The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand by Michael King
$38.00 NZD
Category: Cultural History
This bestselling book by the late Michael King is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. First published in 2003 and hailed as a triumph of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, it has been continuously in print for twenty years and has sold over 300,00 ...Show more
Age of the City: Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together by Ian Goldin; Tom Lee-Devlin
$36.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History
Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced.From centres of antiquity like Athens or Rome to modern metropolises like New York or Shanghai, cities throughout his ...Show more
Pacific Arts Aotearoa - The powerful and dynamic story of Pacific arts in Aotearoa, as told by the artists themselves by Lana Lopesi (editor)
$65.00 NZD
Category: Cultural History | Reading Level: near fine
The powerful and dynamic legacy of Pacific arts in Aotearoa, as told by the artists themselves. This comprehensive account spans six decades of multidisciplinary Pacific creative genius, remembering the diverse, fresh and energetic contributions of Pacific artists to New Zealand, Oceania and the world. ...Show more
Blood & Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand by Jared Davidson
$49.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History | Series: 1st
'Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand.' Forced labour haunts the ...Show more
Introducing the Women's Suffrage Petition 1893 (BWB Texts) by Barbara Brookes and Jared Davidson
$17.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History
In 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world with universal suffrage: all New Zealand women now had the right to vote. This achievement owed much to an extraordinary document: the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition. Over 270 metres long, with the signatures of some 24,000 women (and at least tw ...Show more
Culture: A New World History by Martin Puchner
$39.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History
Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing. It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentiet ...Show more
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse
$39.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History | Reading Level: near fine
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries brings together Kate's rich and detailed knowledge of unheard and under-heard women's history, and of how and why women's achievements have routinely been omitted from the history books. This beautiful illustrated book is both an alternative feminist history of ...Show more
Fire in the Belly of Hineāmaru by Melinda Webber and Te Kapua O’Connor
$59.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History
Remarkable stories of twenty-four inspirational tūpuna of Te Tai Tokerau. ‘E kore e mōnehunehu te pūmahara ki ngā momo rangatira o neherā nā rātou nei i toro te nukuroa o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa me Papa Tū a Nuku. Ko ngā tohu o ō rātou tapuwae i kākahutia ki runga i te mata o te whenua – he taonga, he tapu. ...Show more
Ka Ngangana Tonu a Hineamaru: He Korero Tuku Iho no Te Tai Tokerau by Melinda Webber, Te Kapua O'Connor (Translated by Quinton Hita)
$59.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History
He kōrero tuku iho, whakahirahira, mō ngā tūpuna rua tekau mā whā o Te Tai Tokerau. ‘E kore e mōnehunehu te pūmahara ki ngā momo rangatira o neherā nā rātou nei i toro te nukuroa o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa me Papa Tū a Nuku. Ko ngā tohu o ō rātou tapuwae i kākahutia ki runga i te mata o te whenua – he taonga ...Show more
Selling Britishness - Commodity Culture, the Dominions, and Empire by Felicity Barnes
$49.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History | Reading Level: near fine
From the 1920s until the outbreak of the Second World War, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand filled British shop windows, newspaper columns, and cinema screens with "British to the core" Canadian apples, "British to the backbone" New Zealand lamb, and "All British" Australian butter. In remarkable yet ...Show more
Just Mercy - A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
$34.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History | Reading Level: very good
"New York Times "Bestseller - Named one of the Best Books of the Year by "The New York Times The Washington Post The Boston Globe The Seattle Times Esquire Time" Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction -Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction - Winner of a Books for a Better Life Award - Fin ...Show more
Just Mercy - A True Story of the Fight for Justice (YA Edition) by Bryan Stevenson
$22.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History
The young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy--soon to be a major motion picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jaime Foxx, and Brie Larson and now the subject of an HBO documentary feature In this very personal work--adapted from the original #1 bestseller, which th ...Show more