The Middle East: A Beginner's Guide by Philip Robins
22.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Beginner's Guides
The wave of popular uprisings that swept through the Middle East promised to pave the way for democracy. It brought down dictators and captured the popular imagination, but for most of the region, peace and stability remain as elusive today as they have ever been. In this fully revised introduction, Oxf ...Show more
Inner Ramblings: A Journal
24.00 NZD
Category: Mindfulness
You can explore this journal and develop a deep, enlightened understanding of yourself through doodling, and collaging, and writing letters and lists on its many-colored pages. OR you can tear out all the pages and make some groovy paper airplanes. It s yours, to help you discover and define yourself an ...Show more
Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time by Simon Garfield
37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing we crave the most. How have we come to be dominated by something so arbitrary? The compelling s ...Show more
Pumper by Jim Cassidy
45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'Just what you'd expect from the master horseman they called Pumper: cheeky, funny, brash, unrepentant...a rollicking good read.' Les CarlyonChampion Jockey Jim Cassidy is the ultimate 'colourful racing identity'.In a stellar 38-year career, 'The Pumper' won 104 Group 1 races, including two Melbourne Cu ...Show more
The Splendid Book of the Bicycle: From Boneshakers to Bradley Wiggins by Daniel Tatarsky
45.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Cycling is hugely popular nowadays. Since 2003 more than 100 million bikes have been produced each year, more than twice the amount of cars. And in 2011, more than 741,000 people cycled to work, an increase of 90,000 from 2001. The Splendid Book of the Bicycle is a wide-ranging celebration of the bicycl ...Show more
Miso Tasty: Everyday, Tasty Recipes with Miso - The Japanese Superfood by Bonnie Chung
35.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink
Miso Tasty is the first book of its kind exploring the great variety and versatility of this ancient soybean paste, which is fast becoming a vital ingredient in every cook's kitchen. As diets become more focused on being wholesome and nutritious, Miso Tasty will give the health-conscious cook ideas that ...Show more
Doctor Who: Dot to Doc by BBC
30.00 NZD
Category: Art | Series: Doctor Who
Join galaxies of dots and draw the Doctor, with this incredible dot-to-dot book! With 45 intricate portraits to complete and over 500 dots in every drawing, Dot-to-Doc contains hours of creative and timey-wimey fun. Inside you'll find every incarnation of the Doctor, plus favourite friends and foes - Ro ...Show more
The Voyages of Captain James Cook: The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Pacific Voyages by James Cook, John Hawkesworth
55.00 NZD
Category: History
The first-ever illustrated account of Captain James Cook's epic eighteenth-century voyages, complete with excerpts from his vivid journals. This is history's greatest adventure story. In 1766, the Royal Society chose prodigal mapmaker and navigator James Cook to lead a South Pacific voyage. His orders w ...Show more
You May Also Like: Why Your Favourite Colour is Blue, Your Polo Shirt Doesn't Have a Zipper, You Don't Like Heavy Metal, and Other Mysteries of Taste by Tom Vanderbilt
38.00 NZD
Category: Self-help
We all have tastes. For instance, Tom Vanderbilt doesn't particularly care for white cars or fennel - even if he doesn't quite know why. Taste is an incredible fuzzy construct: Everyone has likes and preferences, but what do actually know about them? How do we acquire tastes, and how do they change? Why ...Show more
Sicily: Recipes from the Pearl of Southern Italy by Katie Caldesi
55.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink
A visual feast of one of Italy's most loved destinations Italy's most seductive island, Sicily, is located in the heart of the Mediterranean. Thanks to its rich history, Sicilian food has Italian as well as Greek, Spanish, French, and Arab influences. Now Italian aficionados, Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi ...Show more
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race and the Birth of Private Space Flight by Julian Guthrie
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Alone in a spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed towards space. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world's first commercial astro ...Show more