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
The Lives and Times of Kings & Queens (Three Volumes) by Antonia Fraser (ed.)
$21.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
$50.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
An exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann- the lost genius who invented our worldThe smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nanotechnology and nuclear weapons. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable man- John von Neumann.B ...Show more
The Outside Man: Jack Hides of Papua by James Sinclair
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Sinclair’s excellent book on Moresby born Jack Hides whose work took him deep into uncharted territory in Papua New Guinea. One of Australia’s greatest adventurers … certainly not given the recognition he desrves.
The Plot: A Biography of an English Acre by Madeleine Bunting
$16.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. "Guardian" columnist Madeleine Bunting is one of the most high-profile commentators in Britain. Her father was deeply conservative, with romantic, old-fashioned views about England. After his death, wanting to understand him better, Bunting began to explore his passionate, lifelong attachme ...Show more
The Science Museum Stephen Hawking Genius at Work: Explore His Life, Mind and Science Through the Objects in His Study by Roger Highfield
$48.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
An intimate exploratory tour of Stephen Hawking's office, providing a unique insight into the mind of a genius and the things that inspired him A behind-the scenes tour of the inner sanctum of one of the world's most prominent scientific thinkers. In 2021, the Science Museum made a once-in-a-lifetime ac ...Show more
The Sea King: The life of James Iredell Waddell by Gary McKay
$24.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Based on documents never before publicly accessible from the US Navy, the National Archives of the United States of America and the British Home Office, "The Sea King" is the first biography of one of the Civil War's most fascinating players. As the rogue captain of the last Confederate commerce raider, ...Show more
The Sun Is High by Rita F. Snowden
$20.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
An autobiography of Rita F. Snowden
The Test: My Autobiography by Brian O'Driscoll
$12.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
This is the bestselling autobiography of the greatest rugby player of our time: Brian O'Driscoll. Since 1999, when he made his international debut, there has been no greater player in world rugby than Brian O'Driscoll. In 2010 Rugby World magazine named him its world player of the decade - and since the ...Show more