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Co-Existence

The Next Phase of AI - From the Bestselling Author of Co-Intelligence

by Ethan Mollick ...

How do we live alongside machines that are sometimes smarter than us?We are entering a new era. AI systems can already outperform humans in some domains while failing spectacularly in others. They can act as tutors, collaborators, researchers, strategists and creators … yet they can also produce falsehoods, generate convincing nonsense and fail unpredictably. The challenge is no longer simply ... Read more

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How do we live alongside machines that are sometimes smarter than us?We are entering a new era. AI systems can already outperform humans in some domains while failing spectacularly in others. They can act as tutors, collaborators, researchers, strategists and creators … yet they can also produce falsehoods, generate convincing nonsense and fail unpredictably. The challenge is no longer simply
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Light Cavalry Action

A gripping military thriller of combat and the courtroom

by Max Hennessy ...

Series Book 2 - By Air, By Land, By Sea Collection
A military hero? Or a traitor to his comrades and his country? A gripping thriller full of suspense and intrigue, from master author Max Hennessy.When, in 1939, a letter cast doubts on the military reputation of a man likely to become Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force if war with Germany should be declared, he had no alternative but to bring the matter to court.The case took ... Read more

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A military hero? Or a traitor to his comrades and his country? A gripping thriller full of suspense and intrigue, from master author Max Hennessy.When, in 1939, a letter cast doubts on the military reputation of a man likely to become Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force if war with Germany should be declared, he had no alternative but to bring the matter to court.The case took
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Landrace Gardening

Food Security Through Biodiversity And Promiscuous Pollination

by joseph Lofthouse ...

Series series Landrace Gardening - International Editions
Free your garden - and grow with it.Diversity creates a more secure future. Landrace Gardening invites readers to grow plants that adapt with place, producing crops that are strong, resilient, and full of flavor.No chemicals. No rigid control. Instead: joy, diversity, and a living connection with the land.Inside, Joseph Lofthouse offers both practical guidance and inspiring stories from decades of ... Read more

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Free your garden - and grow with it.Diversity creates a more secure future. Landrace Gardening invites readers to grow plants that adapt with place, producing crops that are strong, resilient, and full of flavor.No chemicals. No rigid control. Instead: joy, diversity, and a living connection with the land.Inside, Joseph Lofthouse offers both practical guidance and inspiring stories from decades of
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The Wide Wide Sea

One of the New York Times Top Ten Books of 2024

by Hampton Sides ...

*** BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST 2024 ****** One of the New York Times Top Ten Books of 2024 ****** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ***'The story of Captain Cook’s third voyage. Extraordinarily compulsive and fascinating on every page, it combines the satisfaction of a Patrick O’Brian or CS Forester maritime blockbuster</stro... ... Read more

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*** BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST 2024 ****** One of the New York Times Top Ten Books of 2024 ****** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ***'The story of Captain Cook’s third voyage. Extraordinarily compulsive and fascinating on every page, it combines the satisfaction of a Patrick O’Brian or CS Forester maritime blockbuster</stro...
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The Call

A nail-biting, unputdownable thriller

by P.D. Viner ...

'Holy hell, this book was intenseit kept me on edge the whole time. I absolutely LOVED this book.' Reader Review'Ben, I need you. Help me.''PLEASE HELP ME!''It was an accidentbut there's so much blood'In a frantic late-night phone call, Ben learns his wife, Mia, has killed a man. And she needs his help.When Ben arrives at Mia's hotel... ... Read more

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'Holy hell, this book was intenseit kept me on edge the whole time. I absolutely LOVED this book.' Reader Review'Ben, I need you. Help me.''PLEASE HELP ME!''It was an accidentbut there's so much blood'In a frantic late-night phone call, Ben learns his wife, Mia, has killed a man. And she needs his help.When Ben arrives at Mia's hotel...
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Thing Explainer

Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

by Randall Munroe ...

From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams ('blueprints' if you want to be complicated about it) that show how important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro.It's good to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it's much more interesting to know what they ... Read more

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From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams ('blueprints' if you want to be complicated about it) that show how important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro.It's good to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it's much more interesting to know what they
... Read more
Regulus

The Forgotten Weapon

by David K. Stumpf ...

In the closing months of World War II, guided missile technology blossomed as a technological breakthrough for the delivery of offensive weapons. Late in the war, Germany introduced its V-1 and V-2 missile systems, and the Soviet ballistic missile program late in the decade heightened the need for a U.S. intermediate-range missile program.During this period, the Chance Vought Aircraft Corporation, ... Read more

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In the closing months of World War II, guided missile technology blossomed as a technological breakthrough for the delivery of offensive weapons. Late in the war, Germany introduced its V-1 and V-2 missile systems, and the Soviet ballistic missile program late in the decade heightened the need for a U.S. intermediate-range missile program.During this period, the Chance Vought Aircraft Corporation,
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Apollo 8

The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon

by Jeffrey Kluger ...

The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumph.In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind’s first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one ... Read more

$26.09 NZD

The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumph.In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind’s first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one
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The Thinking Machine

Jensen Huang and Nvidia, the company shaping the future of AI

by Stephen Witt ...

WINNER OF THE FT SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025A SUNDAY TIMES, ECONOMIST AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Gripping and brilliantly told’ MUSTAFA SULEYMAN‘Highly entertaining’ GUARDIAN‘Excellent’ ECONOMIST'Riveting ... exceptional' RAY KURZWEIL‘Page-turning’ DAVID EPSTEIN<... ... Read more

$20.99 NZD

WINNER OF THE FT SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025A SUNDAY TIMES, ECONOMIST AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Gripping and brilliantly told’ MUSTAFA SULEYMAN‘Highly entertaining’ GUARDIAN‘Excellent’ ECONOMIST'Riveting ... exceptional' RAY KURZWEIL‘Page-turning’ DAVID EPSTEIN<...
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The Denniston Rose

by Jenny Pattrick ...

Series series Penguin Modern Aotearoa Classics
A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community.The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty ... Read more

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A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community.The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty
... Read more
X-Planes from the X-1 to the X-60

An Illustrated History

by Michael H. Gorn, Giuseppe De Chiara ...

Series Book 60 - Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Foreword by Dr. Roger D. Launius, Former NASA Chief HistorianFor the past 75 years, the U.S. government has invested significant time and money into advanced aerospace research, as evidenced by its many experimental X-plane aircraft and rockets. NASA's X-Planes asks a simple question: What have we gained from it all?To answer this question, the authors provide a comprehensive overview of the X ... Read more

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Foreword by Dr. Roger D. Launius, Former NASA Chief HistorianFor the past 75 years, the U.S. government has invested significant time and money into advanced aerospace research, as evidenced by its many experimental X-plane aircraft and rockets. NASA's X-Planes asks a simple question: What have we gained from it all?To answer this question, the authors provide a comprehensive overview of the X
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Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats, 5th Edition

Breed Selection, Feeding, Fencing, Health Care, Dairying, Marketing

by Jerry Belanger, Sara Thomson Bredesen ...

Series series Storey’s Guide to Raising
This best-selling handbook is packed with detailed information on housing, feeding, and fencing dairy goats. It’s been the trusted resource on the topic for farmers and homesteaders since it was originally published in 1975, and the new edition — completely updated and redesigned — makes Storey’s Guide to Raising Dairy Goats more comprehensive and accessible than ever. In-depth sections explain ... Read more

$28.99 NZD

This best-selling handbook is packed with detailed information on housing, feeding, and fencing dairy goats. It’s been the trusted resource on the topic for farmers and homesteaders since it was originally published in 1975, and the new edition — completely updated and redesigned — makes Storey’s Guide to Raising Dairy Goats more comprehensive and accessible than ever. In-depth sections explain
... Read more
Fire Weather

A True Story from the Frontlines of a Burning World - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

by John Vaillant ...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA Pulitzer Prize Finalist A National Book Award Finalist A Writers' Trust Award Finalist Shortlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Prize'No book feels timelier . . . impossible to put down'Cal Flyn, The Times'Superb and terrifying'Katherine Rundell, Guardi... ... Read more

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA Pulitzer Prize Finalist A National Book Award Finalist A Writers' Trust Award Finalist Shortlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Prize'No book feels timelier . . . impossible to put down'Cal Flyn, The Times'Superb and terrifying'Katherine Rundell, Guardi...
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The Chance of a Lifetime series

by Kate Clayborn ...

Count yourself lucky to be a reader of Kate Clayborn's gorgeously romantic Chance of a Lifetime series! Includes all three books; Beginner's Luck, Luck of the Draw and Best of Luck.Beginner's Luck: A scientist with a quiet, steady job at a university, Kit Averin's sudden lottery win changes nothing, with one exception: the fixer-upper she plans to buy, her first and only real home. It's more than ... Read more

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Count yourself lucky to be a reader of Kate Clayborn's gorgeously romantic Chance of a Lifetime series! Includes all three books; Beginner's Luck, Luck of the Draw and Best of Luck.Beginner's Luck: A scientist with a quiet, steady job at a university, Kit Averin's sudden lottery win changes nothing, with one exception: the fixer-upper she plans to buy, her first and only real home. It's more than
... Read more
Autonomy

The Quest to Build the Driverless Car - And How It Will Reshape Our World

by Lawrence Burns ...

’A fascinating hybrid. Part freewheeling history of the rise of the modern autonomous vehicle, part intimate memoir from an insider who was on the front lines for much of that history, Autonomy will more than bring readers up to speed on one of today’s most closely watched technologies’ Brian Merchant, author of The One DeviceFrom the ultimate insider – a former General Motors executive and ... Read more

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’A fascinating hybrid. Part freewheeling history of the rise of the modern autonomous vehicle, part intimate memoir from an insider who was on the front lines for much of that history, Autonomy will more than bring readers up to speed on one of today’s most closely watched technologies’ Brian Merchant, author of The One DeviceFrom the ultimate insider – a former General Motors executive and
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The Planter of Modern Life

How an Ohio Farm Boy Conquered Literary Paris, Fed the Lost Generation, and Sowed the Seeds of the Organic Food Movement

by Stephen Heyman ...

**Winner of the 2021 IACP Award for Literary or Historical Food WritingLonglisted for the 2021 Plutarch AwardHow a leading writer of the Lost Generation became America’s most famous farmer and inspired the organic food movement.**Louis Bromfield was a World War I ambulance driver, a Paris expat, and a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist as famous in the 1920s as Hemingway or Fitzgerald. But he cashed ... Read more

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**Winner of the 2021 IACP Award for Literary or Historical Food WritingLonglisted for the 2021 Plutarch AwardHow a leading writer of the Lost Generation became America’s most famous farmer and inspired the organic food movement.**Louis Bromfield was a World War I ambulance driver, a Paris expat, and a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist as famous in the 1920s as Hemingway or Fitzgerald. But he cashed
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Fly By Wire

The Geese, The Glide, The 'Miracle' on the Hudson

by William Langewiesche ...

On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines. Over the next three minutes, the plane's pilot Chelsey "Sully" Sullenberger, managed to glide to a safe landing in the Hudson River. It was an instant media sensation, the "The Miracle on the Hudson", and Captain Sully ... Read more

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On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines. Over the next three minutes, the plane's pilot Chelsey "Sully" Sullenberger, managed to glide to a safe landing in the Hudson River. It was an instant media sensation, the "The Miracle on the Hudson", and Captain Sully
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Alarmstart East

The German Fighter Pilot's Experience on the Eastern Front 1941-1945

by Patrick G. Eriksson ...

For anyone who is interested in the air war 1941-45, the information provided here is of inestimable value. There are no more than a handful of Second World War Luftwaffe members alive today. Patrick Eriksson had the foresight to record these experiences first-hand before it was too late. Some witnesses ended up as senior fighter controllers. The recollections and views of the veterans are put ... Read more

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For anyone who is interested in the air war 1941-45, the information provided here is of inestimable value. There are no more than a handful of Second World War Luftwaffe members alive today. Patrick Eriksson had the foresight to record these experiences first-hand before it was too late. Some witnesses ended up as senior fighter controllers. The recollections and views of the veterans are put
... Read more
Flowers For Algernon

The must-read literary science fiction masterpiece

by Daniel Keyes ...

Series series S.F. MASTERWORKS
The classic novel about a daring experiment in human intelligence'A masterpiece of poignant brilliance . . . heartbreaking, and utterly, completely brilliant' Guardian **'A timeless tearjerker' IndependentCharlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius.But then Algernon, th... ... Read more

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The classic novel about a daring experiment in human intelligence'A masterpiece of poignant brilliance . . . heartbreaking, and utterly, completely brilliant' Guardian **'A timeless tearjerker' IndependentCharlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius.But then Algernon, th...
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The World's Greatest Civil Aircraft

An Illustrated History

by Paul E Eden ...

Series series World's Greatest
Commercial air travel began just over a century ago. In that time there have been groundbreaking civilian aircraft, such as flying boats, the first pressurized cabin aircraft, jet and supersonic aircraft, as well as immense changes in the capacity of a typical airliner: in the 1920s aircraft struggled to carry 20 passengers, today some models can carry up to 800 people.The book includes many types ... Read more

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Commercial air travel began just over a century ago. In that time there have been groundbreaking civilian aircraft, such as flying boats, the first pressurized cabin aircraft, jet and supersonic aircraft, as well as immense changes in the capacity of a typical airliner: in the 1920s aircraft struggled to carry 20 passengers, today some models can carry up to 800 people.The book includes many types
... Read more
Whisky

by Ted Bruning ...

Back cover: A dram of fine scotch can transport us to Scotland Highlands or Lowlands, coast or island from anywhere in the world. This fully illustrated book looks at the ingredients and processes, the distilleries, the famous whiskies, and the wealth of colourful tales that make scotch whisky what it is. Inside front: Scotch whisky: words redolent of Highland vistas and wind-blown coasts, ... Read more

$11.37 NZD

Back cover: A dram of fine scotch can transport us to Scotland Highlands or Lowlands, coast or island from anywhere in the world. This fully illustrated book looks at the ingredients and processes, the distilleries, the famous whiskies, and the wealth of colourful tales that make scotch whisky what it is. Inside front: Scotch whisky: words redolent of Highland vistas and wind-blown coasts,
... Read more
Crafted in Britain

The Survival of Britain's Traditional Industries

by Anthony Burton, Mr Rob Scott ...

Crafted in Britain is a celebration of Britain's traditional crafts and industries that have survived into the modern world, not as museums but on their merits. In an age of increasing automation and standardisation, it is a joy to find such places, where craftsmanship and personal skills are still valued.Their world is recreated in Rob Scott's dramatic photographs, while the processes and history ... Read more

$45.49 NZD

Crafted in Britain is a celebration of Britain's traditional crafts and industries that have survived into the modern world, not as museums but on their merits. In an age of increasing automation and standardisation, it is a joy to find such places, where craftsmanship and personal skills are still valued.Their world is recreated in Rob Scott's dramatic photographs, while the processes and history
... Read more
Tex Johnston

Jet-Age Test Pilot

by A. M. "Tex" Johnston ...

One of America's most daring and accomplished test pilots, Tex Johnston flew the first US jet airplanes and, in a career spanning the 1930s through the 1970s, helped create the jet age at such pioneering aersospace companies as Bell Aircraft and Boeing. ... Read more

$35.18 NZD

One of America's most daring and accomplished test pilots, Tex Johnston flew the first US jet airplanes and, in a career spanning the 1930s through the 1970s, helped create the jet age at such pioneering aersospace companies as Bell Aircraft and Boeing.
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The Basket Case

the BRAND NEW DS George Cross mystery short for 2026

by Tim Sullivan ...

Don't miss THE TAILOR, the brand new George Cross Mystery - available to pre-order now.'One of the most iconic British fictional detectives of the 21st century.'DAILY MAILThree go up. Two come down...Detective George Cross receives a very bizarre call from a distressed family after their picnic was horribly interrupted. Just as they were about to tuck into their sandwiches, a human arm landed ... Read more

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Don't miss THE TAILOR, the brand new George Cross Mystery - available to pre-order now.'One of the most iconic British fictional detectives of the 21st century.'DAILY MAILThree go up. Two come down...Detective George Cross receives a very bizarre call from a distressed family after their picnic was horribly interrupted. Just as they were about to tuck into their sandwiches, a human arm landed
... Read more

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