Through Shaded Glass - Women and Photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860 -1960 by Lissa Mitchell
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The contribution of women to the first century of photography has been overlooked across the world, including in New Zealand. With few exceptions, photographic histories have tended to focus on the male maker. This important book tilts the balance, unearthing a large and hitherto unknown number of women ...Show more
New Zealand at the Beach by Terry Moyle
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In the 1960s and 1970s, going to the beach was in its heyday. Camping grounds were full and at the pictures, surfing movies made being at the beach cooler than ever. Generations of New Zealanders have always included days of golden weather at the beach among the happiest of their lives. New Zealand at ...Show more
A Month at the Back of My Brain - A third memoir by Kevin Ireland
Category: Sale Book | Reading Level: near fine
As he enters his 90th year on the planet, Kevin Ireland describes his third memoir as a process of "sweeping up all the reflective wrappers and the tinsel, and describing how, in the setting sun, they glitter with the brilliant romance of nostalgia." Unlike his earlier two memoirs, one of which won a Na ...Show more
Fire in the Belly of Hineāmaru by Melinda Webber and Te Kapua O’Connor
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Remarkable stories of twenty-four inspirational tūpuna of Te Tai Tokerau. ‘E kore e mōnehunehu te pūmahara ki ngā momo rangatira o neherā nā rātou nei i toro te nukuroa o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa me Papa Tū a Nuku. Ko ngā tohu o ō rātou tapuwae i kākahutia ki runga i te mata o te whenua – he taonga, he tapu. ...Show more
Blood and Bone: Revelations of an orthopaedic surgeon by Russell Tregonning
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Russell Tregonning finished his fifty-year career in medicine as one of New Zealand's leading orthopaedic surgeons and as a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Otago School of Medicine. This memoir takes the reader through his journey from medical student to orthopaedic surgeon - from introducing pioneering ...Show more
Bird Planet (HB) by Tim Laman
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Birds inhabit every continent and major island, and are among the most diverse group of vertebrates on the planet. For ornithologist and National Geographic photographer Tim Laman, documenting these magnificent creatures has been a lifelong passion that has taken him from the Antarctic Peninsula to the ...Show more
Empire City - Wellington Becomes the Capital of New Zealand by John E Martin
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Empire City: Wellington Becomes the Capital of New Zealand takes Wellington from the first encounter between Māori and the New Zealand Company in Te Whanganui-a-Tara in 1839 to its becoming the Empire City by the 1870s. It tells the story that began with a small and fragile New Zealand Company Pākehā se ...Show more
Gaylene's Take - Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston
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From one of our very best filmmakers comes a memoir of filmmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand. Gaylene Preston has always sought out the stories that have not yet been told, and in this book she reveals the challenges and sometimes heartbreak that have come with that ambition. In both wide lens and close-up ...Show more
Greenstone Carving: Techniques and Concepts in Pounamu by Len Gale
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This concise guide to the art of greenstone carving, out of print for the past 20 years, returns in a smartly designed, fully illustrated new edition. Greenstone Carving takes readers from the origins of pounamu/greenstone through the basics of the artform - design, tools and techniques, different stone ...Show more
New Zealand Nurses - Caring for Our People 1880-1950 by Pamela Wood
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Pamela Wood is a retired academic, registered nurse and independent historian. She taught in undergraduate and postgraduate nursing programmes and postgraduate health programmes for 30 years and is the author of Dirt: Filth and decay in a New World Arcadia.
The Fascinating History of Toys & Games Around the World by Warwick Henderson
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An illustrated history of toys and games showing how they reflect the events, technological advances,innovative materials and social concerns of each era, from games in Egypt, to model cars, trains, and spaceships through to recent franchise toys such as Star Wars. Toy collectors and history buffs. Ther ...Show more