In the Shadow of the Mountain : Stories of Country Life by Robson, Graeme
$29.95 NZD
$56.00 (46% off)
Category: New Zealand
Naturally there have been many changes to farming over the last fifty years and the rate of this change has accelerated during the last decade. It could be argued that not all recent changes have improved the lot or the life of the rural people. with this in mind I believe that it is important to recor ...Show more
Understanding New Zealand: A Statistical Journey Through the Demographic Diversity of Aotearoa by Dan McGlashan
$25.00 NZD
$35.99 (30% off)
Category: New Zealand
Across 58 chapters, this book tells you which Kiwi demographics voted for which parties in the 2017 and 2014 General Elections, how strongly those demographics supported each party and how that appears to be changing across time. It also discusses the various interrelations between age, income, sex, edu ...Show more
Letters from the Bay of Islands - The Story of Marianne Williams by Marianne Williams; Caroline Fitzgerald (ed.)
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good-very good
In 1822 Marianne Williams, with her missionary husband Henry and their three small children, left England forever. Their new home, in New Zealand's Bay of Islands, was a remote one-house settlement - the Church Missionary Society mission station headquarters. This was nearly twenty years before the sign ...Show more
Shear Hard Work : A History of Shearing in New Zealand by Hazel Riseborough
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Secondhand. Shear Hard Work tells the story of shearers and brings to life the world of the shearing shed for the first time. From the 1860s, when shearers were first identified as the 'very dregs of the colonial democracy', to the present day, when Kiwi shearers set world records and shear sheep aroun ...Show more
Which Native Forest Plant? by Andrew Crowe
$26.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Which...?
This best-selling classic by Andrew Crowe includes comprehensive information on the identification, ecology and uses of New Zealand's native plants.This best-selling classic by Andrew Crowe includes comprehensive information on the identification, ecology and uses of New Zealand's native plants.Use Andr ...Show more
Country Calendar Cookbook by Allyson Gofton
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
The Country Calendar Cookbook with Allyson Gofton brings together two of New Zealand's best-loved icons in a tribute to rural New Zealand. Featuring engaging stories from the top-rating television show Country Calendar, this stunning cookbook showcases New Zealand produce at its best. Allyson Gofton tra ...Show more
The Big Kahuna: Tax and Welfare : Turning Tax and Welfare in New Zealand on Its Head by Gareth Morgan and Susan Guthrie
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
One day, when he was contributing to the Tax and Welfare Working Group, economist Gareth Morgan made an off-the-cuff remark that the solution to all of New Zealand's tax and welfare woes lay in abolishing the present welfare system and radically overhauling the tax system. He called this idea 'the big k ...Show more
Towards a Promised Land - On the Life and Art of Colin McCahon by Gordon H Brown
$79.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
"Once the painter was making signs and symbols for people to live by," Colin McCahon wrote, "now he makes things to hang on walls at exhibitions." Filling his paintings with kauri and cliffs, the candle and the T, McCahon sought to develop signs and symbols for our modern world. In this book, leading Mc ...Show more
The Story of a New Zealand River by Jane Mander
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
The narrative of Alice Roland's long and steady growth towards shared love, a new awareness of life and a sense of personal liberation flows through the pages of the first New Zealand novel to convincingly confront many of the twentieth century's major political, religious, moral and social issues - inc ...Show more
The New Zealand Plant Doctor: Answers to Your Gardening Problems by Andrew Maloy
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Lumps on your lemons? Daffodils refusing to flower? Hebes turning yellow? If you have a gardening problem, look no further. In The New Zealand Plant Doctor Andrew Maloy has compiled answers to the most common problems gardeners face, which he has assembled from years of experience answering readers' que ...Show more
New Zealand Hall of Fame: 50 Remarkable Kiwis H/B by Maria Gill
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Discover the lives of some impressive New Zealand men and women - people who have achieved fame through their exploits as scientists, pioneers, adventurers, leaders, inventors, artists and sportspeople. Where have they come from? What was their early childhood like? What made them successful? This col ...Show more