A Pipeline Runs Through It: Oil, Sovereignty and Politics to 1914 by Keith Fisher
$95.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
The origin story of our modern oil age. A Pipeline Runs Through It is a fresh, comprehensive in-depth look at the social, economic, political and geopolitical forces involved in our transition to the modern oil age. It tells an extraordinary story, from the pre-industrial history of petroleum through to ...Show more
The Tablet of Destinies by Roberto Calasso
$38.70 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
An immersive and entertaining tale based on the Mesopotamian myth of the Great Flood, from the renowned publisher and writer Roberto Calasso'The Flood didn't come suddenly as a big surprise. It came at the end of a long, tormented story. Men just went on multiplying and the noise they made was ever more ...Show more
The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
$60.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
The powerful, inspiring follow-up to the critically acclaimed, multi-million #1 bestselling memoir Becoming In The Light We Carry, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. She considers the ques ...Show more
Rossetti: His Life and Works by Evelyn Waugh
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A portrait of one of the greatest artists of the nienteenth century, from one of the greatest writers of the twentiethEvelyn Waugh's first book, Rossetti, is an intimate account of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's tragic and mysterious life- the story behind some of the greatest poetry and painting of the ninet ...Show more
Every Sign of Life - On Family Ground by Nicholas Lyon Gresson
$69.99 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: new
Respectable families hold on to their myths, contain the violence, uphold the Establishment. There was always going to be a story. It couldn’t be overlooked, and this one will set the skeletons rattling and the gin bottles clinking up and down the country. The story is exposed through the life and times ...Show more
A Month at the Back of My Brain - A third memoir by Kevin Ireland
$45.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
As he enters his 90th year on the planet, Kevin Ireland describes his third memoir as a process of "sweeping up all the reflective wrappers and the tinsel, and describing how, in the setting sun, they glitter with the brilliant romance of nostalgia." Unlike his earlier two memoirs, one of which won a Na ...Show more
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
$15.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Thirty-six essays by Calvino on his personal classics: the writers, poets and scientists who meant most to him at various stages of his life. His pieces range from antiquity (Homer and Ovid), through early modern and Enlightenment Europe, such as (Defoe), to American mentors (Hemingway).
The Trial of Socrates by I. F. Stone
$18.50 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Picador Bks.
Second hand. The author set out to discover how a so-called free society, such as existed in Athens, could try and condemn to death its most renowned philosopher. His portrait of Socrates is not flattering, yet he shows that he was the victim of a witch-hunt.
Diversions of a Professor in New Zealand by D.W. Carmalt Jones
$21.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs