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'I just closed my eyes and drifted away. I drifted away to the music but I don't think I'd ever experienced anything quite so soothing and magical. It was like I was in a magical space. It was beautiful.' - Jim Mahoney, reformed drug addict Pot, Mary Jane, dope, skunk, grass, has...h, green, hooch, herb, ganja, reefer. New Zealand loves weed. It's the most popular illegal drug in our country and third most popular drug overall, behind alcohol and tobacco, yet it also represents a troubled relationship. In Weed, award-winning journalist James Borrowdale dives in deep to understand why, meeting a fascinating cross-section of New Zealand along the way - a nineteenth-century nun who allegedly grew pot, a bystander to the Mr Asia syndicate, a convicted heroin dealer turned criminologist, people both using and offering the drug for medicinal relief, politicians and law-makers old and new. What's revealed is an engrossing, heady and sometimes surprising account of New Zealand and weed. Fusing insightful, personal stories with analysis and historical research, Weed lays out the facts as they are - about an issue that can no longer be ignored.
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Updated annually, Baby Names is the UK's bestselling naming book
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Since prehistory, bunkers have been built as protection from cataclysmic social and environmental forces, and as places of power and transformation. Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears: from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And on...ce you look, it doesn't take long to start seeing bunkers everywhere. In Bunker, acclaimed urban explorer and cultural geographer Bradley Garrett explores the global and rapidly growing movement of 'prepping' for social and environmental collapse, or 'doomsday'. From the 'dread merchants' hustling safe spaces in the American mid-West to eco-fortresses in Thailand, from geoscrapers to armoured mobile bunkers, Bunker is a brilliant, original and never less than deeply disturbing story from the frontlines of the way we live now: an illuminating reflection on our age of disquiet and dread that brings it into new, sharp focus. The bunker, Garrett shows, is all around us: in malls, airports, gated communities, the vehicles we drive. Most of all, he shows, it's in our minds.
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By Tribe, Luke
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Certain hairdos are the defining feature of someone's public image. It's that level of hair iconic-ness that Luke Tribe has illustrated in this fun, colorful and sassy book. Luke possess one of those encyclopedic brains for pop culture. In this careful curation 100 iconic hairsty...les, he brings to this book a truckload of obscure references to film, TV, music and more. Just some of the hairstyles celebrated in this book include: Cameron Diaz, with the classic cowlick from There's Something About Mary; Judy Garland, as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz; Susan Sarandon, as Janet in The Rocky Horror Picture Show; The evil Cynthia of The Rugrats; Jennifer Aniston's The Rachel , in Friends; David Bowie's fluffy mane in Labyrinth; Stranger Things' Barbara Barb Holland, and her humble hairdo; Beyonce's Formation-era braids; Justin Timberlake with his 90s noodle hair; Princess Peach, of Super Mario fame); and, of course, Anna Wintour's indefatigable power-bob.
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By the Ministry for Culture and Heritage and the Alexander Turnbull Library, this glorious, fully illustrated discovery of New Zealand's key times brings history to life. Each day of the year features a story ranging from the nation-forming to the quirky. Born on this Day boxes s...cattered throughout provide details on around 100 significant figures.
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The Avocado Book is a celebration of the world's most instagrammed fruit. With over 60 recipes taking you from breakfast to dessert, this book proves that avocados are not only tasty and nutritious but incredibly versatile.
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By King, Jamie
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- RRP: $24.99
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24 Nov 20
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Is your smartphone tracking your every movement? Did aliens help to build the Sphinx and Great Pyramid of Giza? Is the food industry colluding to make us addicted to sugar? Prepare yourself for some startling revelations on these topics and many more in this updated and expanded ...compendium of the world's scariest and strangest conspiracy theories.
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Clarkson returns to set our off-kilter world to rights yet again, in a brand new, hilarious collection of stories and observations. From smug muesli-munchers to the dreariest parts of London, there has been plenty of reason to abandon all hope in these deeply troubling times. But... with Clarkson in your corner, at least you can have a good chortle before it all goes south for good.
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A witty, rich and surprising history of celebrity by the historical consultant to HORRIBLE HISTORIES
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Uplifting, joyous and charming, A Road for All Seasons is a vivid, social and cultural snapshot of 21st-century Britain.
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