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Aroha: Maori Wisdom for a Contented Life Lived in Harmony with our Planet by Hinemoa Elder
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Ki te kotahi te kakaho ka whati, ki te kapuia, e kore e whatiWhen we stand alone we are vulnerable but together we are unbreakableSee the world differently, through some of the wisest of human eyes.Discover traditional Maori philosophy through 52 whakatauki - simple, powerful life lessons, one for every ...Show more
Her Say: Survivors of Domestic Abuse Tell Their Own Stories by Jackie Clark
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
In 2012, Jackie Clark launched The Aunties, a grassroots charity helping women to rebuild their lives after a period of trauma. She quit her job, turning her back on her comfortable life, to focus on The Aunties full-time, becoming Aunty in Charge and assisting hundreds of women with material needs and ...Show more
100% Pure Future - New Zealand Tourism Renewed by Sarah Bennett (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts
Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on New Zealand tourism, but the industry was already troubled by unchecked growth and questionable governance that has put pressure on the environment, infrastructure and communities. In this urgent collection of essays, nine authors outline their vision for sustain ...Show more
Maori Made Easy: For Everyday Learners of the Maori Language by Scotty Morrison
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The complete and accessible guide to learning the Māori language, no matter your knowledge level. Fun, user-friendly and relevant to modern readers, Scotty Morrison's Māori Made Easy is the one-stop resource for anyone wanting to learn the basics of the Māori language. While dictionaries list words and ...Show more
The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Taryn Cornick believes that the past is behind her – her sister’s death by violence, and her own ill-conceived revenge. She has chosen to live a life more professional than personal. She has written a book about the things that threaten libraries – insects, damp, light, fire, carelessness and uncaring. ...Show more
High Wire by Lloyd Jones; Euan Macleod
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: Korero Ser.
High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made for grownups and designed to showcase leading New Zealand writers and artists working together in a collaborative and dynamic way. In High Wire the narrato ...Show more
Worth A Detour - North Island: Hidden Places and Unsual Destinations off the Beaten Track by Peter Janssen
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Travel
Travel writer Peter Janssen has travelled extensively around the North and South Island and in each volume he shares special quirky experiences and sublime scenery that are known to locals but are most often bypassed by visitors heading to better-known attractions. Avoid the mass of tourists and stroll ...Show more
The Health of the People by David Skegg
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts
In August 2016, forty per cent of the residents of Havelock North were suddenly struck down by a serious bacterial infection. The outbreak of campylobacter, caused by the contamination of the water supply with sheep faeces, hospitalised forty-five people and left at least three dead. Eminent public heal ...Show more
Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook by Alice Te Punga Somerville
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
"Alice Te Punga Somerville employs her deep research and dark humour to skilfully channel her response to Cook's global colonial legacy"--Back cover.
Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa (BWB Texts) by Tom Doig (editor)
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: BWB Texts
If much of the world can work together to beat a deadly pandemic, imagine what might happen if we turned our collective energy to tackling the climate crisis. The devastating summer of Australian bush fi res underlined the terrifying sense of a world pushed to the brink. Then came Covid-19, and with it ...Show more
The Platform: The radical legacy of the Polynesian Panthers (BWB Texts) by Melani Anae
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
In a book that is both deeply personal and highly political, Melani Anae recalls the radical activism of Auckland's Polynesian Panthers - the movement modelled on the US Black Panther Party 'but without guns'. The Polynesian Panthers was founded in response to the racist treatment of Pacific Islanders i ...Show more
The Penguin History of New Zealand (2nd Edition) by Michael King
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
This bestselling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference to the history of New Zealand. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce f ...Show more