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Party Legend by Sam Duckor Jones
$15.00 NZD
$25.00 (40% off)
Category: NZ Poetry | Series: 1st
Sam Duckor Jones’s first poetry collection was a tour of small towns, overgrown lawns, and giant clay men. In Party Legend he turns once again to questions of existence but at an even bigger scale. These are poems about creation, God, intimacy, the surreality of political rhetoric, misunderstandings at ...Show more
Patu: The New Zealand Wars by Gavin Bishop
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: 1st
A large-format, stunning visual history of the New Zealand Wars of the 1800s, suitable for children and adults, by the multiple-award-winning Gavin BishopDiscover the key people, perspectives and battles of the New Zealand Wars in this powerfully told and richly illustrated visual history by Gavin Bisho ...Show more
Stopping Oil: Climate Justice and Hope by Sophie Bond, Amanda Thomas, Gradon Diprose
$37.00 NZD
Category: Sustainability | Series: 1st
Lessons learned from the powerful climate justice campaign in Aotearoa New ZealandStopping Oil dives into the story of how deep-sea oil exploration became politicised in Aotearoa New Zealand, how community groups mobilised against it and the backlash that followed. It is also a story of activists exerci ...Show more
Tangata Whenua - A History [text-only edition] by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris
$50.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
Tangata Whenua: A History presents a rich narrative of the Māori past from ancient origins in South China to the twenty-first century, in a handy paperback format. The authoritative text is drawn directly from the award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History; the full text of the big hardback is ...Show more
Te Kaieke Tohorā (The Whale Rider in te reo Maori) by Witi Ihimaera; Timoti Karetu i whakamaori
$26.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Māori | Series: 1st
Whakamiharo ana tera te tirohanga atu ki a ia, ki te kaieke tohora. I rere atu te wai i a ia, ka hamama tona waha kia taea ai te hau makariri te kupa iho. Ko ana karu e kohara ana i te ahurei. Korekoreko katoa ana te tinana i te rehu taimana. I runga i taua taniwha ano nei he tekoteko paku kua whakairot ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars | Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nations history. Fought between the Crown and various groups of Maori between 1845 and 1872, the wars touched many aspects of life in nineteenth century New Zealand, even in those regions spared actual ...Show more
The Raupo Book of Maori Proverbs by Aw Reed et al.
$28.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Māori | Series: 1st | Reading Level: Very Good
Proverbs (or whakatauki) express the wisdom, wit and commonsense of the Maori people. They are of great value and inspiration to writers, story-tellers and anyone speaking in a Maori setting. Several hundred proverbs are contained in The Raupo Book of Maori Proverbs, categorised under a large number of ...Show more
The Story of a Treaty / He Korero Tiriti (3rd edition) by Claudia Orange
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st
The Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a central document in New Zealand history. This lively account tells the story of the Treaty from its signing in 1840, through the debates and struggles of the nineteenth century, to the gathering political momentum of recent decades. The third edition of T ...Show more
Victory Park by Rachel Kerr
$20.00 NZD
$35.00 (42% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
Kara lives in Victory Park council flats with her young son, just making a living by minding other people’s kids – her nightly smoke on the fire escape the only time she can drop her guard and imagine something better. But the truth is life is threadbare and unpromising until the mysterious Bridget move ...Show more
Why Memory Matters: 'Remembered histories' and the Politics of the Past (BWB Texts) by Rowan Light
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Essays | Series: 1st
Why Memory Matters