Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses q ...Show more
The Dog Whisperer: The Essential Guide to Understanding and Raising a Happy Dog by John Richardson
$36.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general
Compehensive and effective, The Dog Whisperer is the essential guide to training your canine companion. Based on the premise that the modern dog still shares many of the behavioural characteristics of its ancestor, the wolf, this book will show you the ten keys to effective training and how to put those ...Show more
Great Cities of the World by Russ Ferret
$25.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general
From the hustle and bustle of New York, where the world meets, to the living history of London and the combination of the old and the new in Delhi, Russ Ferrett takes you on a tour through the "Great Cities of the World."
When I Fell From The Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival by Juliane Koepcke
$29.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general
On Christmas Eve 1971, the packed LANSA flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa was struck by lightning and went down in dense jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. Of its 93 passengers, only one survived. Juliane Koepcke, the seventeen-year-old child of famous German zoologists. She'd been thrown from t ...Show more
Fighter Boys : Saving Britain 1940 by Patrick Bishop
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general
A remarkable, intimate portrait of the young men of Fighter Command, whose skill, temperament and morale determined the fate of Britain and arguably the free world. The Battle of Britain, fought in the skies over Britain during the sweltering summer of 1940, was one of the most crucial battles ever foug ...Show more
Green Guides Keeping Chickens by Liz Wright
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general | Series: Green Guides S.
In the last few years, poultry-keeping has enjoyed massive growth. This practical book is aimed at beginners to the hobby and explains everything you need to know to get started keeping chickens, from how to choose, house, feed and handle them to how many eggs they lay, their effect on the local ecosyst ...Show more
Okavango Africas Last Eden by Frans Lanting
$80.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general
Beauty of the beasts. This is Frans Lanting's vibrant tribute to Old Africa revisited on its 20th anniversary. Botswana, many say, represents the last of Old Africa. And in the heart of this arid land lies a place as inspiring and as incongruous as the snow-capped summit of Kilimanjaro rising on the ...Show more
The Secret Code: The Mysterious Formula That Rules Art, Nature, and Science by Priya Hemenway
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general
Deals with the Divine Proportion, a secret code that rules art, nature, and science; known by many names: Golden Mean, Sacred Cut and Phi are only a few.
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
$28.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai ref ...Show more
The Roots of My Obsession: Thirty Great Gardeners Reveal Why They Garden by Thomas C. Cooper
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general
This collection of enlightening essays attempts to explain the enduring appeal of this most frustrating of hobbies! Gardening is an obsession that cannot be conquered or abandoned, only indulged. This book features thirty of the best-known and most important voices in the international gardening world, ...Show more
Flowers at Home by Sandra Kaminski; Geoff Hedley (Photographer)
$39.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general
Using cut flowers and an imaginative range of accessories, well-known Auckland-based stylist Sandra Kaminski shows in Flowers at Home how to transform a room or setting to reflect the mood you want. It could be as simple as a few hand-picked blooms on the dinner table, a subtle arrangement of delicately ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 19 ...Show more