New Zealand Pubs: 175 Classic Pubs to Visit by Peter Janssen
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
New Zealanders love a pub, especially one with an interesting past. This guide provides a selection of the best -- pubs that are not only a great place to relax but are cornerstones of their communities, playing a part in the history of New Zealand. With helpful information about the food, accommodation ...Show more
The Best of e-Tangata, Volume Two (BWB Texts) by Tapu Misa (ed.); Gary Wilson (ed.)
17.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
A thought-provoking set of Maori, Pasifika, and tangata Tiriti writers combine in this celebration of some of the best writing from E-Tangata. Traverse a landscape of contemporary and historical issues through the lens of a mother's loss, a man's hard-won expertise, a homesick student abroad and with th ...Show more
A Queer Existence - The lives of young gay men in Aotearoa New Zealand by Mark Beehre
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Queer Existence is a major documentary project that uses photographic portraitureand oral history to record the life experiences of a group of 27 gay men bornsince the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Act in 1986. In New Zealand,discrimination in work was outlawed in 1993, same-sex relationships wer ...Show more
Across the Pass: A Collection of Tramping Writing by selected by Shaun Barnett
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Tramping is a journey into mountainous country, across passes, along ridges, beside rivers or through forests. It is a journey also, perhaps, to discovering more about the native plants and animals existing in these wild ecosystems, and a journey into friendship or self-discovery. New Zealand trampers h ...Show more
Cover Story - 100 Beautiful, Strange and Frankly Incredible New Zealand LP Covers by Steve Braunias
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Music is a key to culture, no matter where in the world you are from and New Zealand is no exception. In the decades from 1957- 87 the LP was king of New Zealand recorded music. To sell the music cover art was needed, and the book showcases 100 of the best examples at full LP size. Divided into themes, ...Show more
Innocents in the Dry Valleys: An Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958-59 by Colin Bull
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: Fine
In 1958ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ59 a physicist, a biologist and two undergraduate geology students from Victoria University of Wellington spent a summer examining the Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica. This expedition, known as VUWAE 2, began what was to become an annual and very fruitful Antarcti ...Show more
Tutira Mai: Making Change in Aotearoa New Zealand by David Belgrave & Giles Dodson
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
A BOOK FOR THOSE WANTING TO EFFECT CHANGE IN AOTEAROA 'What can we do?' is a common response to social, political or environmental issues. At this critical time, the ability to actively engage with concerns facing our communities is a vital skill. Tutira Mai helps readers to generate realistic and effec ...Show more
Agriculture and Horticulture in New Zealand by Kevin Stafford (Editor)
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO NEW ZEALAND'S DYNAMICAGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL INDUSTRYWritten by experts from Massey University's School of Agriculture andEnvironment, this is an accessible and straightforward overview of the business ofgrowing plants for human and animal consumption, as well as forestry an ...Show more
Uprising: Walking the Southern Alps of New Zealand by Nic Low
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
This book is about walking as a form of knowing. Armed with Ngāi Tahu’s ancient oral maps and modern satellite atlas, I crossed the Southern Alps more than a dozen times, trying to understand how our forebears saw the land. What did it mean to define your identity by sacred mountains, or actually see th ...Show more
The Piketty Phenomenon - New Zealand Perspectives (BWB Texts)
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Few books have had the global impact of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. An overnight bestseller, Piketty's assessment that inherited wealth will always grow faster, on average, than earned wealth has energised debate. Hailed as 'bigger than Marx' (The Economist) or dismissed as 'me ...Show more
Historic Homesteads of Hawke's Bay by Angus Gordon
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
These gracious homes - dotted across the sun-drenched uplands of Hawke's Bay - rose unashamedly from the golden fleeces on the sheep's backs, to become monuments to our settler heritage. Set in spacious grounds and framed by enormous exotic trees, such as oaks, gums or Norfolk pines, they stand as testa ...Show more
Kiwi Farmers' Guide To Life: Rural Tales from the Heartland by Tim Fulton
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Stories of New Zealand farmers and their families, tracing the ancestral journeys that brought them to their particular piece of rural Kiwi paradise. Profiles some of the country’s most innovative farmers; their motivations, frustrations and legacies; the camaraderie amongst their local communities. Sto ...Show more