An Indigenous Ocean: Pacific Essays by Damon Salesa
50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction | Series: 1st
In this captivating collection of essays, acclaimed Pacific scholar Damon Salesa takes us on a journey through the rich cultural and historical tapestry of the Pacific. From the far-reaching indigenous civilisations that flourished in Oceania, to the colonial encounters that shaped Samoa's history, and ...Show more
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
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
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
A Walk a Day - 365 Short Walks in New Zealand by Peter Janssen
40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
This fully revised and updated version of Peter Janssen's hugely popular book A Walk A Day has 365 short walks (and a bonus walk for the leap year) meaning locals and overseas visitors will always be able to find a short walk anywhere in New Zealand.
Labour of Love - A Personal History of Midwifery in Aotearoa by Joan Skinner
40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
Joan Skinner has been a midwife since 1976 and has seen extraordinary change, both in the way women are supported to give birth and in the social and political context in which they become mothers. Labour of Love weaves her own experiences as a midwife into the story of childbirth in Aotearoa: the incre ...Show more
Know Your New Zealand Native Plants by Lawrie Metcalf
40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
Know Your New Zealand Native Plants showcases a range of native species, including shrubs, climbers, trailing plants, epiphytes, ferns and palms, thrives in New Zealand's many different habitats and climate zones. Whether you simply enjoy the outdoors and are curious about the plants around you, or ha ...Show more