Why Memory Matters: 'Remembered histories' and the Politics of the Past (BWB Texts) by Rowan Light
17.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Series: 1st
Why Memory Matters
Tiny Statements - A Social History of Aotearoa New Zealand in Badges by Claire Regnault; Stephanie Gibson
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The award-winning authors of this small book with a big heart delve into Te Papa’s collections of over 1600 badges to examine how New Zealanders have used badges to join, belong, resist, defy and celebrate. From protest groups and Girl Guides to sports clubs, animal breeds, tino rangatiratanga and suffr ...Show more
The Best Country to Give Birth? by Linda Bryder
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
'In 2012, following his investigation of the deaths of two babies in childbirth at Waikato Hospital, Hamilton coroner Gordon Matenga asked, ' Does New Zealand have the safe, world-leading system the Government says we do, or are we losing babies because the balance has swung too far towards the idea tha ...Show more
Continuous Ferment by Greg Ryan
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
The story of beer and brewing in Aotearoa from Speights to Parrotdog and beyond.
Mad on Meth - How New Zealand Got Hooked on P by Benedict Collins
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
The eye-opening evolution of crystal meth in New Zealand and what can be done about it Only fifty years ago in New Zealand, methamphetamine was a publicly prescribed drug used as widely as by housewives, shift workers, students, and anybody looking to party. Legal for decades, meth was about to undergo ...Show more
Flora - Celebrating Our Botanical World by Editd by Carlos Lehnebach, Claire Regnault, Rebecca Rice, Isaac Te Awa and Rachel Yate
80.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
This big, glorious big book mines Te Papa's collections to explore and expand upon the way we think about our botanical world and its cultural imprint. A true treasure, it features over 400 selections by an expert, cross-disciplinary museum curatorial team that range from botanical specimens and art to ...Show more
Life on Fodder Farm - A Journey to Self Sufficiency by Rebecca Stewart
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
To get to the Stewart family's remote homestead, you head south from the heart of the King Country and take a 40-minute drive into the middle of nowhere.Life on Fodder Farm is their journey through a year living with the land. Each season brings changes to their lives, a fresh focus of what needs to be ...Show more
Strong Words 3: The Best of the Landfall Essay Competition by Lynley Edmeades; Emma Neale (eds.)
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Series: Strong Words: the Best of the Landfall E Ser.
Strong Words 3 showcases the best of the best of Aotearoa New Zealand’s contemporary essays from 2021 and 2022. Selected from entries into the Landfall Essay Competition, these essays are explorative, illuminating, provocative, beautifully written and – most of all – inspiring. Strong Words 3 is packed ...Show more
Down South by Bruce Ansley
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
In Down South, writer Bruce Ansley goes on a journey back to his beloved South Island of New Zealand in search of what makes it unique. From Curio Bay to Golden Bay, in Down South writer Bruce Ansley sets off on a vast expedition across the South Island, Te Waipounamu, visiting the places and people ...Show more
Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand by Michael Heads
116.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Series: CRC Biogeography Ser.
Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to ecologists, evolutionary scientists, geographers, geologists, and scientists in related disciplines. It serves as a key addition ...Show more
Privilege in Perpetuity - Exploding a Pākehā Myth (BWB Texts) by Peter Meihana
17.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'The idea of Maori privilege continues to be deployed in order to constrain Maori aspirations and maintain the power imbalance that colonisation achieved in the nineteenth century.' The 'idea of Maori privilege', as Peter Meihana describes it, is deeply embedded in New Zealand culture. Many New Zealande ...Show more
A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand by Paula Morris & Alison Wong
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
A landmark anthology of creative work – poetry, fiction and essays – by emerging Asian New Zealand writers. This landmark collection of poetry, fiction and essays by emerging writers is the first-ever anthology of Asian New Zealand creative writing. A Clear Dawn presents an extraordinary new wave of cre ...Show more