Pakeha Maori - The Extraordinary Story of the Europeans who lived as Maori in early New Zealand by Trevor Bentley
32.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
New edition. This book describes one of the most extraordinary and fascinating stories in NZ history. In the early part of the last century several thousand runaway seamen and escaped convicts settled in Maori communities. Jacky Mamon, John Rutherford, Charlotte Badger and many others this is their larg ...Show more
Reinventing Paradise: How New Zealand is Starting to Earn a Bigger, Sustainable Living in the World Economy by Rod Oram
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
A collection of columns and interviews from Rod Oram about how New Zealand has fared so far in the global market, the unique challenges that lie ahead for us (global warming, political instability, oil shocks, etc.) and the opportunities for to earn a bigger, better, more sustainable living out in the w ...Show more
Ned and Katina - A True Love Story by Patricia Grace
40.00 NZD
41.00 (2% off)
Category: NZ Non- fiction
A TRUE STORY OF LOVE IN WARTIME AND IN PEACE. In Crete during the Second World War a wounded Maori Battalion soldier and a young Cretan woman fall in love when the young infantryman is sheltered by her family. After marrying in Crete, Ned and Katina come back to live in New Zealand, settling in the Far ...Show more
Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders From Polynesian by James Belich
35.00 NZD
47.00 (25% off)
Category: NZ Non- fiction
A new paperback reprint of this best-selling and ground-breaking history. When first published in 1996 Making Peoples was hailed as redefining New Zealand history. It was undoubtedly the most important work of New Zealand history since Keith Sinclair's classic A History of New Zealand. Making Peoples co ...Show more
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh; Nancy Mitford
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
With an Introduction by Charlotte Mosley 'Their correspondence can make you rock with helpless laughter'Independent on SundayNancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were two of the twentieth century's most amusing and gifted writers, who matched wits and traded literary advice in more than five hundred letters o ...Show more
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog - Captain Cook in the South Seas by Anne Salmond
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
This text provides an account of Cook's South Sea voyages, in which Cook plunged south to discover Antarctica and then veered north to discover Hawaii. In Anne Salmond's narrative, Cook's ships, far from remaining little wooden islands of Englishness in a Polynesian sea, become ever more tangled in the ...Show more
Understanding Power:The Indispensible Chomsky by Noam Chomsky (ed Peter R Mitchell & John Schoeffel)
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the pre-eminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sell-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky ...Show more
Country Cafes Bay Of Plenty Region by Julie Walsh
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
A guide to country cafes and restaurants in rural Bay of Plenty. Following the tourist trail in the wider Bay of Plenty region, we feature country dining venues from Waihi to Whakatane and include the inland rural areas through Rotorua and down to Taupo and even Taumarunui. 38 destinations are featured ...Show more
Expert Witness by Anna Sandiford
33.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Forensic scientists are crime-solving sleuths producing slam-dunk evidence and tidy endings all in a day’s work … because being a forensic scientist is just like it is on the television, isn’t it? In fact, it’s so much more than this. From examining illegal drugs to collecting pollen samples from corps ...Show more
The Houses of Hayes Paddock by Ann McEwan
40.00 NZD
48.00 (16% off)
Category: NZ Non- fiction
"The Houses of Hayes Paddock" is the third book produced by the Waikato Institute of Technology's School of Media Arts and Communication. Hayes Paddock has recently been recognised by the Hamilton City Council as a heritage precinct. This follows many years of community debate about the special characte ...Show more