Ko Taranaki Te Maunga (BWB Texts) by Rachel Buchanan
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
In 1881, colonial troops invaded the village of Parihaka on the Taranaki coast. In an attempt to quell the non-violent direct action taken by the community against land confiscations, the government sent over 1500 troops into the village. Many people were expelled, buildings destroyed, and chiefs Te Whi ...Show more
A Continent on the Move New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century by Ian J Graham (editor)
$59.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
ENVIRONMENT Category Winner Adrift in the South Pacific Ocean, separated from the rest of the world by vast distances and blessed with some of the most varied and spectacular natural landscapes on Earth, New Zealand is rather special. Generations of geoscientists have developed an increasing understandi ...Show more
So Brilliantly Clever - Parker, Hulme and the Murder that Shocked the World by Peter Graham
$42.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
The brutal, premeditated murder of Honorah Parker in 1954 in a lonely park by her 16-year-old daughter Pauline and Pauline's 15-year-old friend Juliet Hulme made shock headlines around the world. International media flocked to New Zealand to follow the trial. Still today, the murder remains one of the m ...Show more
Bluffworld by Patrick Evans
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
'Zum Bullshitter geht der Preis' - so said the great German author-philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774). Or did he? Can we trust what we never quite knew about because we never quite got around to reading it in the first place? Is it safe to rely on what we ove ...Show more
Pike River: The Crime and Cover Up
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
On November 19, 2010, an explosion rocked the underground Pike River mine in New Zealand. After a second explosion five days later, the 29 workers underground were declared dead. This was not a random accident: it was a crime caused by capitalism. Despite overwhelming evidence that Pike River Coal’s man ...Show more
Still Is by Vincent O'Sullivan
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
The thrushes are back. The blackbirds too are back, already worrying the thrushes, filching their choice worms. The gorse is running the hills along the Aramoana Road, spills the slopes yellow; the broom, so much more politely, you call it gold. Look again, the gorse walks prickling against the skyline. ...Show more
Maori Folk-Tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand (3rd edition 1995, facsimile of 1st edition with added index) by James Cowan (index Robin Mitchell)
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
Maori Folk-Tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand (3rd edition, facsimile of 1st edition with added index)
Thank You Elisabeth: Self-awareness when working with people at the end of life by Sue Marsden
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
When beginning her career in Palliative Medicine, the author first met Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. This meeting introduced her to the importance of being aware of one's own emotional issues when working with people who are suffering. As Elisabeth said, "You need to deal with your own sh*t first". The book ...Show more
Best of the Wool Blacks by Colin Langmead
$19.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Rugby Union football --Caricatures and cartoons. Rugby Union football --Humor. Sheep --Caricatures and cartoons. Sheep --Humor. New Zealand wit and humor, Pictorial.
Sizing Up the City: Urban Form and Transport in New Zealand by Philippa Howden-Chapman, Keriata Stuart & Ralph Chapman (eds)
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
Making New Zealand's transport sustainable will be one of the challenges of the coming decades. This book collects papers presented at national symposia on sustainable transport and urban form, and other recent writings on sustainability and our built environment. Contributors explain how public and pri ...Show more
Noah the Moa by Janet Martin; Ivar Treskon
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
A young boy visits a moa at the museum, and imagines what it would be like if Noah the Moa came back to life, taking him back into the past. Written in rhyme. Includes sheet music of song inside cover.
He Atua, He Tangata: The World of Maori Mythology by A.W. Reed
$59.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
In this updated edition of the Reed Book of Māori Mythology, esteemed editor Ross Calman comprehensively revises the core stories of gods (atua) and people (tangata) and the many other beings that sit on the continuum between the two. Divided into themes, this elegantly produced volume starts with tradi ...Show more