The Great Unknown - Mountain Journeys in the Southern Alps by Geoff Spearpoint
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Geoff Spearpoint is a legend among New Zealand's tramping and mountaineering community. For over 50 years he has been undertaking many long, adventurous trips in the Southern Alps every year, decade after decade. These trips, usually a mix of both tramping and mountaineering, have made Spearpoint New Ze ...Show more
Queer Objects by Judith Chris Collard Brickwell
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and accessories we wear, and the analogue and digital technologies we use to communicate with one another. But what makes ...Show more
Women Mean Business - Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand by Catherine Bishop
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealands nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women. Contrary to what we might expect, colonial women were not only wives and mothers or domestic servants. A surprising number ran their own businesses, supporting themselves and th ...Show more
Eat Your Heart Out: Love Stories from Around the World by Peta Mathias
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
In a world of hate, let's serve up some love . . . Peta Mathias has encountered many a lovelorn tale on her gastronomic travels around the world. Searching further, she has unearthed more stories - the heart-warming and heart-rending, the passionate and poignant, the macabre and merry - and in these ret ...Show more
Death and Dying in New Zealand by Edited by Emma Johnson
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
We will all die. Yet we don't talk about death and dying very much. Currently, and for the most part, a small group of people manage death for us behind closed doors. We are increasingly unlikely to know what options are available to us and those we care about. So, how can we prepare well? Are our colle ...Show more
The Spinoff Book by Toby Manhire
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Five years ago, The Spinoff burst onto New Zealand's media scene with smart, screamingly funny and seriously relevant writing. Since then, it has enraged and inspired all the right people, respectably won Website of the Year at the 2019 Voyager Media Awards, and expanded into television, podcasts and no ...Show more
Kiwi Working Dogs by Jo Caird; Paula George
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Jo Caird and Paula George take us on a journey inside the world of New Zealand's working dogs: celebrating the incredibly diverse roles they play in our society and the difference they make in so many people's lives. Including the much-loved farm dogs, this book explores the sniffer dogs trained for fro ...Show more
Student Political Action in New Zealand (BWB Texts) by Sylvia Nissen
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Exploring the terrain between activism and apathy, Sylvia Nissen considers what it means to be a political actor from the perspective of students today. Drawing on in-depth interviews with New Zealand tertiary students, she traces their 'desires' for different types of politics, the 'demands' they exper ...Show more
Transforming the Welfare State (BWB Texts) by Jonathan Boston
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Jonathan Boston tackles one of the most urgent questions in contemporary New Zealand: how should we transform the welfare state? Not only do we need to alleviate our current serious social problems, but we also need to meet the challenges of the future in a way that enhances intergenerational fairness a ...Show more
Protest Tautohetohe: Resistance, Persistence and Defiance by Stephanie Gibson
70.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
An illustrated history of protest and activism in Aotearoa New Zealand. For a small, peaceful democracy in the South Pacific, New Zealand has had its fair share of major protest issues, and over the decades New Zealanders have become adept at mobilising around causes. From protest about war – be it the ...Show more
2020 Guide to the Night Sky - Southern Hemisphere - A Month-by-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa by Storm Dunlop; Wil Tirion (As told to)
17.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
EXPANDED AND REVISED A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January-December 2020. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from New Zealand and South Africa. Writt ...Show more
Going by Train - The Complete New Zealand Railways Story by Graham Hutchins
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Railways played a pivotal part in the development of New Zealand's economy, towns and cities, and helped shape a distinctive culture. This is a comprehensive account of our railways story, from the earliest days of the colony, through rail's growth and golden days, slow decline and recent resurgence. G ...Show more