End Times by Rebecca Priestley
35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In the late 1980s, two teenage girls found refuge from a world of cosy conformity, sexism and the nuclear arms race in protest and punk. Then, drawn in by a promise of meaning and purpose, they cast off their punk outfits and became born-again Christians. Unsure which fate would come first - nuclear ann ...Show more
Motorcycle Road Trips Across New Zealand by Kim Johnston
45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
New Zealand is a spectacular country when seen from onboard a motorbike.Author Kim Johnston has profiled twenty incredible routes, showcasing the best rides on offer, covering a mix of one day rides and longer trips.With an intended bias towards the glory of the South Island, each chapter depicts a magn ...Show more
My First Words about Tikanga Māori by Stacey Morrison
21.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
Stacey Morrison has created an illustrated guide to Maori customs and practices for children (and adults), as a companion to her #1 bestselling My First Words in Maori. My First Words about Tikanga Maori is a guide to Maori customs, practices and ways of doing things, and to the special words we use whe ...Show more
Critters of Aotearoa: 50 Bizarre But Lovable Members of Our Wildlife Community by Nicola Toki, Lily Duval
30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
Meet some of our most curious critters, from the popular Radio New Zealand podcast with Nicola Toki and Jesse Mulligan. Slimy, stinky, creepy, crawly and gross . . . but also a little bit cute! Discover New Zealand's most curious creatures - from Smeagol the gravel maggot, to the walking worm and the d ...Show more
Abolishing The Military - Arguments and Alternatives by Griffin Manawaroa Leonard; Joseph Llewellyn; Richard Jackson
18.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Abolishing The Military
Blood & Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand by Jared Davidson
50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction | Series: 1st
'Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand.' Forced labour haunts the ...Show more
Dogs with Stories: Capturing New Zealanders with their Four-Legged Best Friends by Mardo El-Noor
80.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
Dogs With Stories is Mardo El-Noor’s desperate call for attention, camouflaged as a vanity project and disguised in a book of pictures and text. Featuring about a hundred good dogs and a hundred dog owners, the book contains a series of hyperrealistic staged scenes, set in the real homes and workplaces ...Show more
Kiwis on Harleys by Lockyer, George
50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
Get your motor running, head out on the highway and join author George Lockyer as he once again travels the length and breadth of our beautiful islands. This time he tracks down and interviews 27 Harley-Davidson enthusiasts from all walks of life. In his relaxed style, he attempts to find out the reason ...Show more
Re-Food: Exploring the troubled food system of Aotearoa New Zealand by Emily King
45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
In Re-food Emily King advocates for a food systems approach to help the troubled food networks of Aotearoa New Zealand - one that takes into account the processes from the farm to the family table. She looks at the best ways forward to address challenges we face with soils, waterways, climate change, f ...Show more
Gordon Walters by Francis Pound; Leonard Bell (Foreword by)
90.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
The first substantial monograph on the art of one of this country's most influential artists, Gordon Walters. In this remarkable study by the late Francis Pound, author of the landmark Invention of New Zealand, we are introduced to the making of a New Zealand modernist - tracing the work of Gordon Walte ...Show more
Eject! Eject! by John Nichol
40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
'Eject! Eject!' When the call is made to abandon an aircraft, it's only the beginning of the story... From the Sunday Times bestselling writer John Nichol, author of Spitfire, Lancaster and Tornado, comes a brilliant new book that reveals the astonishing story of an invention that has saved many thousan ...Show more
Our Land in Colour by Jock Phillips, Brendan Graham
55.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
A breathtaking collection of 200 photographs expertly colourised by Aotearoa New Zealand's premier colourist, Brendan Graham, with commentary from award-winning historian Jock Phillips ONZM Our Land in Colour celebrates the rich story of Aotearoa through the restoration of images never before seen in co ...Show more