Education of a Tennis Player by ROD LAVER

$33.95 NZD

Category: Monographs

This is Rod Laver's first-hand account of his historic 1969 Grand Slam sweep of all four major tennis titles. In this memoir, the four-time Wimbledon champion and the only player in tennis history to win two Grand Slams details his childhood, early career and his most important matches. Laver also sprin kles in tips and lessons on how players of all levels can improve their game and shares some of the strategies that helped him to achieve unparalleled success on the tennis court. Originally published in 1971, "The Education of a Tennis Player" was updated in 2009 on the 40th anniversary of his historic second Grand Slam with new content, including his recovery from a near-fatal stroke in 1998. Bud Collins, the legendary tennis personality and historian, serves as the book's co-author. ...Show more

Christchurch 2016 Calendar

$9.99 NZD

Category: Penguin AU

The Big Little Beach Book Posters: 10 New Zealand Waves by Craig Levers

$29.99 NZD

Category: Penguin AU

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

$29.99 NZD

Category: Penguin AU

A hardcover gift edition of Milk and Honey, the #1 New York Times bestselling poetry and prose collection by Rupi Kaur, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. This clothbound edition features deckled edge paper, a woven ribbon marker, and a foreword written by the author.  The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look. ...Show more

The Business of Change by Mike Pollok

$20.01 NZD

Category: February 2017 Release

How New Zealand organisations can survive and thrive despite digital disruption. It’s never been more important for NZ organisations to understand the many threats and opportunities of Digital Transformation. This book is a comprehensive resource for Kiwis at every level to come to terms with the many challenges and possibilities. ...Show more

Back from the Brink: True Stories and Practical Help for Overcoming Depression and Bipolar Disorder by Graeme Cowan; Allen Doederlein (Afterword by); Glenn Close (Foreword by)

$50.00 NZD

Category: Penguin AU

On July 24th, 2004, author Graeme Cowan took pen to paper and said goodbye to his family. "I just can't be a burden any longer," he wrote. After four failed suicide attempts, and a five-year episode of depression that his psychiatrist described as the worst he had ever treated, Cowan set out on a diffic ult journey back from the brink. Since then, he has dedicated his life to helping others struggling with depression and bipolar disorder--and that is how this book came to be.   If you have severe depression or bipolar disorder, it is important to remember that you are not alone. Featuring interviews with people from of all walks of life, Back from the Brink is filled with real stories of hope and healing, information about treatment options and medication, and tools for putting what you've learned into practice. If you are ready to put one foot in front of the other and finally set out on the path to recovery, the powerful stories in this book will inform and inspire you to make lasting change.   If you have severe depression or bipolar disorder, you may find it difficult to take that first step toward recovery. You aren't alone. In our society, many people with depression or bipolar disorder do not seek therapy or medical treatment due to the stigma that surrounds mental illness. Even people in "progressive" communities may not want to admit that they are on antidepressants or mood-balancing medications. Isn't it time we changed the way we thought about these illnesses?   The book includes a special foreword by actress Glenn Close, and features in-depth interviews with former US Representative Patrick Kennedy; television talk-show host Trisha Goddard; director of public policy at Google, Bob Boorstin; former chief advisor to Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell; former tennis pro, Cliff Richey; former professional football player, Greg Montgomery; and many more. ...Show more

From Alienation to Forms of Life: The Critical Theory of Rahel Jaeggi by Amy Allen, Eduardo Mendieta

$46.99 NZD

Category: Gone Fishing

The wide-ranging work of Rahel Jaeggi, a leading voice of the new generation of critical theorists, demonstrates how core concepts and methodological approaches in the tradition of the Frankfurt School can be updated, stripped of their dubious metaphysical baggage, and made fruitful for critical theory in the twenty-first century. In this thorough introduction to Jaeggi's work for English-speaking audiences, scholars in Continental and analytic philosophy assess and critique her efforts to revitalize critical theory.   Jaeggi's innovative work reclaims key concepts of Hegelian-Marxist social philosophy and reads them through the lens of such thinkers as Adorno, Heidegger, and Dewey, while simultaneously putting them into dialogue with contemporary analytic philosophy. Structured for classroom use, this critical introduction to Rahel Jaeggi is an insightful and generative confrontation with the most recent transformation of Frankfurt School'��inspired social and philosophical critical theory. This volume features an essay by Jaeggi on moral progress and social change, essays by leading scholars engaging with her conceptual analysis of alienation and the critique of forms of life, and a Q&A between Jaeggi and volume coeditor Amy Allen. For scholars and students wishing to engage in the debate with key contemporary thinkers over the past, present, and future(s) of critical theory, this volume will be transformative. ...Show more

Michael Bay by Lutz Koepnick

$25.00 NZD

Category: Gone Fishing

World Cinema in the Age of Populism If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His summer-defining event films involve extraordinary production costs and churn enormous box office returns. His ability to mastermind breathtaking spectacles of action, mayhem, and special effects continually push the movie industry as much as the medium of film toward new frontiers.  Lutz Koepnick engages the bigness of works like Armageddon and the Transformers movies to explore essential questions of contemporary filmmaking and culture. Combining close analysis and theoretical reflection, Koepnick shows how Bay's films, knowingly or not, address profound issues about what it means to live in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. According to Koepnick's astute readings, no one eager to understand the state of cinema today can ignore Bay's work. Bay's cinema of world-making and transnational reach not only exemplifies interlocking processes of cultural and economic globalization, it urges us to contemplate the future of moving images, of memory, matter, community, and experience, amid a time of rampant political populism and ever-accelerating technological change.  An eye-opening look at one of Hollywood's most polarizing directors, Michael Bay illuminates what energizes the films of this cinematic and cultural force.   ...Show more

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life : The new acceptance and commitment therapy by Steven C. Hayes; Spencer Smith (As told to)

$54.99 NZD

Category: Penguin AU | Series: A\New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook Ser.

Get ready to take a different perspective on your problems and your life--and the way you live it.   Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a new, scientifically based psychotherapy that takes a fresh look at why we suffer and even what it means to be mentally healthy. What if pain were a no rmal, unavoidable part of the human condition, but avoiding or trying to control painful experience were the cause of suffering and long-term problems that can devastate your quality of life? The ACT process hinges on this distinction between pain and suffering. As you work through this book, you'll learn to let go of your struggle against pain, assess your values, and then commit to acting in ways that further those values. ACT is not about fighting your pain; it's about developing a willingness to embrace every experience life has to offer. It's not about resisting your emotions; it's about feeling them completely and yet not turning your choices over to them. ACT offers you a path out of suffering by helping you choose to live your life based on what matters to you most. If you're struggling with anxiety, depression, or problem anger, this book can help--clinical trials suggest that ACT is very effective for a whole range of psychological problems. But this is more than a self-help book for a specific complaint--it is a revolutionary approach to living a richer and more rewarding life. Learn why the very nature of human language can cause suffering Escape the trap of avoidance Foster willingness to accept painful experience Practice mindfulness skills to achieve presence in the moment Discover the things you really value most Commit to living a vital, meaningful life This book has been awarded The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Seal of Merit -- an award bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives. ...Show more

Scottish Lost Boys by Kirsten Norrie

$44.99 NZD

Category: Gone Fishing

The imaginative flights, artistic struggles, and untimely deaths of some brilliant Scots, from Sir Walter Scott to Alexander McQueen. In grunge and tartan, sideshow and magic lantern, Scottish Lost Boys presents Scotland as place and Scotland as idea in the imaginative flights, artistic struggles, and u ntimely deaths of a singular skeleton leaf clan. Clan mythologists James McPherson and the Sobieski Stuart brothers; childhood scalping-survivor Robert McGee; fashion suicide Alexander McQueen; wolf-hunter Ernest Thompson Seton; film actor Jon Whiteley and director Bill Douglas; Aleister Crowley, conjuring spirits on the banks of Loch Ness; "Wizards of the North" Michael Scot, Sir Walter Scott, and John Henry Anderson; fantasy novelist George MacDonald: all these brilliant boys, wrapped in tartans of the imagination, encountered lostness as a betrayal of self or misguided acts of misadventure that fueled their art and identities. These Scottish Lost Boys are Wild West protagonists, 1700s literary stars, shadow skin cutters, and cinematic murderers, all interwoven with J. M. Barrie's themes of lostness, immortality, and myth within a Scottish context--the afterlife of fairy, skin, and shadow. ...Show more

Venice: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Marie-Jose Gransard

$39.99 NZD

Category: Gone Fishing | Series: The\I. B. Tauris Literary Guides for Travellers Ser.

Based on the author's popular seminars and walking tours of Venice, this entertaining and comprehensive "guide for literary travelers" is a work of literature itself, chronicling the writers and artists who have worked in or travelled to Venice over the centuries. Organized around six themes, such as Lu st and Love, Death and Mystery, and Haven and Inspiration, the book covers an astonishing range of artistic output. Gransard reveals how since its beginnings in the 7th century, Venice has been a magnetic center of trade, culture, wealth, and power, acting as a crossroads for an array of religious pilgrims and refugees, diplomats, crusading armies, and merchants. Its fabled beauty and reputation became a haven for freedom of expression, and seduced some of the most celebrated figures in history: artists such as Durer, Da Vinci, Bellini and Turner; writers including Dickens, Byron, Kafka, Poe, Rousseau, Thomas Mann, Ruskin, and Ezra Pound; and composers including Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Verdi and Stravinsky. All those giants and their work in the city is detailed here, along with dozens of lesser-known but important artists, too. Each writer or artist's appearance in the text has their name in bold lettering for easy scanning and reading, and the handy back matter includes a glossary of Venetian words and phrases, a list of Venetian building addresses for more than 100 famed artists and writers (for easy visits to the locations where they lived and worked), a detailed chronology of the city's life, an extensive bibliography for further reading, and a useful index for finding favorite writers' places in the book.A one-of-a-kind look at how places inspire writers and artists, as well as how artists fill the spirit of a place, Venice: A Literary Guide for Travellers is a must for literature lovers, and for tourists visiting "La Serenissima" - "the most serene" - who want to revel in the art and writing that took place in one of the most famous cities in the world. ...Show more

Let's Go to the Hardware Store by Anne Rockwell

$4.54 NZD

Category: April 2016 | Series: test

When the new house needs fixing up, it's off to the hardware store to find the tools and materials needed to get the job done a hammer, a screwdriver, a shiny tape measure, and even a stepladder.This family outing explores a familiar errand that fascinates plenty of young children: the hardware store. A nne Rockwell's perfectly pitched story and Melissa Iwai's child-friendly illustrations make this book ideal for the preschool audience." ...Show more