One Life: How We Forgot to Live Meaningful Lives by MORTEN ALBAEK
$30.00 NZD
Category: Self-help
Never before in history have, we been more educated, wealthier, and lived longer with more opportunities in life. Conversely, we have never been more stressed, anxious, depressed or lonely. In One Life, the philosopher and business executive Morten Albæk investigates this paradox and the absurdity that ...Show more
Ora: Healing Ourselves - Indigenous knowledge, Healing and Wellbeing by Leonie Pihama, Linda Tuhiwai Smith
$70.00 NZD
Category: Health and Wellbeing
This collection brings together indigenous thinkers and practitioners from Aotearoa and internationally to discuss the effects of trauma on indigenous peoples across social, economic, political and cultural environments. The authors explore understandings and practices of indigenous people, grounded in ...Show more
Rushing Woman's Syndrome - The impact of a never-ending to-do list on your health by Libby Weaver
$30.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
In this book, nutritional biochemist Dr Libby Weaver explains the true cost of constantly rushing and the impact this can have on our health. Through these pages you'll learn: How and why your body interprets constant rushing as a `stress', How an imbalanced nervous system may be causing you to gain wei ...Show more
Second Innings: On Men, Mental Health and Cricket by Barry Nicholls
$30.00 NZD
Category: General
A reflection on Barry Nicholls' life, Second Innings, explores the author's struggle with mental health and the road to recovery, using his love of the game of cricket to make sense of it all. Set partly in the present, Second Innings includes flashbacks through five decades of life and focuses particul ...Show more
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
$40.00 NZD
Category: Self-help
From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and one of the world's top productivity experts, a groundbreaking philosophy for creating great work at a sustainable pace. Hustle culture. Burnout. Quiet quitting. Today we're either sacrificing ourselves on the altar of success or we'r ...Show more
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari
$35.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain | Reading Level: 15
'A really important book . . . Everyone should read it' PHILIPPA PERRY Part of the experience of being alive in the twenty-first century is the feeling that your attention span is collapsing, along with those of everyone around you including your children. Why have we lost our ability to focus? What ar ...Show more
Supercommunicators: The Power of Conversation and the Hidden Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg
$40.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
How is it that we find it easy to talk to some people and struggle to do so with others? Why does the effectiveness of a message rely so strongly on who the messenger is? And what is the secret of having a successful difficult conversation?Charles Duhigg has the answer to all these questions and many mo ...Show more
Ten Trips: The Reality of Psychedelics by Andrew Mitchell; Andy Mitchell
$40.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
In Ten Trips neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell takes ten different psychedelic drugs in ten different settings, puncturing the hype while providing the fullest picture yet of their limitlessly fascinating possibilities.Once demonised and still largely illegal, psychedelic drugs are now officially a 'break ...Show more
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz
$28.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain | Reading Level: very good
A Sunday Times bestseller Longlisted for the Guardian first book award A Radio 4 Book of the Week This book is about learning to live. In simple stories of encounter between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complic ...Show more
The Missing Piece: A Woman's Guide to Understanding, Diagnosing and Living with ADHD for readers of Gwendoline Smith and Chanelle Moriah by Julie Legg
$37.99 NZD
Category: Self-help
Everything you need to know about recognising and diagnosing ADHD in women, and how to live a full and fulfilling life after. When Julie Legg was diagnosed with ADHD at age 52, suddenly her life made sense. Bringing together her own experience along with research studies and personal stories from othe ...Show more
The Parenting Map: Step-by-Step Solutions to Consciously Create the Ultimate Parent-Child Relationship by Shefali Tsabary
$39.99 NZD
Category: Pregnancy, Babies and Parenting
The Parenting Map is a practical fail-safe, whole-family programme designed to help both adults and children heal and thrive.
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
$28.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: very good
The Power of Now is a guide to spiritual awakening from a man who is emerging as one of this generation's clearest, most inspiring teachers on the subject. Eckhart Tolle is not aligned with any particular religion but does what all the great masters have done: shows that the way, the truth, and the ligh ...Show more