Des Townson: A Sailing Legacy by Brian Peet
80.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Des Townson was a yacht designer and boatbuilder who possessed an analytical mind, an innate feel for sailing boats and a wonderful eye for their visual balance. During a five decade long design career he produced some of the most eye-catching, easily handled and well performing maritime craft to ever g ...Show more
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand by Megan Devine
33.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
In 2009, on a beautiful sunny day, Megan Devine witnessed the accidental drowning of her beloved partner Matt. "All my professional experience as a therapist felt meaningless," she writes. "Grief literature is loaded with well-intended advice that can actually worsen and extend someone's pain. We just d ...Show more
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
30.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
The acclaimed bestseller that will change the way you make decisions.In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices. One system is fast, intuitive, and emotional; the other is slower, more delib ...Show more
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc
35.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm -- as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After all, the ogre never gets the princess. And since fairy tales are the foundational myths of our culture, how can a girl with a disability ever think she'll have a happy ending? By examining the ways tha ...Show more
Belonging: The Ancient Code of Togetherness by Owen Eastwood
38.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Whakapapa. You belong here. Whakapapa is a Maori word which embodies our human need to belong. It represents a powerful spiritual idea - we are all part of an unbroken and unbreakable chain of people who share a special culture. Owen Eastwood places this concept at the core of his methods to maximise a ...Show more
How to be a Bad Muslim and Other Essays by Mohamed Hassan
35.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Funny, elegiac and chilling, these essays from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan blend storytelling, memoir and non-fiction to map the experience of being Muslim in the C21st. This is the breakout non-fiction book from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan. From Cairo to Takapuna ...Show more
Be Good: Plant Based Recipes for Everybody by Buffy Ellen Gill
45.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Be Good to your health and our planet! Looking for some plant-based inspiration that is both flavoursome and nutritionally balanced? Then this is the book for you! Buffy Ellen Gill is a qualified nutritionist, naturopath and medical herbalist who offers one-on-one consults. She runs New Zealand's most ...Show more
Sam Hunt: Off the Road by Colin Hogg
50.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Thirty years after Hogg and Hunt collaborated on the now-legendary Angel Gear: Off the Road with Sam Hunt, the pair have decided to throw caution to the wind and proceed without doctors' certificates, to create an older, possibly wiser twin to that earlier book. A backstage pass to the private side of ...Show more
Stuff Every Mom Should Know by Heather Gibbs Flett; Whitney Moss
21.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
This pocket-sized parenting guide for moms and moms-to-be is perfect for a baby shower or Mother's Day gift. This little handbook is filled with all the secrets and strategies a smart mother needs to know. Featuring tips for mastering quick and easy meals, suggestions for baby-proofing like an exper ...Show more
Tangata Ngai Tahu: People of Ngai Tahu, Vol 1 by Takerei Norton
50.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction | Series: Tāngata Ngāi
Tangata Ngai Tahu remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngai Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngai Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their iwi, hapu and whanau in myriad ways: here are rangatir ...Show more
Daughters of Kobani by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
37.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won. In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of: Ko ...Show more
Slipping The Moorings by Richard Randerson
30.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
A memoir of 50 years of change in church and society as experienced by New Zealand priest and bishop, Richard Randerson CNZM. The book outlines Richard's role as change agent and public advocate on issues such as anti-apartheid, nuclear-free NZ, women in leadership, same-sex relationships, marriage equa ...Show more