Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia MD
39.99 NZD
Category: Science
This is the ultimate manual for longevity.For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of ageing that kill most people- heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late, prolonging lifes ...Show more
Gulf Wars: How We Kept the Cup by Richard Gladwell
24.99 NZD
Category: Sailing
Gulf Wars is a pictorially driven celebration of Emirates Team New Zealand’s America’s Cup win in Auckland 2021, written from an on-the-water perspective by one of the world’s most influential America’s Cup photo-journalists, Richard Gladwell.
McKenzie Method - Treat Your Own Neck by Robin McKenzie
25.99 NZD
Category: Health
If you have persistent neck pain, this informative step-by-step handbook will help you relieve your pain and prevent symptoms from occurring in the future. Learn the primary causes of neck pain and treatments for neck pain, plus a series of simple exercises designed to help alleviate your neck pain quic ...Show more
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk
29.99 NZD
Category: Mind/Body/Spirit | Reading Level: very good
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and ...Show more
Atomic Habits: the life-changing million-copy #1 bestseller by James Clear
39.99 NZD
Category: Self Improvement | Reading Level: 15
A revolutionary system to get 1 per cent better every day. People think when you want to change your life, you need to think big. But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions - doing two p ...Show more
The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century by Josh Cook
34.99 NZD
Category: Essays
The essays in The Art of Libromancy explore the politics, philosophies, technologies, emotional experience, and craft of selling books in the twenty-first century. In a society filled with misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and propaganda, true storytelling and story-reading are more ...Show more
Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire by Michael Palin
29.99 NZD
Category: History
Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry. 'An important historical record and a well-paced story in its own right, Great-Uncle Harry is also much more than that- a tremendous act of love.' Guardian ______________________________ ...Show more
The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
38.99 NZD
Category: Science
A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger'. Look at the green organism across the room or through the window: the potted plant, or the grass, or a tree. Think h ...Show more
The Forbidden Daughter by Zipora Klein Jakob
39.99 NZD
Category: History
The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan’s survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and a sense of belonging. Elida Friedman was never supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite th ...Show more
The Wager by David Grann
28.99 NZD
Category: History
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I've ever read' Guardian 'The greatest sea story ever told' Spectator'A cracking yarn... Grann's taste for desperate predicaments finds its fullest expre ...Show more
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs by Johann Hari
38.99 NZD
Category: Popular Culture
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus takes a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it sharing his personal experience on Ozempic and examining our ability to heal society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight and our bodies. In January 2023, ...Show more