Never Succumb to Beige by Frances Manwaring
$38.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Not succumbing to beige is about wearing your metaphorical high viz vest with flair and panache—being true to who you are and what you bring to the world. In extended essays drawn from her own colourful life, and traversing the joys of schadenfreude, strategic giftbuying, the value of teeth, and lessons ...Show more
Kippenberger - An Inspired New Zealand Commander by Glyn Harper
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
Secondhand. First edition. Major General Sir Howard Karl Kippenberger, KBE, CB, DSO and Bar, ED, was an exceptional New Zealander and one of the truly great military commanders of World War Two. Here Glyn Harper examines his formative years, including his WW1 experiences, and shows how they influenced ...Show more
Four-Legged Major by Graham Spencer
$21.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Major was the mascot of the 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment of the NZ Army from 1940 to 1944, serving in North Africa, and Italy, wounded in the former and dying of illness in Italy in 1944, to be buried alongside two officers from the regiment. Such was Major's military status that an e ...Show more
Third Millennium Thinking by Saul Perlmutter
$39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, a primer on how to think critically, make sound decisions, and solve problems--individually and collectively--using scientists' tricks of the trade. In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradic ...Show more
The Number Ones - Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music by Tom Breihan
$37.99 NZD
Category: Politics and Economics
Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of game-changing #1 singles from the Billboard Hot 100. When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"--a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in th ...Show more
The Outside Man: Jack Hides of Papua by James Sinclair
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Sinclair’s excellent book on Moresby born Jack Hides whose work took him deep into uncharted territory in Papua New Guinea. One of Australia’s greatest adventurers … certainly not given the recognition he desrves.
Sir William MacGregor by R. B. Joyce
$27.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Biography of Colonial administrator Sir William MacGregor who rose through the ranks to become governor of Fiji (acting), British New Guinea (1888-98), Lagos, (1899 -1904) Newfoundland (1904-09) and finally Queensland (1909-14).
My Childhood in New Guinea by Paulias Matane
$20.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The story of the growth and development from early childhood to maturity of a man who was later to become the eighth Governor-General of Papua New Guinea.
Olga's Promise - One Woman's Commitment to the Children of Nepal (Color) by Olga Murray; Mary Callender
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. Signed by the author. Find out how the gift of a piglet was able to rescue a little Nepali girl from slavery. At the age of 60, Olga Murray, an attorney with the California Supreme Court, made a promise to improve the lives of Nepali children. Over the past 30 years more than 45,000 childre ...Show more
Island Boy: An Autobiography by Thomas R. A. H. Davis
$47.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. With illustrations by the author. Brought up in the multiple worlds of the Rarotonga waterfront, Sir Tom Davis, Pa Tuterangi Ariki, KFE, has always had access to all cultures and classes. The first Cook Islander to quality in New Zealand, he returned as a "Doctor to the Islands" (the title ...Show more
The Aboriginal Arts and Crafts Industry: Report of the Review Committee, July 1989 by Australia. Aboriginal Arts and Crafts Industry Review Committee
$35.00 NZD
Category: Politics and Economics
Secondhand. Analysis of the current state of the Aboriginal arts and craft industry; policy issues; sale and distribution; marketing; Aboriginal art centres; training; cultural integrity and copyright; recommendations for an industry strategy.
Hef Ran Ta (The Morning Star): A biography of Wilson Inia, Rotuma's first senator by Alan Howard
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. History without biography is cold and impersonal; it lacks the immediacy needed to make history personally meaningful. Heroes - historical models who exemplify the virtues of particular cultural traditions - are a vital part of every group's sense of themselves. For Rotuma, history must inc ...Show more