Maori Made Easy Workbook 4/Kete 4 by Scotty Morrison
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The accessible guide to learning the Maori language, no matter your knowledge level. Fun, user-friendly and relevant to modern readers, Scotty Morrison's Maori Made Easy workbook series is the ultimate resource for anyone wanting to learn the basics of the Maori language. While dictionaries list words a ...Show more
Maori at Work: The Everyday Guide to Using Te Reo Maori in the Workplace by Scotty Morrison
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The must-have guide to using te reo Māori at work. Ae, e tuwhera ana tenei whareYes, we are openMo te takaroa o tenei whakautuApologies for the delayed responseMe mau potae maroSafety hats must be wornAnei te rarangi take mo ta tatou huiHere is the agenda for our meetingHika ma, i kino te huarahi i te ...Show more
Maui Street (Māui Street) (BWB Texts) by Morgan Godfery
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Everyone lives a messy, unusual life. There is no normal. The sooner our politics understands this, the better off we will all be.' Morgan Godfery is one of New Zealands most energising young thinkers. In just a few years he has become a leading voice in the countrýs social and political life. Starting ...Show more
Money: Vintage Minis by Yuval Noah Harari
$10.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clarity and insight, Yuval Noah Harari takes the reader o ...Show more
Mute : Experimentalists of the Independent Music Movement by Daniel Miller; Terry Burrows
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Mute is one of the most revered and influential indie labels of all time. Through the music of its tight-knit community of artists--ranging from Cabaret Voltaire, Nick Cave's The Birthday Party and Moby to Depeche Mode, Erasure, and Goldfrapp--it has had an incalculable impact on popular music for forty ...Show more
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
$27.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obses ...Show more
Ray Ching: New Zealand Bird Paintings by Ray Ching
$80.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Ray Ching is internationally recognised as one of the world's greatest living wildlife artists. Born in New Zealand, he established himself as an artist in the 1960s, before moving to England where he has spent the majority of his career. He has never lost his interest in his roots, however, or the New ...Show more
Te Motunui Epa by Rachel Buchanan
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
‘This is a story about the power of art to help us find a way through the darkness. It is about how art can bring out the best in us, and the worst. The artworks in question are five wooden panels carved in the late 1700s by relatives in Taranaki.’ This stunning book examines how five interconnected car ...Show more
The American Trap by édéric Pierucci
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
In 2014, France lost part of the control of its nuclear power plants to the United States. Frédéric Pierucci, former senior executive of one of Alstom's subsidiaries, found himself at the heart of this state scandal. His story goes to the very heart of a $12 billion thriller that illustrates the secret ...Show more
The Beaut Little Book of New Zealand Slang by Harry Orsman & Des Hurley
$13.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
A humorous study of all the words and phrases that are uniquely New Zealand's own. First published 1992; this edition 2008.
The Deep by Alex Rogers
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
There's so much we don't know about what lies deep beneath the ocean's surface - and the time to find out is growing increasingly precious . . . Professor Alex Rogers is one of the world's leading experts in marine biology and oceanology, and has spent his life studying the deep ocean - and in particul ...Show more