Five Invitations:Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseski
$34.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters most in life. So begins Frank Ostaseski's stirring book, The Five Invitations, an exhilarating medi ...Show more
Flight : The Complete History of Aviation by Reg Grant
$50.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
From the Wright brothers' first powered flight, to Concorde's final voyage and the tragic crash of the Columbia, Flight takes you on a sky-high journey through the history of aviation. Charting the trailblazers, jet test pilots and constant progress at the cutting-edge of technology, every aspect of fli ...Show more
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution by Richard Dawkins
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
The Wonder of Flight. The Science of Evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. Do you sometimes dream you can fly like a bird? Gliding effortlessly above the ...Show more
Folk Medicine by D.C. Jarvis
$16.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A New England Almanac of Natural Health Care from a Noted Vermont Country DoctorFor centuries the vigorous and healthy families of Vermont have passed down simple commonsense home remedies for all sorts of common aches and pains, from one generation to the next. Dr. Jarvis spent years practicing medicin ...Show more
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Michael Pollan
$12.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. Using those seven words as his guide, Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable adages or 'personal policies' for eating wisely, gathered from a w ...Show more
Foodie Places by Sarah Baxter; Amy Grimes (Illustrator)
$36.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Inspired Traveller's Guides
Eat your way around the globe with this mouthwatering tour of the tastiest, most inventive, most diverse food on the planet.A region's food is truly a window into its rich history and culture - nothing tells the story of a place so profoundly as the food it serves. Foodie Places is a stunning, hand-illu ...Show more
Foolproof - Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity by Sander van der Linden
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
How do people come to believe in misinformation? How and why does it spread? And what can we do about it? 'In an era increasingly filled with half-truths, fake news, and misinformation, I am not here to tell you what to believe. I want to provide you with a guide to how your brain grapples with matters ...Show more
For the Good of the World: Is a Universal Ethics Possible? by A. C. Grayling
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to avoid disaster. 'A must read' Gordon Brown 'A truly excellent book' Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, t ...Show more
For the Love of Books -A Celebration of the Written Word by Graham Tarrant
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Do you know... Which famous author died of caffeine poisoning? Why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was banned in China? Who was the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? Banned books, feuding authors, literary felons, rejected masterpieces - it's all in these pages, along w ...Show more
Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Tracing the long history of female fighters, Forgotten Warriors puts the record straight, exploring how war became an all-male space, and getting to the bottom of why women were allowed to be astronauts a full thi ...Show more
Fork Handles: The Bery Vest of Ronnie Barker by Ronnie Barker
$49.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
This title comes with a foreword by Ronnie Corbett. Loved by millions and collected here for the first time is the very best of Ronnie Barker's classic sketches, monologues, songs and, of course, the brilliant two-handers that he wrote for The Two Ronnies. Celebrating his genius for comic wordplay, this ...Show more
Fossil Men: the Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A behind-the-scenes account of the shocking discovery of the skeleton of "Ardi," a human ancestor far older than Lucy - a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution. In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White--"the Steve Jobs of ...Show more