Dogs in Early New Zealand Photographs by Mike White
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This entertaining selection of over 100 photos of New Zealand dogs reveals some of the more curious ways in which they have appeared in photographic collections from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dogs named Terror, Betsey Jane, Floss and Erebus appear alongside canines whose names are lo ...Show more
Cracking Open the Nest Egg: How to Make Your Retirement Savings Last the Distance by Martin Hawes
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Planning for retirement can be a scary thought, whether it is just around the corner or years in the future. Martin Hawes, one of New Zealand's best-known experts on personal financial answers all of the questions that may be keeping you up at night: How much will I need to retire? Can I ever afford to ...Show more
Kainga - People, Land and Belonging (BWB Texts) by Paul Tapsell
17.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
Is New Zealand ready to not just tick the Treaty partnership box, but actually open it and accept that Māori community-driven world views concerning their whenua is equally valid science, capable of underpinning, guiding and reshaping agricultural science and farming practices? This book calls for poli ...Show more
Can't Get There from Here: New Zealand Passenger Rail Since 1920 by Andre Brett
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Urban passenger rail patronage in Auckland and Wellington is now booming after many years of decline. Outside these two centres, however, the situation is quite different: intercity and regional passenger rail services are scarce, and no other city possesses suburban rail. Can't Get There from Here tra ...Show more
Living the Dream - Life by the Water in New Zealand by Derek Morrison
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Dream lifestyles around New Zealand's coastlines and waterways - stories and sensational images of people who have made these enviable life choices, and what it has taken them to get there. How often do you wish you could stay on at your holiday destination? Many people dream of a waterfront home and a ...Show more
Invasive Predators in NZ: Disaster on Four Small Paws by Carolyn M King
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
The story of invasive species in New Zealand is unlike any other in the world. By the mid-thirteenth century, the main islands of the country were the last large landmasses on Earth to remain uninhabited by humans, or any other land mammals. New Zealand's endemic fauna evolved in isolation until first ...Show more
A Bunk for the Night - A Guide to New Zealand's Best Backcountry Huts (Revised edition) by Shaun Barnett, Rob Brown; Geoff Spearpoint
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand has a huge range of backcountry huts, most of which are available for public use. Some can sleep 80 people, while others are tiny two-bunk affairs with not even room to stand up in. They are located in our mountains, on the edges of our fiords, coastlines and lakes, beside rivers, in the bus ...Show more
Too Much Money - How Wealth Disparities Are Unbalancing Aotearoa New Zealand by Max Rashbrooke
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Today, someone in the wealthiest 1 per cent of adults – a club of some 40,000 people – has a net worth 68 times that of the average New Zealander. Too Much Money is the story of how wealth inequality is changing Aotearoa New Zealand. Possessing wealth opens up opportunities to live in certain areas, ge ...Show more
The Architect and the Artists - Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble - The Collaborative Projects 1965-1979 by Bridget Hackshaw
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A beautiful and important book about the remarkable collaboration between the modernist architect James Hackshaw (a member, for a time, of the famous Group Architects), the painter Colin McCahon and the then young sculptor Paul Dibble on 12 New Zealand buildings - from churches to school halls. Drawing ...Show more
After Dark - Walking into the nights of Aotearoa by Annette Lees
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Every 24 hours, the Earth rolls into its own vast shadow and darkness floods across the land and sea. In a 1600-kilometre-long gliding plumb-line down the length of New Zealand, our beaches, towns, cities, farms, forests, lakes and mountains sink into shadow. Annette Lees takes us walking into the night ...Show more
Speeches That Shaped New Zealand 3 Volumes 1814-2019
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Specimen - Personal Essays by Madison Hamill
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A father rollerblading to church in his ministerial robes, a university student in a leotard sprinting through fog, a trespass notice from Pak'nSave, a beautiful unborn goat in a jar . . . In scenarios ranging from the mundane to the surreal, Madison Hamill looks back at her younger selves with a sharp ...Show more