Feijoa: A story of obsession and belonging by Kate Evans
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
Inspired by a personal obsession with this singular exotic fruit, Feijoa is a sweeping, global tale about the dance between people and plants - how we need each other, how we change each other, and the surprising ways certain species make their way into our imaginations, our stomachs, and our hearts. ...Show more
Why Memory Matters: 'Remembered histories' and the Politics of the Past (BWB Texts) by Rowan Light
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Series: 1st
Why Memory Matters
Labour of Love - A Personal History of Midwifery in Aotearoa by Joan Skinner
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
Joan Skinner has been a midwife since 1976 and has seen extraordinary change, both in the way women are supported to give birth and in the social and political context in which they become mothers. Labour of Love weaves her own experiences as a midwife into the story of childbirth in Aotearoa: the incre ...Show more
Urgent Moments - Art and Social Change: the Letting Space Projects 2010-2020 by Mark Amery (Editor); Amber Clausner (Editor); Sophie Jerram (Editor)
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
The story of a remarkable art activation. After first occupying vacant spaces in post-stock-market-crash Auckland in the mid-1990s, public art curators Letting Space re-emerged in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. Confronted by the thin net of social welfare, the waste of the capitalist syst ...Show more
Te Kooti's Last Foray by Ron Crosby
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
- Bold, brilliant interpretation of overlooked episode in New Zealand Wars - Crosby's hallmark clarity and detailed maps bring events to life - Teacher resource available. On 7 March 1870 the prophet and rebel Te Kooti swept out of Te Urewera to Opape, east of Opotiki, in what would be his last major ac ...Show more
Introducing Te Tiriti o Waitangi (BWB Texts) by Claudia Orange and Jared Davidson
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Series: 1st
The content of this short book is derived directly from the larger illustrated publication, foregoing all illustrations to suit the BWB Texts format. In 1840, over 500 Maori leaders put their names to a significant new document: Te Tiriti o Waitangi or the Treaty of Waitangi. Through their signatures, ...Show more
Tiny Statements - A Social History of Aotearoa New Zealand in Badges by Claire Regnault; Stephanie Gibson
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: near fine
The award-winning authors of this small book with a big heart delve into Te Papa’s collections of over 1600 badges to examine how New Zealanders have used badges to join, belong, resist, defy and celebrate. From protest groups and Girl Guides to sports clubs, animal breeds, tino rangatiratanga and suffr ...Show more
Marco Polo: The Remarkable Firsthand Story of the First Kiwis to Sail Around the World by Tony Armit; John Macfarlane
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
In 1951, an 18-year-old Kiwi lad named Tony Armit decided to build a 28-foot wooden yacht. Three years later, he christened her Marco Polo, then with a former school rugby mate, Brian ‘Tig’ Loe, set sail from Auckland on an epic voyage... and whatever adventure may await. In the process, Tony and Tig be ...Show more
New Zealand at the Beach by Terry Moyle
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
In the 1960s and 1970s, going to the beach was in its heyday. Camping grounds were full and at the pictures, surfing movies made being at the beach cooler than ever. Generations of New Zealanders have always included days of golden weather at the beach among the happiest of their lives. New Zealand at ...Show more
Needles and Plastic - Flying Nun Records 1981–1988 by Matthew Goody
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: very good
A richly illustrated Flying Nun discography – all the records from ‘Tally Ho!’ to Bird-Dog. Founded in 1981 by Roger Shepherd, Flying Nun Records unleashed an extraordinary wave of New Zealand music on listeners in Aotearoa and around the world – from The Clean to the Headless Chickens, Look Blue Go Pur ...Show more
Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook (BWB Texts) by Alice Te Punga Somerville
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
"Alice Te Punga Somerville employs her deep research and dark humour to skilfully channel her response to Cook's global colonial legacy"--Back cover.
Fake Believe: Conspiracy Theories in Aotearoa by Dylan Reeve
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
Conspiracy theories: What do people believe, and why? How have they come to this place, and what does it mean for us all? By speaking to experts and those with personal experience of conspiracy culture, Dylan Reeve conveys what it means to believe and their relation to modern Aoteaora. Fake Believe shou ...Show more