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Shining Land - Looking for Robin Hyde by Paula Morris; Haru Sameshima
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
A UNIQUE STORY BOOK FOR GROWN-UPS. Desolate Star brings together award-winning novelist Paula Morris and distinguished photographer Haru Sameshima. It is the second in the kōrero series of picture books edited by Lloyd Jones, written and made for grown-ups, and designed to showcase leading New Zealand w ...Show more
Gangland: New Zealand's Underworld of Organised Crime by Jared Savage
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
New Zealand's underworld of organised crime and deadly gangs New Zealand is now one of the most lucrative illicit drug markets in the world. Organised crime is about making money. It's a business. But over the past 20 years, the dealers have graduated from motorcycle gangs to Asian crime syndicates and ...Show more
The Greatest Secret (HB) by Rhonda Byrne
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
New Book by International Bestselling Author Rhonda Byrne. The Greatest Secret, the long-awaited major work by Rhonda Byrne, lays out the next quantum leap in a journey that will take the reader beyond the material world and into the spiritual realm, where all possibilities exist. The book reflects Rh ...Show more
Homesteads: The Story of New Zealand's Grand Country Houses by Debra Millar
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
A stunning tribute to the grand homes built by New Zealand's pioneering pastoralists, Homesteads shares a remarkable legacy of this country's rural heritage. These houses are among some of the country's most iconic, many of them surrounded by equally notable gardens, and all still lived in today. Jane U ...Show more
Black Hands by Martin van Beynen
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
This is the story of a mass-murder that divided a nation. It's a story that began in a rickety old home on a cold June morning in 1994, where five members of a seemingly ordinary New Zealand family were gunned down. There were two suspects. One lay dead from a single bullet to the head. The other was th ...Show more
Te Kai a te Rangatira: Leadership from the Maori World by Rawiri Tapiata
$80.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
‘Awe-inspiring collective wisdom and a snapshot into the current state of Maori leadership’ – this extraordinary book of interviews and photographs enriches our understanding of what it means to be a leader. In 2017 a group of rangatahi came together with the kaupapa of making a contribution to their co ...Show more
Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa (BWB Texts) by TOM. DOIG
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
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
He Pou Hiringa: Grounding Science and Technology in Te Ao Maori (BWB Texts)
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
This book brings together writing on the big questions about the role of Maori, tikanga and matauranga in shaping science and technological innovation. Written by Maori from diverse disciplines, it explores the potential for novel approaches, theories, methods and community engagement models in science ...Show more
House of Treasures - 150 Objects from Canterbury Museum Nga Taonga Tuku Iho by James Herries Beattie, Et Al
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Since first opening its doors to the public on Rolleston Avenue on 1 October 1870, Canterbury Museum has come to house an estimated 2.3 million taonga (treasures). To celebrate the Museum’s 150th anniversary, 150 taonga (treasures) from this vast collection are showcased in a superbly designed and photo ...Show more
Maori Philosophy - Indigenous Thinking from Aotearoa by Georgina Stewart (Series edited by); Omar Rivera (Series edited by); Pascah Mungwini (Series edited by); James Madaio (Series edited by); Leah Kalmanson (Series edited by); Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach (Series edited by); Nader El-Bizri (Series edited by); Sarah Mattice (Series edited by); Takeshi Morisato (Series edited by)
$39.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies Ser.
Covering the symbolic systems and worldviews of the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa, New Zealand, this book is a concise introduction to Maori philosophy. It addresses core philosophical issues including Maori notions of the self, the world, epistemology, the form in which Maori philosophy is conveyed, a ...Show more
New Zealanders: The Field Guide by Tom Sainsbury
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A revealing guide to the weird and wonderful inhabitants of New Zealand... and the places you'll find them After years of mimicking various celebrities and stereotypes on his social media platforms, comedian Tom Sainsbury has now compiled his favourite New Zealand personalities into a book. This array o ...Show more
Birds of Aotearoa New Zealand: Collective Nouns by Melissa Boardman
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
A beautifully illustrated book featuring New Zealand Aotearoa's native birds, each with its very own collective noun. A tussock of takahe? A hoon of kaka? A whistling of whio? This beautifully illustrated book of collective noun names for our native birds reveals something unique about their cha ...Show more
