Muslim Women Are Everything by Seema Yasmin; Fahmida Azim
$48.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
A full-color illustrated collection of riveting, inspiring, and stereotype-shattering stories that reveal the beauty, diversity, and strength of Muslim women both past and present. Tired of seeing Muslim women portrayed as weak, sheltered, and limited, journalist Seema Yasmin reframes how the world sees ...Show more
A Bird a Day by Dominic Couzens
$40.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
The beauty and fascination of birds is unrivalled. Every day of the year, immerse yourself in their world with an entry from A Bird of Day, where Dominic Couzens offers an insight into everything from the humble Robin to Emperor Penguins, who are in the midst of Arctic storms protecting their young on 1 ...Show more
Tom of Finland - The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero by F. Valentine Hooven III
$80.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
Tuoko Laaksonen, also known as Tom of Finland (1920-1991), was an iconic and provocative artist who rose to cult status in the international gay community and beyond for his work celebrating gay archetypes and masculinity during a time when being gay was taboo. Created in partnership with the Tom of Fin ...Show more
Fake Books by Müller, Armin
$110.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
Bourgeois scholarship as disguise: "Fake books" are objects that simulate the most important carriers of knowledge and culture by subverting fundamental functions such as visualization, information or entertainment. Most of these "book simulators" are beautiful containers, which serve for storing - or h ...Show more
The Library: A World History by James W P Campbell, Will Pryce
$65.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
Ambitious and wide-ranging, this is the first single volume to tell the story of the library as a distinct building type, all around the world and from the beginnings of writing to the present day. In its highest form the library is a total work of art, combining painting, sculpture, furniture and archi ...Show more
Patterns of India - A Journey Through Colors, Textiles, and the Vibrancy of Rajasthan by Christine Chitnis
$55.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
It's the trip of a lifetime--a textile-based tour of colorful Rajasthan, India featuring more than 200 lush photographs depicting everday life in one of the most vibrant regions in the world. Patterns of Indiais a visual experience that offers intimate insights into the diverse and richly hued Western I ...Show more
The Art of NASA - The Illustrations That Sold the Missions by Piers Bizony
$90.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
In The Art of NASA, ultra-rare artworks illustrate a unique history of NASA hardware and missions from 1958 to today, giving readers an unprecedented look at how spacecraft, equipment, and missions evolved-and how they might have evolved.
Wild Horses of the World by Kelly Wilson
$60.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
Wild horses have been an important part of wildlife on Earth for centuries, yet many herds now face serious threats - and very few people can claim to have seen them galloping free across the plains, or scaling mountain passes. Kelly Wilson has. For this book, she spent years researching the world's wil ...Show more
Great Diaries: The world's most remarkable diaries, journals, notebooks, and letters by DK
$48.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages. Great Diariestraces the history of the diary in all its forms, from ancient times to the present day. It brings together historical and literary diaries, artists' ...Show more
Marvel Greatest Comics: 100 Comics that Built a Universe by Melanie Scott, Stephen Wiacek
$55.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
100 Marvel comics that built a universe. Which comic books have helped define Marvel Comics and make them the pop-culture phenomenon they are today? Find out in the pages of Marvel Greatest Comics. From the trailblazing original Human Torch and his aquatic adversary Namor, the Sub-Mariner in 1939 to the ...Show more
The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature by Edward Brooke-Hitching
$53.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
From the author of the critically acclaimed and globally successful The Phantom Atlas, The Golden Atlas and The Sky Atlas comes a stunning new work. The Madman's Library is a unique, beautifully illustrated journey through the entire history of literature, delving into its darkest territories to hunt do ...Show more
Dignity by Dana Gluckstein; Desmond Tutu (Foreword by); Faithkeeper Oren R. Lyons (Introduction by); Amnesty International (Epilogue by)
$90.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
This collection of iconic photographs by Dana Gluckstein honors Indigenous Peoples worldwide. Gluckstein, whether photographing a Haitian healer or a San Bushman elder, succeeds in distilling the universality of experience that links us all without diminishing the dignity of the individual. Dignity incl ...Show more