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New Titles Non-Fiction October 2019 (arrived in September)
Art & Architecture
- A garden eden: masterpieces of botanical illustration = Ein garten eden: meisterwerke der botanischen illustration = Un jardin d'éden: chefs-d'œuvre de l'illustration botanique, H. Walter Lack.758.5 LAC
- Alive still: Nell Blaine, American painter, Cathy Curtis.759.13 BLA
- Country house architecture + design, Michelle Galindo.728.37 GAL
- Culture in Nazi Germany, Michael H. Kater.700.943 KAT
- Guy Ngan, Sian van Dyk.709.93 NGA
- Catalogue accompanies exhibition 'Guy Ngan: Habitation' held at The Dowse Art Museum, 18 May – 15 September 2019, curated by Sian van Dyk, and
'Guy Ngan:
- Impressionist and post-impressionist drawings, Christopher Lloyd.741.944 LLO
- Life? or Theatre?: a selection of 450 gouaches, Charlotte Salomon. 759.3 SAL
- When German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) handed her gouache series Life? or Theater? over to a friend, she beseeched him to "take good care of it, it is my entire life." A few months later, the five-months pregnant Charlotte was picked up by a Gestapo truck, deported to Drancy, and then on to Auschwitz, where she died upon arrival at the age 26.
- Missionaries and idols in Polynesia, guest curator, David Shaw King. 709.96 KIN
- New Nordic houses, Dominic Bradbury.728.0948 BRA
- Old in art school: a memoir of starting over, Nell Painter.700.92 PAI
- Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school; in her sixties, to earn a BFA and MFA in painting.
- Painting nature's details, Meriel Thurstan & Rosie Martin.758.5 THU
- Painting portraits in acrylics: a practical guide to contemporary portraiture, Hashim Akib.751.426 AKI
- Ricardo Bofill: visions of architecture, [written by Tom Morris and Anna Southgate].724.6 BOF
- Poetic spaces, surreal structures and dramatic visions. The extraordinary career of Ricardo Bofill is collected in this monograph, which reveals his inspiring approach to architecture, and to life.
- Splash: the art of the swimming pool, text by Annie Kelly. 728.96 KEL
- Street art, Simon Armstrong.751.73 ARM
- Tā moko: Māori markings, Crispin Howarth.391.65 HOW
- The practice of tā moko, and the wearing of moko, was considered an art form of a bygone day for the most part of the twentieth century, as casualty of Aotearoa New Zealand's colonial past. However, this unique Pacific art is enjoying a revival.
- The American Pre-Raphaelites: radical realists, Linda S. Ferber. 759.13 FER
- Tiny house: live small, dream big, Brent Heavener.728.37 HEA
- Toulouse-Lautrec and the stars of Paris, Helen Burnham. 759.4 TOU
- Voyaging out: British women artists from suffrage to the sixties, Carolyn Trant.704.042 TRA
- Women artists, Flavia Frigeri.704.042 FRI
- Writing: making your mark, Ewan Clayton.745.61 WRI
- This beautifully illustrated book, published to coincide with an interactive landmark British Library exhibition, celebrates the act of writing from across the globe.
Biographies
- At the birth of Bowie: life with the man who became a legend, Phil Lancaster.781.66 BOW
- In this riveting, and often very funny, memoir, Phil tells the story of life alongside the insecure yet blazingly talented boy who became Bowie.
- Becoming Superman: my journey from poverty to Hollywood with stops along the way at murder, madness, mayhem, movie stars, cults, slums, sociopaths, and war crimes, J. Michael Straczynski. 791.45023 STR
- The acclaimed writer behind Babylon 5, Sense8, Clint Eastwood's Changeling and Marvel's Thor reveals how the power of creativity and imagination enabled him to overcome the horrors of his youth and a dysfunctional family haunted by madness, murder and a terrible secret.
- Before Marilyn: the Blue Book modelling years, Astrid Franse. 791.43028 MON
- Before Marilyn tells the story of Marilyn Monroe's modelling career, during which time she was signed to the famous Blue Book Agency in Hollywood.
- Bright swallow: making choices in Mao's china: a memoir, Vivian Bi.951.05 BI
- Bright Swallow, a young girl labelled as of 'bad origins' in Mao's Cultural Revolution, becomes motherless at fifteen in 1972. Determined to live a full life like her mother had known, she seizes every chance, creates choices where there appear to be none and finally has the world open up to her.
- Camera girl, Doreen Spooner. 779 SPO
- A moving and inspiring memoir of Doreen Spooner. Struggling to hold her head high through the disintegration of her family through alcoholism, she began a career as Fleet Street's first female photographer.
- Celtic road home: a memoir, Ann Doolan-Fox.305.4 DOO
- This is the true story of a young, naïve Irish woman who embarked on a path of "most resistance" and danced/survived her way around seven different countries. Her very descriptive, dramatic and often humorous Celtic Road Home takes you on a journey of constant Life adventures
- Cruel to be kind: the life and music of Nick Lowe, Will Birch.781.66 LOW
- Cruel to Be Kind is the definitive account of Nick Lowe's uncompromising life as a songwriter and entertainer, from his days at Stiff Records, to becoming the driving force behind Rockpile, to the 1979 smash hit 'Cruel To Be Kind'.
- Defying gravity: Jordan's story, Jordan Mooney. 781.66 MOO
- The image of Jordan in her white shards of beehive and Mondrian make-up is one of the most iconic in pop history. But nobody knows what was really going on behind those watchful eyes when Anarchy hit the UK. How did a ballet-mad girl from sleepy Sussex make her way, via the clandestine gay clubs of Brighton and London, to 430 King s Road and the eye of punk's storm?
- Ernest Davis: man of the people: a biography, Susan Buckland.993.032 DAV
- The forces of Prohibition were sweeping New Zealand and threatening to turn the country `dry' when Ernest Davis took charge of the family's brewery business and plunged into the fight of his life.
- Exile on front street: my life as a Hells Angel, George Christie.364.106 CHR
- Finding Zsa Zsa: the Gabors behind the legend, Sam Staggs.791.43028 GAB
- This first verifiable history of the Gabors casts a startling new light on these extraordinary women.
- Freddie Mercury, the great pretender: a life in pictures, [text, Sean O'Hagan. 781.66 MER
- Freddie Mercury's life is recounted in rare photographs and insightful text.
- Gender queer: a memoir, Maia Kobabe.306.76 KOB
- Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography (who uses e/em/eir pronouns) charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears.
- George Best: a memoir, Michael Parkinson and Michael Parkinson Jnr.796.334 BES
- Head shot, Victoria Nixon.746.92 NIX
- Head Shot is the story of a beautiful life ripped apart by circumstance, and built up again by hard work and the quiet solace found in hope. Packed with astonishing images by the photographers Victoria worked with, and the defiant fashions she wore throughout her career, it also bears witness to a time of unparalleled cultural energy and invention.
- Home: a memoir of my early years, Julie Andrews.791.43028 AND
- A personal account of the actress's pre-fame life traces the time between her birth in 1935 and her discovery by Walt Disney during her 1962 Broadway performance in Camelot, a period marked by her relationships with a vaudevillian mother and teacher father, the World War II London Blitz, and her work as a Royal Command Performance child soloist.
- Just another mountain: a memoir, Sarah Jane Douglas. 796.522 DOU
- In 1997, at the age of 24, Sarah lost her mother to breast cancer. Alone and adrift in the world, she very nearly gave up hope but she'd made a promise to her mother that she would keep going no matter what. So she turned to the beautiful, dangerous, forbidding mountains of her native Scotland.
- Leo: a hero of the Dutch resistance, Lawrence Tallentire.940.53492 FRI
- A biography of Leo Frijda, a leading member of the Dutch armed resistance, who was executed by Nazi firing squad on 1 October 1943 in the sand dunes of the North Sea Coast. He was aged just 20.
- Let the good times roll: the autobiography, Kenney Jones.781.66 JON
- As drummer with the Small Faces, Faces and later The Who, Kenney Jones' unique sense of rhythm was the heartbeat that powered three of the most influential rock bands of all time.
- Lovell our dogge: the life of Viscount Lovell, closest friend of Richard III and failed regicide, Michèle Schindler.942.04 LOV
- Mostly sunny: how I learned to keep smiling through the rainiest days, Janice Dean.791.45028 DEA
- Fox & Friends meteorologist Janice Dean explains how she purposefully finds the silver lining in every cloud, no matter what challenge she faces. Janice is well-known for the infectious joy she brings to segments on Fox & Friends.
- Native son: the writer's memoir, Witi Ihimaera.823.914 IHI
- This is the second volume of memoir by this remarkable Maori writer and of the living myths that inspired him at the beginning of his career.
- Passionate spirit: the life of Alma Mahler, Cate Haste.780.92 MAH
- A new biography of Alma Mahler. Drawing on Alma's vivid, sensual, and overlooked diaries, biographer Cate Haste recounts the untold and far more sympathetic story of this ambitious and talented woman.
- River of fire: my spiritual journey, Helen Prejean.271.97 PRE
- Sister Helen Prejean's work as an activist nun, campaigning against the death penalty, is known to millions worldwide. Less widely known is the evolution of her spiritual journey from one who prayed for God to solve the world's problems to one engaged full-tilt in the work to transform societal injustices.
- Rommel: the end of a legend, Ralf Georg Reuth. 940.53 ROM
- Serena: a graphic biography of Serena Williams, Mark Hodgkinson.796.342 WIL
- Some people are crazy: the John Martyn story, John Neil Munro. 781.62 MAR
- Described by Empire Magazine as 'Britain's best ever blues singer', John Martyn was one of rock music's last real mavericks. Despite chronic addiction to alcohol and drugs, he produced a string of matchless albums.
- Someone's wife: a memoir of sorts, Linda Burgess.824.914 BUR
- These pieces read like the freshest of recent novels: clever, restrained and wittily observant. They range across the personal
and the observational. There are essays on her lifetime of being an All Black wife (once an AB, always an AB); her love of teaching, education and the young; and a powerful essay on the death of her baby, Toby, striking in its honesty.
- Straight outta Crawley: memoirs of a distinctly average human being, Romesh Ranganathan.792.7 RAN
- Straight Outta Crawley is the hilarious and irreverent autobiography from comedian Romesh Ranganathan.
- The greatest love story ever told: an oral history, Megan Mullally & Nick Offerman.791.45028 MUL
- Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman reveal the full story behind their epic romance; presented in a series of intimate conversations between the couple, including photos, anecdotes, and the occasional puzzle.
- The story of a soul: the autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Mother Agnes of Jesus; translated by Michael Day.271.97 THE
- The success of this book is one of the most amazing stories in publishing history, for St. Therese died at only age 24, after a nine-year hidden life as a cloistered Carmelite nun. Translated into many languages, The Story of a Soul quickly had a phenomenal reception and millions of copies were distributed worldwide.
- Young Castro: the making of a revolutionary, Jonathan M. Hansen.972.91064 CAS
Business & Management
- 7 rules for positive, productive change: micro shifts, macro results, Esther Derby.658.406 DER
- Dare to lead: brave work, tough conversations, whole hearts, Brene Brown.658.409 BRO
- Facilitator's guide to participatory decision-making, Sam Kaner. 658.4036 KAN
- Fierce leadership: a bold alternative to the worst "best practices" of business today, Susan Scott.658.409 SCO
- Flip the script: getting people to think your idea is their idea, Oren Klaff with Andy Earle.658.452 KLA
- HBR guide to motivating people.658.314 HBR
- How to build an online business: Australia's top digital disruptors reveal their secrets for launching and growing an online business, Bernadette Schwerdt.658.022 SCH
- Possessed: why we want more than we need, Bruce Hood.658.834 HOO
- What motivates us to buy more than we need? Is it innate, or cultural? How does our urge to acquire control our behaviour, even the way we vote? And what can we do about it?
- Purple cow: transform your business by being remarkable, Seth Godin.658.8 GOD
- Rework, Jason Fried. 658 FRI
- Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business.
- The complete project manager: integrating people, organizational, and technical skills, Randall L. Englund, Alfonso Bucero.658.404 ENG
- The essential guide to workplace investigations: a step-by-step guide to handling employee complaints & problems, Lisa Guerin, J.D.658.314 GUE
- The invisible brand: marketing in the age of automation, big data, and machine learning, William Ammerman.658.8 AMM
- The KM cookbook: stories and strategies for organisations exploring Knowledge Management Standard ISO 30401, Chris J. Collison. 658.4038 COL
- The proximity principle: the proven strategy that will lead to the career you love, Ken Coleman.650.1 COL
- The sponsor effect: how to be a better leader by investing in others, Sylvia Ann Hewlett.658.409 HEW
- Train your CEO brain: and become your best self: how to shape your brain, shape your life and shape the world, Margriet Sitskoorn. 658.4 SIT
- Ultimate cover letters: master the art of writing the perfect cover letter to boost your employability, Martin John Yate.650.142 YAT
- Ultimate CV: master the art of creating a winning CV with over 100 samples to help you get the job, Martin John Yate.650.142 YAT
- Witches: what women do together, Sam George-Allen.650.13 GEO
- Sam George-Allen knows that women working together are formidable. She delves into female-centric workplaces, industries and groups to illustrate how well women do actually work together, and explores these activities historically, spiritually, materially, culturally, traditionally, and personally.
- You're it: crisis, change, and how to lead when it matters most, Leonard J. Marcus. 658.405 MAR
Cartoons
- I am Pusheen the cat, Claire Belton.741.5 BEL
- Pusheen is a pleasantly plump cat who has warmed hearts and tickled funny bones of millions worldwide with her signature GIF animated bops, bounces, and tail wiggles.
- Manga: the Citi exhibition, Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere. 741.5 MAN
- Arranged into six broadly chronological, thematic chapters, this book traces the origins of manga, from its beginnings to the present day. Each section opens with an essay, followed by interviews, features and manga selections.
- Popeye classics. [2], Bud Sagendorf. 741.5 SAG
- Re-presenting the classic Popeye comic book series that debited in 1948 by Bud Sagendorf, the long-time assistant to creator E C Segar.
- The Marvel book, [Stephen "Win" Wiacek, author].741.5 WIA
- This book explores the key concepts, characters, and events that have defined and shaped Marvel Comics over the past 80 years.
Computing & Digital
- Adobe Photoshop CC: 2019 release, Andrew Faulkner & Conrad Chavez.006.68 FAU
- Adobe Photoshop elements 2019: the official training workbook from Adobe, Jeff Carlson.006.68 CAR
- C Programming: C Programming Language for beginners, teaching you how to learn to code in C fast!, [Adam Dodson].005.133 C
- Laptops for seniors, Nick Vandome.004.16 VAN
- Machine learning in Python: hands on machine learning with Python tools, concepts and techniques, [Bob Mather].005.133 PYT
- Mastering Visual Studio 2019: become proficient in .NET Framework and .NET Core by using advanced coding techniques in Visual Studio, Kunal Chowdhury.006.7 CHO
- My social media for seniors, Michael Miller.006.7 MIL
- Python all-in-one, John Shovic and Alan Simpson.005.133 PYT
- Python by example: learning to program in 150 challenges, Nichola Lacey.005.133 PYT
Crafts, Hobbies & Collecting
- Appliqué embriodery: techniques and projects, Florence Daisy Collingwood.746.445 COL
- Beginner's guide to screen printing: 12 beautiful printing projects with templates, Erin Lacy.746.62 LAC
- Complete pottery techniques, [editors, Katie Hardwicke, Megan Lea].738.14 COM
- Countdown to Christmas: quilts and more that span the seasons, Susan Ache.746.46 ACH
- Creating art quilts with panels: easy thread painting and embellishing techniques to create your own colorful piece of art from panels, Joyce Hughes.746.46 HUG
- Crochet every way stitch dictionary: 125 essential stitches to crochet in three ways, Dora Ohrenstein. 746.434 OHR
- Crocheted succulents: cacti & other succulent plants to make, Emma Varnam.746.434 VAR
- Easy knitted fingerless gloves: stylish Japanese knitting patterns for hand, wrist and arm warmers, Nihon Vogue. 746.432 EAS
- First time embroidery and cross-stitch: the absolute beginner's guide, Linda Wyszynski.746.44 WYS
- In miniature, Simon Garfield.745.5928 GAR
- In Miniature takes a big look at small things. It is a celebration of the obsessive, eccentric and meticulous, and welcomes us into the world of collectors, modellers and fans.
- Make & share random acts of kindness: simple crafts and recipes to give and spread joy, Mique Provost. 745.5 PRO
- Nature: collaborations in design, Andrea Lipps. 745.4 LIP
- Four conversations between scientists and designers delve into topics related to synthetic biology, scientific versus design lexicon, and recent shifts in the meaning of nature with a glossary illuminating scientific, technological and theoretical concepts and processes invoked by the designers.
- New York Beauty quilts electrified, Linda J. Hahn. 746.46 HAH
- Painting on pottery: 22 modern, colourful designs, Tania Zaoui. 738.15 ZAO
- Quick and easy crochet: 100 little crochet projects to make, [text, Val Pierce. 746.434 PIE
- Quick and easy knits: 100 little knitting projects to make, Susan Penny. 746.432 PEN
- Saltwater mittens: from the island of Newfoundland, Christine Legrow & Shirley A. Scott.746.432 LEG
- Sarah Payne's quilt school: new ways to start patchwork and quilting, Sarah Payne.746.46 PAY
- The art of crochet blankets: 18 projects inspired by modern makers, Rachele Carmona.746.434 CAR
- The embroidered art of Chloe Giordano.746.44 GIO
- The Persian carpet tradition: six centuries of design evolution, P.R.J. Ford.746.75 FOR
- The storyteller's sampler quilt: stitch 359 blocks to tell your tale, Cinzia White.746.46 WHI
- Viking knits and ancient ornaments: interlace patterns from around the world in modern knitwear, Elsebeth Lavold. 746.432 LAV
- Visual guide to creative straight-line quilting: 60+ modern designs: professional-quality results on any machine, Natalia Whiting Bonner.746.46 BON
- Wooden Dinky Toys: simple techniques & complete plans to build 18 tiny classics, Les Neufeld.745.592 NEU
Crime & Espionage
- Body leaping backward: memoir of a delinquent girlhood, Maureen Stanton.364.36 STA
- Body Leaping Backward is the haunting and beautifully drawn story of a self-destructive girlhood, of a town and a nation overwhelmed in a time of change, and of how life-altering a glimpse of a world bigger than the one we come from can be.
- Furious hours: murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee, Casey Cep.364.1523 CEP
- The story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.
- My friend Anna: the true story of a fake heiress, Rachel DeLoache Williams.364.163 WIL
- This is the true story of Anna Delvey, the fake heiress whose dizzying deceit and elaborate con-
artistry deceived the Soho hipster scene before her ruse was finally and dramatically exposed.
- Nobody's victim: fighting psychos, stalkers, pervs and trolls, Carrie Goldberg. 364.15 GOL
- Nobody's Victim invites readers to join Carrie on the front lines of the war against sexual violence and privacy violations as she fights for revenge porn and sextortion laws, uncovers major Title IX violations, and sues the hell out of tech companies, schools, and powerful sexual predators.
- Savage appetites: four true stories of women, crime, and obsession, Rachel Monroe.364.374 MON
- A combination of personal narrative, reportage, and a sociological examination of violence
and media in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Savage appetites is a journey into obsession, scrupulously exploring empathy, justice and the persistent appeal of crime.
- Survivors: fighting for justice: one brave detective's battle to expose the Rochdale child abuse scandal, Maggie Oliver.364.1534 OLI
- When detective Maggie Oliver first discovered that children as young as 10 were being groomed, abused and trafficked for sex by gangs of men in the Rochdale area, she felt like a lonely voice calling for people to act. Banging on closed doors, it seemed that nobody was able or willing to help her save these vulnerable girls, but she couldn't just sit back while countless lives were being destroyed forever in plain sight
- The babes in the woods murders: the heartbreaking true story of two families' fight for justice, Paul Cheston.364.1523 CHE
- The heartbreaking true story of two families' thirty-year fight for justice for their murdered daughters
- The billionaire's apprentice: the rise of the Indian-American elite and the fall of the Galleon hedge fund, Anita Raghavan.364.168 RAG
- Author Anita Raghavan criss-crosses the globe from Wall Street boardrooms to Delhi's Indian Institute of Technology as she uncovers the secrets of this subculture; an incredible tale of triumph, temptation and tragedy.
Education
- Inclusive education for autistic children: helping children and young people to learn and flourish in the classroom, Dr Rebecca Wood. 371.94 WOO
- Mother Goose on the Loose: updated, Betsy Diamant-Cohen.372.21 DIA
- Named an outstanding resource in a starred review by Library Journal, Mother Goose on the Loose (MGOL)
incorporates books, rhymes, fingerplays, flannelboards, music, dance, and child-parent interaction into dynamic programs that bring whole families into the library.
- The super tutor: the best education money can buy in seven short chapters, Joe Norman. 371.39 NOR
Engineering
- 3D printing: the complete guide: setup, software, ideas, designs, materials, apps, tips & more, Bob Babson.621.98 BAB
- Make: high-power rockets: construction and certification for thousands of feet and beyond, Mike Westerfield.621.435 WES
Farming
- Grasping the grape: demystifying grape varieties to help you discover the wines you love, Maryse Chevriere. 634.8 CHE
- On the marsh: a year surrounded by wildness and wet, Simon Barnes. 639.9 BAR
- For anyone who enjoyed books such as Meadowland, or the writing of Stephen Moss, Roger Deakin or Adam Nicolson, this is a vivid and beautifully written account of the wonders that can sometimes be found on our doorsteps, and how nature can transform us all.
- The ultimate guide to soil: the real dirt on cultivating crops, compost, and a healthier home, Anna Hess.631.4 HES
Fashion & Beauty
- The conscious closet: the revolutionary guide to looking good while doing good, Elizabeth L. Cline.646.3 CLI
- Where'd you get those?: New York City's sneaker culture, 1960-1987, Bobbito Garcia.391.41 GAR
- Yves Saint Laurent haute couture catwalk: the complete haute couture collections, 1962-2002, essay by Olivier Flaviano. 746.92 SAI
Film, Television & Theatre
- Drag: the complete story, Simon Doonan.792.7 DOO
- Drag is transformation, communication and, above all, exaggeration, where gender non-conformity is the plat du jour. This fearless book
observes this increasingly complex world by exploring drag's journey from the surprising, to the sophisticated, to the utterly bizarre through the twentieth century and up to the present day.
- Dramatic exchanges: the lives & letters of the National Theatre, selected and edited by Daniel Rosenthal.792.0942 DRA
- Elysium: the art of the film, Mark Salisbury. 791.437 SAL
- I like to watch: arguing my way through the TV revolution, Emily Nussbaum.791.457 NUS
- From her creation of the first 'Approval Matrix' in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize-
winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has known all along that what we watch is who we are. In this collection, including several substantive, never-before-published essays, Nussbaum writes about her passion for television.
- Never sleep again: the Elm Street legacy: the making of Wes Craven's a nightmare on Elm Street, Thommy Hutson. 791.437 HUT
- Ngaio Marsh's Hamlet: the 1943 production script, Polly Hoskins.792.9 MAR
- Production typescript is reproduced here for the first time, together with Lilburn's previously unpublished music and a selection of archival photographs. An introductory essay by Polly Hoskins examines the staging of the production and the wartime context in which the play was performed
- The science of Breaking Bad, Dave Trumbore. 791.457 TRU
- The wild bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a revolution in Hollywood, and the making of a legendary film, W.K. Stratton.791.437 STR
- Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, named one of the greatest films of all time by the American Film Institute, is the story of a gang of outlaws who are one big steal from retirement.
- When the movies mattered: the New Hollywood revisited, Jonathan Kirshne. 791.430973 WHE
Finance & Economics
- Banking bad, Adele Ferguson.332.10994 FER
- In Banking Bad, Adele Ferguson traces the origins of the banking scandal to the early 1990s, when buckets of money began pouring into compulsory superannuation funds, set up by Labor Treasurer Paul Keating.
- Decca: the supreme record company: the story of Decca Records 1929-2019, Darren Henley & Daryl Easlea.338.4778 DEC
- Elon Musk: how the billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is shaping our future, Ashlee Vance.338.04 MUS
- Frews journey: towards a century, 1921-2021, Evan Frew.338.324 FRE
- Frews Journey traces the story of the Frew family's road transport and contracting companies over almost 100 years of operation.
- Ghost work: how to stop Silicon Valley from building a new global underclass, Mary L. Gray. 331.1 GRA
- Giants: the global power elite, Peter Phillips. 330.9 PHI
- Who holds the purse strings to the majority of the world's wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our economic future, and here former Project Censored director and media monitoring sociologist Peter Phillips unveils for the general reader just who these players are.
- Red notice: how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy, Bill Browder.332.6 BRO
- Scarcity: the new science of having less and how it defines our lives, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir.338.52 MUL
- Sur/petition: the new business formula to help you stay ahead of the competition, Edward de Bono.338.6 DE
- The economists' hour: how the false prophets of free markets fractured our society, Binyamin Appelbaum.330.12 APP
- The making of a democratic economy: building prosperity for the many, not just the few, Marjorie Kelly. 330.12 KEL
Food & Drink
- A flash in the pan: simple, speedy stovetop recipes, John Whaite. 641.555 WHA
- Atsuko's Japanese kitchen: home-cooked comfort food made simple, Atsuko Ikeda. 641.5952 IKE
- Baking with Kim-Joy: cute and creative bakes to make you smile, Kim-Joy. 641.865 KIM
- Best-ever kids' cakes.641.8653 BES
- Chef Del's Better than vegan: 101 favorite low-fat, plant-based recipes that helped me lose over 200 pounds, Del Sroufe. 641.56362 SRO
- Chop suey nation: the Legion Cafe and other stories from Canada's Chinese restaurants, Ann Hui.647.95 HUI
- CSIRO protein plus nutrition and exercise plan, Dr Jane Bowen. 641.5638 BOW
- Deceptively delicious: simple secrets to get your kids eating good food, Jessica Seinfeld. 641.5622 SEI
- Eat well for less every day, Jo Scarratt-Jones. 641.552 SCA
- Everyday keto baking: healthy low-carb recipes for every occasion, Erica Kerwien.641.5638 KER
- Fire islands: recipes from Indonesia, Eleanor Ford.641.59598 FOR
- Green housekeeping: recipes and solutions for a cleaner, more sustainable home, Christina Strutt.640 STR
- GreenFeast. Spring, summer, Nigel Slater. 641.5636 SLA
- Keto: live love keto, Kim McCosker.641.5638 MCC
- Love & lemons every day: more than 100 bright, plant-forward recipes for every meal, Jeanine Donofrio.641.5636 DON
- More plants less waste: plant-based recipes + zero waste life hacks with purpose, Max La Manna.641.56362 MAN
- My new roots: inspired plant-based recipes for every season, Sarah Britton.641.5636 BRI
- Piled-high potatoes: delicious and nutritious ways to enjoy the humble baked potato, Hannah Miles. 641.6521 MIL
- Posh potatoes: over 70 recipes, from wondrous waffles to fabulous fries, Rebecca Wood. 641.6521 WOO
- Rainbow bakes: 40 show-stopping sweet treats, Mima Sinclair. 641.865 SIN
- Ready or not!: 150+ make-ahead, make-over, and make-now recipes by Nom Nom Paleo, Michelle Tam + Henry Fong.641.5638 TAM
- River Cottage every day, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. 641.5 FEA
- The anti-inflammatory cookbook: 100 everyday recipes to soothe your immune system and promote good health, Chrissy Freer.641.5631 FRE
- The autoimmune protocol comfort food cookbook: 100+ nourishing allergen-free recipes, Michelle Hoover.641.5631 HOO
- The baby-friendly family cookbook: from the smallest to the biggest - healthy fuss-free recipes the entire family will love, Aileen Cox Blundell.641.5622 COX
- The family-friendly keto Instant Pot cookbook: delicious, low-carb meals you can have on the table quickly & easily, Anna Hunley.641.587 HUN
- The fast 800 recipe book: low-carb, Mediterranean-style recipes for intermittent fasting and long-term health, Clare Bailey. 641.5635 BAI
- The Fit Foodie meal prep plan: easy steps to fill your fridge for the week, Sally O'Neil.641.555 ONE
- The green roasting tin: vegan & vegetarian one dish dinners, Rukmini Iyer.641.5636 IYE
- The lean and happy home, Eva Jarlsdotter. 640 JAR
- In seven simple steps. Lean removes waste: wasted money, energy, resources. Lean will give you the gift of time.
- The little Swedish kitchen: over 100 recipes to celebrate every season, Rachel Khoo; [photography by David Loftus].641.59485 KHO
- The living kitchen: healing recipes to support your body during cancer treatment and recovery, Sarah Grossman. 641.5631 GRO
- The quick roasting tin: 30 minute one dish dinners, Rukmini Iyer.641.71 IYE
- The whole fish cookbook: new ways to cook, eat and think, Josh Niland. 641.692 NIL
- Veg, [Jamie Oliver].641.5636 OLI
- Vegan mac & cheese: more than 50 delicious plant-based recipes for the ultimate comfort food, Robert Robertson.641.56362 ROB
Gardens & Gardening
- A guide to the gardens of Kyoto, Marc Treib, Ron Herman.712.60952 TRE
- Fruit trees for every garden: an organic approach to growing apples, pears, peaches, plums, citrus, and more, Orin Martin. 634 MAR
- The crafty gardener: inspired ideas and DIY crafts from your own backyard, Becca Anderson.635 AND
- The Kew gardener's guide to growing bulbs: the art and science to grow your own bulbs, Richard Wilford.635.94 WIL
Health
- 1950s American cars memory lane, compiled by Hugh Morrison.616.83 NIN
- This 28 page book is aimed at patients with early stage dementia who like reading but find it hard to follow 'normal' books. With plenty of colour photographs and brief technical descriptions in larger print, this book looks at American cars of the 1950s.
- 1950s TV stars memory lane, compiled by Hugh Morrison.616.83 NIN
- This 40 page book is aimed at patients with early stage dementia who like reading but find it hard to follow 'normal' books. The book looks at the famous US TV stars and shows of the 1950s, including 'I Love Lucy', 'The Phil Silvers Show', 'Dragnet' and 'The Twilight Zone'.
- A liberated mind: the essential guide to ACT: transform your thinking & find freedom from stress, anxiety, depression & addiction, Steven Hayes.616.8914 HAY
- A woman of firsts: the midwife who built a hospital and changed the world, Edna Adan Ismail. 618.2 ISM
- An unquiet mind: a memoir of moods and madness, Kay Redfield Jamison. 616.895 JAM
- Ask me about my uterus: a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain, Abby Norman.618.1 NOR
- Beyond the stethoscope: doctors' stories of reclaiming hope, heart, and healing in medicine, Lucy Mayes.610 MAY
- Brain lock: free yourself from obsessive-compulsive behavior: a four-step self-treatment method to change your brain chemistry, Jeffrey M. Schwartz, MD, with Beverly Beyette.616.8522 SCH
- Deep medicine: how artificial intelligence can make healthcare human again, Eric Topol.362.1 TOP
- Despite having access to more resources than ever, our doctors are overloaded with demands for their time and expertise. In Deep Medicine, leading physician Eric Topol shows how artificial intelligence can help.
- Guillain-Barré syndrome: from diagnosis to recovery, Gareth J. Parry, Joel S. Steinberg.616.856 PAR
- How to live well with diabetes: a comprehensive guide to taking control of your life with diabetes, Val Wilson.616.462 WIL
- How to survive: lessons for everyday life from the extreme world, John Hudson.613.69 HUD
- How to Survive is a lifetime??s worth of wisdom about how to apply the principles of survival to everyday life. The cornerstone of military survival (surviving anything) is understanding the relationship between effort, hope and goals; a mindset that can be transposed anytime, anywhere.
- In the dark: new ways to avoid the harmful effects of living in a technologically connected world, Jason Bawden-Smith.612.0144 BAW
- Joyful eating: how to break free of diets and make peace with your body, Tansy Boggon.613.2 BOG
- Keto-tarian: the (mostly) plant-based plan to burn fat, boost your energy, crush your cravings, and calm inflammation, Dr. Will Cole.613.28 COL
- Loving someone with an eating disorder: understanding, supporting & connecting with your partner, Dana Harron.616.8526 HAR
- Managing cancer symptoms, Dr Cheryl Rezek.616.994 REZ
- Maybe you should talk to someone: a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed, Lori Gottlieb.616.8914 GOT
- Medical cannabis: a brief guide for New Zealanders, Shaun Holt & Emma Dalton.615.78 HOL
- Migraine: a history, Katherine Foxhall.616.8491 FOX
- Simplify cancer: man's guide to navigating the everyday reality of cancer, Joe Bakhmoutski.616.994 BAK
- Strictly bipolar, Darian Leader.616.895 LEA
- The edge of every day: sketches of schizophrenia, Marin Sardy.616.8982 SAR
- The starch solution: eat the foods you love, regain your health, and lose the weight for good!, John McDougall. 613.25 MCDO
- The vagina bible: the vulva and the vagina - separating the myth from the medicine, Jen Gunter.612.62 GUN
- Undo it!: how simple lifestyle changes can reverse most chronic diseases, Dean Ornish and Anne Ornish.616.044 ORN
- Yoga for everyone: 50 poses for every type of body, Dianne Bondy.613.7046 BON
History, Geography & Travel
- After the fall: crisis, recovery and the making of a new Spain, Tobias Buck.946.083 BUC
- Amsterdam, Robin Gauldie. 949.23 GAU
- Barcelona: top sights, authentic experiences, Andy Symington.946.72 SYM
- Berlin, Paul Sullivan. 943.155 SUL
- Dragon lords: the history and legends of Viking England, Eleanor Parker.942.01 PAR
- Empires and the reach of the global, 1870-1945, Tony Ballantyne. 325.32 BUR
- Empires and the Reach of the Global brings the history of empires into sharp focus by showing how imperialism
has been a shaping force not just in international politics but in the economies and cultures of today's world.
- First map: how James Cook charted Aotearoa New Zealand, author Tessa Duder. 993.01 COO
- Flying high: the photography of Lloyd Homer, Simon Nathan.993 HOM
- 'Disaster man' Lloyd Homer photographed events such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and landslides around New Zealand for over 35 years.
- Footnotes in Gaza, Joe Sacco.956.04 SAC
- In a quest to get to the heart of what happened, Joe Sacco immerses himself in daily life of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis, uncovering Gaza past and present.
- Hope, never fear: a personal portrait of the Obamas, Callie Shell.973.932 OBA
- How to trace your Irish ancestors, Ian Maxwell.929.1 MAX
- In the land of invisible women: a female doctor's journey in the Saudi Kingdom, Qanta A. Ahmed.953.8 AHM
- Informally royal: Studio Lisa and the royal family: 1936-1966, Rodney Laredo.941.082 LAR
- Ireland, Darragh Geraghty. 941.5 GER
- Is that thing diesel?: one man, one bike and the first lap around Australia on used cooking oil, Paul Carter.994 CAR
- Italy, Ros Belford. 945 BEL
- J'aime London, [Alain Ducasse] ;. 647.95 DUC
- Renowned chef Alain Ducasse presents a list of his favourite eating haunts in London including restaurants, cafes, bars, markets, hotels and food specialists.
- Lives of the ancient Egyptians, Toby Wilkinson.932 WIL
- London, Matt Norman. 942.1 NOR
- Making China modern: from the Great Qing to Xi Jinping, Klaus Mühlhahn.951 MUH
- Moving beyond the standard framework of Cold War competition and national resurgence, Klaus Mühlhahn situates twenty-first-century China in the nation's long history of creative adaptation.
- Mud and stars: travels in Russia with Pushkin and other geniuses of the Golden Age, Sara Wheeler.947 WHE
- There is a literal Russian landscape, and there is its emotional, literary counterpart. In Mud and Stars, award-winning writer Sara Wheeler sets out to explore both.
- Mudlarking: lost and found on the River Thames, Lara Maiklem.942.2 MAI
- Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hair pins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to Victorian toys. These objects tell her about London and its lost ways of life.
- New York City, Stephen Keeling. 974.71 KEE
- New York City: top sights, authentic experiences, Lorna Parkes. 974.71 PAR
- North Korea in 100 facts, Ruth Ann Monti.951.93 MON
- Oman, UAE & Arabian Peninsula, Jenny Walker. 953.5 WAL
- Out of Istanbul: a journey of discovery along the Silk Road, Bernard Ollivier. 958 OLL
- Out of Italy, Fernand Braudel. 945.05 BRA
- Brings to life the two extraordinary centuries that span the Renaissance, Mannerism, and the Baroque and analyzes the complex interaction between art, science, politics and commerce during Italy's extraordinary cultural flowering.
- Pākehā slaves, Māori masters: the forgotten story of New Zealand's white slaves, Trevor Bentley.993.01 BEN
- Paris, Bryan Pirolli. 944.36 PIR
- Paris: top sights, authentic experiences, Catherine Le Nevez. 944.36 LE
- Prague, Marc Di Duca. 943.71 DI
- Remarkable road trips, Colin Salter. 910.2 SAL
- Remembering Leningrad: the story of a generation, Mary McAuley.947.45 MCA
- Rick Steves Vienna, Salzburg & Tirol, Rick Steves.943.6 STE
- Rome, Ros Belford. 945.632 BEL
- Rome: top sights, authentic experiences, Nicola Williams. 945.632 WIL
- Rwandan daughters, photographs by Olaf Heine.967.571 HEI
- Rwandan Daughters depicts strong women who have overcome traumatic experiences. Olaf Heine (1968) has captured this turning point and the reconciliation in impressive photographs, portraying mothers and daughters shoulder to shoulder at sites where the crimes occurred. Along with the photos, the volume features brief statements from the women about how they dealt with their experiences.
- Salutary punishment: Taranaki M?ori prisoners in Dunedin, 1869-72 and 1879-81, Ian Church. 993.022 CHU
- Scandinavia: top sights, authentic experiences, Anthony Ham. 948 HAM
- Six-Day War 1967: Operation Focus and the 12 hours that changed the Middle East, Shlomo Aloni. 956.046 ALO
- Slow trains to Venice: a love letter to Europe, Tom Chesshyre.940 CHE
- Taking the long road to Cairo: one audacious journey, one improbable bet, Ann Balcombe.960 BAL
- Terracotta warriors: guardians of immortality, Wayne Crothers, Tonia Eckfeld, Zhang Weixing.931 CRO
- The Borgias: power and fortune, Paul Strathern.945.05 BOR
- The end is nigh: British politics, power, and the road to the Second World War, Robert Crowcroft.941.084 CRO
- The millionaire castaway: the incredible story of how I lost my fortune but found new riches living on a deserted island, David Glasheen with Neil Bramwell.994.36 GLA
- Losing his fortune in the stock market crash of 1987 was the final straw for Dave Glasheen. After a series of catastrophes, he needed to take drastic measures to restore himself. Opting out of the rat race, he cast himself away to a deserted island off the north-east tip of Australia; he has lived there ever since.
- The ordinary life of a ten pound pom, Clifford Forrest Owler.920.71 OWL
- This book tells the story of one young English man, Clifford Owler, who like thousands of others took advantage of the
"Ten Pound Pom" offer to move to New Zealand in the 1950s.
- The origins of the Anglo-Saxons: decoding the ancestry of the English, Jean Manco.942.01 MAN
- The pursuit of art: travels, encounters and revelations, Martin Gayford.910.4 GAY
- Bestselling author Martin Gayford recounts some of the extraordinary journeys he has made in the name of art.
- The years of Lyndon Johnson. [Volume 2], Means of ascent, Robert A. Caro.973.923 JOH
- To the island of tides: a journey to Lindisfarne, Alistair Moffat.942.88 MOF
- In To the Island of Tides, Alistair Moffat travels to and through the history of the fated island of Lindisfarne. Walking
from his home in the Borders, through the historical landscape of Scotland and northern England, he takes us on a pilgrimage in the footsteps of saints and scholars, before arriving for a secular retreat on the Holy Isle.
- Ultimate United Kingdom travelist: the top 500 experiences in the UK... ranked, [written by Isabel Albiston. 941 ALB
- What the Queen said to me..., Chilli Brener.941.085 ELI
- The author was inspired to write this book after seeing a television interview with a gentleman who was talking about his meeting with
Queen Elizabeth II. When asked, "Can you remember what the Queen said to you?", his response, "Well, of course I can. It is an experience I will never forget!" made her wonder about what the experience of talking to the Queen has meant to others.
- Whispers the wind: soldiers at peace in Waikumete Cemetery: the early years, 1881-1918, the Friends of Waikumete. 993.23 WHI
- A documentation of Volunteers and Veterans 1881 to 1918, who are at Peace in Waikumete Cemetery, a small microcosm of the many who were a part of the early years of Auckland.
House & DIY
- Atmosphere: the seven elements of great design, James Michael Howard. 747 HOW
- Bags: sew 18 stylish bags for every occasion, Anna Alicia. 646.48 ALI
- Creative spaces: people, homes, and studios to inspire, Ted Vadakan. 747 VAD
- Distinctly modern interiors, Emily Summers. 747 SUM
- Everyday decorating, Jeffrey Bilhuber. 747 BIL
- First time window treatments: the absolute beginner's guide, Susan Woodcok.646.21 WOO
- French chic living: simple ways to make your home beautiful, Florence de Dampierre. 747 DAM
- Home sweet rented home: transform your home without losing your deposit, Medina Grillo.747 GRI
- Kitchen living: kitchen interiors for contemporary homes.747.79 KIT
- Making rooms your own: lessons from interior designers, New York Social Diary. 747 BAL
- Natural living style: inspirational ideas for a beautiful and sustainable home, Selina Lake. 747 LAK
- Shedonism: 101 reasons to escape to your shed, Ben Williams. 790.13 WIL
- Take some well-deserved alone time and learn to preserve lemons and chillies, whittle a butter knife, tie your own fishing flies, keep chickens, plant a roof garden or make a camera obscura. Why not transform your shed itself?
- The new glamour: interiors with star quality, Jeff Andrews. 747 AND
- The Palmer/Pletsch complete guide to fitting: sew great clothes for every body: fit any fashion pattern, Pati Palmer. 646.408 PAL
- Wooden furniture hacks: over 20 step-by-step projects for a unique and stylish home, Hester van Overbeek.749 VAN
Journalism
- Truth worth telling: a reporter's search for meaning in the stories of our times, Scott Pelley.070.43 PEL
- Don't ask the meaning of life. Life is asking, what's the meaning of you? With this provocative question, Truth Worth Telling introduces us to unforgettable people who discovered the meaning of their lives in the historic events of our times.
- Without reservations: the travels of an independent woman, Alice Steinbach.070.92 STE
- Who am I, away from the things that define me my family, children, job, friends? Steinbach searches for the answer in some of the most exciting places in the world.
Language
- Biblical Greek: a compact guide, William D. Mounce. 487 MOU
- Collins German dictionary, [editor, Mary O'Neill].433 COL
- He puna kupu, he manawa aa-whenua Waikato-Tainui: e kohinga kupu noo roto i a Tainui = A collection of words used within Tainui, edited bu Raukura Roa, Paania Papa, Jarred Boon, Rahui Papa.499.442 HE
- "The first ever M?ori dictionary specific to the Waikato-Tainui dialect"
- M?ori at work: the everyday guide to using te reo M?ori in the workplace, Scotty Morrison.499.442 MOR
- Semicolon: how a misunderstood punctuation mark can improve your writing, enrich your reading and even change your life, Cecelia Watson.421.1 WAT
- The meaning of everything: the story of the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester.423 WIN
- The superior person's third book of words, Peter Bowler.428.1 BOW
- Why say 'willy-nilly' when you could say 'nolens volens'? Peter Bowler's third collection of verbarian exotica aims to fortify your vocabulary and allow you to assert your ascendancy 'at the traffic lights of life', possibly.
- Word drops: a sprinkling of linguistic curiosities, Paul Anthony Jones.412 JON
- If you're logofascinated, you are literally spellbound by language. Word Drops is a language fact book unlike any other, its linguistic tidbits all falling together into one long interconnected chain just with each fact neatly 'dropping' into place beside the next.
Law
- A practical guide to legal issues for older people, Vicki Ammundsen. 346.013 AMM
- Lawless: a lawyer's unrelenting fight for justice in one of the world's most dangerous places, Kimberley Motley.340.092 MOT
- Through sheer force of personality, ingenuity and perseverance, Kimberley became the first foreign lawyer to practise in the courts of Afghanistan.
- The case against the Democratic House impeaching Trump, Alan Dershowitz.342.062 DER
- The clash of capitalisms: Chinese companies in the United States, Ji Li.346.07 LI
- Chinese foreign direct investment in the United States has generated intense debates. Some welcome it for the immediate benefits such as job creation; others view Chinese investments, especially those controlled by the Chinese government, as a critical threat.
- The guarded gate: bigotry, eugenics, and the law that kept two generations of Jews, Italians, and other European immigrants out of America, Daniel Okrent.344.048 OKR
- The Guarded Gate tells the story of the scientists who provided the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American history and the men who turned their 'science' into politics.
Literature
- A man's place, Annie Ernaux. 823.914 ERN
- A daughter must come to terms with her formative years as she writes an unflinching portrait of her father, a cafe owner whose life has become very alien to her.
- A touch of genius: portraits and literary masterpieces, Dvir Abramovich.892.4 ABR
- In a collection of passionate, sparkling essays, one of Australia's leading literary critics presents a fresh and exciting ode to Jewish fiction.
- Broken places & outer spaces: finding creativity in the unexpected, Nnedi Okorafor. 813.54 OKO
- Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed. A college track star and budding entomologist, Nnedi's lifelong battle with scoliosis was just a bump in her plan something a simple surgery would easily correct. But when Nnedi wakes from the surgery to find she can't move her legs, her entire sense of who she is begins to waver.
- Confessions of a bookseller, Shaun Blythell.381.45002 BYT
- The Diary of a Bookseller (soon to be a major TV series) introduced us to the joys and frustrations of life lived in books. Sardonic and sympathetic in equal measure, Confessions of a Bookseller will reunite readers with the characters they've come to know and love.
- Fabulous monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and other literary friends, Alberto Manguel.808.3 MAN
- Alberto Manguel, in a style both charming and erudite, examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on.
- Happy old me: how to live a long life and really enjoy it, Hunter Davies.828.914 DAV
- Happy old me is a moving yet uplifting account of one year in Hunter Davies' life, navigating bereavement and finding hope in the future.
- Judith Kerr, Joanna Carey.823.914 KER
- An overview of the life and work of much-loved children's illustrator and author Judith Kerr, creator of classics such as 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea',
and 'Mog'. A thoughtful and intimate portrait, this book is not only a celebration of Judith Kerr's classic work, but a record of the hard work, development and serious intent behind it.
- Kathleen Hale is a crazy stalker: six essays, Kathleen Hale.814.6 HAL
- Kathleen Hale traces some of the most treacherous fault lines in modern America--from sexual assault to Internet trolling, from environmental illness to our own animal nature. In these thought-provoking stories of predators and prey, Hale proves herself to be an exhilarating new voice whose writing is both fearless and profound.
- Late migrations: a natural history of love and loss, Margaret Renkl. 818.6 REN
- From New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world.
- March sisters: on life, death, and Little women, Kate Bolick. 813.4 ALC
- On its 150th anniversary, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up.
- Moonlight travellers, Quentin Blake with Will Self.828.914 SEL
- Blake's watercolours relate, with dark, fantastical humor, the experience of journeying across unknown landscapes in the dead of night. Accompanying this artistic narrative is an equally evocative text from the ever-brilliant mind of Will Self.
- My seditious heart: collected non-fiction, Arundhati Roy.824.92 ROY
- My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment.
- Rooms of their own, Nino Strachey.828.912 SAC
- Evocative, engaging and filled with vivid details, Rooms of their Own explores the homes of these three writers linked to the Bloomsbury Group.
- The dark fantastic: race and the imagination from Harry Potter to The hunger games, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas.809.3876 THO
- The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of colour seek passageways into the fantastic the doors are often barred.
- The hundreds, Lauren Berlant. 808.02 BER
- The experiment of the one hundred word constraint; each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long, amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the social and conceptual ground.
- The things I would tell you: British Muslim women write, Sabrina Mahfouz.820.8 THI
- Trick mirror: reflections on self-delusion, Jia Tolentino.814.6 TOL
- We are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion. In these nine interlinked essays, Jia Tolentino, the New Yorker's brightest young talent, explores her own coming of age in this warped and confusing landscape.
Music & Musicians
- ABBA: the stories behind every song, Robert Scott.781.64 ABB
- Beastie Boys book, Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz.781.66 BEA
- Carols from King's: the stories of our favourite carols from King's College, Alexandra Coghlan.782.28 COG
- Flute for dummies, Karen Evans Moratz.788.32193 MOR
- Howard Skempton: conversations and reflections on music, Esther Cavett. 780.92 SKE
- Howard Skempton has contributed to British musical life for more than half a century, as composer, performer and commentator.
- Lunch with the wild frontiers: a history of music and excess in 13 1/2 chapters, Phill Savidge.781.66 SAV
- More fun in the new world: the unmaking and legacy of L.A. punk, John Doe. 781.66 DOE
- Noise/music: a history, Paul Hegarty.781.64 HEG
- Noise/Music" looks at the phenomenon of noise in music, from experimental music at the early 20th century to the Japanese noise, music
and glitch electronica of today.
- Surf by day, jam by night, Ash Grunwald.781.643 GRU
- Surf by Day, Jam by Night is seasoned bluesman and surfer Ash Grunwald's deep dive into the extraordinary. Ash takes to the road,
interviewing 15 of the world's top surfer–musicians.
- The box maker's guitar book: sweet-sounding design & build projects for makers & musicians, Doug Stowe.787.87192 STO
- The Janáček compendium, Nigel Simeone.780.92 JAN
- One of the greatest and most original composers of the early twentieth century, Leos Janáček (1854–1928) occupied a pre-eminent position in Moravian culture, not only as a composer but also as a folksong collector, journalist, educator and nationalist.
- The lark ascending: the music of the British landscape, Richard King.780.941 KIN
- The Lark Ascending, Ralph Vaughan Williams' 'pastoral romance for orchestra' was premiered on 14 June, 1921. Over the course of the twentieth century this piece of music, perhaps more than any other, worked its way into the collective consciousness to seemingly define a mythical concept of the English countryside.
- The mindful musician: mental skills for peak performance, Vanessa Cornett.781.43 COR
- The uke book illustrated: design and build the world's coolest ukulele, written by John Weissenrieder. 787.89192 WEI
- Woodstock 50th anniversary: back to Yasgur's farm, Mike Greenblatt. 781.66078 GRE
Parenting
- How to raise a reader, Pamela Paul. 649.58 PAU
- How to talk so teens will listen & and listen so teens will talk, Adele Faber. 649.125 FAB
- Raising mediators: how smart parents use mediation to transform sibling conflict and empower their children, Emily de Schweinitz Taylor.155.44 TAY
- They'll be okay: 15 conversations to help your child through troubled times, Collett Smart.649.125 SMA
Personal Development
- Brave, not perfect: fear less, fail more, and live bolder, Reshma Saujani.155.333 SAU
- Conscious: a brief guide to the fundamental mystery of the mind, Annaka Harris.153 HAR
- What is consciousness? How does it arise? And why does it exist? We take our experience of being in the world for granted. But the very existence of consciousness raises profound questions.
- Don't hate, meditate!: 5 easy practices to get you through the hard sht (and into the good), Megan Monahan.158.12 MON
- Dreams: interpretations, hidden meanings, symbols, Alison Davies. 154.63 DAV
- Ego is the enemy, Ryan Holiday.158.1 HOL
- May cause miracles: a 6 week kick-start to unlimited hapiness, Gabrielle Bernstein.158.1 BER
- Out of our minds: a history of what we think and how we think it, Felipe Fernéndez-Armesto.153.42 FER
- Traversing the realms of science, politics, religion, culture, philosophy and history, Felipe Fernéndez-Armesto reveals the thrilling and disquieting tales of our imaginative leaps; from the first Homo sapiens to the pioneers of the digital age.
- Perform under pressure, Dr Ceri Evans.155.9042 EVA
- Used by leading performers around the world In Performance Under Pressure, forensic psychiatrist Dr Ceri Evans gives you the tools to take control of the moment.
- Queer eye: love yourself, love your life, Antoni Porowski. 155.2 POR
- Stop self-sabotage: six steps to unlock your true motivation, harness your willpower, and get out of your own way, Judy Ho.158.1 HO
- The art of self-kindness, Rebecca Ray.158.1 RAY
- The book of rest, James Reeves and Gabrielle Brown.155.9042 REE
- The fear bubble: harness fear and live without limits, Ant Middleton.158.1 MID
- The gifts of imperfection: let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are, Brené Brown.158.1 BRO
- The happiness curve: why life gets better after 50, Jonathan Rauch.155.6 RAU
- The highly sensitive man: finding strength in sensitivity, Tom Falkenstein. 155.332 FAL
- The war for kindness: building empathy in a fractured world, Jamil Zaki.152.41 ZAK
- A Stanford psychologist offers a bold new understanding of empathy, revealing it to be a skill, not a fixed trait, and showing, through science and stories, how we can all become more empathetic.
- Ultralearning: master hard skills, outsmart the competition, and accelerate your career, Scott H. Young; foreword by James Clear.153.15 YOU
- You can thrive after narcissistic abuse: the #1 system for recovering from toxic relationships, Melanie Tonia Evans.155.23 EVA
Pets & Animals
- Cats on Instagram, @cats_of_instagram. 636.8 CAT
- Our dogs, ourselves: the story of a singular bond, Alexandra Horowitz.636.7 HOR
- The chicken whisperer's guide to zero-waste chicken keeping: reduce, reuse, recycle, Andy Schneider. 636.5 SCH
- The rescue dog: a practical guide to adopting, training & living with a dog with emotional baggage, Laura Vissaritis.636.70887 VIS
Philosophy & Psychology
- The history of philosophy, A. C. Grayling.100 GRA
- The story of philosophy: a history of western thought, James Garvey & Jeremy Stangroom.100 GAR
Photography
- Berenice Abbott: portraits of modernity.779 ABB
- This publication presents Berenice Abbott's work in several themes: her portraits, photographs of the city and scientific photographs.
- Homeless, photographs by Bryan Adams.779 ADA
- Six years ago Bryan Adams was approached by Trudie Styler to photograph a portrait story of homeless street vendors for The Big Issue magazine. That story inspired a more in-depth photographic look at these people who live on the streets of London and sell the magazine.
- Peter Peryer: a careful eye, editor, Courtney Johnstone.779 PER
- Peter Peryer had his first solo exhibition at a public gallery at The Dowse in 1977. Four decades later The Dowse staged Peter Peryer: A Careful Eye, a celebration of one of New Zealand's most renowned artists.
Poetry
- 100 poems, Seamus Heaney.821.914 HEA
- Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers.
- Harvest bells: new and uncollected poems, John Betjeman. 821.91 BET
- John Betjeman's unforgettable poems on landscape and suburbia, desire and death, faith and doubt, helped to establish him as the beloved voice of a nation.
- The coming of the little green man, John Agard.821.914 AGA
- In The Coming of the Little Green Man, his eighth Bloodaxe collection, we enter a world of play and parable in which the little green man stands for all pesky outsiders in provocative poems charged with contemporary resonance.
Politics & Government
- A lot of people are saying: the new conspiracism and the assault on democracy, Russell Muirhead,. 320.973 MUI
- Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government with the election of Donald Trump.
- Ball of collusion: the plot to rig an election and destroy a presidency, Andrew C. McCarthy.324.973 MCC
- The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.
- Do something: activism for everyone, Kajal Odedra.322.4 ODE
- Hitler's American friends: the Third Reich's supporters in the United States, Bradley W. Hart.320.533 HAR
- Progress vs parasites: a brief history of the conflict that's shaped our world, Douglas Carswell.322.44 CAR
- A robust defence of classical liberalism, Progress Vs Parasites shows that the greatest threat to human progress today, as it has been in every age, is the idea that human affairs need to be ordered by top down design.
- Proof of conspiracy: how Trump's international collusion is threatening American democracy, Seth Abramson.327.73 ABR
- Surprise, kill, vanish: the definitive history of secret CIA assassins, armies and operators, Annie Jacobsen.327.12 JAC
- The management of savagery: how America's national security state fueled the rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump, Max Blumenthal.327.73 BLU
- The Moscow rules: the secret CIA tactics that helped America win the Cold War, Antonio J. Mendez. 327.12 MEN
- The Mueller Report. Vol. 2, On obstruction of justice, Robert S Mueller III.324.973 MUE
- The shadow war: inside Russia's and China's secret operations to defeat America, Jim Sciutto.327.73 SCI
- This America: the case for the nation.320.973 LEP
- With dangerous forms of nationalism on the rise, at a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation and repudiates nationalism by explaining its long history.
- Under every leaf: how Britain played the greater game from Afghanistan to Africa, William Beaver.327.12 BEA
- Delving into an encyclopaedic array of little-known primary sources, William Beaver uncovers a vigorous intelligence function at the heart of Victoria's Empire.
- Unrequited love: diary of an accidental activist, Dennis Altman.324.4 ALT
- Dennis Altman first travelled from Australia to the United States when Lyndon Johnson was President, beginning a long obsession with the US. In the early 1970s he was involved in New York Gay Liberation; his 1971 study Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation, is widely regarded as a classic work in its field.
- Women of the world: the rise of the female diplomat, Helen McCarthy.327.41 MCC
- Xi Jinping: the backlash: a Lowy Institute paper, Richard McGregor.327.51 MCG
- Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and aggression that few foresaw when he came to power in 2012. Finally, he is meeting resistance, both at home among disgruntled officials and disillusioned technocrats, and abroad from an emerging coalition of Western nations that seem determined to resist China's geopolitical and high-tech expansion.
Religion & Ethics
- A long obedience in the same direction: discipleship in an instant society, Eugene H. Peterson. 223.2 PET
- Since Eugene Peterson first wrote this spiritual formation classic nearly forty years
ago, hundreds of thousands of Christians have been inspired by its call to deeper discipleship. As a society, we are still obsessed with the immediate; new technologies have only intensified our quest for the quick fix. But Peterson's time-tested prescription for discipleship remains the same--a long obedience in the same direction.
- A love letter life: pursue creatively, date intentionally, love faithfully, Jeremy and Audrey Roloff.248.84 ROL
- Egyptian mythology: a guide to the gods, goddesses, and traditions of ancient Egypt, Geraldine Pinch.299 PIN
- Get over it or get on with it: unfinished business in our own backyard, Keith Newman. 279.3 NEW
- Revival across Aotearoa New Zealand soured as Maori and missionary alike became disillusioned over the betrayal of the Treaty of Waitangi by settlers, governors and government. What happened? Newman shows what the church's role was prior to the Treaty and in the signing of the Treaty, and asks: what is the church's role now?
- God is with you every day: 365-day devotional, Max Lucado.242.2 LUC
- Great goddesses: life lessons from myths and monsters, Nikita Gill.291.21 GIL
- Islam, Mona Siddiqui.297 SID
- It's not supposed to be this way: finding unexpected strength when disappointments leave you shattered, Lysa TerKeurst.248.8 TER
- Jesus calling: enjoying peace in His presence, Sarah Young.242.2 YOU
- Sufism: a new history of Islamic mysticism, Alexander Knysh.297.4 KNY
- Sunny side up: a story of kindness and joy, Susan Calman.177 CAL
- The mission is simple. To get the nation to join her in not being negative. To bring back joy, kindness and community, to find that joy in the little things in life and defeat the hate and fear.
- The high beings of Hawaii: encounters with mystical ancestors, Tanis Helliwell.291.21 HEL
- The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood.292.13 ATW
- In this book, Penelope is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife. Atwood's retelling of the old myth is as haunting as it is wise and compassionate, as disturbing as it is entertaining. With incomparable style and humour, she gives the story of Penelope new life and reality
Science
- A cloud a day, Gavin Pretor-Pinney.551.576 PRE
- The stresses of the digital world mean that it's no more important than ever to engage with the natural world. And no matter where you are, looking up at the clouds is good for the soul.
- Circadian rhythms: a very short introduction, Russell G. Foster and Leon Kreitzman.571.7 FOS
- Dark matter & dark energy: the hidden 95% of the universe, Brian Clegg.523.112 CLE
- How to: absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems, Randall Munroe.502 MUN
- For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. Munroe has created a guide to the third kind of approach.
- New Zealand landscape: behind the scene, Paul W. Williams.551.41 WIL
- New Zealand Landscape: Behind the Scene explores the geomorphology of New Zealand, describing how the landscapes developed and how some of the individual features that make up the scene evolved.
- Quantum mechanics: concepts and applications, Nouredine Zettili.530.12 ZET
- Seaweeds of Auckland, Mike D. Wilcox.579.8 WIL
- Stargazing: photographs of the night sky from the archives of NASA, Nirmala Nataraj.522.63 NAT
- Strange harvests: the hidden histories of seven natural objects, Edward Posnett.508 POS
- Edward Posnett journeys to some of the most far-flung locales on the planet to bring us seven wonders of the natural world; eiderdown, vicuña fiber, sea silk, vegetable ivory, civet coffee, guano, and edible birds' nests, that promise ways of using nature without damaging it.
- Superheavy: making and breaking the periodic table, Kit Chapman.546.44 CHA
- Tambora and the year without a summer: how a volcano plunged the world into crisis, Wolfgang Behringer. 551.21 BEH
- The art of statistics: how to learn from data, David Spiegelhalter.519.5 SPI
- The Earth book: from the beginning to the end of our planet, 250 milestones in the history of earth science, Jim Bell.550 BEL
- The enchantment of the long-haired rat: a rodent history of Australia, Tim Bonyhady.599.35 BON
- The hierarchy of Heaven & Earth: a new diagram of man in the universe, D. E. Harding.523.1 HAR
- Harding presents a new vision of our place in the universe that uses the scientific method of looking to see what is true. It turns out that the truth about ourselves is not only true but also very good, and breathtakingly beautiful.
- The hockey stick and the climate wars: dispatches from the front lines, Michael E. Mann.577.22 MAN
- Mann reveals the role of science deniers, abetted by an uninformed media, in once again diverting attention away from one of the central scientific and policy issues of our time.
- The missing lynx: the past and future of Britain's lost mammals, Ross Barnett.591.68 BAR
- The mosquito: a human history of our deadliest predator, Timothy C. Winegard.595.77 WIN
- The seafarers: a journey among birds, Stephen Rutt.598.176 RUT
- The way through the woods: on mushrooms and mourning, Long Litt Woon. 579.6 LON
- The Way Through the Woods tells the story of parallel journeys: an inner one, through the landscape of
mourning, and an outer one, into the fascinating realm of mushrooms; resilient, adaptable, and essential to nature's cycle of death and rebirth.
- The Weil conjectures: on maths and the pursuit of the unknown, Karen Olsson.510 OLS
- Simone Weil: famous French philosopher, writer, political activist, mystic and sister to Andre, one of
the most influential, yet overlooked, mathematicians of the twentieth century.
- We made a wildflower meadow, Yvette Verner. 577.4 VER
Social Issues
- A little me, Amy Roloff.362.19647 ROL
- Amy shares what it was like growing up with achondroplasia dwarfism, how she struggled to overcome obstacles both physical and emotional; navigating the average-size world as a little person, dealing with a serious illness as a young girl, bullying, and issues of body image and unachievable beauty ideals, while learning, as we all must, to accept herself for who she is.
- A mild touch of the cancer, David Downs.362.196994 DOW
- A short history of falling: everything I observed about love whilst dying, Joe Hammond.362.19683 HAM
- We keep an old shoebox, Gill and I, nestled in a drawer in our room. It's filled with thirty-three birthday cards for our two young sons: one for every year I'll miss until they're twenty-one. I wrote them because, since the end of 2017, I've been living with - and dying from - motor neurone disease. This book is about the process of saying goodbye.
- Addiction nation: what the opioid crisis reveals about us, Timothy McMahan King.362.293 KIN
- Aly's fight: beating cancer, battling infertility, and believing in miracles, Aly and Josh Taylor.362.196994 TAY
- American boys, Soraya Zaman. 306.768 ZAM
- American Boys is a book of portraits capturing the trans-masculine community across the United States.
- An alternative history of bicycles and motorcycles: two-wheeled transportation and material culture, Steven E. Alford and Suzanne Ferriss.303.483 ALF
- Because internet: understanding the new rules of language, Gretchen McCulloch.302.23 MCC
- A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.
- Black power and Palestine: transnational countries of color, Michael R. Fischbach.323.1196073 FIS
- Black Power and Palestine uncovers why so many African Americans; notably Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali, among others, came to support the Palestinians or felt the need to respond to those who did.
- Breakfast with the centenarians: the art of ageing well, Daniela Mari. 305.26 MAR
- It's said that life begins at 40 but that number is constantly revised upwards as we live longer and longer. With the number of centenarians having quadrupled in the last thirty years, more of us can now hope to reach the 100-year mark than ever before. But how can we navigate this journey with grace, dignity and style?
- Choked: the age of air pollution and the fight for a cleaner future, Beth Gardiner.363.7392 GAR
- Climate justice: hope, resilience, and the fight for a sustainable future, Mary Robinson. 363.7 ROB
- Fierce conversations: achieving success at work & in life, one conversation at a time, Susan Scott.302.224 SCO
- Four words for friend: why using more than one language matters now more than ever, Marek Kohn.306.44 KOH
- Gods of the upper air: how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century, Charles King.301 BOA
- A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the
founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the 1920s and 1930s.
- Growing up healthy in a world of digital media: a guide for parents and caregivers of children and adolescents302.23 GRO
- How powerful we are: behind the scenes with one of Australia's leading activists, Sally Rugg.361.2 RUG
- Sally Rugg is one of Australia's most influential campaigners for social change and How Powerful We Are is her manifesto for championing what you believe is right.
- How to live forever: the enduring power of connecting the generations, Marc Freedman.305.2 FRE
- The founder of Encore.org traces his thirty-year quest to meet the challenges of a society with more older than younger members, sharing insights into longevity, age segregation, and the experiences of remarkable, everyday people.
- Hysterical: why we need to talk about women, hormones, and mental health, Eleanor Morgan.305.4 MOR
- i-Minds 2.0: how and why constant connectivity is rewiring our brains and what to do about it, Mari K. Swingle.303.483 SWI
- Innocent: the true story of siblings struggling to survive, Cathy Glass.362.733 GLA
- Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an emergency after suffering non-accidental injuries.
- Knowledge resistance: how we avoid insight from others, Mikael Klintman.306.42 KLI
- Why do people and groups ignore, deny and resist knowledge about society's many problems? In a world of 'alternative facts', 'fake news' that some believe could be remedied by 'factfulness', the question has never been more pressing. After years of ideologically polarised debates on this topic, the book seeks to further advance our understanding of the phenomenon of knowledge resistance by integrating insights from the social, economic and evolutionary sciences.
- Leaders: myth and reality, Stanley McChrystal. 303.34 MCC
- Stan McChrystal served for thirty-four years in the US Army, rising from a second lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division to a four-star general, in command of all American and coalition forces in Afghanistan. During those years he worked with countless leaders, at every level of effectiveness, and pondered an ancient question: "What makes a leader great?"
- Life in the Himalaya: an ecosystem at risk, Maharaj K. Pandit.333.72 PAN
- Life in the Himalaya explores the interconnectedness between geophysical and biological components of the mountain and its relation to the sustainability of human activities in the region.
- No one tells you this: a memoir, Glynnis MacNicol.306.81 MCN
- There was no good blueprint for how to be a woman alone in the world so Glynnis concluded it was time to create one. Over the course of her fortieth year, which this memoir chronicles, Glynnis embarks on a revealing journey of self-discovery that continually contradicts everything she'd been led to expect.
- See what you made me do: power, control and domestic abuse, Jess Hill.362.829 HIL
- Sex power money, Sara Pascoe.306.7 PAS
- Following her hit book Animal, Sara Pascoe decides to confront her fear of the male libido, and turns her attention to the things that really matter to humans, delving into such questions as: Why don't people care about the welfare of the people they masturbate to? and Why is there such stigma around those who work in the sex industry when some women still want men to buy them dinner?
- Talking to robots: tales from our human-robot futures, David Ewing Duncan.629.892 DUN
- What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us, their creators? Will they usher in a fantastic new future, or destroy us?
- The family next door: the heartbreaking imprisonment of the thirteen Turpin siblings and their extraordinary rescue, John Glatt.362.76 GLA
- To their family, neighbours, and online friends, Louise and David Turpin presented a picture of domestic bliss. But what police discovered when they entered the Turpin family home would eclipse the most shocking child abuse cases in history.
- The inner level: how more equal societies reduce stress, restore sanity and improve everyone's well-being, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.302.54 WIL
- Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch to develop gambling problems? Why is child well-being so much worse in New Zealand than Japan? As this groundbreaking study demonstrates, the answer to all these hinges on inequality.
- The plateau, Maggie Paxson.362.87 PAX
- In a remote pocket of Nazi-held France, ordinary people risked their lives to rescue many hundreds of strangers, mostly Jewish children. Was this a
fluke of history, or something more?
- The top five regrets of the dying: a life transformed by the dearly departing, Bronnie Ware.362.175 WAR
- This is not propaganda: adventures in the war against reality, Peter Pomerantsev.303.483 POM
- We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our sense of truth, we've lost not only our grip on peace and democracy but our very notion of what those words even mean.
- Three women, Lisa Taddeo.305.42 TAD
- Three Women is a record of unmet needs, unspoken thoughts, disappointments, hopes and unrelenting obsessions.
- Voices from Chernobyl, Svetlana Alexievich. 363.1799 ALE
- A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts
of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they still live with.
- We have been harmonised: life in China's surveillance state, Kai Strittmatter. 323.448 STR
- This is a fascinating journey behind the Great Firewall into a land where Big Brother has acquired a whole new set of toys with which to control and cajole; 'harmonise', the masses.
- Whiteshift: populism, immigration and the future of white majorities, Eric Kaufmann.305.8 KAU
- Political scientist Eric Kaufmann examines the evidence to explore ethnic change in Western Europe and North America. Tracing four ways of dealing with this transformation fight, repress, flight and join - he charts different scenarios and calls for us to move beyond empty talk about national identity.
- You will (probably) survive: and other things they don't tell you about motherhood, Lauren Dubois.306.8743 DUB
Sport & Recreation
- A method for the magic: what you think affects the way you shoot, John David Shima. 799.313 SHI
- Dottir: my journey to becoming a two-time CrossFit Games champion, Katrin Davidsdottir with Rory McKernan.796.08 KAT
- Two-time CrossFit Games champion Katrin Davidsdottir's inspiring and poignant memoir details her focus on training, goal setting, nutrition, and mental toughness.
- Dry training for freediving: analysis and management of physical preparation, Umberto Pelizzari. 797.232 PEL
- Football leaks: uncovering the dirty deals behind the beautiful game, Rafael Buschmann. 796.334 BUS
- Hooked: adventures in angling & eating, Mark Hix.799.1 HIX
- Fishing adventures from one of the UK's most influential chefs. Hooked delves into the exciting fishing adventures of celebrated chef, restaurateur and food writer Mark Hix.
- Leading the way: 100 years of the Tararua Tramping Club, Shaun Barnett & Chris Maclean.796.5106 BAR
- Leading the Way celebrates the centenary of New Zealand's first tramping club, established in 1919, and places its achievements within the evolution of tramping, our most popular sporting activity.
- One-way ticket: nine lives on two wheels, Jonathan Vaughters. 796.62 VAU
- From his early years as a keen cyclist in his hometown in Colorado to his unflinching rite of passage as a professional rider with US Postal to his elevation as one of cycling's most resilient, ethical and intelligent team bosses, the highs and lows of his career have mirrored those of the sport itself.
- Quitters never win, Michael Bisping with Anthony Evans.796.81 BIS
- At the age of eight, Michael Bisping began his training in martial arts. By the time he was 15, he was fighting in his first no holds barred competition. When he turned professional and joined the UFC he was sure about one thing- only a world championship title would do.
- Radio-controlled sailboat racing, Donald W. Hain.623.8201 HAI
- Running your first ultra: customizable training plans for your first 50k to 100-mile race, Krissy Moehl. 796.425 MOE
- The cycling mind: the psychological skills for peak performance on the bike - and in life, Ruth Anderson.796.62 AND
- The winning cars of the Indianapolis 500, James Craig Reinhardt.796.72 REI
- They don't teach this, Eniola Aluko. 796.334 ALU
- First class honors law degree. 102 appearances for England women's national football team. First female pundit on Match of the Day. UN Women UK ambassador. Guardian columnist. All of these achievements belong to Eni Aluko.
- Trautmann's journey: from Hitler youth to FA Cup legend, Catrine Clay.796.334 TRA
- Bert Trautmann is a football legend. He is famed as the Manchester City goalkeeper who broke his neck in the 1956 FA Cup final and played on. But his early life was no less extraordinary.
Supernatural
- A supernatural war: magic, divination, and faith during the First World War, Owen Davies.133.9 DAV
- Out on the battlefields, soldiers of all nations sought to protect themselves through magical and religious rituals, and, on the home front, people sought out psychics and occult practitioners for news of the fate of their distant loved ones or communication with their spirits. Even away from concerns about the war, suspected witches continued to be abused and people continued to resort to magic and magical practitioners for personal protection, love, and success.
- Cosmic crystals: rituals and meditations for connecting with lunar energy, Ashley Leavy.133.25 LEA
- Near-death experiences, Marisa St Clair.133.9013 ST
- Phantom self: (and how to find the real one), David Icke.001.9 ICK
- Icke believes our reality has been hijacked by an invisible force the Gnostics used to call Archons. He maintains that we are
headed towards a cashless world and human settlements which are projected as local community initiatives but are actually centralized systems of control.
- The alien book: a guide to extraterrestrial beings on Earth, Nick Redfern.001.942 RED
- UFO witness sightings: an illustrated dossier of alien encounters, Peter Brookesmith. 001.942 BRO
Transport
- Beyond flying: rethinking air travel in a globally connected world, Chris Watson.387.742 BEY
- Drive!: Henry Ford, George Selden, and the race to invent the auto age, Lawrence Goldstone.338.476292 GOL
- Eight years to the Moon: the history of the Apollo missions, Nancy Atkinson. 629.454 ATK
- Guide to the crew of Titanic: the structure of working aboard the legendary liner, Günter Bäbler.387.243 BAB
- Heroes of the space age: incredible stories of the famous and forgotten men and women who took humanity to the stars, Rod Pyle.629.45 PYL
- Inspecting the aging sailboat, Don Casey.623.822 CAS
- Mission moon 3-D: reliving the great space race, David J. Eicher, Brian May. 629.454 EIC
- NASA Mission AS-506 Apollo 11, 1969 (including Saturn V, CM-107, SM-107, LM-5) owners' workshop manual: an insight into the hardware from the first manned mission to land on the moon, [text, Christopher Riley and Philip Dolling].629.454 RIL
- To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 20th century's greatest flight achievement, this book chronicles how 400,000 men and women across the US worked to transport human beings across a quarter million miles of hostile space to an unexplored world, and how they ensured that the seven million engineered parts invented to fly this single mission all worked perfectly.
- New Zealand buses in colour: past & present, Sean Millar.388.322 MIL
- Street machine legends. Volume one, editor, Simon Telford.629.228 STR
- Since 1981, Street Machine has been the bible of Australia's modified car scene, celebrating the best builds of the sport and the fanatics that create them.
- The air pilot's manual. Volume 7, Communications.629.13252 AIR
- The boatbuilder's apprentice: the ins and outs of building lapstrake, carvel, stitch-and-glue, strip-planked, and other wooden boats, Greg Rössel.623.81 ROS
- The restoration handbook for yachts: the essential guide to fibreglass yacht restoration and repair, Enric Roselló.623.822 ROS
- The ships of Scapa Flow, Campbell McCutcheon.387.2 MCC
- The islands surrounding Scapa Flow made one of Britain's best natural harbours. The naval base was important during both wars
but what make Scapa Flow famous is its wrecks, the remains of a German fleet, which once numbered some 74 vessels, most of which were scutled in 1919, as well as the war graves of the HMS Royal Oak and HMS Vanguard.
- Tractor legends, Jonathan Whitlam.629.225 WHI
- Vespa and Lambretta motor scooters, Stuart Owen. 629.2275 VES
War & Defence
- A Spitfire girl: one of the world's greatest female ATA ferry pilots tells her story, Mary Ellis; as told to Melody Foreman.358.4 ELL
- Alone at dawn: Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the world's deadliest special operations force, Dan Schilling. 958.1 CHA
- B-52 Stratofortress: the complete history of the world's longest serving and best known bomber, Bill Yenne.623.7463 B
- Bletchley Park and D-Day: the untold story of how the battle for Normandy was won, David Kenyon.940.5486 KEN
- Churchill infantry tank, David Fletcher. 623.747 FLE
- Codeword Overlord: axis espionage and the D-Day landings, Nigel West.940.5487 WES
- D-Day: the air and sea invasion of Normandy in photos, Nicholas A. Veronico.940.5421 VER
- Empires of the weak: the real story of European expansion and the creation of the new world order, J. C. Sharman.909.08 SHA
- What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 onward.
- Kiwis at war 1939-40 and earlier. Part three. Army & others.940.5481 KIW
- Marine A: 'my toughest battle', Alexander Blackman. 958.1 BLA
- For the first time, a blistering, highly charged account from the man known as 'Marine A' who was at the centre of the controversial murder of a wounded Taliban fighter.
- Sacred duty: a soldier's tour at Arlington National Cemetery, Tom Cotton.355.69 COT
- Sea stories: my life in Special Operations, Admiral William H. McRaven.359 MCR
- Stuka attack!: the dive-bombing assault on England during the Battle of Britain, Andy Saunders.940.544 SAU
- The bastard brigade: the true story of the renegade scientists and spies who sabotaged the Nazi atomic bomb, Sam Kean.355.82 KEA
- The day war broke out: untold true stories of how British families faced the Second World War together, Jacky Hyams.940.5341 HYA
- The first wave: the D-Day warriors who led the way to victory in World War II, Alex Kershaw.940.5421 KER
- The Force: the legendary special ops unit and WWII's mission impossible, Saul David.940.541 DAV
- The liberation of Paris: how Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz saved the City of Light, Jean Edward Smith.940.5421 SMI
- The medieval cannon, 1326-1494, Jonathan Davies. 623.42 DAV
- The outpost: an untold story of American valor, Jake Tapper.958.1 TAP
- Jake Tapper exposes the origins of one of the Afghan War's deadliest battles for U.S. forces and details the stories of
soldiers heroic and doomed, shadowed by the recklessness of their commanders in Washington, D.C. and a war built on constantly shifting sands.
- The Second World War in 100 objects: the story of the world's greatest conflict told through the objects that shaped it, Major General Julian Thompson. 940.54 THO
- The world encyclopedia of destroyers and frigates: a fully illustrated history of naval vessels from the early torpedo boats of the 1890s through to the modern ships of the missile age, Bernard Ireland.623.8254 IRE
- Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway, David Rigby.940.5426 MCC
- The story of the man who won the battle of Midway and avenged Pearl Harbor for the United States.
- Weapons: key weapons & weapon systems from 1860 to the present, general editor, Chris McNab.623.4 WEA
- You'll be sor-ree!: a Guadalcanal Marine remembers the Pacific War, Sid Phillips.940.5426 PHI