Stories Men Tell - New Zealand Men Talk About Their Lives by John Keir
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | 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
Pakeha: the Quest for Identitiy in New Zealand by Filer, David
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
Pulpit Radical - The Story of New Zealand Social Campaigner Rutherford Waddell by Ian Dougherty
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: new
Pulpit Radical tells the story of one of New Zealand's most influential social campaigners. From his base as a Presbyterian minister in Dunedin, Rutherford Waddell immersed himself in all manner of causes, most notable in campaigning against the miserable plight of women in the clothing industry, which ...Show more
Black Boots - New Zealand Rugby Legends by Phill Gifford; Barry Durrant
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sport History | Reading Level: new
Over 200 photographs from a classic era of NZ rugby - 1950s-early 1990s, many unusual images from behind the scenes. Fascinating (and funny) captions from renowned rugby writer Phil Gifford. Perfect gift for the nostalgia-loving rugby fan - will bring back many great memories of AB greats and tours.
I Have Loved Me a Man by Mazer Sharon
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
From the Old Mill Disco in Timaru to San Francisco's ACT UP protests, through Jazzercise and drag, AIDS and homosexual law reform, I Have Loved Me a Man takes readers inside the social revolution that has moved New Zealand from the 1960s to the present day through the story of the one, the only, queer M ...Show more
Beyond the Waimakariri - A Regional History by D N Hawkins
$45.00 NZD
Category: Regional | Reading Level: good-very good
Flora of New Zealand: Volume III: Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons by A. J. Healy; Elizabeth Edgar
$15.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Flora of New Zealand | Reading Level: good-very good
A comprehensive taxonomic guide to the flora of the New Zealand botanical region. This volume describes the introduced wild plants belonging to the rush, sedge, lily, iris, arum and related families, but excluding grasses.
Makers of Fortune - A Colonial Business Community and Its Fall by R C J Stone
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
So many businesses rose and fell in 19th-century Auckland that the city was called a graveyard of enterprise. Through contemporary newspapers and business and legal records Dr Stone has traced a story of the fates of individual industries, firms and entrepreneurs. Second hand, ex library.
Where the Rekohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
From the Chatham Islands/ Rekohu to London, from 1835 to the 21st century, this quietly powerful and compelling novel confronts the complexity of being Moriori, Maori and Pakeha.In the 1880s, Mere yearns for independence. Iraia wants the same but, as the descendant of a slave, such things are hardly con ...Show more
Louise Nicholas My Story by Louise Nicholas
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Louise Nicholas' life has turned full circle since she was raped by policemen nearly 30 years ago - she now advises senior police how to support rape victims. She single-handedly rocked New Zealand's police and justice systems to their cores, her case sparking the 2007 Commission of Inquiry into Police ...Show more
Swimming with Dolphins in New Zealand by Wade Doak
$12.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good