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Japan through a Cutter-Knife by Shunji Mizuno
$55.00 NZD
Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good
Living in China by Angelika Taschen (Editor); Reto Guntli (Photographer); Daisann McLane (Text by)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good
Unique homes in the People's Republic Dating back more than six thousand years, China is the world's oldest civilization and most populous nation. With its remarkable history, rich culture, and diversity of ethnic groups, China is an endlessly fascinating country. Sneaking a peek at an array of differen ...Show more
War in the Tenasserim - The Japanese Invasion of Southern Burma, 1942 by Alastair Shephard
$45.00 NZD
Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: new
"The entry of Japan into the Second World War with its attack on Pearl Harbour found the British defense of Burma very much unprepared. No invasion threat from the east had been envisaged. The British deemed the jungle and precipitous mountain ranges surrounding three sides of Burma to be impassable by ...Show more
Birds of Aotearoa : A natural and cultural history by Margaret Orbell
$45.00 NZD
Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good
To Maori, as in all traditional societies, birds have been a constant source of ideas and metaphors because of their power of flight, their songs, their beauty, and the great variation in their appearance and behaviour. The calls of some birds are believed to convey a message to listening humans, either ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph by Robin Lenman (ed.)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Maud’s Picks | Series: Oxford Companions | Reading Level: good-very good
Global in scope, this work focuses on the technology, history, and practice of photography, from its origins to the digital era. It also includes a bibliography, a chronology, a list of websites, and an index.
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia with illustrations hand-coloured by the artist by C.S. Lewis
$150.00 NZD
Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: fine
This is a fabulous limited gift edition of all seven Chronicles in one volume with leather binding, cloth finish in a foil embossed slipcase. All the Chronicles are bound together here in one magnificent volume, with a special introduction by C.S. Lewis's stepson, Douglas Gresham. The original illustrat ...Show more
Kitaj by Marco Livingstone
$80.00 NZD
Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good
R. B. Kitaj (1932-2007) is recognized as a modern master whose powerful, controversial and highly personal paintings, pastels and drawings reflect his commitment to the human figure as a subject and his complex involvement with the art of the past, with political and social issues and with his own Jewis ...Show more
Pacific Pattern by Susanne Küchler & Graeme Were
$35.00 NZD
Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good
Lavishly illustrated with contemporary, archival and museum images, Pacific Pattern takes us on a stunning visual journey through the history of the Pacific, the various techniques and culture associated with fibre and fabric. This is the first book to cover not only the ritual domain but everyday patte ...Show more
The Early Journals of Henry Williams Senior Missionary in New Zealand of the Church Missionary Society 1826-40 by Lawrence M. Rogers (ed.)
$110.00 NZD
Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good
The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor
$125.00 NZD
Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good
Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
$115.00 NZD
Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good
Translated by Archibald Colquhoun
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds Volume 1 Ratites to Ducks Part A Ratite to petrels and Part B Australian Pelican to Ducks by S. Marchant and P. J. Higgins (co-ordinators)
$350.00 NZD
Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: near fine
This encyclopaedic reference book will cover all 900 species (including those recently extinct) occurring in Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica, and in the Australian and New Zealand dependencies and subantarctic islands. To be produced in five volumes, it will be the most authoritative and up-to-da ...Show more