The New New Zealand: Facing Demographic Disruption by Paul Spoonley
$43.95 AUD
Category: General
A BOLD NEW BOOK ON POPULATION TRENDS AND THE NEED TO CONFRONT THEM. In 2030 there may be six million of us. One and a half million of us will live overseas. We will be clustered in Auckland, dependent on migration, and worried about a shortage of workers. We havent planned for this. We need to. This ma ...Show more
The: 200 Handmade Cards for All Occasions Practical Book of Card Making by Cheryl Owen
$39.95 AUD
Category: General
Beautiful to receive as well as fun to make, here is a sparkling selection of fabulous card-making projects designed for maximum decorative and creative effect. There are cards for holidays and festivals, birthday celebrations, special anniversaries and red letter days, plus cards to express love, frien ...Show more
A Seat at the Table: New Zealand and the United Nations Security Council, 2015-2016 by Negar Graham And Partow Hassall
$49.95 AUD
Category: General
This fascinating look at global politics follows New Zealand's fourth term as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, from 2015 to 2016. Its engrossing chapters by key players, from the then Minister for Foreign Affairs Murray McCully to the two-term New Zealand President of the S ...Show more
People of the Flower Market: A Year at New Covent Garden Flower Market by Simon Lycett
$49.95 AUD
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This wonderful photographic record of the last year at the site of the New Covent Garden Flower Market, occupied since the 1960s before it moved to its new, more modern premises, captures the essence and heart of what makes a market: its amazing product the exuberant blooms and foliage along with t ...Show more
Thomas Potts of Canterbury: Colonist and Conservationist by Paul Star
$43.95 AUD
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"In 1858 Canterbury settler Thomas Potts protested against the destruction of tōtara on the Port Hills near Christchurch. A decade later, as a member of Parliament, he made forest conservation a national issue. Through his writing he raised the then novel idea of protecting native birds on island reserv ...Show more
New Zealand Seaweeds: An Illustrated Guide by Wendy Nelson
$69.95 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
A fully revised and completely redesigned edition of the first photographic identification guide to New Zealand's unique marine algae, by the country's pre-eminent seaweed expert Wendy Nelson. Across three main sections covering green, brown and red algae, over 150 genera and 250 key species are describ ...Show more
No Place To Go by Lezlie Lowe
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
Why are public toilets so crappy? An eye-opening look at how public toilets are letting us all down and why this is a political, not just personal issue. Adults don't talk about the business of doing our business. We work on one assumption: the world of public bathrooms is problemand politics-free. No ...Show more
Volcanoes of Auckland: A Field Guide by Bruce W Hayward
$54.95 AUD
Category: General
A fully illustrated field guide for Aucklanders and visitors to take with them out among the 53 volcanoes that shape this city. Volcanoes of Auckland is a handy field guide to the fiery natural world that so deeply shapes New Zealand's largest city - from Rangitoto to One Tree Hill, Lake Pupuke to Orak ...Show more
Three Kiwi Tales: More fabulous fix-it stories from Wildbase Hospital by Janet Hunt
$27.95 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
Wildbase Hospital in Palmerston North is a very special hospital for very special animals, and in this follow-up to the hugely successful How to Mend a Kea, author Janet Hunt focuses on the tales of three kiwi who have been treated there. The stories are fascinating and touching accounts of their differ ...Show more
We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa by Chris McDowall
$76.95 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
An extraordinary visual data book like no other. Clustered yet scattered, we New Zealanders live across the country's physical landscapes, experiencing its varied weather and environments. We co-create its political, economic and social systems on a daily basis. Each of us has a particular view of Aotea ...Show more
Queer Objects by Judith Chris Collard Brickwell
$49.95 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and accessories we wear, and the analogue and digital technologies we use to communicate with one another. But what makes ...Show more