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Word to the Wise - Untangling the Mix-Ups, Misuse and Myths of Language by Mark Broatch
$12.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Even the best wordsmiths can find themselves tripping over words that are commonly misused, mixed up or misspelled. Most of us have suffered the embarrassment of suddenly discovering that they have been using or spelling a word wrong for years, or, in some cases, their entire life. This useful reference ...Show more
With the Wind Behind Us - Stories that made New Zealand a sailing nation by Matt Elliott
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From red socks to kauri yachts, these are the stories that made New Zealand Aotearoa a sailing nation. Stretching back to the Pacific navigators and the great migrations from Polynesia to the humble 'P' class dinghy and the world-beating success of Team New Zealand: With the Wind Behind Us is a celebrat ...Show more
Ralph Hotere - The Dark is Light Enough: A Biographical Portrait by Vincent O'Sullivan
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Vincent O'Sullivan's compelling, nuanced portrait of the great New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere brings the man and his art to life. Ralph Hotere (Te Aupouri and Te Rarawa; 1931-2013) was one of Aotearoa's most significant modern artists. Hotere invited the poet, novelist and biographer Vincent O'Sulliva ...Show more
The Brilliance of Birds by Skye Wishart; Edin Whitehead
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Who knew that the morepork, our only surviving native owl, can turn its head 270 degrees? Or that the bar-tailed godwit triples its body weight before undertaking an epic and continuous migration of 11,000 kilometres? Or that the New Zealand dabchick has an in-built buoyancy system, able to trap or deco ...Show more
Aotea Great Barrier - Land and People by Chris Morton; Pippa Blake (Foreword by); Peter Malcouronne
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
If New Zealand has everything imaginable within a day¿s drive, then Great Barrier Island has pretty much everything within an hour. Rugged basalt bays on the west side, a mountainous interior and white-sand beaches on the east coast, serene one moment, savage the next - it¿s not for nothing the island i ...Show more
Tree of Strangers by Barbara Sumner
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A compelling memoir of adoption, loss and discovery ‘I live at the end of a gravel road at the top of a valley consumed by bush. My husband is here, and my three girls. But the bush swallows them up like the road.’ I wrote those words at the kitchen table in 1983. A letter to the mother I’d never met ...Show more
A Maori Phrase A Day: 365 Phrases to Kickstart your Reo by Hemi Kelly
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
A Māori Phrase a Day offers a simple, fun and practical entry into the Maori language. Through its 365 Māori phrases, you will learn the following: Everyday uses English translations Factoids and memory device Handy word lists Presenting the most common, relevant and useful phrases today, A Māori Phrase ...Show more
Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside, but two years ago, she began to feel that she was only seeing half the picture. She needed to get inside the groups to truly understand them. So she decided to go undercover in her spare hours - late ...Show more
Down South: In Search of the Great Southern Land by Bruce Ansley
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | 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
Kiwi Fishing Knots (Waterproof) by Sam Mossman
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
A handy waterproof quick reference guide to 15 fishing knots. The spiral bound pocket-sized guide has explanations of when to use each knot and step-by-step diagrams of how to tie them. Included are the Bimini Twist, Yukatan and Lefties Loops with application to soft bait fishing and the other knots cov ...Show more
Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore : A Maori Soil Sovereignty and Wellbeing Handbook by Edited by Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Soil health and security are key components of our wellbeing. Even so, soil is faced with many environmental challenges under the current iteration of capitalism. A paradigm shift is needed to encourage care for this resource. In te ao Maori, soil is taonga. It is also whanaunga - it holds ancestral co ...Show more
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a beautiful daily devotional of Stoic meditations--an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller. Why have history's greatest minds--from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with t ...Show more