Daughter of Gloriavale - My Life in a Religious Cult by Lilia Tarawa
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
When Lilia's parents fled the cult and its dreadful secrets, Lilia and her many siblings were wrenched away from the only life they knew. Lilia struggled to adapt to life on the outside. Would she be damned to Hell for leaving? How could she learn to navigate this strange place called 'the world'? And w ...Show more
Fair Borders?: Migration Policy in the Twenty-First Century by David Hall
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Debates over immigration are heating up - with grave political consequences. It is no coincidence that calls to restrict national borders are intensifying at a time when people are more mobile than ever. But closed borders are no more imaginable in the foreseeable future than perfectly open borders. The ...Show more
Things That Matter: Stories of life and death by David Galler
32.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
In this highly articulate, down to earth, generous and thoughtful book, Dr David Galler tells stories of life and death from his position as head of intensive care at a busy city hospital. Weaving his own personal stories throughout - including the death of his parents - David frames a number of chapte ...Show more
Winging It : The Adventures of Tim Wallis by Neville Peat
0.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Take a wild animal (red deer) in plague numbers, spread them across a remote and rugged terrain, throw in helicopters hell-bent on shooting or recovering them live, then add a daring pilot called Tim Wallis – these are the ingredients of a whirlwind adventure story.This is Tim’s story. It’s about the wa ...Show more
Antibiotic Resistance - The end of modern medicine? (BWB Texts) by Siouxsie Wiles
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
In ten years' time, will antibiotics still work? Have we let bacteria get the upper hand in the evolutionary arms race?In the 1920s the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin started a golden age of medicine. However, experts warn that the end of that age may be just a decade away. In this BWB Text, mic ...Show more
The Best of e-Tangata by Tapu Misa (ed.); Gary Wilson (ed.)
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
The celebrated digital magazine e-Tangata is home to some of the most incisive and profound commentary on life in New Zealand. Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha writers grapple with topics that range from politics and social issues to history and popular culture. The best of these are collected together here i ...Show more
Hit and Run: The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan and the Meaning of Honour by Nicky Hager; Jon Stephenson
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: Near Fine
In August 2010, a New Zealand soldier died in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan. In retaliation, the New Zealand SAS led a raid on two isolated villages in search of the fighters they suspected were responsible. They all knew the rules. Prior to firing weapons, their freshly issued orders said, `the ...Show more
Get off the Grass: Kickstarting New Zealand's Innovation Economy by Shaun Hendy; Paul Callaghan
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
In a brilliant intellectual adventure that ranges from David Ricardo and Adam Smith to economic geography and the science of complex networks, Shaun Hendy and Paul Callaghan explore how New Zealanders can learn to live off knowledge rather than nature. The key to increasing New Zealand's prosperity, the ...Show more
Launching Dreams: Percy Vos - The Boats & His Boys by Baden Pascoe
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A sumptuous, large format pictorial and historical account of the life of businessman and boat builder Percy Vos, his boatyard at Westhaven, the boats he built and the people he worked with. Established in 1922, P.Vos Ltd built a wide range of boats from simple dinghies and runabouts to large luxury lau ...Show more
New Zealand Wine: the Land, the Vines, the People by Moran Warren
34.99 NZD
69.99 (50% off)
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Mount Difficulty Pinot Noir and Spy Valley Riesling. Montana Sauvignon Blanc and Cloudy Bay Chardonnay. Though the New Zealand wine industry really began only fifty years ago, vines and winemakers have now spread across the land - from Central Otago to Kumeu, Waipara to Wairarapa - to produce notable wi ...Show more
Kiwi Tractors by S. Hale
33.75 NZD
45.00 (25% off)
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
From lifestyle blocks to vineyards, high country stations and boat ramps, the humble tractor is a much-loved and instantly recognisable feature in any New Zealand landscape. The tractor is a part of our national identity, as Kiwi as pavlova, Marmite and a silver fern on the sacred black jersey. In Kiwi ...Show more
Tragedy at Pike River Mine - How and Why 29 Men Died by Rebecca Macfie
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On a sunny afternoon in November 2010, a massive explosion rocked the underground Pike River coal mine, deep in a mountain range in New Zealand's South Island. More than an hour and a half later, two ashen men stumbled from the mine's entrance to report that 29 men remained trapped inside. Samples revea ...Show more