Books on Saturday Morning, May 2009
This is a list of books by writers who have been interviewed on the programme by Kim Hill, or books discussed by her and a guest. Books usually have a 2009 or 2008 publication date, except where noted. The most recent programme is at the top.
30 May
Spent: Sex, Evolution and the Secrets of Consumerism
by Geoffrey Miller
(Random House, July 2009, ISBN 9780670020621)
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
by Geoffrey Miller
(Heinemann, 2000, ISBN 0-434-00741-2)
Biker Chicks: The Magnetic Attraction of Women to Bad Boys and Motorbikes
by Art Veno and Ed Winterhalder
(Allen & Unwin, 2009, ISBN: 978-1-74175-691-1)
The Brotherhoods (2003)
by Art Veno
All This and a Bookshop Too
by Dorothy Butler
(Penguin, 2009, ISBN: 9780143011651)
There Was a Time
by Dorothy Butler
(Penguin, 1999, ISBN: 0-14-028285-8)
Reading Begins at Home
by Dorothy Butler and Marie Clay
(Heinemann 1987, 2008, ISBN: 9780325017143)
23 May
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler and Cass Sunstein
(Penguin, ISBN: 978-0-141-04001-1)
Thinking Children
by Anne Meade and Pam Cubey
(Open University Press / NZCER, ISBN: 978-1-877-398-40-7)
Getting Started with Schemas: Revealing the Wonder-full World of Children’s Play
by Nikolien van Wijk
(Playcentre Publications, ISBN: 978-0-908609-60-4)
Kate's Klassic:
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
by Edgar Allen Poe
(Penguin Classics, ISBN: 9780141439815)
16 May
Politics: Observations & Arguments
by Hendrik Hertzberg
(Penguin, ISBN: 0-14-303553-3, 2004)
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter than the Few
by James Surowiecki
(Abacus, ISBN: 978-0-349-11605-1, 2004)
Picture books by M.T. Anderson:
Handel, Who Knew What He Liked
Me, All Alone, at the End of the World
Novels by M.T. Anderson:
Thirsty (1997)
Burger Wuss (1999)
Feed (2002)
Whales on Stilts (2005)
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party (2006)
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves (2008)
The King of Suburbia
by Iggy McGovern
(Dedalus Press, ISBN: 1-904556-45-0, 2005, 2006)
NB. Hendrik Hertzberg, James Surowiecki, M.T. Anderson,and Iggy McGovern are all guests of the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival (13-17 May 2009). For more information on their Festival appearances, go to:
www.writersfestival.co.nz
9 May
Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe
by Marcus Chown
(Faber and Faber, ISBN: 978-0-571-23546-9)
The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science
by Marcus Chown
(Faber and Faber, ISBN: 978-0-571-22056-4)
The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia
by Andrew Lih
(Hyperion, ISBN: 978-1-84513-473-0).
(NB. During the interview Lih references the book The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman.)
2 May
Mata Toa: the Life and Times of Ranginui Walker
by Paul Spoonley
(Penguin, ISBN: 978-0-14-301989-3)
The Double Rainbow: James K. Baxter, Ngati Hau and the Jerusalem Commune
by John Newton
(Victoria University Press, ISBN: 780864-736031)
Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
(Black Swan, ISBN: 978-0-55277-445-1)
In the Kitchen
by Monica Ali
(Doubleday, ISBN: 978-0-385-61458-0)
Staying in Love
by Robyn Salisbury
(Random House, ISBN: 978-1-86979-071-4)