Sugar, Rum and Tobacco (BWB Texts) by Mike Berridge
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
Can a sugar tax improve public health? Even if it can, is it the right thing to do? One of New Zealand's foremost health scientists, Mike Berridge, teams up with tax expert Lisa Marriott to explore the issue.This BWB Text explains the relationship between sugar and ill-health, and explores how taxes can ...Show more
Landfall 239 by Emma Neale (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Landfall Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's best writers. There are reviews of the latest books ...Show more
Still Counting - Wellbeing, Women's Work and Policy-Making (BWB Texts) by Marilyn Waring
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
30 years ago, Marilyn Waring's ground-breaking book Counting for Nothing was released. Waring explained, through meticulous economic analysis, how the success of the global economy rests on women's unpaid work. Counting for Nothing became a phenomenon: it was read and discussed around the world, and ev ...Show more
Dad Man Walking - Dispatches from the Frontlines of Fatherhood by Toby Morris
$22.08 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
The ups and downs of dad life, as drawn by award-winning cartoonist Toby Morris. Toby- What do dads do? Kid- Drink a lot of beer. Honest and real, warts and all, here are the ups and downs of modern dad life as drawn by award-winning cartoonist (and dad) Toby Morris. With over 100 full-colour pages ...Show more
Cliff Porter - Captain of the 1924 Invincibles 100 Years On by Ian St. George
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
In 2024 it will be a century since the greatest rugby side to leave our shores departed New Zealand for the UK. Clifford Glen Porter was the Invincibles captain. He was nicknamed “Offside Porter” because his anticipation was so accurate and his speed around the scrum so great that opponents insisted he ...Show more
The Exercise Book by Ken Duncum
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
The Exercise Book collects over fifty creative writing exercise used by Bill Manhire and his colleagues, not only at Victoria but throughout New Zealand and around the world.This book will be an indispensible resource for teachers and students, and excellent stimulation and entertainment for anyone want ...Show more
New Zealand's Night Sky by Stardome Observatory Planetarium
$13.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
When you look up at the stars in the night sky it can be easy to think of them as lights glowing on a large dark ceiling. Can you identify the brightest stars and planets? Do you know which constellations are visible right now, and what their stories are? New Zealand's Night Skyby the Stardome Observato ...Show more
A City Possessed by Lynley Hood
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Originally published in 2001, A City Possessed is the harrowing account of one of New Zealands most high-profile criminal cases a story of child sexual abuse allegations, gender politics and the law. In detailing the events of the 1990s that led up to and surrounded the allegations made against several ...Show more
Eddie Norman and 25 Battalion by Elizabeth Kay
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
When World War Two broke out, three theological students left their college in Auckland to the sound of bagpipes and volunteered to fight. Eddie Norman, aged 22 from Hawke's Bay, was one of them. A natural leader, his first experience of action was at El Alamein in 1942 as a platoon commander, and durin ...Show more
Jerningham by Cristina Sanders
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
"Edward Jerningham Wakefield was the wild-child of the Wakefield family that set up the New Zealand Company to bring the first settlers to this country. His story is told through the eyes of bookkeeper Arthur Lugg, who is tasked by Colonel William Wakefield to keep tabs on his brilliant but unstable nep ...Show more
Into the Unknown: The Secret WWI Diary of Kiwi Alick Trafford No. 25/469 by Ian Trafford
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
Secondhand. A personal account of WWI from the diaries of a Gisborne farm boy, shaped into a gripping narrative by the diarist's grandson 100 years later. Follow Alick as he moves from his last night on the farm in early 1916, through enshipment and training, then off to the battle fields of France and ...Show more
Down South - In Search of the Great Southern Land by Bruce Ansley
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
In Down South, writer Bruce Ansley goes on a journey back to his beloved South Island. From Curio Bay to Golden Bay, in Down South writer Bruce Ansley sets off on a vast expedition across the South Island, Te Waipounamu, visiting the places and people who hold clues to the south's famous character. Not ...Show more