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9781869793029
Ken Ring's Predict Weather Almanac and Isobaric Maps for New Zealand 2011
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NZ$ 49.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Ken Ring
In Stock:
9
Farmers, fishermen, gardeners, skiers and anyone who works outdoors or just wants to know what the weather is going to do cannot be without
Ken Ring's Predict Weather Almanac For 2011
.
The 2011 almanac has the same essential features as the 2010 version, with day-per-page forecasts including gardening advice and moon position information, as well as isobaric, rain potential and frost/snow maps. New features include likely wind activity and for the gardener, biodynamic planting guides. For the fisherman, there are daily best bite times and a rating from poor to excellent. There is also a ski season summary. Ken's sometimes controversial method of predicting weather by the cycles of the moon has attracted a wide following and has an amazingly high strike rate for reliability, as evidenced by the many endorsements from users.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869711931
Mark Ellis' Good Fullas : A Guide to Kiwi Blokes
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NZ$ 45.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Marc Ellis & Charlie Haddrell (illustrator Donovan Bixley)
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On the back of his enormously successful biography - Crossing the Line - Marc Ellis presents a tongue-in-cheek look at the Kiwi male. Ellis will look at all species of Kiwi maledom - the archetype, the stereotype and the type(s) he has only just invented (but ones that many of us, albeit secretly, already knew existed). Marc Ellis remains New Zealand's most popular male television presenter and was recently voted our favourite New Zealand male. His humour is unique and his innate ability to thumb his nose at The Establishment and all things P.C. will mean no group - no matter how seemingly untouchable - will be spared the Ellis invective. It will also ensure that this book will not lack attention from fun-loving Kiwis, especially those of us who don't take ourselves too seriously. Twenty-five categories of quintessential Kiwi maledom feature, including: the Ginga (redhead), the Cardycrat (bureaucrat), the Bogan, the Big Fresh (new ...
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9781869507510
Ready for Anything : Growing older in New Zealand - What you need to know
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Catriona MacLennan
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So you're getting older - aren't we all? And you're far too busy to worry about planning for things that might never happen.
Wrong.
A little preparation now could save you from the legal and financial minefields of old age, after all, having your legal and financial affairs sorted means knowing your wishes will be carried out - and there won't be any nasty surprises should your circumstances change.
Lawyer Catriona MacLennan sets out the things you need to know about growing older in New Zealand, in a practical and accessible way, including: Can family members change your will against your wishes? What happens if you need to appoint someone to manage your affairs? What is a 'living will'? What is a home equity release scheme and how might it apply to you? Staying in your own home or moving to a retirement village - what are your options? Who pays if you need help in the home or can't afford rest-home care? What help is ...
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9780986452239
Myth New Zealand : Whatever happened to number 8 wire, eighty million sheep, a good keen man, the pavlova and the greatest place in the world to bring up kids?
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Mixed-media pack
Author:
Justin Brown
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3
Whatever happened to number 8 fencing wire, eighty million sheep, a good keen man, and the pavlova? Some popular myths, supposedly at the heart of the New Zealand psyche, are put through a 21st century reality check in this hilarious and thought-provoking look at modern New Zealand.
The book includes a CD of original songs by the author.
First published July 2010.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877242465
The Carbon Challenge : New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Geoff Bertram & Simon Terry
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3
Facing the threat of climate change, the world community has to meet a major challenge: how to limit global emissions at the least possible cost to the welfare of this and future generations. But actual policy implementation throughout the OECD has been slowed by entrenched opposition from emission-intensive sectors of the economy - reducing emissions produces losers as well as winners, and hard choices have to be made. This book charts New Zealand climate-change policy since 1990, focusing on the interface between technical effectiveness and political sustainability. The message is optimistic: New Zealand can make the changes required by Kyoto, at acceptable cost, if political leadership is exercised firmly and impartially.
DoP July 2010, Wellington
150pp
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780958240147
AIR CON : The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Ian Wishart
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Bestselling author and investigative journalist Ian Wishart tackles the issue of the century: global warming.In December this year, world leaders will gather in Copenhagen to usher in “a new Kyoto” protocol, conservatively estimated to cost taxpayers in Western countries somewhere in the region of US$45 trillion. For many people, this will mean increases in personal taxes of several thousand dollars a year, and/or much higher prices for food, goods and services because of new emissions caps and taxes. With that sort of money at stake, there are several big questions Wishart asks in
AIR CON
:
Is global warming actually happening?
Is it caused by human activities?
Is there really anything we can do to prevent it?
Are climate scientists and the United Nations telling the truth?
What’s really behind the push for the Copenhagen Treaty?
The answers to these questions may shock you. ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877460371
Big Weather South
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Dave Cull (photography Otago Daily Times)
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In Big Weather South, author Dave Cull features the dramatic big weather that comes our way: the floods, the strong winds, the droughts, the hoar frosts and snow, the big seas. He also covers the major influences on the New Zealand climate, our position in global circulation and the affects caused by being surrounded by a large area of ocean. He describes how fog, frost, and thunder storms are caused. Cull traverses not only the coastal regions, the mountains and hill country, but also investigates the plains and basins, such as the Maniototo and Cromwell Basin.
First published October 2009.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869662790
Good Life: Your Guide to a Greener, Cheaper and More Fulfilling Life in New Zealand
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Francesca Price
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In The Good Life journalist and TV presenter Francesca Price offers a positive guide to a greener, cheaper and more sustainable life in New Zealand. She covers the ethical issues in a wide range of everyday subjects including shopping, parenting, food, building and renovating, holidays and community life. Each chapter includes interviews with well-known Kiwis who are looking for the greener options in life: David Trubridge talks about his approach to furniture design, Kay Baxter shares her wisdom on gardening and self-sufficient living, Laurie Foon tells of her determination to make fashion more sustainable. There are comments from celebrity greenies including Robyn Malcolm and Keisha Castle-Hughes. A key selling point of the book is the inclusion of websites and details for recommended suppliers, enabling instant access to more information. Full-colour photographs throughout make this an attractive and inspirational guide.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143204107
Place Names of New Zealand
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Paperback
Author:
A.W. Reed (revised by Peter Dowling)
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Popular interest in New Zealand's place names is as strong as ever and
Place Names of New Zealand
remains unchallenged as the one-stop reference. First published in 1975 and updated over three editions since, it: contains alphabetical entries for over 10,000 places in New Zealand; explains the origin and meaning of the place names (including competing versions); locates places by regions and indicates distances from nearest major localities; incorporates place names in both Maori and English, and gives the original Maori names for many places renamed during the colonial period; is updated to incorporate latest official names; includes an appendix of over 2000 superseded place names.
Place Names of New Zealand
, prepared with both locals and visitors in mind, is a user-friendly reference work that no library, home, marae or office in New Zealand should be without.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877340307
Words Chosen Carefully : New Zealand Writers in Discussion
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NZ$ 46.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Siobhan Harvey (editor)
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2
Words Chosen Carefully
brings together some of New Zealand's finest literary practitioners 15 writers and 15 literary critics - in discussions about each author's work, the nature of writing and the place of land, culture, belonging, society, family and art in their work.
Adopting the international model for first-rate literary criticism established by
The Paris Review
Words Chosen Carefully
showcases one writer and one interviewer in a Q and A encounter.
With photographs by Liz March and an introduction by its editor,
Words Chosen Carefully
is the first book of its kind published in New Zealand in nearly two decades.
Those taking part include:
Lloyd Jones and Finlay Macdonald
James George and David Eggleton
Jenny Bornholdt and Harry Ricketts
Elizabeth Smither and David Hill
Peter Wells and Siobhan Harvey
Elizabeth Knox and David Larsen
Kate de Goldi and Kim Hill
Witi Ihimaera and ...
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9781869661342
A Photographic Guide to Mushrooms and Other Fungi of New Zealand
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NZ$ 25.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Geoff Ridley (photography Don Horne)
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1
This new addition to New Holland's very popular pocket Photographic Guide series introduces readers to New Zealand's mushrooms and fungi, which number up to some 19,000 species and include extraordinarily diverse types, from the familiar 'mushroom' to brackets, coral and cup fungi and slime moulds. Over a hundred species are presented here, with spectacular close-up colour photographs accompanying each entry. The ideal size for slipping into a backpack when walking through bush and forest, it will appeal to walkers, nature lovers, tour guides and educators, and fungi photographers wishing to identify their subjects.
First published 2006, Auckland
144pp
softcover
190mmx95mm
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877372810
Beyond The Scene : Landscape and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand
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NZ$ 45.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Janet Stephenson , Mick Abbott & Jacinta Ruru (Editors)
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If a nation could be said to have a dominant passion, New Zealand's would be its landscapes. Images of spectacular natural features pervade the media - between the pages of glossy coffee-table books, in tourism promotions and on screen as the setting for blockbuster movies - but are these scenes that define its people? For Beyond the Scene the editors asked eleven writers to choose a landscape that was important to them and to write it from the perspective of their life experience and knowledge. From farmer to art historian and film critic, geographer and planner to lawyer, from landscape architect to poet and environmentalist - these are diverse voices. Each discusses a very different landscape: from suburban Auckland and rural Waikato to a planned town in Canterbury and much-filmed Otago. Together, they investigate the relationship landscape has to identity, community and psyche.
Contents: Foreword : Diane Menzies -- 1 ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877460500
Blue Adrenalin : Policing in New Zealand
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Bill O'Brien
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1
What's life on the police beat like, really? Retired cop Bill O'Brien takes the readers into the daily work lives of members of the New Zealand Police Force, with gripping tales of being on duty in the various branches of the police, everything from the dog handlers to the Armed Defenders Squad and police dive teams. Aimed at a young adult audience but of huge interest to all New Zealanders, this highly illustrated book is a unique insight and also a tribute to the men and women who protect us.
First published July 2010.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869404123
Book Self : The Reader as Writer and the Writer as Critic
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Paperback
Author:
C K Stead
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For more than 40 years, Karl Stead has been New Zealand's leading literary and cultural critic. Whether writing about Christianity or a trip to Croatia, he always brings a clear personal point of view, a strong analytical bent, and a witty pen to his work. In this latest collection of critical writing, a sequel to his successful books Kin of Place, Answering to the Language and The Writer at Work, Stead takes the reader on a personal journey, from his earliest discovery of poetry as a young man to his experiences on the literary trail over the last few years. And he takes us on a trip through literary history, from Katherine Mansfield and T S Eliot to Michael King and Elizabeth Knox. For the first time, Stead includes in this book a series of journal extracts that allow readers closer to the mind of the writer. "Here the ego is exposed-not quite naked, but now and then with its shirt off," he writes. In Book Self we see a great New ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869662332
Kiwiosities : An A-Z of New Zealand traditions and folklore
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Gordon Ell
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In 2003 New Holland published An A-Z of Kiwi Fact & Folklore, a fully revised edition of the best-selling New Zealand Traditions and Folklore (itself first published in 1993), covering more than 700 updated anecdotes, ideas and traditions that we share as New Zealanders and which help make us unique. This new title distils the folklore element into an attractive, entertaining and affordable volume that will entrance any reader with an interest in the roots of Kiwi culture. Line drawings are included from the original edition.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877372582
Lighted Windows : Critical Essays on Robin Hyde
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Mary Edmond-Paul
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1
Robin Hyde, journalist, poet, novelist, war correspondent (from China, in 1938) and committed political figure, was central to the movements and debates of a volatile period in New Zealand society. As a writer Hyde was not afraid to draw on her own experience of the dangers of new-found freedoms for women. This first critical study of the diverse writings of Robin Hyde includes new information on her life and work and studies that enlarge our understanding of a courageous yet vulnerable figure and the vitality, richness and wit of her writing.
Contents: Chronology Introduction: How the woman's isle got its name; 1 An island over the edge of the world: Robin Hyde's Wednesday's Children Michelle Elleray, Guelph; 2 Running ever out of reach: carnival and fantasy on Wednesday's island Renata Casertano, Italy; 3 No alternative: Robin Hyde and the politics of loss Nadine Attewell, Cornell; 4 Violence and the Psychology of Recklessness: ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869662455
Living Green: The NZ handbook for an eco-friendly, toxin-free, sustainable life
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Annmaree Kane
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1
Green issues are hot, and they are here to stay. But where can New Zealanders find an authoritative yet neutral voice that is packed with the facts they need to make informed life-changing decisions? Living Green is a 'bible' for every New Zealand family: an assiduously researched and effortlessly readable manual that operates on two levels to appeal to all readers. Part One gives 10 simple steps to greening your life. Part Two contains 21 chapters that provide the factual back-up behind each of the 10 steps, in doing so covering a comprehensive spectrum of ecological issues, all of which are tailored to New Zealand readers. Topics include: Babies and children; Personal care products; Healthy eating; Primary foods; Processed foods; Water and other drinks; Shopping wisely; Health care at home; Pets; Cleaning your home; Clothing, fabric and furnishings; Building and renovation; indoor air quality; air pollution; electromagnetic fields; ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877257872
Living Language : Exploring Kiwitalk
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Elizabeth Gordon
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"Me and Dad flew home from Aushtralia on Ear New Zealand and there was nothink we wanted more than fush'n'chups with youse guys".
Is New Zealand English going to hell in a handcart, or is it simply evolving into an increasingly distinctive Kiwi form? Should we be seeking to hold on the old and claw back what we have 'lost', or should we learn to accept change and rejoice in something that is uniquely our own?
Sociolinguist Elizabeth Gordon has been commenting on this and other matters of linguistic debate in a weekly column in the Christchurch Press for the past two years. This book is a compilation of those 100 columns, each one a fascinating reflection on our changing language.
224 pages.
First published April 2010
ISBN / ISSN:
9780473152796
New Zealand Marine Radio Handbook
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Paperback
Author:
J. Allen
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1
Oktober 2009
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877399466
Politics of Possibility, The : Leadership in Changing Times
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Jon Johansson
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1
This book focuses on leadership in New Zealand with a particular focus on the dynamics of the recent general election and the reasons for the outcome of that election. It will appeal to a broad market - and is indeed written in a style that will appeal to all who have an interest in NZ politics.
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