Ladies Can't Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women by Jane Robinson
$24.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
It is a myth that the First World War liberated women. The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It should have marked a social revolution, opening the doors of the traditional professions to women who had worked so hard durin ...Show more
A Woman Makes a Plan: Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty and Success by Maye Musk
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Warm, honest and true--A Woman Makes A Plan is full of insight as well as a good dose of humor, offering readers a lifetime of hard-won advice.--Diane Von Furstenberg The international supermodel shares personal stories and lessons learned from a life of living dangerously--carefully Maye Musk i ...Show more
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
$28.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Simple and timeless tools for success and happiness For more than eighty years, millions of people from Warren Buffett to Oprah Winfrey have benefited from the remarkable wisdom of Dale Carnegie. Intended as a basic sales primer, How to Win Friends and Influence People quickly exploded into an overnight ...Show more
A Man & His Car: Iconic Cars and Stories from the Men Who Love Them by Matt Hranek
$100.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: A\Man and His Ser.
Man-about-town and NYC men's style fixture Matt Hranek is back with his second book, A Man & His Car. Here is a beautiful homage to an object of men's obsession, told in firsthand and original interviews. Jay Leno, a major car collector and the host of Jay Leno's Garage, shares the story of his olde ...Show more
Square Haunting - Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade
$25.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE * LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * "A beautiful and deeply moving book."--Sally Rooney, author of Normal People An engrossing group portrait of five women writers, including Virginia Woolf, who moved to London's Mecklenburgh Square in search of new freedom in t ...Show more
How the Brain Lost Its Mind - Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness by Allan H. Ropper; B. D. Burrell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
The remarkable, intertwined histories of neurology, psychiatry, neurosyphilis and hysteria, by the authors of the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole.
Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A fascinating exploration into the human relationship to swimming and our innate connection to water.'A jewel of a book, a paean to the wonders of water and our place within it' James Nestor, bestselling of author of Breath 'Glorious' The New York Times Take a dive into the deep and discover what it is ...Show more
My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story by Clover Stroud
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'This is quite simply the best book about motherhood I have ever read.' - Eleanor Mills in the Sunday Times Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her touching, provocative and profoundly insightful book, she captures a se ...Show more
Lolita in the Afterlife - On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century by Jenny Minton Quigley (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was published in the United States to immediate controversy and bestsellerdom. More than sixty years later, this phenomenal novel generates as much buzz as it did when originally published. Central to countless issues at the forefront of our national discourse-- art an ...Show more
The Art of Eric Carle by Eric Carle
$65.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Carle is one of the most beloved illustrators of children's books. This retrospective is more than just an appreciation of his art, however. The book also contains an insightful autobiography illustrated with personal photographs, an anecdotal essay by his longtime editor, a photographic essay on how Ca ...Show more
Why First-borns Rule the World and Later-borns Want to Change It: Revised and updated by Michael Grose
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
There are many factors affecting a child's personality and the adult they become, but the least understood is birth order. Why is it that children in a family can share the same gene pool, a similar socio-economic environment and experience similar parenting styles yet have fundamentally different perso ...Show more
Write to the Point - How to Be Clear, Correct and Persuasive on the Page by Sam Leith
$28.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
Writing tends to make people anxious, and with good reason. The first sentence of a job application letter can consign it to the bin. A speech intended to rouse can put a room to sleep. A mistimed tweet can cost you your job. And a letter to a beloved may aim to convey feelings of tenderness but end up ...Show more