Workers : Archaeology of the Industrial Age by Sebastiao Salgado
$185.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
More than those of any other living photographer, Sebastião Salgado's images of the world's poor stand in tribute to the human condition. His transforming photographs bestow dignity on the most isolated and neglected, from famine-stricken refugees in the Sahel to the indigenous peoples of South America ...Show more
Working Free - New Zealand's Employment Contracts Act by Ellen J. Dannin
$22.50 NZD
Category: NZ Political History
The Employment Contracts Act (1991), a key component of the structural reforms that have taken place in New Zealand since 1984, is discussed internationally as a model for designing new labour laws. The Act repudiated collective action and bargaining, rejecting almost a century of practice, and transf ...Show more
Working with David - Inside the Lange Cabinet by Michael Bassett
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ Political History | Reading Level: very good
David Lange's Fourth Labour Government was a watershed in New Zealand history. Whether it was international politics (ANZUS, Mururoa tests, Oxford Union debate) or domestic economics (Roger Douglas's reforms), New Zealand was a vastly different country in 1990 than it had been when Lange won in 1984. Th ...Show more
Workings of the Universe (Voyage Through the Universe)
$17.50 NZD
Category: Voyage Through the Universe | Series: Voyage Through the Universe
This volume is one of a series that examines the universe in all its aspects from its beginnings in the Big Bang to the promise of space exploration.
World Climbing: Images from the Edge by Simon Carter
$70.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
This is a visual celebration of modern technical climbing by one of the sport's foremost photographers. It is an extraordinary photographic odyssey that is as inspirational as it is beautiful. Rich colour, unlikely perspectives and dizzying heights combine to mesmerise the spectator and transport them i ...Show more
World Cup '66 by edited by Hugh McIlvanney
$15.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
With contributions from John Arlott, Bob Ferrier, Arthur Hopcraft, and Tony Pawson
World War I - A Photographic History by R. Hamilton
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Military History | Reading Level: very good
World War II Beyond The Battlefield by Robert Radcliffe; Pierre Boulle; Lorenzo Carcaterra; Eric Williams; Gilles Perrault
$20.00 NZD
Category: World War II
5 Stories: Under and English Heaven by Robert Radcliffe. The Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle. Street Boys by Lorenzo Carcaterra The Wooden Horse by Eric Williams. The Secrets of D-Day by Gilles Perrault.
Worm in the Bud - The World of Victorian Sexuality by Ronald Pearsall
$17.50 NZD
Category: World History
This classic book on Victorian hypocrisy reveals the other side of Victoria's Britain, and what really went on behind the lace curtains and aspidistras. The author exposes, with surprisingly thorough documentation, the bald facts of sex-life (approved & illicit) among the aristocracy, the middle ...Show more
Worship in the Wilderness: Early Country Chruches of New Zealand by Geoffrey Thornton
$47.50 NZD
Category: Architecture & Design
This is concerned with the small country church built in strictly rural surroundings where it stood somewhat isolated, but made a simple statement that religious belief was important to country folk. Here are some of the finest examples.
Wowser Whacking by Bob Jones
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Selections from the 1992 columns of Sir Robert Jones. With introduction by Alan Duff.