A Bloody Difficult Subject - Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History by Bain Attwood
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
One historian's research and the transformation of te Tiriti in New Zealand life.
Night Owls and Early Birds - Rhythms of Life on a Rotating Planet by Philippa Gander
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science, Maths, & Technology
How the rotations of planet Earth shape the lives of humans and other animals.Horseshoe crabs and hibernating squirrels. Jet-lagged pilots and space station astronauts. Night owls and early birds. All of life is profoundly shaped by the daily, monthly and yearly cycles of planet Earth.This book takes th ...Show more
Under the Weather: A Future Forecast for New Zealand by James Renwick
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
The must-read book on what New Zealand's changing climate means for our everyday lives. A warmer world will change more than just our weather patterns. It will change the look of the land around us, what grows and lives on it - including us. In this must-read book, Professor James Renwick untangles how ...Show more
Auckland - The Twentieth-Century Story by Paul Moon
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Auckland: The Twentieth-Century Story journeys through the mosaic of cultures and lifestyles, anxieties and hopes, disasters and triumphs, virtues and vices that led to the transformation of New Zealand's largest city between 1900 and 2000.
Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager's Field Guide by Liv Sisson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The complete introduction to finding, identifying and using mushrooms and other fungi in New Zealand. Enter and explore the fascinating world of fungi. In this practical and up-to-date guide, forager and fungus enthusiast Liv Sisson shares her top tips and takes the reader on a journey to discover the ...Show more
Privilege in Perpetuity - Exploding a Pākehā Myth (BWB Texts) by Peter Meihana
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
'The idea of Maori privilege continues to be deployed in order to constrain Maori aspirations and maintain the power imbalance that colonisation achieved in the nineteenth century.' The 'idea of Maori privilege', as Peter Meihana describes it, is deeply embedded in New Zealand culture. Many New Zealande ...Show more
Tangata Ngai Tahu / People of Ngai Tahu: Volume Two by Helen Brown & Michael Stevens
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Tāngata Ngāi Tahu, Volume Two remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngāi Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngāi Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their iwi, hapū and whānau in myriad ways: here ...Show more
The Story of a Treaty / He Korero Tiriti (3rd edition) by Claudia Orange
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Series: 1st
The Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a central document in New Zealand history. This lively account tells the story of the Treaty from its signing in 1840, through the debates and struggles of the nineteenth century, to the gathering political momentum of recent decades. The third edition of T ...Show more
New Zealand at the Beach by Terry Moyle
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
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
Secrets of the Sea: The Story of New Zealand's Native Sea Creatures by Robert Vennell
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
An illuminating tour through the native sea creatures of Aotearoa, by the bestselling author of The Meaning of Trees. Secrets of the Sea is a fascinating introduction to New Zealand's fish and shellfish, weaving together history, biology and culture to reveal how these unique and intriguing creatures ha ...Show more
Vanishing Ice: Stories of New Zealand's Glaciers by Lynley Hargreaves
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Written by Lynely Hargreaves, this important new book describes New Zealand's glaciers, and how we have interacted with them. Glaciation has had a huge impact on the shape of the New Zealand landscape. Enormous rivers of ice once flowed out onto the Canterbury Plains, stretched beyond the current West ...Show more