You'll be a Man if You Play Rugby : Sport and the construction of gender by Graeme W. Ferguson
$24.95 NZD
Category: NZ Society
Sport and the Construction of Gender Given that, as a nation , we often define ourselves through sport, it is appropriate to ask what role sport plays in the developmentof gender amongst our young. This book explores how a group of students interpret themselves through their involvement in sport, and ...Show more
The New Zealand Dictionary of Business Terms 2nd ed by Martin Lawrence & Kay Switzer
$34.95 NZD
Category: Business
This is a comprehensive, user-friendly dictionary, with a focus on accounting, economics, marketing and law terms.
Challenging Science by Kevin Dew
$34.95 NZD
Category: Science
This book investigates some of the more important debate surrounding science and society.
Facing the Challenge: Foundation Learning for Adults in Aotearoa New Zealand by John Benseman
$54.95 NZD
Category: Education
Facing the Challenge is the first book published in New Zealand that focuses exclusively on foundation learning for adults. Written by experienced tutors, managers and researchers, it showcases local expertise and experience in the teaching of literacy, language and numeracy to adults.
Eighty Years on: further memoirs by Nicholas Tarling
$39.99 NZD
Category: Education
Nicholas Tarling's second volume of memoirs, beginning with the 1980s and early 1990s. Tarling was involved in the struggle with the governemnt and its agencies over university 'reforms', with the attempt to keep the Mercury Theatre afloat, and with the founding of what became New Zealand Opera. Tarlin ...Show more
Essence by Krystine Tomaszyk
$37.95 NZD
Category: Back list
In this true story, Krystine Tomaszyk looks back over her life, the earliest memories of which take place as her world, and that of all around her, shatters with the invasion of Poland by the German and then the Soviet army and her deportation to Siberia. This poignant narrative is, at the same time, a ...Show more
Two Titans - Muldoon, Lange & Leadership by Jon Johansson
$34.95 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: good
Two Titans analyses the leadership styles of Muldoon and Lange, the two Prime Ministers on either side of a crucial forking point in New Zealand's political history.
Republicanism in New Zealand by Edited by Luke Trainor
$29.95 NZD
Category: Politics
Republicanism has the potential to change our national identity, the structure of our constitution and the nature of democracy in New Zealand. The origins of republicanism are explored, its meaning for changes in everyday life, its connection to overseas developments and its distinctive character, inclu ...Show more
New Zealand and the Global Economy by Malcolm Abbott
$34.95 NZD
Category: Economics
New Zealand and the Global Economy looks at New Zealand's international economic relations over the past fifty years from the mid-1950s until recent times. Over the period New Zealand's international economic relations have at times been unstable, but nonetheless have provided an important engine for gr ...Show more
Hidden Hazards in Women's Work by Celia Briar
$42.99 NZD
Category: Health
Women experience more work-related health problems than men. Gender segregation at work means different health and safety issues for women and men, but at present women’s occupational health and safety issues receive less attention and most research has been on men. Occupational health and safety issu ...Show more
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: New Zealand Birth Mothers' Experiences by Jenny Salmon
$29.95 NZD
Category: Health
Based on academic research, this book tells the stories of eight New Zealand women who gave birth to children suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome - or fetal alcohol effects, as it is also known. The struggles of these women to raise their disabled children, in a society where everything from the legal ...Show more
Localizing Asia in Aotearoa by Paola Voci and Jacqueline Leckie (editors)
$44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Society
Essays and personal narratives contributed by fifteen writers reflect upon the diversity and complexity of Asian experiences, examine geographical, social and cultural locations and different perspectives in which Asia is actualised, embodied and imagined. Different ethnic and national groups are discus ...Show more