Sugar, Rum and Tobacco (BWB Texts) by Mike Berridge
$14.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
Can a sugar tax improve public health? Even if it can, is it the right thing to do? One of New Zealand's foremost health scientists, Mike Berridge, teams up with tax expert Lisa Marriott to explore the issue.This BWB Text explains the relationship between sugar and ill-health, and explores how taxes can ...Show more
Sure To Rise: The Edmond's Story by Peter Alsop, Kate Parsonson, Richard Wolfe
$59.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Edmonds is one of New Zealand's best-known brands - its radiant sun and 'Sure to Rise' promise have embellished baking powder labels and the much-loved Edmonds Cookery Book for over a hundred years and are now embedded in our popular culture. The man behind the company, Thomas Edmonds, came to New Zeala ...Show more
Terence: The Man Who Invented Design by Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity
$60.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
Terence Conran, a visionary and a myopic. A design entrepreneur and imaginative restaurateur, he was a democratising idealist who was also a selfish hedonist. His influence is everywhere in modern Britain from where we live to what we eat.Terence: The Man Who Invented Design is the most definitive, inti ...Show more
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
$39.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and ...Show more
The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World by Saul John Ralston
$22.50 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Despite the near-religious conviction with which it was originally conceived, a growing vagueness now surrounds its original promise that nation-states were heading toward irrelevance, to be replaced by the power of global markets; that economics, not politics or arms, would determine the course of huma ...Show more
The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin by Irina Borogan, Andrei Soldatov
$39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Fleeing pogroms, tsarist persecution, the Revolution, then Stalin and the KGB, Russian émigrés have created the third-largest diaspora in the world. The exodus created a rare opportunity for the Kremlin: since the late nineteenth century, Moscow's spymasters have fostered networks of spies worldwide, ma ...Show more
The Contamination of the Earth - A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age by François Jarrige; Thomas Le Roux; Janice Egan (Translator); Michael Egan (Translator)
$75.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: History for a Sustainable Future Ser.
The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century. Through the centuries, the march of economic progress has been accompanied by the spread of industrial pollution. As our capacities for production ...Show more
The Dawn of Modern Cosmology: From Copernicus to Newton by Nicolaus Copernicus; Galileo Galilei; Johannes Kepler; René Descartes; Isaac. Newton; Aviva Rothman (Editor, Translator)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it aboutIn the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later ...Show more
The Dinner Table: Over 100 Writers on Food by Ella Kate; Risbridger Young
$54.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Head of Zeus Anthologies Ser.
A deliciously moreish collection of the 100 finest pieces of writing on food, glorious food. In this big, beautiful anthology, award-winning writers Kate Young and Ella Risbridger present you with their ultimate fantasy dinner party. Here you'll find authors, cooks and poets from Laurie Colwin, Salman ...Show more
The Doctor of Hiroshima: His heart-breaking and inspiring true life story by Dr. Michihiko Hachiya
$37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
"With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care for her little baby? To conceal the fear and terror in my heart I left her, trying to put up a cheerful front. But no one could conceal from her the ominous ...Show more
The Ground Between: Navigating the Oil and Mining Debate in New Zealand: 2017 (BWB Texts) by Sefton Darby
$14.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
Battles over oil and mining developments in New Zealand are fierce and polarised. Often presented as a simple trade-off between conservation or quick profit, the debate leaves little space for discussion across ideological divides. The Ground Between provides a rare account from someone who has worked w ...Show more
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake by Simon Kuper
$24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A 'humane and informative' (according to John Le Carre) biography of George Blake, the most notorious double agent in British history. The Happy Traitor is the work of many years' writing, research and unparalleled access, but was embargoed until Blake's death in Moscow in December 2020.