Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees by Malcolm T. Sanford
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Everyone is buzzing about bees! Urban beekeeping is on the rise as swarms of people do their part to help nurture local food systems, make gardens more productive, connect with nature, and rescue honey bee populations from colony collapse disorder. Honey bee hives now grace the White House Lawn, the roo ...Show more
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens by Gail Damerow
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Storey's Guide to Raising Ser.
A guide to raising one chicken or one hundred. It features topics from starting a backyard flock to putting eggs on the table.
Stories Men Tell - New Zealand Men Talk About Their Lives by John Keir
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Extraordinary stories. And ordinary stories. Stories rarely told by men. Revealing. Insightful. Honest. For 50 years the Atrium Club has operated as a gym for men only. But the Atrium is like no other gym. It's a club -- unashamedly a safe haven for an unlikely mix of gentlemen; a place for mind and bod ...Show more
Stories Without End - Essays 1975-2010 by Judith Binney
$50.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Judith Binney's work spans nearly forty years of historical endeavour that began with the award-winning biography of the missionary Thomas Kendall, The Legacy of Guilt (1968). Her magisterial publication of 2009, Encircled Lands, is the culmination of many years' work on the history of the Urewera - a g ...Show more
Stories of Hope - Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives by Heather Morris
$32.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: near fine
Heather Morris, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand. On her way back across the paddocks from school, Heather would visit her great-grandfather and listen to his experiences of war - stories he told only ...Show more
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere) by LISA CRON
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Story Geniusis a foolproof program that saves writers from penning hundreds of pages only to realize that something's not working and they have to start again. Informed by story consultant Lisa Cron's science-based insights into how story structure is built into the architecture of the brain, this guide ...Show more
Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
This title is an eye-opening tour of the English language through the ages. Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient word ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdood ...Show more
Story of Philosophy: A History of Western Thought by James Garvey
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The Story of Philosophy sees philosophy for what it is: a passionate, exhilarating quest for human understanding that cannot be reduced to dry categories or simple definitions. It's a story with plot twists, a murder, accidental discoveries, disastrous love affairs, geniuses, idiots, monks, and vagabond ...Show more
Story of Poetry: From Pope to Burns: v. 3 by Michael Schmidt
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
An easy to read, fascinating story of the politics behind the poetry, followed by the poetry itself. The Story of Poetry follows the style of this classic new series, with the first half of each volume showing how poetry was as much a reflection and sometime-counterweighted reaction to the current affai ...Show more
Straight Arrows and Fast Bullets: A Hunter's Tales by Peter Hill
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Nock an arrow or load your rifle and get set to experience some old-school hunting tales told by a real character who has devoted his life to hunting! From when he was a young boy growing up in Hamilton in the 1970s, Peter Hill has been obsessed with hunting. First mastering archery and eventually prog ...Show more
Straight Flush by Ben Mezrich
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Straight Flush is the true story of a group of University of Montana frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local bar into one of the largest online poker companies in the world. At its height, the group's online empire was bringing in revenues of over a million dollars a day. ...Show more
Strange Days Indeed: The Golden age of paranoia by Francis Wheen
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
'Strange Days Indeed' tells the story of how the paranoia exemplified by Nixon and Wilson became the defining characteristic of Western politics and culture in the 1970s.