The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi by Ned Fletcher
70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
How was the English text of the Treaty of Waitangi understood by the British in 1840? That is the question addressed by historian and lawyer Ned Fletcher, in this extensive work. With one exception, the Treaty sheets signed by rangatira and British officials were in te reo Maori. The Maori text, Te Tiri ...Show more
Fono - The Contest for the Governance of Samoa by Peter Swain
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Fono: The Contest for the Governance of Samoa tells the story of the development of Samoa's unique system of governance, and of those who have fought for power and shaped the development of the Independent State of Samoa.
A History of New Zealand in 100 Objects by Jock Phillips
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
New Zealand history through a new lens - 100 objects offer 100 entry points into the powerful, captivating stories of our shared past. Authored by award-winning historian Jock Phillips, The History of New Zealand in 100 Objects is gripping, inclusive, often revelatory and deeply human. A colourful and c ...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
Sons of a Good Keen Man: Life in the shadow of Barry Crump by The Crump Brothers
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Barry Crump - the man, the myth, the father. 'Barry was never a father to me, but he did become a friend.'- Martin Crump Barry Crump was a titan of New Zealand writing, his semi-autobiographical novels about life as a rugged outdoorsman selling more than a million copies. In his time, he was held up a ...Show more
Life in the Shallows - The Wetlands of Aotearoa New Zealand by Karen Denyer; Monica Peters
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Rich and diverse but often unloved, Aotearoa's wetlands are the most vulnerable of our ecosystems. Only a tiny fraction of their original extent remains, and we continue to lose this vital habitat. The race is on to discover more about them while we still can. This highly illustrated and absorbing book ...Show more
The Monarch Butterfly by Annemarie Florian
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
The Monarch Butterfly is the first mainstream New Zealand's children's book about this most recognisable butterfly. It explains the pollination, migration, hibernation and transformation of this incredible insect. It also explains the transformation from caterpillar to pupa to butterfly and describes th ...Show more
Pesticides and Health - How New Zealand Fails In Environmental Protection (BWB Texts) by Neil Pearce
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction | Series: BWB Texts
New Zealand has been one of the world's heaviest users of pesticides, including some contaminated with dioxin, a notorious toxic chemical. In this BWB Text a leading epidemiologist uses the example of dioxin to illustrate how badly New Zealand handles problems of environmental pollutants, and why we can ...Show more
Touring Edwardian New Zealand by Paul Moon
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
The Edwardian era (1901-14) was fleeting but significant, perhaps nowhere more so than in Aotearoa New Zealand. At the turn of the twentieth century, many British regarded New Zealand as ‘the Britain of the South Seas’. Tourist promotions created an idealised impression of a country that was partly a c ...Show more
You Probably Think This Song Is About You by Kate Camp
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of her life: from a nostalgic childhood of the Seventies and Eighties, through the boozy pothead years of the Nineties, and into the sobering reality of a world in which Hillary Clinton did not win. ‘Never apo ...Show more
Women Will Rise - Recalling the Working Women’s Charter by Gay Simpkin, Marie Russell
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
In the late 1970s, as the women’s movement was fracturing, trade union women put forward a new agenda to bring feminists and women workers together. The one-page, 16-clause Working Women’s Charter covered … ★ the right to work ★ equal pay ★ an end to discrimination at work ★ better conditions, family le ...Show more
Bordering on Miraculous (Korero Series) by Saskia Leek; Lynley Edmeades
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction | Series: Korero Series 4
In this luscious collaboration poet Lynley Edmeades and painter Saskia Leek explore ideas of the quotidian and its everyday miracles. Their close, intense domestic observations merge with the philosophical, in a quest for deeper meaning. Leek's high-colour palette and symbolic investigation of the domes ...Show more