NZ Non Fiction : General NZ Non Fiction

ISBN: 9780958252140
Title: 1.5 Hectare World
Author: YEREX DAVID


Format: Paperback
Price: $25.00

ISBN: 9780987657381
Title: 100 Days Claiming Back Nz
Author: BROOKE AMY

This is an epic and engaging read on what has gone wrong with NZ's political and bureaucratic systems, and how the public can regain control over politicians. Brooke advocates the Swiss system of a 100 day public veto of controversial new laws - if the public can muster up enough signatures within three months of a law change to force a referendum, the referendum result is binding on the government. Like New Zealanders, the Swiss don't want to be running to the polls every five minutes on stupid issues, so they save their referendum veto for issues of major concern. The difference between Switzerland and New Zealand is that when it really counts, the Swiss can bring their government to heel. New Zealanders cannot. Regardless of whether you are to the Left or the Right on the political spectrum, the 100 days concept works for you to keep successive governments honest. Just last weekend the Swiss voted to end the practice of multi-million dollar executive pay bonuses to executives whose companies were losing money, in what has been publicised in world media as the toughest crackdown on executive greed anywhere in the world.

Format: Paperback
Price: $39.00

ISBN: 9780473369316
Title: 120 Days at Astrolabe the Rena, the Reef, and the Go Canopus
Author: JUDKINS KEVIN

It is an up-close and personal account of events. Witnessed, recorded and photographed from the anchor-handling vessel GO Canopus, while undertaking a multitude of duties relating to the salvage operations on location around Astrolabe Reef. The narrative has been liberally interlaced with my own previously unpublished sequential photographs to enhance the reader's appreciation of the events described. To my knowledge, there is no similar comprehensive written or photographic record of the events described herein. "This is a first-hand record of events that took place on and around Astrolabe Reef, as the Rena broke up and the salvage turned into a wreck removal. It is a uniquely well-informed and illustrated book, penned by that rare breed of writer; a man of action who is also a man of letters. Captain Judkins writes with unparalleled authority about the wreck of the Rena because he was there. Furthermore, the insider's perspective he provides on shipboard life is attractive and captivating, as is his ability to describe complicated salvage procedures, in terms that can be grasped by laymen and seafarers alike.

Format: Paperback
Price: $95.00

ISBN: 9781877577796
Title: 25 Years Leading & Illuminating: Whitireia Nz
Author: METHVEN PETER


Format: Paperback
Price: $34.00

ISBN: 9781306121040
Title: 30 Years of Nuclear Weapon Free Wellington
Author: RITCHIE HELEN


Format: Paperback
Price: $23.00

ISBN: 9780473242480
Title: 50 Shades of Key the Unofficial John Key Joke Book
Author: LITTLE PAUL

In the satirical tradition of Take Me to Your Leaders and The Muldoon Annual Joke Book comes 50 Shades of Key, a hilarious collection of 36 photos with wicked captions, plus a bunch of jokes we found lying around and threw in at the last minute.

Format: Paperback
Price: $13.00

ISBN: 9781869791780
Title: 99 Ways into Nz Poetry
Author: RICKETTS HARRY & GREEN PAULA

This book celebrates the richness and variety of New Zealand poetry by outlining many of the numerous ways to read - and write - poems. It offers 80 key poems that showcase different aspects of the genre, as well as commentary from 25 poets about what inspired them to write specific works. With insightful and wide-reaching chapters from Paula Green and Harry Ricketts on such elements as form, context, features, effects and identity, this is a lively and accessible introduction to New Zealand poetry. Packed with images of poets and poetry collections, it is an invaluable book for any lover of New Zealand writing.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9781988533223
Title: 9th Floor: Conversations with Five NZ Prime Ministers
Author: ESPINER GUYON; WATKIN TIM

What does government look like from the ninth floor of the Beehive? The 9th Floor collects together interviews with five former Prime Ministers of New Zealand: Geoffrey Palmer, Mike Moore, Jim Bolger, Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark.

Based on the acclaimed Radio New Zealand podcast series and introduced by journalists Guyon Espiner and Tim Watkin, these interviews give an insight into the workings of government from five people who have lived it. Rogernomics, the Mother of all Budgets, the nuclear free policy and the fight to stay in power – The 9th Floor provides a unique view on the decisions that have shaped New Zealand.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $40.00

ISBN: 9780958246002
Title: About Time! 120 Tips for Those With No Time
Author: PEARCE ROBYN

If you've ever thought `there must be a quicker way!' There is! This book is a `quick-dip' of tried and true practical tips from real people - tips that will help anyone to find all those missing hours.

Format: Paperback
Price: $35.00

ISBN: 9780204150527
Title: A'courts Business Handbook 2014
Author: A'COURTS


Format: Paperback
Price: $254.00

ISBN: 9781927260517
Title: Adult Sexual Abuse in Religious Institutions: Faith Seeks Understanding
Author: STEPHENSON ANNE

When sexual abuse of adults by clergy and spiritual leaders comes to light, religious institutions need robust procedures in place to deal with offenders and support victims.

Based on her long experience in ministry working with sexual offenders and their victims, and the training she has undertaken, Anne Stephenson shares the wisdom she has gained.

Format: Paperback
Price: $20.00

ISBN: 9781877276583
Title: Adventures in Democracy
Author: ATKINSON NEILL


Format: Trade paperback
Price: $40.00

ISBN: 9781927145630
Title: Akaroa Cocksfoot
Author: WOOD VAUGHAN

Soon after the introduction of cocksfoot to Banks Peninsula in the mid-19th century, Akaroa cocksfoot grass seed conquered the market - first in New Zealand, then in Australia, and finally in Europe. At the height of the industry, Akaroa cocksfoot was one of the most significant industries in Canterbury, with annual earnings for Banks Peninsula of more than $10 million per annum. It was responsible for the loss of almost all the Peninsula's unmillable forest. And yet, a generation or two later, the Akaroa cocksfoot seed industry has almost entirely disappeared. More than a century after the industry reached its peak, Vaughan Wood celebrates its remarkable story. The history of Akaroa cocksfoot is one that embodies many facets of Canterbury life: the farmers and harvesters, the seed merchants, and the engineering and transport firms. It was shaped by the science, politics and world-trade patterns of the time and is thus a story with more than just local interest, This fascinating narrative includes: * The history of the Akaroa cocksfoot seed industry, from the introduction of cocksfoot seed into New Zealand, through the start of its international success in the early 1880s and its peak around the turn of the 20th century, to the end of the industry in the 1950s and 1960s. A detailed look at the industry in its heyday, following the journey taken by the seed from the growing crop to the traded commodity. * Recognition of the lasting legacy Akaroa cocksfoot has left on both the landscape and the local seed industry in New Zealand.

Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9780143204800
Title: All Blacks Don't Cry: a Story of Hope
Author: KIRWAN JOHN

'At my worst moments, I lost all sense of hope for the future. As I began to slowly get better, I began to be able to say to myself, 'This will pass, you'll get through this. Hang on to hope.' John Kirwan was one of the most devastating wingers New Zealand, and world, rugby had ever seen. A prominent and revered figure at the dawn of the professional age of rugby, he seemed to live a charmed life. Nobody knew, though, that behind closed doors 'JK' was living a life of tormented fear. Afflicted with depression for many years including those as a high-profile sportsman Kirwan was able to survive by reaching out, seeking help from those closest to him. All Blacks Don't Cry is John Kirwan's story of hope, of working through the pain and living a full life a poignant, inspirational and helpful example for anybody battling depression. 'I've been to hell and I'm back. If you're in that same place, then I understand what you're going through.'

Format: Paperback
Price: $42.00

ISBN: 9781877399633
Title: Along a Fault Line Nz's Changing Local Government
Author: DRAGE JEAN & MCNEILL JEFF & CHEYNE CHRISTINE


Format: Trade paperback
Price: $40.00

ISBN: 9781877372247
Title: Anatomy of a Medical School History of Medicine at University Otago
Author: PAGE DOROTHY


Format: Hardback
Price: $60.00

ISBN: 9780959790818
Title: Anderson Oil Engines
Author: BATCHELOR BRIAN D & ROBINSON RICHARD H


Format: Paperback
Price: $27.00

ISBN: 9780986452185
Title: Animal Sanctuary the Inspirational Story of a Nz Animal & Wildlife Refuge
Author: BISHOP SHAWN & JONES ALLISON

Meet Shawn Bishop - she and her husband Michael own a substantial block of land north of Auckland. But that's where the similarity with other rural landowners begins and ends, because Shawn had a special purpose in mind when they bought their property: to establish an animal sanctuary. Over the last 10 years she and her husband, aided by a dedicated team of volunteers, have invested huge energy and resources to rescuing and rehabilitating a wide variety of animals in need. Abused farm animals, injured or orphaned native birds, rescued battery hens and other miscellaneous creatures have all come under their care. From ponies to pigs to penguins to parrots, they all receive the love and attention they need to turn their sad stories into happy endings. Written by freelance journalist Alison Jones in conjunction with Shawn, this illustrated account of Shawn and Michael's commitment to providing a better life for so many animals from such a large range of different backgrounds is not just heartwarming, but deeply inspirational.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9780958250450
Title: Another Decade of Nz Education Policy Where to Now
Author: THRUPP MARTIN & IRWIN RUTH

This collection provides a review of New Zealand education policy under the Labour-led government of 1999-2008 and the emerging policies of the National government elected in November 2008. Nineteen contributors discuss education policy from early childhood through to tertiary and community education. Themes and concerns covered include teaching, learning, diversity, governance, choice, sustainability, privatisation, educational research and New Zealand's relationship with the Pacific. ANOTHER DECADE OF NEW ZEALAND EDUCATION POLICY: WHERE TO NOW? argues that Labour did not so much undo the neo-liberal project in New Zealand education as take some of the rough edges off it: producing neo-liberalism tempered with a social conscience. Contributors provide many insights into the nature and impact of recent education policy and likely directions in the future

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $75.00

ISBN: 9780143571032
Title: Another Mother's Love
Author: SCOTT KAREN

In 2011 Karen Scott and Mark Finlay and their six children opened their home and hearts to a sad, skinny five-year-old boy who was placed with them by New Zealand's Child, Youth and Family services. James arrived with nothing other than the clothes he was wearing, supposedly for just a short-term stay. But what followed were two turbulent years as Karen and Mark attempted to parent a very troubled young boy.

Another Mother's Love is a heart-wrenching account of a mother's attempt to nurture her foster child with unconditional love and kindness. However, is love enough? Karen and Mark faced a harrowing decision – to give up James or risk their family's future.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $38.00

ISBN: 9781869400385
Title: Answering to the Language Essays on Modern Writers
Author: STEAD C K


Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9780947518653
Title: Antibiotic Resistance: the End of Modern Medicine?
Author: WILES SIOUXSIE

In ten years’ time, will antibiotics still work? Have we let bacteria get the upper hand in the evolutionary arms race?

In the 1920s the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin started a golden age of medicine. However, experts warn that the end of that age may be just a decade away. In this BWB Text, microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles explores the looming crisis of antibiotic resistance and its threat to New Zealand. Wiles concludes that New Zealand must do more to protect the public from a future without antibiotics.

Format: Paperback
Price: $15.00

ISBN: 9781743319826
Title: Anzac Girls: the Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses
Author: REES PETER

By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. Their strength and dignity were remarkable...Using diaries and letters, Peter Rees takes us into the hospital camps and the wards and the tent surgeries on the edge of some of the most horrific battlefronts of human history. But he also allows the friendships and loves of these courageous and compassionate women to enrich their experiences, and ours...Profoundly moving, 'Anzac Girls' is a story of extraordinary courage and humanity shown by a group of women whose contribution to the Anzac legend has barely been recognised in our history. Peter Rees has changed that understanding forever.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $37.00

ISBN: 9780473135591
Title: Aotearoa Psalms Prayers of a New People
Author: COWLEY JOY & COLES TERRY (PHOTOGRAPHY)


Format: Paperback
Price: $26.00

ISBN: 9780473300333
Title: April 25 1915 : the Most Glorious Day of My Life
Author: WESTMACOTT SPENCER & TOBIN CHRISTOPHER

On April 25, 1915, in the famous Battle of the Landing at what become known as Anzac Cove, Lieutenant Spencer Westmacott of the Auckland Infantry Battalion was seriously wounded. However, he survived and went on to write an account of the day which has been called one of the best and truest testimonies of personal experience in battle ever writte. This is his story.

Price: $33.00

ISBN: 9781869402921
Title: Archaeology of the Pouerua
Author: FUREY & SUTTON & MARSHALL

This important book on Pacific archaeology studies the extensive pa (native village) site on and around the volcanic cone at Pouerua, Northland, New Zealand. Superbly researched and presented with photographs, maps and figures, this work will be a major reference tool on the archaeology of Polynesia for years to come and will stimulate much academic debate.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $50.00

ISBN: 9780864735140
Title: Are Angels Ok: the Parallel Universes of Nz Writers & Scientists
Author: CALLAGHAN PAUL & MANHIRE BILL

New Zealands top writers and physicists collaborate to create a provocative and fascinating discussion on the most strange and fantastic aspects of physics. With topics that include the curvature of space time, wave particle duality, the untimely death of Schrodinger's cat, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, dark energy, and the end of the universe, this extraordinary guide artfully blends philosophy and literature with science.

Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9780473237745
Title: Arranging a Funeral: What You can do Yourselves: a Nz Guide
Author: TOMLINSON PHILIP D



Two men have made it their mission to spread the acceptance of DIY funerals, and to aid those who choose to go that way.

They are Philip Tomlinson of Timaru and Paul Briggs of Nelson.

The pair are in open rebellion against the funeral industry because both feel the New Zealand funeral industry has become too commercialised and demands too much money from families.

Tomlinson, a retired mathematician, has even published a book on the subject, Arranging a Funeral, to give people some pointers on doing it themselves.

Tomlinson warns it would be a big ask for someone to just pick up his book after a death and begin organising the funeral, though it has been done.

Instead, both Tomlinson and Briggs insist the key to DIY send-offs is pre-preparation, especially as there will be risk-averse family members who will insist a funeral is not cobbled together.

"Unless preparations have been put together, a funeral director is almost certainly rung," Tomlinson says.

Broadly speaking, there are seven key areas that need to be done to organise a funeral.

These are:

1. The interim care of the deceased.

2. Completing the legal paperwork.

3. Transporting the deceased.

4. Informing the community of the death.

5. Acquiring a coffin.

6. Organising the burial, or cremation.

7. Organising the funeral service.

Only the first, and possibly the third, areas present any real difficulties.

Cremations and burials can be arranged directly once the paperwork is done, and do not require a funeral director. Death notices can be placed in newspapers without aid. A hall, church or other reception place can be arranged, catering planned, flowers ordered.

To achieve these things just requires organisation and a little knowledge, and that, says Briggs, is not something you want to be learning when there's a body in the bedroom.

"Very few people do want to think about it or do any planning, so when a death happens they are totally unprepared," says Briggs, who was prompted into his stance after his father's funeral, which felt totally out of keeping with the man. With the stress and grief, it is a terrible time to be thinking about DIY.

He says it is entirely possible for professional funeral directors to do as little as 20 per cent of the work in the funeral process - picking up the deceased and storing them in preparation for the burial or cremation. The family can do the rest.
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Some funeral directors may be resistant to being hired to do so little, Briggs says, and they may even try to insist that people pay a "minimum" package price for the service that's the same as their no frills cremation package, sometimes in the region of $2500.

Negotiating may be hard, and both Tomlinson and Briggs say they have had "wrestles" with funeral directors to get what they consider to be fair and transparent pricing.

Some families even prefer to store and transport their loved ones' bodies themselves, though Tomlinson cautions care both in regards to the dignity of the deceased, as well as the risk to the backs of those lifting bodies which are quite literally dead weights.

Dealing with dead bodies is something our society has made unfamiliar to most of us, says Tomlinson, but it is entirely possible. However, how hot the weather is and the length of time until the deceased is buried or cremated are both factors that need to be considered. Some keen DIYers even buy dry ice to help keep bodies cool, Tomlinson says, removing the need for contracting a funeral director to store the body.

A possible hitch to managing a body is it can be hard to organise a coffin in a short space of time as not all funeral directors may be happy to sell you a casket on its own, Tomlinson says.

If a casket can can be bought in advance - and the internet makes sourcing one easier - a great deal of pressure is taken off the DIY funeral arranger. Once a body is in a coffin, it is easier to manage.

Tomlinson says the cost of a traditional funeral is a big burden for many families, and prices of $8000 to $10,000 seem relatively common.

And he bridles at some of the things that have come to be seen as normal, such as the standard practice to burn or immediately bury an immaculately finished expensive coffin.

People may think that is a fitting way to show respect for the dead, and if that is people's choice, so be it, says Tomlinson. But for others a home-made MDF coffin, on which loved ones have written and drawn messages and tributes to the dead may be an equally valid choice.

Similarly, Tomlinson believes much of the embalming that is done before burials is unnecessary, and just adds to costs.

Both however warn that people who wish to do things themselves may find hurdles in the way.

Tomlinson says he's fought with funeral directors to get quotes for the provision of limited services such as body collection and storage.

Crematoria may even try to insist only funeral directors can arrange cremations. But Tomlinson says you can insist that you are a funeral director and legally so. If need be, quote from the Internal Affairs brochure, "A funeral director means a person whose business is or includes the burial and/or cremation of bodies."

THE IMPETUS

Why people do funerals themselves, according to Philip Tomlinson in his book Arranging a Funeral:

You may be disenchanted by the social pressure to purchase a "standard funeral".

You may feel the obligation to "present" an entertainment-oriented funeral while carrying grief is an awful ordeal.

You may feel professional services are inordinately expensive or even unaffordable.

You may find that purchasing a full funeral package, in which everything is done for you, leaves you "wringing your hands", wanting to do something.

Format: Paperback
Price: $10.00

ISBN: 9781869418175
Title: Art of Facilitation
Author: HUNTER DALE

Dr. Dale Hunter's classic guide includes all the latest findings and research on facilitation. It's the go - to sourcebook for people involved in human resources, management, mediation, team leadership, performance management and individual and team coaching. If you're someone who is responsible for effective group and inter - personal dynamics, ..

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $37.00

ISBN: 9780473334086
Title: As It Is: My Time in Parliament & Thoughts for Our Future
Author: COPELAND GORDON F

Drawing on his life experience and time as an MP Gordon Copeland, sets out a passionate vision for New Zealand's future. In doing so he addresses a wide range of issues from fundamental social reform, the road to economic success for all rather than the few, a pathway to happiness in family life and even international affairs. All of these issues are dealt with in detail underpinned by the values of justice, peace, compassion and inclusiveness for all. This book is anything but politics as usual!

Format: Paperback
Price: $35.00