Nine Lives: Expeditions to Everest

Robert Mads Anderson

Robert Mads Anderson is an elite mountaineer with a solitary goal: to conquer Everest. After nearly getting killed on his first expedition, he led a team up a new route on the Kangshung Face without oxygen or Sherpa support, climbed solo on the remote North Face, and finally guided a team to the top of ...

Who Lived There? The Stories Behind Historic New Zealand Buildings

Nicola McCloy; Jane King

You can't help but wonder about the stories behind the unusual buildings you see around New Zealand - from cute colonial cottages to abandoned industrial buildings or ghost towns. Nicola McCloy went looking to find out ... who lived there? From basic stone cottages in barren-looking countryside to prett...

Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?

Daniel Chandler

In this ambitious and uplifting debut, Daniel Chandler argues that the ideas of John Rawls - the twentieth century’s greatest political philosopher - have the potential to transform society for the better, ending years of escalating inequality, democratic erosion, and culture wars. Taking Rawls’s egalit...