū in Murihiku created what has c ...Show more
Gordon Walters by Francis Pound; Leonard Bell (Foreword by)
90.00 NZD
Category: Art
The first substantial monograph on the art of one of this country's most influential artists, Gordon Walters. In this remarkable study by the late Francis Pound, author of the landmark Invention of New Zealand, we are introduced to the making of a New Zealand modernist - tracing the work of Gordon Walte ...Show more
Rewi - Ata Haere, Kia Tere by Jade Kake; Jeremy Hansen
75.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
THE POWER OF ARCHITECTURE TO EXPRESS TE AO MORI AND TRANSFORMA major tribute to the late architect Rewi Thompson (Ngti Porou, Ngti Raukawa) whose early death robbed Aotearoa New Zealand of one of its greatest thinkers about how our built landscape could best express te ao Maori and be transformative. Wr ...Show more
Icons of Style - Harry Styles by Lauren Cochrane
37.00 NZD
Category: Fashion and textiles | Series: Icons of Style Ser.
With this guide to his style trajectory, key looks and signature pieces, dive into the kooky, eccentric and utterly unique world of Harry Styles's style. A genius of fluid fashion, Harry Styles is redefining fashion for all genders. From his moment on the 2019 Met Gala red carpet that broke the internet ...Show more
George Russell - A Biography by James Gray
37.00 NZD
Category: Sport
From James Gray, author of the bestselling Max Verstappen, comes the very first biography of Lewis Hamilton's designated successor George Russell, published to mark the British Grand Prix.From dominating the karting tracks of East Anglia to the top of the podium in Formula 3 and Formula 2, George Russel ...Show more
Master Slave Husband Wife - An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo
40.00 NZD
Category: History
New York Times Bestseller The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as "his" slave. In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, ens ...Show more
The Handover by David Runciman
38.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Does it matter if we are ceding power to AI? Especially if we have been there before. 'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before. A few hundr ...Show more
Frank Moorhouse: A life by Catharine Lumby
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters. Many writers fashion a career out of their writing. Some fashion brilliant careers. Very few, however, commit to their art in a manner that inflects every aspect of their own daily life. Frank Moorhouse was one of the rare writers ...Show more