The Ground Between: Navigating the Oil and Mining Debate in New Zealand: 2017 (BWB Texts) by Sefton Darby
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
Battles over oil and mining developments in New Zealand are fierce and polarised. Often presented as a simple trade-off between conservation or quick profit, the debate leaves little space for discussion across ideological divides. The Ground Between provides a rare account from someone who has worked w ...Show more
Dancing With the King - The rise and fall of the King Country 1864-1885 by Belgrave Michael
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
After the battle of Orakau in 1864 and the end of the war in the Waikato, Tawhiao, the second Maori King, and his supporters were forced into an armed isolation in the Rohe Potae, the King Country. For the next twenty years, the King Country operated as an independent state - a land governed by the Maor ...Show more
Buller's Birds of New Zealand: The Complete Work of JG Keulemans by Geoff Norman
64.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
This accessible new edition of the award-winning classic Buller’s Birds of New Zealand includes the complete set of 95 artworks from both editions of A History of the Birds of New Zealand by Walter Buller and the subsequent supplement, specially photographed and reproduced in full colour using high qual ...Show more
A Life on Gorge River - New Zealand's Remotest Family by Robert Long
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Robert Long and his family - wife Catherine, and children Christan (17) and Robyn (14) - live in complete isolation, in a hut two days' walk south of Haast in South Westland. Robert has lived there for nearly 30 years; Catherine for 20 and the kids all their lives. Their only contact with the outside wo ...Show more
Patched by Jarrod Gilbert
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
From 'bikie' gangs to skinheads, the Mongrel Mob to Black Power, gangs have had a massive impact on our society. Based on intensive research within gangs, Patched is the first major history of gang life in New Zealand. Jarrod Gilbert traces the story from the early bodgies and widgies, the rise of Hell' ...Show more
The Financial Colonisation of Aotearoa by Catherine Comyn
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
This book reveals the financial instruments and imperatives that drove the British colonial project in the nineteenth century. Finance was at the centre of every stage of the colonisation of Aotearoa, from the sale of Māori lands and the emigration of early colonists to the founding of settler nationho ...Show more
Unmasking Monsters by Chook Henwood
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A rare and fascinating glimpse inside New Zealand policing - from an officer at the heart of it all. A serial rapist is stalking South Auckland in 1980s New Zealand and police are stumped - they can't seem to find the man they call "The Ghost" before he strikes again. In this incredible memoir of his ...Show more
Otherhood: Essays On Being Childless, Childfree, and Child Adjacent by Alie Benge; Lil O'Brien; Kathryn van Beek (Editors)
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
In Aotearoa the number of people who will never have children is growing — and they’re pushing back against the narrative that if they don’t, their lives will be somehow ‘less than’. Otherhood’s essays are by writers who’ve felt on the outside looking in, who’ve lived unexpected lives and who’ve given ...Show more
Further Off the Beaten Track by Dave Smith
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The Hunters Club are back with more hard-case hunting adventures! This time they are stalking their prey on two fronts - from New Zealand's majestic high-country wilderness regions, to spearfishing our bountiful oceans. Join producer Dave and his team of intrepid adventurers from the popular TV series ...Show more
A Radically Different World: Preparing for Climate Change (BWB Text) by Jonathan Boston
17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts
In A Radically Different World: Preparing for Climate Change, Jonathan Boston provides an urgent exploration of our future in the face of climate change. Focusing on the challenges of adaptation, Boston’s insightful analysis assesses the scale of impact on communities, the need for robust policy for rel ...Show more
Urban Aotearoa: The Future for Our Cities (BWB Text) by David Batchelor, Bill McKay
17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts
Despite our agrarian mythology, Aotearoa New Zealand is overwhelmingly a country of urban dwellers.’ Urban Aotearoa: The Future for Our Cities takes a critical look at the evolution of New Zealand’s cities. Moving past the country’s rural image, the book addresses the realities of its urban majority, q ...Show more