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Coastlines of New Zealand by Alison Dench
$12.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Series: Rob Suisted Pictorial Book Series
With over 15,000 kilometres of coastline there is a breath-taking range of locations to experience the rich scenic diversity found on a journey around the coast.
New Zealand Forest Birds and Their World by Geoff Moon
$12.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Drawing on more than 70 years' worth of study in the field, representing literally thousands of hours spent poised behind a 300mm lens, Forest Birds by Geoff Moon presents a visual and written portrait of the most important or characteristic birds of the New Zealand forest. Arranged in taxonomic order, ...Show more
Auckland: Kid-Friendly Adventures (Outdoor Kid - Revised) by Outdoor Kid
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
Auckland is an amazing region to explore with kids. Clamber up volcanoes, squelch across tidal mudflats or jump on a ferry and zip across the harbour to the country’s youngest volcano, Rangitoto Island. Our completely revised guidebook has 100+ of the best crowd-pleasing favourites to explore. The 2 ...Show more
Go Fast Or Go Home: The Garth Hogan Story
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
This is the story of motor racing legend Garth Hogan and his quest for speed on the ground and in the air. Garth Hogan is a man who has been extraordinarily successful in his life. He is a big man with a quiet demeanour that borders on shyness. But that quietness masks a fiercely dedicated and competiti ...Show more
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. Shining Land 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
Homesteads: The Story of New Zealand's Grand Country Houses by Debra Millar
$75.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
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 ...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 (editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
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