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Stopping Oil: Climate Justice and Hope by Sophie Bond, Amanda Thomas, Gradon Diprose
37.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa New Zealand Books | Series: 1st
Lessons learned from the powerful climate justice campaign in Aotearoa New ZealandStopping Oil dives into the story of how deep-sea oil exploration became politicised in Aotearoa New Zealand, how community groups mobilised against it and the backlash that followed. It is also a story of activists exerci ...Show more
Stories on the Four Winds: Nga hau e Wha by Brian Bargh; Robyn Bargh
34.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: 1st
This collection brings together twenty short stories from eighteen of New Zealand's accomplished writers. They explore the dark and dangerous milieu of our comfortable existence. There is humour, tenderness, surprise, anger, sorrow and abject desperation in these stories from the four winds.
Tangata Whenua - A History [text-only edition] by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris
49.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
Tangata Whenua: A History presents a rich narrative of the Māori past from ancient origins in South China to the twenty-first century, in a handy paperback format. The authoritative text is drawn directly from the award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History; the full text of the big hardback is ...Show more
Te Ika a Maori: The Struggle for Maori Fishing Rights by Brian Bargh
45.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Series: 1st | Reading Level: Near Fine
Maori fishing rights were guaranteed by the Treaty of Waitangi, taken away by Crown actions, and, along with Maori land rights and other grievances, contested throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Finally, after years of struggle in the courts, through the Waitangi Tribunal and in protests, Maori fishing righ ...Show more
Te Kaieke Tohorā (The Whale Rider in te reo Maori) by Witi Ihimaera; Timoti Karetu i whakamaori
25.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Series: 1st
Whakamiharo ana tera te tirohanga atu ki a ia, ki te kaieke tohora. I rere atu te wai i a ia, ka hamama tona waha kia taea ai te hau makariri te kupa iho. Ko ana karu e kohara ana i te ahurei. Korekoreko katoa ana te tinana i te rehu taimana. I runga i taua taniwha ano nei he tekoteko paku kua whakairot ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars | Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nations history. Fought between the Crown and various groups of Maori between 1845 and 1872, the wars touched many aspects of life in nineteenth century New Zealand, even in those regions spared actual ...Show more
The Raupo Book of Maori Proverbs by Aw Reed et al.
27.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Series: 1st | Reading Level: Very Good
Proverbs (or whakatauki) express the wisdom, wit and commonsense of the Maori people. They are of great value and inspiration to writers, story-tellers and anyone speaking in a Maori setting. Several hundred proverbs are contained in The Raupo Book of Maori Proverbs, categorised under a large number of ...Show more
The Story of a Treaty / He Korero Tiriti (3rd edition) by Claudia Orange
34.99 NZD
Category: Māori History | 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
Victory Park by Rachel Kerr
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
Kara lives in Victory Park council flats with her young son, just making a living by minding other people’s kids – her nightly smoke on the fire escape the only time she can drop her guard and imagine something better. But the truth is life is threadbare and unpromising until the mysterious Bridget move ...Show more
Waiheathens: Voices From a Mining Town by Mark Derby
57.50 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st
Waiheathens has been produced to coincide with the centenary of the 1912 miner's strike which turned Waihi into a battleground and resulted in the violent death of one striker. The book includes colour reproductions of the exhibition of paintings titled “Gold Strike”, by Wellington artist Bob Kerr, whic ...Show more
We Will Not Cease by Archibald Baxter
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
Against the backdrop of troops being mindlessly slaughtered at the whim of upper-echelon officers, WE WILL NOT CEASE is a story of extreme bravery and resolve. WE WILL NOT CEASE is the epic record of New Zealander Archibald Baxter's brutal treatment as a conscientious objector. In 1915, when he was 33, ...Show more
Why Memory Matters: 'Remembered histories' and the Politics of the Past (BWB Texts) by Rowan Light
17.99 NZD
Category: Aotearoa New Zealand Books | Series: 1st
Why Memory Matters