A Woman's Place: Life, Leadership and Lessons from the Boardroom by Joan Withers
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Successful women rarely set out to become role models. They just do the best they can, and hopefully that becomes inspirational for other women.' Joan Withers left high school with School Certificate at the age of 16 and from those unassuming beginnings has gone on to manage one of New Zealand's leadin ...Show more
A great New Zealand prime minister?: reappraising William Ferguson Massey by James Watson and Lachy Paterson (editors)
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction
A controversial and much-maligned Prime Minister reconsidered. Essays by ten leading historians. One of New Zealand’s longest-serving Prime Ministers, his political legacy has not always been treated kindly. However, recent work by historians suggests that a reappraisal of Bill Massey – which this book ...Show more
Abolishing The Military - Arguments and Alternatives by Griffin Manawaroa Leonard; Joseph Llewellyn; Richard Jackson
$17.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Abolishing The Military
Above the Treeline: A nature guide to alpine New Zealand by Alan Mark
$79.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction
'Above the Treeline' is an essential publication for anyone interested in the natural world of alpine New Zealand, a guide not only to the plants, but also the ferns, mosses, lichen, invertebrates, birds and lizards that occupy these rich and diverse environments. This book is based on a smaller field g ...Show more
Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138 life-changing days by Victoria Bruce
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction
"I'm here because I want to test the very limits of my own resilience and reassure myself that no matter what's happened to me, I'm not ready to lie down and die." In 2021, Victoria Bruce quit her corporate job, packed up her life and embarked on Te Araroa trail with her seven-year-old daughter, Emilie ...Show more
African Myths & Legends: Tales of Heroes, Gods & Monsters by J. K. JACKSON
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Gorgeous Collector's Edition. With its powerful tradition of storytelling, the myths of the continent of Africa have survived colonialism and slavery, bringing together a rich diversity of cultures from Ethiopia to Tanzania, from the Xhosa people to the Yoruba. This collection offers tales of the gods, ...Show more
After Alexander: The Legacy of a Son by Jan Pryor
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction
Jan Pryor blends her personal experience of losing a child with her professional understanding of family dynamics and children's development. The clumsiness of consolation; the challenges of organising a funeral and what to do with Alexander's ashes; the isolation, being far from friends and family; con ...Show more
After the Tampa by Abbas Nazari
$27.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction
When the Taliban were at the height of their power in 2001, Abbas Nazari's parents were faced with a choice: stay and face persecution in their homeland, or seek security for their young children elsewhere. The family's desperate search for safety took them on a harrowing journey from the mountains of A ...Show more
Aftermaths: - Colonialism, Violence and Memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific by Angela Wanhalla (ed.); Lyndall Ryan (ed.); Camille Nurka (ed.)
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
What we choose to remember and what we choose to forget about the violent past tell us something about the society we live in now. Whether we like it or not, we’re part of each other’s story. So how do we talk about the past? —Joanna Kidman and Vincent O’Malley Aftermaths explores the life-changing inte ...Show more
All Who Live On Islands by Rose Lu
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction
All Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature. In these intimate and entertaining essays, Rose Lu takes us through personal history a shopping trip with her Shanghai-born grandparents, her career in the Wellington tech industry, an epic hike through the Himalayas to explo ...Show more
Ambition: What New Zealanders Think and Why it Matters by Julie Fry & Hayden Glass
$28.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction
Many commentators say New Zealanders lack ambition, and that aspects of the New Zealandcharacter or our comfortable lives limit our achievements. We are said to be too keen on time off, too concerned about everyone fitting in, suspicious of people who try too hard, enthusiastic about humility, afraid of ...Show more
An Indigenous Ocean: Pacific Essays by Damon Salesa
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Series: 1st
In this captivating collection of essays, acclaimed Pacific scholar Damon Salesa takes us on a journey through the rich cultural and historical tapestry of the Pacific. From the far-reaching indigenous civilisations that flourished in Oceania, to the colonial encounters that shaped Samoa's history, and ...Show more