You Probably Think This Song Is About You by Kate Camp
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Essays | Reading Level: very good
In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of her life: from a nostalgic childhood of the Seventies and Eighties, through the boozy pothead years of the Nineties, and into the sobering reality of a world in which Hillary Clinton did not win. ‘Never apo ...Show more
Actions and Travels - How Poetry Works by Anna Jackson
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Essays | Reading Level: near fine
A brilliant introduction to how poetry works through one hundred poems.Through illuminating readings of one hundred poems - from Catullus to Alice Oswald, Shakespeare to Hera Lindsay Bird - Actions & Travels is an engaging introduction to how poetry works. Ten chapters look at simplicity and resonan ...Show more
He Pou Hiringa - Grounding Science and Technology in Te Ao Maori (BWB Texts) by Katharina Ruckstuhl (ed.); Merata Kawharu (ed.); Maria Amoamo (ed.)
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Essays | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
This book brings together writing on the big questions about the role of Maori, tikanga and matauranga in shaping science and technological innovation. Written by Maori from diverse disciplines, it explores the potential for novel approaches, theories, methods and community engagement models in science ...Show more
Encounters Across Time (BWB Texts) by Judith Binney
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Essays
Description: 'Story telling is an art deep within human nature.' A timely collection of writings on history, from one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most distinguished scholars. These essays bring forth important questions for New Zealand history about autonomy, restoration and power that continue to reverbe ...Show more
Your Soul Is Wintering: Rediscovering joy after baby loss by Annie Anderson
$20.00 NZD
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Category: NZ Essays
After enduring the loss of two babies in utero, Annie Anderson felt heartbroken, directionless and alone in her grief. She wondered if she would ever experience joy again. The sense of loss experienced by Annie and her husband Rob was only compounded by the gaps within the healthcare system and the tabo ...Show more
A Queer Existence - The lives of young gay men in Aotearoa New Zealand by Mark Beehre
$20.00 NZD
$45.00 (55% off)
Category: NZ Essays | Reading Level: near fine
Queer Existence is a major documentary project that uses photographic portraitureand oral history to record the life experiences of a group of 27 gay men bornsince the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Act in 1986. In New Zealand,discrimination in work was outlawed in 1993, same-sex relationships wer ...Show more
Jumping Ship & Other Essays by Glenn Colquhoun
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Essays
"A book of essays and poems on the relationship between Pākehā and Māori, and on the practice of medicine...Includes, among other things, a state of the nation speech from Waitangi 2007, organised by the Treaty Resource Centre: He Puna Mātauranga te Tiriti; a keynote address for the English teachers ...Show more
The History of a Riot (BWB Texts) by Jared Davidson
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Essays | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
'What follows is a microhistory of collective revolt.' In 1843, the New Zealand Company settlement of Nelson was rocked by the revolt of its emigrant labourers. Over 70 gang-men and their wives collectively resisted their poor working conditions through petitions, strikes and, ultimately, violence. Yet ...Show more
Kia Whakanuia te Whenua: People Place Landscape by Carolyn Hill (ed.)
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Essays | Reading Level: near fine
She Is Not Your Rehab: One Man's Journey to Healing and the Global Anti-Violence Movement He Inspired by Matt Brown
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Essays
Cycles repeat until one person has the courage to say, 'This stops with me.' At My Fathers Barbers, Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Malietoa Brown offers men a haircut with a difference - a safe space to be seen and heard without judgement. From his barbershop chair, Matt has inspired a new generation of New Ze ...Show more
Tree Sense - Ways of Thinking about Trees by Susette Goldsmith (Editor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Essays | Reading Level: near fine
At a moment when the planet is so clearly in peril, the trees stand as both guardians and messengers. They have words for us - if only we would listen. As climate change imposes significant challenges on the natural world we are being encouraged to plant trees. At the same time, urban intensification an ...Show more
Playing for Both Sides : Love Across the Tasman (BWB Texts) by Stephanie Johnson
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Essays | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
For novelist Stephanie Johnson, her relationship with Australia and Australians has been an ambivalent one. She has lived there for periods in her life, and her first book, a collection of short stories, was actually published in Australia. She was described then as a young Australian writer, something ...Show more