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The Best of Punk Magazine

The Best of Punk Magazine

By John Holmstrom(Hardback)

Collects the raucous, star-studded, anarchic best of the "Punk" magazine, reproduced in facsimile form - including one completely unseen "lost issue" - with behind-the-scenes stories from founding editor John Holmstrom.

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$41.53 $36.12NZD

Under a Cruel Star

Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968

By Heda Margolius Kovaly(Paperback)

A classic account of life under Nazism and Stalinism that will appeal to fans of Alone in Berlin and Stasiland

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$27.80NZD

He Korero: Words Between Us

He Korero: Words Between Us: First Maori-Pakeha Conversations on Paper

By Alison Jones, Kuni Jenkins(Paperback)

This book traces Maori engagement with handwriting from 1769 to 1826. Through beautifully reproduced written documents, it describes the first encounters Maori had with paper and writing and the first relationships between Maori and Europeans in the earliest school.

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$40.00 $31.99NZD

100 Unforgettable Dresses

100 Unforgettable Dresses

By Hal Rubenstein(Hardback )

It's amazing that one feathered dress helped shape the most memorable number of the screen's greatest dance team, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It's a rush to discover that a fabric developed for automobile upholstery became the source for Halston's most famous creation. And although many people may not remember what film she won her Best Actress Oscar for. ....

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$69.99 $55.99NZD

Amexica: War Along the Borderline

Amexica: War Along the Borderline

By Ed Vulliamy(Paperback)

In the last three years more than 23,000 people have been murdered in Amexica - the area of land that forms the border between the US and Mexico. This is both the busiest and most deadly frontier in the world, studded with guard-posts, infra-red searchlights and heavily armed patrols.

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$29.99 $23.99NZD

Kardashian Konfidential

Kardashian Konfidential

By Kardashian Sisters & Kourtney Kardashian & Kim Kardashian & Khloe Kardashian(Paperback)

Headliners of four hit reality television shows and staple cover girls of your favourite weekly celebrity magazines, Kourtney, Kim, & Khloé Kardashian live large and glamorous lives. But to see how they really live and relate as sisters, fans clamoured to read Kardashian Confidential making it an instant bestseller.

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$29.99 $24.99NZD

Big Fat Gypsy Weddings

Big Fat Gypsy Weddings: The Dresses, the Drama, the Secrets Unveiled

By Jim Nally & Firecracker Films(Paperback)

BIG FAT GYPSY WEDDINGS delivered ratings almost as enormous as the frothy, bejewelled frocks its subjects wear. This book offers a window into the secret and surprising world of Gypsies and Travellers in Britain today.

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$39.99 $31.99NZD

Sub

Sub: Real Life on Board with the Hidden Heroes of the Royal Navy's Silent Service

By Danny Danziger(Paperback)

At any given time, any number of the Royal Navy's 15 nuclear submarines lurk undetected in the world's oceans. Totally self-sufficient for months at a time, they lie in readiness to be deployed to listen, intercept, or attack wherever they may be needed.

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$39.99 $31.99NZD

Superconnect

Superconnect: How the Best Connections in Business and Life Are the Ones You Least Expect

By Richard Koch & Greg Lockwood(Paperback)

Networks rule the world. Take any organization: a corner shop, a new venture, a gang of drug traffickers, the United Nations, Google, the place you work. They are all networks, with their own rules and values and ways of communicating.

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$34.99 $27.99NZD

The Freudian Slip

The Freudian Slip

By Marion Von Adlerstein(Paperback)

Sydney 1962. Women wear princess-line dresses, edge-to-edge duster coats, gloves, perfectly matched handbags and shoes and seamed stockings. They are defined by the vital statistics of their bust, waist and hip measurements and if they are over thirty they re over the hill. Kings Cross is bohemian, Paddington is pre-gentrified and the crowd at Beppi s and the Ozone charge....

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$39.99 $31.99NZD

A History of the World in 100 Objects

A History of the World in 100 Objects

By Neil MacGregor(Hardback )

This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and the lives of the men and women who lived in them. The book's range is enormous. It begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by....

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$45.00 $35.99NZD

Dos & Dont's

Dos & Dont's: 400 New Jokes From the Funniest Magazine Column to Ever Exist in the History of the Universe

By Vice(Hardback )

In this new book of photographs - complete with sniping commentary - that document the dizzy heights and murky depths of street fashion, VICE magazine's staple humour series is collected in its entire, unabashed glory. The DOs are put on a pedestal that soars way past God and the DON'Ts are so cruel they sound litigiously close to death threats.....

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$29.99 $25.49NZD

The Search for the Perfect Pub

The Search for the Perfect Pub

By Paul Moody & Robin Turner(Hardback)

Around Britain, clocking up hundreds of beer miles in search of the perfect pub. A passionate defence of English drinking culture; an elegy for the local on your street corner.

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$40.29 $35.03NZD

The Territorials

The Territorials

By New Zealand Defence Force & Peter Cooke & John Crawford(Paperback)

Citizen soldiering has been part of our history since the first years of colonial settlement. From the early militias set up in the 1830s, primarily for internal security, right up to the current day, these everyday men and women have been trained and ready to serve in such arena as the Boer War, the Great War and World War II.....

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$59.99 $47.99NZD

Footprints

Footprints

By Powderfinger(Paperback)

Few could debate Powderfinger's place as one of Australia's most loved bands. 2010 saw the end of an era in Australian music, with Powderfinger playing their last concert together, so this November Hachette Australia will proudly publish FOOTPRINTS, the official authorised biography of the band. Written with journalist Dino Scatena, the up-until-now very private members of the band have opened....

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$55.00 $44.00NZD

The Song of the Quarkbeast

The Song of the Quarkbeast

By Jasper Fforde(Paperback)

As the background Wizidrical Power slowly builds after the Big Magic, King Snodd IV of Hereford realises the man who controls Magic controls almost anything. But one person stands between him and his plans for power and riches: Jennifer Strange, sixteen-year-old acting manager of Kazam.

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$27.99 $23.79NZD

Otiwhiti Station

Otiwhiti Station

By The Duncan Family(Paperback With dust jacket)

The Duncans have been farming Otiwhiti in the Turakina River valley since the 1880s, when they purchased the land from the local iwi. The backstory of this station is rich and fascinating. The remarkable, generous family that has farmed this unforgiving Rangitikei hill country has also directed the farm's profits towards charitable projects, most notably the Duncan Hospital, which pioneered....

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$49.99 $39.99NZD

Old Bucky & Me

Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake

By Jane Bowron(Paperback)

On February 22, 2011, journalist Jane Bowron had been living back in her hometown of Christchurch for three years when the city was struck by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake - just five months after a 7.1 earthquake. The first quake had caused damage but no fatalities. This time it was the ultimate horror story. Countless city buildings crashed to the....

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$33.00 $28.05NZD

No Higher Honour

No Higher Honour

By Condoleezza Rice(Hardback )

The long anticipated chronicle of Condoleezza Rice’s years in the Bush administration as national security adviser and secretary of state. President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney have weighed in with their thoughts, leaving it to Secretary Rice to sum up the meaning of what occurred in those eight years and to reveal her private thoughts on what the Bush....

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$49.99 $39.99NZD

Beat Till Stiff: A Woman's Recipe for Living

Beat Till Stiff: A Woman's Recipe for Living

By Peta Mathias(Paperback)

Beating egg whites till they're stiff is a metaphor for life – just when you thought your existence would never be more than flaccid transparent snot, something happens to turn it into tight white light.

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$36.00 $28.79NZD

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