The View From Down Here: Life as a Young Disabled Woman by Lucy Webster
45.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
A powerful, eye-opening insight into navigating the world as a disabled young woman Women's lives are shaped by sexism and expectations. Disabled people's lives are shaped by ableism and a complete lack of expectations. But what happens when you're subjected to both sets of rules?This powerful, honest, ...Show more
The Scottish Clearances - A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900 by T. M. Devine
28.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same period another side to the history of the nation. Many of Scotland's people were subjected to coercive and sometimes violent change: traditional and customa ...Show more
Tupac Shakur: The first and only Estate-authorised biography of the legendary artist by Staci Robinson
70.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
The first and only estate-authorised biography of the legendary rapper and an essential reevaluation of his legacy, fully illustrated with momentos, clothing, handwritten poetry, lyrics, musings and more.There are legends, and then there is Tupac.Tupac Shakur became one of the greatest and most controve ...Show more
Digital for Good - Raising Kids to Thrive in an Online World by Richard Culatta
50.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Kids deserve a better digital future. Help them create it. When it comes to raising children in a digital world, every parent feels underprepared and overwhelmed. We worry that our children will become addicted to online games, be victims of cyberbullying, or get lost down the rabbit hole of social medi ...Show more
A Vintner's Tale by Peter Hubscher
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Of modest stature, from Central European stock and born in West Auckland, Peter Hubscher first trialled as a winemaker in Hawke’s Bay in the 1960s. His apprenticeship completed, he returned to the Waitākere Ranges to begin his career with Montana Wines and put into practice his vision for the undevelope ...Show more
Welcome to the Grief Club: Because You Don't Have to Go Through It Alone by Janine Kwoh
38.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Welcome to the Grief Club - a place where one human who experienced a terrible loss, Janine Kwoh, is at the door to welcome other humans who are grieving. It is not an instruction manual, or a step-by-step playbook, or a memoir. It is, rather, a fresh, empathetic approach to all of the surprising, confu ...Show more
The Barefoot Investor for Families: How to teach your kids the value of a buck by Scott Pape
35.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need is a phenomenon, sprinting through one million copies to become one of the best selling Australian books ever. Why is it so successful? It's simple, funny and practical. And it has changed people's lives. The eagerly anticipated follow-up, The ...Show more
Vladimir Putin: Life Coach (HB) by Rob Sears
28.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
What can the rise and reign of this century's most feared politician teach us about life, work and love? Rob Sears shows how the machinations that enabled Putin to dominate the Kremlin and undermine the United States could also help you take control of your mundane life. How would you like to ruin your ...Show more
The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the ...Show more
Reading Lessons: The books we read at school, the conversations they spark and why they matter by Carol Atherton
48.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
An English teacher's love letter to reading and teaching- an eye-opening journey through the books we read at school, the impact they made on us then and what we can take from them now. How can a Victorian poem help teenagers understand YouTube misogyny? Can Jane Eyre encourage us to speak out? What can ...Show more
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
22.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. ...Show more
Letters of Note - Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
70.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter, to Q ...Show more