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The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain; Gallic Books Staff (Translator)
$32.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This prize-winning French bestseller is a charming fable about the power of a hat that takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through French life during the Mitterrand years. Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President Francois M ...Show more
The Reading Life by C. S. Lewis
$27.99 NZD
Category: Other | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The revered teacher and best-selling author reflects on the power, importance, and joy of a life dedicated to reading books in this delightful collection drawn from his wide body of writings. More than fifty years after his death, revered intellectual and teacher C. S. Lewis continues to speak to reader ...Show more
The Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Mind Behind the Universe by Stephen C. Meyer
$55.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The New York Times bestselling author of Darwin's Doubt presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology. Beginning in the late 19th century, many intellectuals began to insist that scientific knowledge conflicts with tradit ...Show more
The Soul of Christianity - Restoring the Great Tradition by Huston Smith
$36.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
In this elegant and concise treatise, Huston Smith examines and puts forth what being a Christian has meant for him personally and how it shaped his life and beliefs. In contrast to the misguided course of culturally rigid and intolerant evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity on the one hand, and ...Show more
The War on the Uyghurs - China's campaign against Xinjiang's Muslims by Sean R Roberts
$29.99 NZD
Category: Political/World | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This eye-opening book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people. China's actions, it argues, have emboldened states around the globe to persecute ethnic minorities and severely repress domestic opposition in the name ...Show more
The Way of the Heart - The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers by Henri J. M. Nouwen
$34.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
"On the long road it's good to have Nouwen and his divining rod. Deftly he bends toward the drop of spiritual wisdom caked in the most ordinary things."--Helen Prejean, C.S.J., author ofDead Man Walking Henry J.M. Nowuen, one of the greatest of all spiritual writers, invites us to search deeply for ...Show more
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha
$34.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics' Circle Award for Poetry! Winner of a 2022 Palestine Book Award“Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha’s accomplished debut contrasts scenes of political violence with natural beauty."—The New York TimesIn this poetry debut Mosab Abu Toha writes about his life ...Show more
Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell)
$32.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Winner of the 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Tomb of Sand is the first book originally written in any Indian language to win the International Booker Prize, and the first novel translated from Hindi to be recognised by the award. Set in northern India, the novel follows the adventures of an 80-year-o ...Show more
Tree Houses: Escape to the Canopy by Images Publishing Group; Peter Eising (Introduction)
$89.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Tree houses have come a long way since our collective childhoods. The very definition of a tree house has broadened to now include anything from a boutique hotel room where star gazing is a must to exceptional viewing platforms and, of course, not forgetting a treehouse for kids such as exists only in t ...Show more
Two by Kathryn Otoshi
$34.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: From P
Two is best friends with One. Whenever they'd get the chance, they'd dance! She'd sing and snap. He'd tappity-tap. What a pair they made! At the end of each day, they'd always say, "ONE, TWO, I'll count on you, 'til the end, we'll be best friends." Until Three jumps in between them . . . Suddenly One on ...Show more
Under the Henfluence - Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them by Tove Danovich
$40.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
When Journalist Tove Danovich arrived at the post office to pick up her first flock of chicks, she didn't expect the birds inside that cardboard box to change her life. But within months, the chicks went from hiding under the heat plate of the bathroom brooder to singing egg songs in her backyard coop a ...Show more
Understanding Urban Warfare by John Spencer (Editor); Liam Collins (Editor)
$64.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
No environment is more challenging for militaries than a city. No form of combat is more inherently destructive than urban warfare. And yet too often, militaries are both unprepared for the challenges of cities and unable to avoid being pulled into brutal urban fights. In Understanding Urban Warfa ...Show more