Four Elements by John O'Donohue
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
"In The Four Elements, poet and philosopher John O'Donohue draws upon his Celtic heritage and the love of his native landscape, the west of Ireland, to weave together a tapestry of beautifully evoked images of nature. As John explores a range of themes relating to the way we live our lives today, he rev ...Show more
Four Flashpoints - How Asia Goes to War by Brendan Taylor
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Asia is at a dangerous moment. China is rising fast. Young, reckless North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is engaging in territorial spats with the US president over nuclear missiles. Japan's nationalist government is remilitarising, throwing off the constitutional constraints imposed at the end of World W ...Show more
Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count. by Oliver Burkeman
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR** **ONE OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S 75 BEST BOOKS OF 2021** 'Life is finite. You don't have to fit everything in... Read this book and wake up to a new way of thinking and living' EMMA GANNON What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you ...Show more
Four & Twenty Rules for Buying & Selling Shares by Nigel McCarter
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
This is not another get-rich-quick book - it does not promise to turn your dollar into a million - but it does describe how you can choose safe, profitable investments. Share investment can be simple and low-risk; shares provide higher returns than any other type of saving, superannuation scheme, or ba ...Show more
Four Ways of Thinking: Statistical, Interactive, Chaotic and Complex by David Sumpter
$48.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
How can we see through the chaos and complexity of our lives?Beyond all the facts and figures, there is just one question at the heart of science- what is the best way to think about the world? Yet in our everyday lives, this is something we rarely consider. How often do we wonder about our own thinking ...Show more
Fractured Lands by Scott Anderson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known as the Arab Spring. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the West as a triumph of democracy, would give way to brutal civil war, the terrors of the Islamic State, and ...Show more
France: A Short History by Jeremy Black
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A concise history of France from prehistory to the present, recounting the great events and personalities and exploring France's cultural and political influence today. Artists, martyrs, kings, revolutionaries: France's sense of national identity is inextricably linked to its dramatic history, which fas ...Show more
Franci's War by Franci Epstein
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
In the summer of 1942, twenty-two year-old Franci Rabinek Epstein arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her six-year journey through several camps during the Second World War, from Terezin to Auschwitz-Birkenau, to force ...Show more
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Retrospective View by Trewin Copplestone
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
It is a measure of the significance of Frank Lloyd Wright that, little more than forty years after his death, there is already a considerable library of books--as well as pamphlets and articles devoted to him--that he is the subject of worldwide lecture courses, and that his name is frequently mentioned ...Show more
Frantumaglia: Fragments: on Writing and Reading by Elena Ferrante
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Elena Ferrante is one of the greatest novelists of our time. Read her novels and don't worry about who she is: you will be entranced by her writing. Fragments is a riveting compilation, over the course of her writing career, of Elena Ferrante's letters to her publisher, interviews with editors and journ ...Show more
Fraud by RAKOFF DAVID
$26.99 NZD
$32.99 (18% off)
Category: Non Fiction
From "This American Life" alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, or learning primitive survival skills in ...Show more
Free - Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An unforgettable coming of age story exploring the meaning of freedom - personal, collective, political - from an extraordinary new voice. Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost ...Show more