The Mamba Mentality: How I Play by Kobe Bryant
$60.00 NZD
Category: Sports
From basketball superstar Kobe Bryant--a lavish, deep dive inside the mind of one of the most revered athletes of all time. In the wake of his retirement from professional basketball, Kobe "The Black Mamba" Bryant has decided to share his vast knowledge and understanding of the game to take listeners o ...Show more
Flora - Celebrating Our Botanical World by Editd by Carlos Lehnebach, Claire Regnault, Rebecca Rice, Isaac Te Awa and Rachel Yate
$80.00 NZD
Category: Art + Design
This big, glorious big book mines Te Papa's collections to explore and expand upon the way we think about our botanical world and its cultural imprint. A true treasure, it features over 400 selections by an expert, cross-disciplinary museum curatorial team that range from botanical specimens and art to ...Show more
Philosophy for Life by Jules Evans
$45.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In his engaging book, Jules Evans explains how ancient philosophy saved his life, and how we can all use it to become happier, wiser and more resilient. Jules imagines a dream school, which includes 12 of the greatest and most colourful thinkers the world has ever known. Each of these ancient philosophe ...Show more
Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples From Destruction [Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt] by Lynne Olson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The fascinating story of the feisty French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam. In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time- fifty countries contributed nearly a billion dollars to sa ...Show more
Lotusland by Lisa Romerein
$120.00 NZD
Category: Home and Garden
Variously labeled Eden, one of the 100 gardens you must visit before your die, and among the 10 best botanical gardens in the world, Madame Ganna Walska's Lotusland is magic mixed with paradise in the hills of Montecito, California. Walska, a well-known Polish opera singer and socialite, purchased the e ...Show more
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams
$33.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while tromping over the heath; Nikola Tesla conceived the electric motor while visiting a park. Intrigued by our storied renewal in the natural world, ...Show more
Companion Planting in New Zealand by Brenda Little
$28.00 NZD
Category: Home and Garden
In this age of increasing hostility towards chemical control of the food we eat, this book is the ideal guide to working with nature. Every tip in this book has worked for somebody - why it worked may be a mystery, but the result of a healthy crop is the greatest reward for a gardener.
The Year of Our Lord 1943 - Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis by Alan Jacobs
$65.00 NZD
Category: Wellbeing & Inspiration
Second-hand, hardback book in good condition. By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear that the Allies would win the Second World War. Around the same time, it also became increasingly clear to many Christian intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic that the soon-to-be-victorious nations wer ...Show more
Life at Full Tilt by Dervla Murphy, Ethel Crowley
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Life at Full Tilt is a whirlwind tour of Dervla Murphy s travels. It begins in Spain in 1956, before her first book, and follows in her tracks for over fifty years, including descriptions of her beloved Afghanistan in 1963, of the Peruvian Andes, of South, West and East Africa and most recently of the t ...Show more
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop - The Heart-Warming Korean Sensation by Hwang Bo-reum; Shanna Tan (Translator)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia
There was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a boo ...Show more
Through the Alps The Otira Railway Tunnel by Bruce Shalders, Daine Gordon-Burns, Chris Stewart
$42.50 NZD
Category: History
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
$40.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
A stunning account of this century's most intense urban fire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind In May 2016, Fort McMurray, Alberta, the hub of Canada's oil industry, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster turned entire neigh ...Show more