Behind the Canvas: An Insider's Guide to the New Zealand Art Market by Warwick Henderson
Category: Sale Book | Reading Level: Very Good
An accessible handbook that demystifies the aura surrounding the New Zealand art market. Written by an experienced and accomplished art dealer and gallery owner, it traces the history of art in this country, and the emergence of the art boom in the 1970s and 80s. The market for art has continued to grow ...Show more
A Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of New Zealand by Andrew Crowe
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A go-to, illustrated field guide of edible native New Zealand plants, including a section on poisonous plants. In this useful and attractive book, over 190 trees, shrubs, herbs, ferns, mushrooms, lichens and seaweeds are described in detail with information on which part is edible and when, how plants h ...Show more
A Mini Guide to the Identification of New Zealand Native Trees by Andrew Crowe
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Series: Mini Guide to the Identification of New Zealand... | Reading Level: very good
A handy, pocket-sized guide to the identification of New Zealand native trees.Condensed from Andrew Crowe's popular Which Native Tree?, this mini guide has been designed to fit into a pocket, day pack or bag. Full of essential information for quick and accurate identification of native trees, this class ...Show more
New Zealand Landscapes (Pocket edition) by Andris Apse
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
This is a newly-introduced mini version of the revised Andris Apse New Zealand Landscapes - a pictorial photography book which has been revised and refreshed since its first publication in 1994. The book has been produced as a quality New Zealand pictorial memento.
Know Your New Zealand Birds by Lynnette Moon; Geoff Moon
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Featuring 80 of New Zealand's best-known bird species, this book provides key facts on appearance, call, behaviour and nesting details that allow the layperson to identify common species.
The Power of Mothers: Releasing Our Children by Celia Lashlie
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
A hard hitting look at our troubled society, the intergenerational cycle of crime and criminal families and the women who have the power to change things for the better - if we let them. Take a pragmatic look inside the deep-seated issues underlying our appalling youth crime statistics. Examine the back ...Show more
Collins Maori Phrasebook and Dictionary (revised edition 2006) by Patricia Turoa
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
First published in 1990, and reprinted steadily ever since, the first edition of the Collins Māori Phrasebook and Dictionary was an inaugural Silver Premier New Zealand Bestseller, and has sold over 30,000 copies. This revised edition includes an update of the original book to incorporate modern terms a ...Show more
How to Gaze at the Southern Stars by Richard Hall
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Series: The\Ginger Ser.
Fifty thousand years ago, a small family of our ancestors huddled around a campfire. Robbed of vision, they were vulnerable in the darkness; the night is the time of the predator. As they listened to the crackle of the fire and the sounds of the night, they looked upwards. What, they wondered, were thos ...Show more
Instant! Maori by Nick Theobald; Paora Walker
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
INSTANT! MAORI is a pocket-sized Maori-English phrase book packed with hundreds of practical and down-to-earth phrases - made easy. Using phonetics, it enables readers to speak correct Maori in seconds. The content includes the short and long version of what to say on a marae, how to talk to your pets, ...Show more
Crown Lynn - A New Zealand Icon by Valerie Monk
Category: Sale Book | Reading Level: very good
Crown Lynn china now has iconic status. From its early days of churning out railway china, Crown Lynn became a hugely successful business and the largest pottery in the Southern Hemisphere. The New Lynn factory closed in 1989, but their domestic ware is now one of New Zealand s hottest collectibles with ...Show more