Book Review: The Grand Electrification of the South
This book tells the social history of what we can do when economic production represents the priorities of the public, not shareholders.
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Scorpio Books is an independent bookstore with the best range of carefully curated books in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
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Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.
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Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift
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Dead and Alive
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End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis
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Mushroom Tapes: Conversations about a Triple Murder Trial
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Giving Birth to My Father
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How to End a Story: Collected Diaries 1978-1998
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Atlantic Furies: the women who risked everything to be the first to fly
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Average at Best: A memoir from the creator of Pub Choir
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Overland to the Island: New Zealand to Skye with six kids in a homemade house-truck
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Clint: The Man and the Movies
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Joyride
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Everybody Loves Cake: Sweet Bakes and Stories
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Something from Nothing
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How To Live An Artful Life: 366 Inspirations from Artists on how to Bring Creativity to Your Everyday
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Beautiful World
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Woman’s Eye, Her Art: Reframing the narrative through art and life
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Anthony Bourdain Reader: New, Classic and Rediscovered Writing
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Vigil
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Lost Wonders: 10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century
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Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much, From the Star of Wicked
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Mamba and Mambacita Forever
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Age Like a Girl: How Menopause Rewires Your Brain for Mental Clarity, Increased Confidence, and Renewed Energy
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100 Rules for Living to 100: An Optimist’s Guide to a Happy Life
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Slender Volumes
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Force Of Nature Te Aumangea O Te Turoa: A conservation history of Forest & Bird 1923-2023
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Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit
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Royal Free
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Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Maori Art
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Unreel: A memoir
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Dream Count
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Things We Hide From The Light (Special Edition)
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Natural Way of Things 10th Anniversary Edition
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Twilight 20th Anniversary Edition
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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Throne of Glass Box Set (The Assassin’s Blade, Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, Heir of Fire, Queen of Shadows, Empire of Storms, Tower of Dawn *
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Book Review: The Shock Doctrine
This book should be required reading for anyone wanting to understand the state of the world and how we got here.