Aftermaths: - Colonialism, Violence and Memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific by Angela Wanhalla (ed.); Lyndall Ryan (ed.); Camille Nurka (ed.)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
What we choose to remember and what we choose to forget about the violent past tell us something about the society we live in now. Whether we like it or not, we’re part of each other’s story. So how do we talk about the past? —Joanna Kidman and Vincent O’Malley Aftermaths explores the life-changing inte ...Show more
Prophets of Zoom by Alfredo Marcantonio
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
In the mid-1930s, Stephen Mitchell & Son, a cigarette manufacturer based in Scotland, joined the craze for producing cigarette cards. The firm created 'The World of Tomorrow', an imaginative series of cards that set out to forecast the future. Each of the 50 cards uses a specially commissioned illus ...Show more
Nga tae i roto i te kete [Ngā tae i roto i te kete]: Colours in the Kete by Katie Kool; Cindy Tan
$22.00 NZD
Category: Learning Te Reo Maori
Delightful bi-lingual picture book where you open a kete on each page to reveal different colours.
Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China by Jing Tsu
$30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the processWhat does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living language?China today is one of the world's most powerful nations, yet just a ...Show more
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 by Paul Stephenson
$32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' The TimesLong before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique empire, the glittering Constantinople: New Rome. In thi ...Show more
Alexander the Great - The Making of a Myth by British Library Staff (Contribution by); Richard Stoneman (Editor)
$116.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Accompanying the British Library's exhibit, the first ever exhibition on the storytelling around Alexander the Great, the King of Macedon, this book charts the evolution of a legend that continues to captivate audiences today. Alexander the Great acceded to the throne at the age of 20, as king of the ...Show more
House of Bush, House of Saud by Sam Taylor
$50.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
The bestselling history of the rise of modern terrorism prompted by the Saudi royal family's entanglement with the Bush family. Updated paperback edition.
Resilience: a Story of Persecution, Escape, Survival and Triumph by Inge Woolf
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Resilience is a Holocaust story and a New Zealand story. Born to a prosperous Jewish family, Inge Woolf witnessed the Nazis marching into Vienna in March 1938. To escape certain death, the family audaciously boarded a train to the heart of Nazi Germany – Berlin – and from there caught a plane to England ...Show more
Mr Rolland: Something of an Artist by Anne Rowland
$50.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Adam Rolland was born in Edinburgh in 1841 but emigrated to Otago with his parents and siblings on the Alpine in 1859. He documented the journey and this interest and skill with drawing and watercolour continued through his life, and even provided employment. This book focuses on a group of watercolour ...Show more
Demonising a Good Doctor: A Medical Scandal that Wasn't by Helen Overton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Demonising a Good Doctor details every aspect of an inquiry that should go down as one of the worst travesties in New Zealand’s legal and medical history. Screening is more complex than many people realise. Public controversy over screening issues broke out in the 1980s in New Zealand leading to a jud ...Show more
Rapu Kupu Word Search by Tina Macnicol
$24.99 NZD
Category: Learning Te Reo Maori
Rapu Kupu offers Māori language learners and puzzle-smiths the ultimate book of challenging conundrums. Te Reo - English word search puzzles that help you learn more than 550 high frequency words. Making language learning fun. 50 Word Find puzzles to support and reinforce your Te Reo Māori language jour ...Show more
The Queen's Wife by Joanne Drayton
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A modern love story: whakapapa, archaeology, art and heartbreak. A memoir of a turbulent time — and a chess game that broke all the rules. In 1989, two married women met by chance. They instantly hit it off, but little did they know that their new relationship would turn their lives upside-down. This is ...Show more