Ecomyth: Challenging the Dogmas and Ideology of the International 'green' Movement by Lance Kennedy
$29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Society
This book examines the issues which are crucial to our future and, using critical research and critical thinking, delivers a new, more optimistic message.
The Blind Impress by Michael Jackson
$19.95 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Pawelka manhunt of 1910 and Joe Pawelka's prison escape and disappearance are recounted.Michael Jackson looks into the unsolved mystery surrounding Pawelka and explains the hold this 'man against the world' had on our consciousness. He intercuts recollections of his own life in small-town New Zealan ...Show more
Lifeswork : Celebrating Older Workers in New Zealand by Judy McGregor
$29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Society
This collection of stories of 13 inspiring New Zealanders examines the lives of older workers who in their seventies, eighties and nineties positively contribute to the labour market and their communities. First published 2005.
Muldoon Revisited by Margaret Clark
$39.95 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Sir Robert Muldoon's impact upon those with whom he worked was always dramatic. In this fascinating and insightful collection, many people who worked closely with Muldoon - as colleagues, opponents, civil servants, advisors, academics or journalists - offer fascinating and revelationary accounts and mem ...Show more
Stand & Deliver: A book of addresses by Nicholas Tarling
$35.99 NZD
Category: Education
This book contains a selection of addresses by Nicholas Tarling, Professor of History, broadcaster, and sometime actor, now Fellow at the New Zealand Asia Institute at the University of Auckland. Many were given while Nicholas was the University’s Public Orator, and honoured such figures as Dean Martin ...Show more
An Energetic Life: an autobiography by Colin Maiden
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
Colin Maiden was a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in the late 50s, a research engineer in Canada and a leading General Motors scientist and executive in the US, Vice Chancellor of the University of Auckland for 24 years, and professional company director or chair of companies such as NZ Synthetic ...Show more
The Wine Drinkers Guide to the Vineyard by David Jackson
$34.95 NZD
Category: Back list
What makes a superior grape? The aim of this book is to provide the serious wine aficionado with the information needed to appreciate the contribution of the particular features of the vineyard to wine quality. The topics covered range from discovering our taste buds and the aroma of wines, to grape var ...Show more
Practical Herbage Seed Crop Management by Jacqueline Rowarth
$39.95 NZD
Category: Horticulture/viticulture
Three Labour Leaders by Margaret Clark (Editor)
$29.95 NZD
Category: Politics
Nordmeyer, Kirk and Rowling successively led the Labour Party from April 1963 until February 1983. During that time they contested seven general elections and won only one. The theme of many contributors to this book is that had it been otherwise, New Zealand might have been a better place. Contributor ...Show more
Cannabis on the Brain by Paul Smith
$34.95 NZD
Category: Health
Cannabis is one of the most widely used drugs in the world. Popular as a recreational drug for thousands of years, it has also been used as a medicine since 2300 BC. Over the last few decades, cannabis users and an increasing number of doctors and scientists have demanded that reform of cannabis laws. B ...Show more
Gay Men, Sex and HIV in New Zealand by Heather Worth
$37.95 NZD
Category: Health
This book gives an overview of New Zealand gay men's lives in the era of AIDS, their sexual practices and the strategies they have used in dealing with the epidemic. Using data, both qualitative and quantitative, investigates the hard facts about gay men's response to the virus as well as their personal ...Show more