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9780670918096
D-Day : The battle for Normandy
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Antony Beevor
Published by:
Viking (Penguin)
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Even Stalin was awed by D-Day. 'In the whole history of war,' he wrote to Churchill, 'there has never been such an undertaking.' Those who took part in the great cross-Channel invasion, whether soldier, sailor or airman, would never forget the sight. It was by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. Nor, of course, would the German defenders alerted at the last moment on the Normandy coasts.
The very scale of the undertaking and its meticulous planning were unprecedented, but although the beachheads were established as planned, it soon became clear that the next stage of the battle would be far more difficult than anyone had imagined. The thick hedgerows of Normandy were ideal for the defender, and the Germans, especially the Waffen-SS divisions, fought with cunning and a desperate ferocity. As they made their way inland, the British, Canadian and American forces became involved in battles whose savagery was often comparable to ...
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9780470407028
LEGO: A Love Story
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Author:
Jonathan Bender
Published by:
John Wiley
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There are 62 lego bricks for every person in the world, and at age 30, Jonathan Bender realized that he didn't have a single one of them. While reconsidering his childhood dream of becoming a Master Model Builder for The Lego Group, he discovers the men and women who are skewing the averages with collections of hundreds of thousands of Lego bricks. What is it about the ubiquitous, brightly-coloured toys that makes them so hard for everyone to put down? He finds his Lego journey twinned with a second creative endeavour - to have a child. His two worlds intertwine as he awaits the outcome. Explores the world of Adult Fans of Lego, from rediscovering the childhood joys of building with Lego to evaluating Lego's place in culture and art. Takes an inside look at Lego conventions, community taboos, and build challenges and goes behind-the-scenes at Lego headquarters and LEGOLAND; and tells a warm and personal story about the attempt to build ...
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9780670918430
No Way Down : Life and Death on K2
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NZ$ 39.00 each
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Author:
Graham Bowley
Published by:
Viking (Penguin)
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The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky – joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and sweeps away their ropes. They don't know it yet, but they will be forced to descend into the blackness with no lines. Of the 30 who set out, 11 will never make it back. Following the stories of climbers from around the world, No Way Down weaves a tale of human courage, folly, survival, and devastating loss. The stories are heart-wrenching the young married couple whose rope was torn apart by an avalanche, sending the husband to his death; the 61 year-old Frenchman who called his family from near the summit to say he wouldn't make it home. So what drove them to try to conquer this elusive peak? And what went wrong that fateful day?
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9781846142574
The Big Short : Inside the Doomsday Machine
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Author:
Michael Lewis
Published by:
Allen Lane
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The Big Short
tells a story of spectacular, epic folly. It has taken the world's greatest financial meltdown to bring Michael Lewis back to the subject that made him famous. His international bestseller
Liar's Poker
exposed the greed and carnage of the City and Wall Street in the 1980s; he wrote it as a cautionary tale, but people seem to have read it as a how-to guide. Now, he wants to settle accounts. In this visceral tour to the heart of the financial system, Michael Lewis takes us around the globe and back decades to trace the origins of the current crisis. He meets the people who saw it coming, the people who were asleep at the wheel and the people who were actively driving us all of cliff.
How could we have all been so deluded for quite so long? Where did it all start? Was it systemic? Was it avoidable? And who the hell can we blame?
Michael Lewis has the answers.
No one is better qualified to get to the ...
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9780330519984
The Bridge: The life and rise of Barack Obama
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NZ$ 44.99 each
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Author:
David Remnick
Published by:
Macmillan General Books
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This book, Remnick's first full length work of non-fiction since the bestselling
King of the World
, will tell the story of race in the history of America through the prism of the country's first mixed-race president; a man elected against the odds, symbol of hope for many, inheritor of a nation in the throes of a catastrophic crisis of identity.
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9781408702123
The Forgotten Highlander
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NZ$ 39.99 each
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Author:
Alistair Urquhart
Published by:
Virago Press Ltd
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Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed. Nearly everyone else on board died and Urquhart spent 5 days alone on a raft in the South China Sea before being rescued by a whaling ship. He was taken to Japan and then forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later a nuclear bomb dropped just ten miles away ...This is the extraordinary story of a young man, conscripted at nineteen and whose father was a Somme Veteran, survived not just one, but three close encounters with death - encounters which killed nearly all his comrades.
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9781408808863
Alex's Adventures in Numberland
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Alex Bellos (illustrations Andy Riley)
Published by:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, and from logarithms to logical paradoxes, he explains how mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives. Alex explains the surprising geometry of the 50p piece, and the strategy of how best to gamble it in a casino. He shines a light on the mathematical patterns in nature, and on the peculiar predictability of random behavior. He eats a potato crisp whose revolutionary shape was unpalatable to the ancient Greeks, and he shows the deep connections between maths, religion and philosophy. Alex weaves a journey from primary school to university level maths, from ancient history to the computing frontline, and from St Louis, Missouri, to Braintree, Essex. He meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany, consults a numerologist ...
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9780732288044
A Simpler Time
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NZ$ 39.99 each
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Author:
Peter Fitzsimons
Published by:
HarperCollins
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It still amazes me what they allowed us to do without their supervision or help, while remaining deeply loving parents. Climb trees, from the age of four or five? No problems. Drive the tractor from the age of six or seven onwards? Good luck to you. Haul on the hoist to pull the bins filled with oranges off the trailer? Yes. Take your bike out on the Pacific Highway and ride to school? Just be careful, but okay. Their rough reckoning was that if we thought we could do something, we probably could - and if we thought we couldn’t do something, we probably still could, if we applied ourselves. Peter FitzSimons’ account of growing up on the rural outskirts of Sydney, in the 1960s is first and foremost a tribute to family. But it is also a salute to times and generations past, when praise was understated but love unstinting; work was hard and values clear; when people stood by each other in adversity. Above all, in the FitzSimons home, days ...
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9781846270734
Being Wrong : Adventures in the margin of error
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Kathryn Schulz
Published by:
Portobello Books Ltd
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Being wrong is an inescapable part of being alive. And yet, we go through life tacitly assuming (or loudly insisting) that we are right about nearly everything - from our political beliefs to our private memories, from our grasp of scientific fact to the merits of our favourite team.
Being Wrong
looks at why this conviction has such a powerful grip on us, what happens when this conviction is shaken, and how we interpret the moral, political and psychological significance of being wrong.Drawing on philosophies old and new and cutting-edge neuroscience, Kathryn Schulz offers an eloquent exploration of the allure of certainty and the necessity of fallibility in four main areas: in religion (when the end of the world fails to be nigh); in politics (where were those WMD?); in memory (where did I leave my keys?); and in love (when Mr or Miss Right becomes Mr or Miss Wrong).
First published 2010.
ISBN / ISSN:
9780732285548
Bra Boys
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NZ$ 34.99 each
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Author:
Sean Doherty
Published by:
Bay Books Pty.Lt
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9780007341849
Chopin : Prince of the Romantics
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Hardback
Author:
Adam Zamoyski
Published by:
Harper Collins
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A completely new edition of the definitive biography of Chopin, unavailable for many years, by one of the finest of contemporary European historians. Two centuries have passed since Chopin's birth, yet his legacy is all around us today. The quiet revolution he wrought influenced the development of Western music profoundly, and he is still probably the most widely studied and revered composer. For many, he is the object of a cult. Yet most people know little of his life, of the man, his thoughts and his feelings; his public image is a sugary blur of sentimentality and melodrama. Zamoyski cuts through the myths and legends to tell the story of Chopin's life, and to reveal all that can be discovered about him as a person. He pays particular attention to recent revelations about the composer's health, and places him within the intellectual and spiritual environment of his day.
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9781848871892
Cooking Dirty : Life, Love and Death in the Kitchen
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NZ$ 39.99 each
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Author:
Jason Sheehan
Published by:
Atlantic Books
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From his first job scraping trays at a pizzeria at the age of fifteen, Jason Sheehan has worked at all kinds of restaurants across America, from Buffalo to Tampa to Albuquerque: at a French colonial and an all-night diner, at a crab shack just off the interstate and a fusion restaurant in a former hair salon. In "Cooking Dirty" he tells the story of one man's addiction to the urgency, stress, and adrenalin of minimum-wage kitchen work. His universe becomes 'a small, steel box filled with knives and meat and fire', where the kitchen is a fraternity with its own rites and initiations: cigarettes in the walk-in freezer, sex in the basement, drugs everywhere. Restaurant cooking sets a series of seemingly endless personal challenges, from the first perfectly done mussel to the satisfaction of surgically sliced foie gras. The kitchen itself is a place in which life's mysteries are thawed, sliced, broiled, barbecued, and fried - a place where ...
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9781921656040
Country Driving : Three Journeys Across a Changing China
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NZ$ 42.00 each
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Author:
Peter Hessler
Published by:
The Text Publishing Company
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Country Driving is Peter Hessler's account of his travels through China over the past decade - from the fortified towns along the Great Wall in the north, to near inaccessible hilltop villages, and the entrepreneurial cities of the south-east, where factory start-ups are a dime a dozen. This is the story of a nation modernising at great pace, and of the lives of ordinary Chinese caught up in that modernisation. With eloquence and humour, Hessler takes us on the road less travelled, showing us a China rarely glimpsed by outsiders.
Trade paperback (UK) 448pp h230mm x w152mm
First published 2010. See Review at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/books/24book.html
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9780241144251
Eating Animals
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Author:
Jonathan Safran Foer
Published by:
Hamish Hamilton
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Eating Animals is a riveting exposé which presents the gut-wrenching truth about the price paid by the environment, the government, the Third World and the animals themselves in order to put meat on our tables more quickly and conveniently than ever before.
Informative, rational, convincing and entertaining, Eating Animals is a first-person account of an intellectual journey and a fresh and open look at the ethical debate around meat-eating. Unlike most other books on the subject, Eating Animals also explores the possibilities for those who do eat meat to do so more responsibly, making this an important book not just for vegetarians, but for anyone who is concerned about the ramifications and significance of their chosen lifestyle
First published 2009.
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9781863256766
Every Day in Tuscany : Seasons of an Italian Life
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Author:
Frances Mayes
Published by:
Bantam,Australia
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Twenty years ago Frances Mayes, having ended a long marriage and begun a new relationship, was travelling in Italy and happened upon an abandoned, grand but dilapidated three-storey house called 'Bramasole' just outside the Tuscan hillside of Cortona.
Mayes fell immediately in love with the house and eventually bought it and began a long and arduous restoration of it. The process of making Bramasole her home - and simultaneously of establishing a new life (and a new outlook on life) in Italy - were the subjects of her bestselling memoirs
Under the Tuscan Sun
and
Bella Tuscany
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In the decade since
Bella Tuscany
was published, Mayes has gone from being a proud resident of Cortona to one of its most esteemed citizens as well as Tuscany's literary doyenne. Her books are endlessly devoured and discussed by book groups, her speaking engagements and readings are mobbed, and Bramasole's gates receive daily visits ...
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