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28 November 2014


http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/827777-EquilateralANovel-9781408843765
Equilateral by Ken Kalfus       $25.00
An interesting, enjoyable book about a 19th-century astronomer's scheme to signal Mars by marking a vast fiery triangle in the Egyptian desert.
"Kalfus's comedy of ideas is as dry as the scorched desert winds, and as black as the pitch poured into the Equilateral's trenches. Kalfus keeps imaginative intellectual sympathy and devastating retrospective irony in miraculous equipoise. This is a short novel in which every word has been weighed. It is a beautifully judged, haunting, highly intelligent and rich work of  fiction." - Guardian
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/832335?barcode=9781608195916&title=HowParisBecameParis%3ATheInventionoftheModernCity
How Paris Became Paris: The invention of the modern city by Joan DeJean      $39.99
The transformation of Paris from medieval muddle to modern capital during the seventeenth century changed the way people thought about cities. This lively, well-illustrated book shows how early urban planning shaped all that came after and established Paris’s unique feel.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/834002?barcode=9780241146316&title=DiscontentandItsCiviizations
Discontent and its Civilisations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, London by Moshin Hamid       $37.00
Sharp essays and incisive journalism from the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/832296?barcode=9781760111823&title=WorkingStiff
 Working Stiff: Two years, 262 bodies and the making of a medical examiner by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell      $37.00
Offers a firsthand account of daily life as a rookie forensic pathologist, and of the unexpected challenges of shuttling between the domains of the living and the dead.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/840480?barcode=9781784780319&title=Capitalism%3AAGhostStory
 Capitalism: A ghost story by Arundhati Roy     $29.00
This book examines the dark side of democracy, and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism has subjugated billions of people to racism and exploitation. It is a ferocious attack on the mega-corporations that treat India's natural resources like robber barons, and how they have been able to influence every part of the nation from the government to the army in the rush for profit. But, as Arundhati Roy passionately argues, capitalism is in crisis. The cracks are starting to show in its facade.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/840797?barcode=9780864739803&title=AnUnrealHouseFilledWithRealStorms
An Unreal House Filled With Real Storms by Elizabeth Knox     $9.99
Is it fiction's job to make the supernatural (whatever that is) natural (whatever that means)? Or to blur (or erase) the line between the two? Should (can?) 'genre' be hollowed out and filled with 'literature' (whatever that is)? How do the forces impacting on an author's (or a reader's) personal life alter the world view informing their writing (and reading)? What does loss leave you with? Can the omnipresent (whatever that is) be encountered in a taxi in a tunnel? What should (can) we make of all this? This unique insight into the tectonics of Knox's creative mind was delivered as the inaugural Margaret Mahy Memorial Lecture in August. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/833995?barcode=9781846140273&title=NapoleontheGreat
Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts      $70.00
"Witty, humane and unapologetically admiring, Roberts's book is not just another brilliant narrative biography of Napoleon – although it is certainly this. It is also an essay on statesmanship and a meditation on history itself: a defence of the whole idea of the 'great man' against what the author calls in his conclusion 'determinist analyses of history, which explain events in terms of vast impersonal forces and minimise the part played by individuals'." - The Telegraph


http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/826210?barcode=9780571315550&title=ElectricDreams-TheCollectedWorksofJim%27llPaintIt
Electric Dreams: The collected works of Jim'll Paint It      $35.00
"Got something in your brain you'd really like to see with your eyes? Jim'll paint it." 
In response to crazed requests through the internet, Jim has painted all sorts of things (from all sorts of brains). This book is as much a testament to the kinds of things people want painted as to Jim's artwork.
>> Here are examples. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/832343-Eren-9781472110978
Eren by Simon P. Clark      $25.00
'Tell the story to its end,' says Eren with a grin. His yellow eyes are glowing like embers in the night. 'When I reach the end,' I say, 'what happens? You'll have the whole story.' 'Hmm,' he says, looking at me and licking his lips with a dry, grey tongue. 'What happens then? Why don't we find out?' 
Stories have both power and danger. Will Oli be trapped in his?
"Eren caught my attention from the very first page. I really enjoyed it. Sure-footed, distinctive, strange, poetic. Simon P. Clark is a truly interesting new voice." - David Almond, author of Skellig

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/831220?barcode=9780143124719&title=ABunchofPrettyThingsIDidNotBuy
 A Bunch of Pretty Things I Did Not Buy by Sarah Lazarovic        $29.00
Like most people, Sarah Lazarovic covets beautiful things. But rather than giving in to her impulse to spend and acquire, Sarah instead spent a year painting the objects she wanted. A witty, gracious, and charmingly illustrated anti-consumer manifesto
Would make an excellent Christmas gift (or get into the spirit and give a picture of it!).
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/827424?barcode=9781844037827&title=ConcreteCanvas%3AHowStreetArtisChangingtheWayOurCitiesLook
Concrete Canvas: How street art is changing the way our cities look by Lee Bofkin     $39.99
Full of energy and pertinence, graffiti and street art have broken out of the cultural ghetto and are bringing our cityscapes to life. This is art that is responsive to place and moment, and accessible to a wide public outside the confines of a gallery.
 The Stories by Jane Gardam       $49.99
A new collection, shortlisted for the 2014 Folio Prize. 
"Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny, she is one of our finest writers." - Hilary Mantel
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/833795?barcode=9783836552028&title=RollingStones
The Rolling Stones edited by Reuel Golden          $295.00
Ladies and gentlemen...the Rolling Stones! This is the definitive, authorized illustrated history. Produced in collaboration with the band, this book charts the Stones' remarkable history and outrageously cool lifestyle in around 600 pages of photographs and illustrations, many previously unseen, gathered from archives all over the world. Large, lavish and highly collectible.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/832707?barcode=9781869408206&title=I%2CClodia%2CandOtherPortraits
I, Clodia, And other portraits by Anna Jackson     $25.00
Two sequences that test the possibilities for poetic ventriloquism.
By giving Clodia - the 'Lesbia' of Catullus's famous love poetry - her own first-person narration, Anna Jackson upends and reinvigorates the beloved classical sequence with biting wit and tender attention.



http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/833869?barcode=9781925106244&title=AnIllustratedBookofBadArguments
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments: Learn the lost art of making sense by Ali Almossawi      $30.00
Small animals introduce us to the straw man fallacy, the slippery slope argument, the ad hominem attack and other seriously flawed reasoning. Very useful, and rather a lot of fun.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/853538?barcode=9780141361789&title=TheBookwithNoPictures
The Book With No Pictures by B.J. Novak      $26.00
It might seem boring to have a book with no pictures, but here's the deal: the person reading the book has to read the words on the page, whatever they are....
>> Like this.  
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/827774?barcode=9781472900289&title=ClipperShipsandtheGoldenAgeofSail%3ARacesandRivalriesontheNineteenthCenturyHighSeas
 Clipper Ships and the Golden Age of Sail: Races and rivalries on the nineteenth-century high seas by Sam Jefferson     $60.00
An evocative survey of the thoroughbred sailing ships. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/832295?barcode=9781743319970&title=SouthwithEndurance
 South With Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic expedition, 1914-1917; The photographs of Frank Hurley    $37.00
Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition was a feat of human endurance - one vividly captured in the dramatic pictures taken by Frank Hurley, the expedition's official photographer. An amazing body of photojournalism, these are also images of great artistry that capture the life-and-death drama that was played out against a frozen landscape of magnificent and terrible beauty.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/766443?barcode=9781922147707&title=Bird
Bird by Crystal Chan   $22.00
Jewel never knew her brother Bird, but all her life she has lived in his shadow. Her parents blame Grandpa for the tragedy of their family's past; they say that Grandpa attracted a malevolent spirit - a duppy - into their home. Grandpa hasn't spoken a word since. Now Jewel is twelve, and she lives in a house full of secrets. Jewel is sure that no one will ever love her like they loved Bird, until the night that she meets a mysterious boy in a tree. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/830717?barcode=9781592408702&title=Dr.Mutter%27sMarvels%3AATrueTaleofIntrigueandInnovationattheDawnofModernMedicine
Dr Mutter's Marvels: A true tale of intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz      $37.00
Mütter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as anesthesia, the sterilization of surgical tools, and a compassion-based vision for helping the severely deformed, which clashed spectacularly with the sentiments of his time.  Brilliant, outspoken, and brazenly handsome, Mütter was flamboyant in every aspect of his life. He wore pink silk suits to perform surgery, added an umlaut to his last name just because he could, and amassed an immense collection of medical oddities that would later form the basis of Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/827782-Harraga-9781408843987
Harraga by Boualem Sansal      $39.99
Two women, a pediatrician considered a spinster at 35 and a spontaneous, pregnant teenager, forge a strong, unlikely emotional bond after a short time living together in a 17th-century house in a crumbling neighbourhood in contemporary Algiers.
"Sansal's richly drawn characters and the places where he embeds them will colour readers' moods long after we leave their passageways." - Kirkus Review
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/832383-SomeHereAmongUs-9781408856680
Some Here Among Us by Peter Walker     $36.99
Even a short life can cast a very long shadow. Forty years after their Wellington student days, protesting against the Vietnam War, what remains of the characters' idealism and hope?
>> Trailer.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/826600?barcode=9780670087181&title=TheAgeofWrath%3AAHistoryoftheDelhiSultanate
The Age of Wrath: A history of the Delhi Sultanate by Abraham Eraly      $38.00
The Delhi-based Muslim Turkic kingdom ruled over large parts of India for 320 years (1206 – 1526), before falling to the Mughals.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/835994?barcode=9781869408237&title=YoungCountry
Young Country by Kerry Hines      $35.00
Hines's spare poetry responds to the evocative 19th century photographs of William Williams, offering a meditation on how we capture the present and re-present the past, on the parallels between building a community and authoring a text, and on the possibilities that expansive fiction offers to documented truth.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/834006?barcode=9781922079305&title=TheMysteryoftheVenusIslandFetish
 The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish by Dido Butterworth [i.e. Tim Flannery]    $37.00
 It’s 1932. The Venus Island fetish, a ceremonial mask surrounded by thirty-two human skulls, resides in a museum. Young anthropologist Archie Meek, recently returned from an extended field trip to Venus Island, has noticed a strange discoloration of some of the skulls of the fetish. Has someone been tampering with the primitive artefact? Is there a link between the mysterious disappearance of Cecil Polkinghorne, curator of archaeology, and the fetish? And how did Eric Sopwith, retired mollusks expert, die in the museum’s storeroom? 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/834627?barcode=9780143571896&title=ABloodyRoadHome%3AWorldWarTwoandNewZealand%27sHeroicSecondDivision
 A Bloody Road Home: World War Two and New Zealand's heroic Second Division by Christopher Pugsley     $70.00
The first monograph on Freyberg's revered division.  
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/832293?barcode=9781760110543&title=ShortHistoryofStupid
A Short History of Stupid: The decline of reason and why public debate makes us want to scream by Bernard Keane and Helen Razer      $36.99
The deteriorating quality of our public debate and the dwindling of common sense in media, politics and culture can drive you to despair and rage. This is a book whose stupid time has come. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/826271-TheGirlWhoSoaredOverFairylandandCuttheMooninTwo-9781472110015
The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two by Catherynne Valente     $22.00
The third in the remarkable 'Fairyland' series, that began with The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making and continued with The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There.
"One of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century." - Time
"A glorious balancing act between modernism and the Victorian fairy-tale, done with heart and wisdom." - Neil Gaiman
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/832380-SixPoetsHardytoLarkinAnAnthologybyAlanBennett-9780571321094
 Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin, An anthology by Alan Bennett       $37.00
Bennett introduces and discusses his favourite poets in such a personable and astute way - he is an ideal literary companion.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/832344-Happy-9781743360545
Happy: Creating joyous living spaces through design by Amanda Talbot     $89.99
Architecture and interior design at their best can make us safer, healthier, more efficient, enlightened and productive - all contributing to a fundamental sense of wellbeing. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/831600?barcode=9781598533101&title=ArtinAmerica1945-1970-WritingsfromtheAgeofAbstractExpressionism%2CPopArt%2CandMinimalism%3A%28LibraryofAmerica%23259%29
Art in America, 1945-1970: Writings from the age of Abstract Impressionism, Pop Art and Minimalism edited by Jed Perl       $55.00
Key texts from key movements in a key period.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/832300-EurekaEverythingYouEverWantedtoKnowAbouttheAncientGreeksbutWereAfraidtoAsk-9781782395140
Eureka! Everything you ever wanted to know about the Ancient Greeks but were afraid to ask by Peter Jones      $39.99
Meet the key figures, visit the key events and discover the key concepts that established the foundations of Western civilisation. There's actually probably a bit more than you ever wanted to know, but that's no reason not to read about it.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/833164?barcode=9781472112439&title=TheLostSock
The Lost Sock by Gillian Johnson        $25.00
When a man loses one of his favourite pair of socks at the laundromat, he sets out on a quest to find out what happens to lost socks, and why every sock drawer contains a plethora of single socks. On his eventful journey he discovers why you always lose the sock you love, and eventually finds his perfect partner at a puppet show (he was obviously a bit of a lost sock himself).

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/816994?barcode=9780141350776&title=InsideCharlie%27sChocolateFactory%3ATheCompleteStoryofWillyWonka%2CtheGoldenTicketandRoaldDahl%27sMostFamousCreation
Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory: The complete story of Willy Wonka, the golden ticket and Roald Dahl's most famous creation by Lucy Mangan        $50.00
Fully illustrated and wide-ranging survey of fifty years of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  
>> How to find a golden ticket.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/830927?barcode=9781446304532&title=FauxTaxidermyKnits%3A15WildAnimalKnittingPatterns
Faux Taxidermy Knits: 15 wild animal knitting patterns by Louise Walker      $39.99
We had lots of fun trying to decide whether to start with the fox stole, the hanging pheasant mantelpiece decoration or the knitted tiger rug.







21 November 2014

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/822462?barcode=9781472116666&title=TheBookshopBook
The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell $29.99
A love letter to bookshops. Not just any old bookshops but bookshops in buses, on boats, in barns and in abandoned railway stations, weird bookshops,fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, remarkable bookshops (the world’s oldest, the world’s smallest), bookshops you can’t wait to visit and bookshops you won’t want to leave.
From the compiler of the Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops books. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/842627?barcode=9780958289863&title=TeakandTide%3ATheebbsandeddiesoftheEdwinFoxPB
 Teak and Tide: The ebbs and eddies of the Edwin Fox by Nigel Costley       $60.00
The fascinating history of the last surviving 19th century merchantman sailing ship, from construction on the Ganges to preservation in Picton. The Edwin Fox carried troops to the Crimean War, Chinese coolies to Cuba, convicts to Australia, and immigrants to Nelson.
Hardback available next week: $85.00
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/829094?barcode=9781869408213&title=HelloGirls%26Boys%21ANewZealandToyStory
Hello Girls and Boys: A New Zealand toy story by David Veart       $65.00
A very nicely presented, beautifully illustrated history of toys in New Zealand, from early Maori to modern times. This is a wonderful book, full of social history, information on NZ toy companies such as Fun-Ho and Lincoln, and several lifetimes’ worth of childhood nostalgia!


http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/828960?barcode=9780473262983&title=CrossonClarkeCarnachanArchitects
A very fine survey of the work of this influential New Zealand firm, with excellent photographs, drawings ad text. One of the top architectural books of the year.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/816993?barcode=9780241008331&title=Germany%3ATheMemoriesofaNation
Germany: Memories of a nation by Neil MacGregor      $60.00
MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, over-arching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. He chooses objects from 500 years of history to demonstrate the contradictions and momentum of a culture.
"His method is memory. His way in is through objects and people, places and buildings. MacGregor knows unerringly which objects to select and which chapters of Germany's 'enrichingly and confusingly fragmented history' to bring to life through them. This book is immaculately researched, timely and important." - Independent
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/848563?barcode=9780994114020&title=TheDailyJournalofanAntarcticExplorer1956%E2%80%931958
The Daily Journal of an Antarctic Explorer, 1956-1958 by Guyon Warren    $49.99
Guyon Warren was one of a small group of men who spent 15 consecutive months in the Antarctic in the late 1950s. He helped establish Scott Base, right from the construction of the first hut. However, it is with his explorations out on the ice that he made his greatest contribution. Learning about the experiences he had makes for fascinating reading.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/827678?barcode=9780091944445&title=TheKingdomRevealed
 The Kingdom Revealed by Rob Ryan      $45.00
This is a story about a young boy who doesn't want to be King.What he wants, more than anything, is to be normal. One night, he climbs out of his four-poster bed, disappears through a hidden door in the ceiling, creeps down a long-forgotten passageway, opens a small window and leaves behind everything he's ever known... 
A lovely book, beautifully illustrated by the paper-cut artist who brought us The Invisible Kingdom.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/824284?barcode=9780434022168&title=RepublicofImagination
The Republic of Imagination: A case for fiction by Azar Nafisi       $37.99
In her memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Nafisi told how literature can provide a place of enrichment and quiet subversion in an authoritarian society. Her new book makes a passionate case for the power and role of fiction in the modern world. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/833713-AManLiesDreaming-9781444762938
A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar     $38.00
Deep in the heart of history's most infamous concentration camp, a man lies dreaming. His name is Shomer, and before the war he was a pulp fiction author. Now, to escape the brutal reality of life in Auschwitz, Shomer spends his nights imagining another world - a world where a disgraced former dictator now known only as Wolf ekes out a miserable existence as a low-rent PI in London's grimiest streets. An extraordinary story of revenge and redemption.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/824301?barcode=9780099549147&title=Witches%3AJamesIandtheEnglishWitchHunts
 Witches: James I and the English Witch Hunts by Tracy Borman    $29.99
A fascinating book, using the story of two sisters hanged for witchcraft to access a milieu of paranoia, misogyny, superstition and hysteria.
"A tantalising history. A panoramic survey of the witch craze that swept through Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries." - Sunday Times
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/853717?barcode=9781877197437&title=AucklandWaterfrontThePortinEdwardianTimes
 Auckland Waterfront: The port in Edwardian times by Roger Morris    $59.99
At the beginning of the last century Auckland was a thriving port, and her waterfront was no less vibrant than it is today. This is a collection of paintings illustrating the port in those years, supported with archival photographs and historical comment.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/827674?barcode=9781846557828&title=IRefuse
I Refuse by Per Petterson      $34.99
The humane and moving new novel by the prize-winning author of Out Stealing Horses.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/815955?barcode=9780307952349&title=BraveGenius%3AAScientist%2CaPhilosopher%2CandTheirDaringAdventuresfromtheFrenchResistancetotheNobelPrize
Brave Genius: A scientist, a philosopher, and their daring adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize by Sean B. Carroll      $35.00
A remarkably interesting book, examining how war and friendship can catalyse genius. Both aspiring writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod joined the Resistance during WWII, and after they met, their friendship deepened their pursuit of their chosen fields. An insightful double portrait.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/791237?barcode=9781782490999&title=AWoman%27sShed%3ASpacesforWomentoCreate%2CWrite%2CMakeMusic%2CThink%2CGrow%2CandEscape
"Why should men have all the sheds? Last year I had one built in a garden corner, but I wish I had seen this book first! 80 artists, sculptors, writers, farmers, furniture-makers and gardeners have opened their sheds and it's just magical. A real treasure!" - Jan



http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/834643?barcode=9780241004609&title=TheLongestAfternoon%3AThe400MenWhoDecidedtheBattleofWaterloo
A minute-by-minute account of the small group who held off thousands of Napoleon's soldiers and changed the course of history.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/835993?barcode=9781869408244&title=TellYouWhatGreatNewZealandNonfiction%2C2015
 Tell You What: Great New Zealand Non-Fiction edited by Susanna Andrew and Jolisa Gracewood      $29.99
Eleanor Catton, Lara Strongman, Paul Ewen (Francis Plug), Steve Braunias, Elizabeth Knox, Tina Makereti, &c, & c, as well as a piece by P&B's Naomi Arnold about her mother. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/831627?barcode=9781922182609&title=ThreeEarlyStories
Three Early Stories by J.D. Salinger     $13.00
The first Salinger book for fifty years reaches back to stories written before The Catcher in the Rye.

 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/829587?barcode=9781927262146&title=Buyer%27sGuidetoNewZealandWines2015
Buyer's Guide to New Zealand Wines, 2015 by Michael Cooper     $39.99
Updated with new tasting notes and vintage ratings.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/832340?barcode=9781472913203&title=P53TheGeneThatCrackedTheCancerCode
p53: The gene that cracked the cancer code by Sue Armstrong      $37.00
All of us have lurking in our DNA a most remarkable gene, which has a crucial job - it protects us from cancer. Known simply as p53, this gene constantly scans our cells to ensure that they grow and divide without mishap, as part of the routine maintenance of our bodies. If a cell makes a mistake in copying its DNA during the process of division, p53 stops it in its tracks, summoning a repair team before allowing the cell to carry on dividing. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/840055?barcode=9781781685839&title=Hacker%2CHoaxer%2CWhistleblower%2CSpy%3AtheStoryofAnonymous
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The story of Anonymous by Gabriella Coleman       $39.99
Gabriella Coleman's history of Anonymous makes clear that almost all of the hacktivism attributed to this global collective has been devoted to exposing wrongdoing, not wreaking destruction, even as she also carefully shows that Anonymous is not a shadowy organization but a loosely knit collection of activists all over the globe, fighting for government and corporate transparency. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/833386?barcode=9781623564568&title=TheComingSwarm%3ADDOSActions%2CHacktivism%2CandCivilDisobedienceontheInternet
The Coming Swarm: DDOS actions, hacktivism and civil disobedience on the internet by Molly Sauter       $35.00
This book examines the theory, practice, history, and ethics of civil disobedience on the internet.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/837505-TheRevolutions-9781472113276
The Revolutions by Felix Gilman        $27.00
A fantasy of the occult scene in fin de siecle London, the celestial spheres, and mystical Martian exploration, following two young lovers separated by the schemes and blundering of rival occultists, from the drawing rooms of spiritualist societies, through shady enterprises in Deptford warehouses, and magical war on the Isle of Dogs, and out to a hallucinatory, doomed Mars drawn from the fantasies of Edgar Rice Burroughs and the imaginings of Aleister Crowley.
"Vivid and accurate prose, a gripping, imaginative story, a terrifically inventive setting, a hard-bitten, indestructible hero, and an intelligent, fully adult heroine - we haven't had a science-fiction novel like this for a long time." - Ursula K. Le Guin
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/833421?barcode=9781851778089&title=Word%26Image%3AArt%2CBooksandDesignfromtheNationalArtLibrary
Word & Image: Art, books and design from the National Art Library by Julius Bryant      $60.00
From a fifteenth-century book of hours to William Morris's specimen pages for Jean Froissart's The Chronicles of Fraunce, Inglande, and Other Places Adjoynynge; from George Cruikshank's studies of Fagin for Oliver Twist to an Yves Saint Laurent design for the House of Dior; and from Bill Brandt's photographs to the Book of Nails by Floating Concrete Octopus.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/pages/395-WHATWEAREREADING
Our Summer Newsletter (a.k.a. the Christmas catalogue) is now available from the shop, or tucked into the Saturday 22nd November issue of the Nelson Mail. A digital edition will be sent to our What We Are Reading newsletter subscribers.
We've chosen 140 books we think you'll love and we've written why. Use our catalogue to buy your seasonal gifts and to make a stack for your own enjoyment!