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Passionate, tireless golfer and writer Tom Hyde travelled New Zealand from Houhara to Bluff, examining golf courses large and small, to produce this tantalising selection of 100 golf holes to die for. The criteria? Not just how a hole plays, but the stories associated with it!

Disasters happen quickly and without compassion, disrupting thousands of lives every year. During a disaster emergency services may not be able to respond to every call immediately, and this means you must be ready to provide your own shelter, food, first-aid, water and sanitation for at least three days. Are you ready? This is your complete guide to what to do before, during and after disaster strikes, covering all possible situations and eventualities including: what to do in specific emergencies such as an earthquake or t... read more

Elizabeth Gordon discusses the devlopment and evolution of the New Zealand accent from the earliest days when children of the early settlers spoke with the dialects of their parents, through the remarkably short period of time to when people began to accuse children and others of speaking with an odious 'colonial twang'. Various English dialects and Maori also contributed to the mix to produce a unique New Zealand voice. First published 2008.

Armed only with a list of recommended cafés, Mathew Hawke and Niki Grennell set off on a three-month odyssey to visit and sample the coffee culture of character cafés the length and breadth of New Zealand.
Illustrated throughout with colour photographs and a lively text design, this book can be dipped into at random or read as a journey from one café to the next. Particularly good food options are noted, and recipes of signature dishes from cafés are included. Travel notes and text breakouts iden... read more

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While most books are about patents and protecting your inventions, this book is about getting to the heart of inventing .This is a single reference that you can use when you want to start a new invention or project, or you can read it purely for the information that is in it. This book is not aimed at the professionals, even though there are some sections that they may find useful. You do not need a university degree to be creative and to be good at inventing, Inventing for the Rest of Us is written more for the average pers... read more

It's a real Kiwi summer when ...you want to cheer yourself up on a wet day at the bach! It's a real Kiwi summer when ...You. Are. Sick. Of. Ham! Chocka full of choice one-liners that make us who (and what) we are, this neatly-packaged hardback finds more than 100 ways to remind you what's great about a New Zealand summer in a way that makes you smile. The book also contains a flick back cartoon that sees our 'real Kiwi' fly from the BBQ to the surf.

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'Where does my money go?' is the common lament. Everybody is told to budget and save, to learn the difference between 'needs' and 'wants' - but how do you actually do it?
This kit provides a clever solution. An extremely useful budgetary tool for families, flatmates, couples and any combination of people living in a household, it takes the headache out of budgeting and makes it simple to manage personal finances. The kit contains tear-out (or photocopy) blank forms to get started immediately. Details of spending, costs and e... read more

As the first history to encompass the entire century, New Zealand in the TwentiethCentury can be said to be following on from the survey histories of the last century. However, this epic work is much more than a traditional chronology of events. Rather, it brings to life in vivid detail the social, political, and culturallandscape of New Zealand in this period, and combines it with often intimate portrayals of people, places, ideas, and events that defined us as a nation.The result is a magnificently panoramic portrait of the count... read more

The Trans Pacific Partnership is no ordinary free trade deal. Billed as an agreement fit for the twentyfirst century, no one is sure what that means. For its champions in New Zealand a free trade agreement with the US is a magic bullet - opening closed doors for Fonterra into the US dairy market. President Obama sells it as the key to jobs and economic recovery, while protecting home markets. Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd hails it as a foundation stone for an APEC-wide free trade agreement.

None of these argum... read more

A book about the exhibition presented at the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the exhibition ran for almost two years (from 2006-2008) and involved a series of events including workshops, a conference and a visiting artists programme. Pasifika Styles featured a star-studded lineup of artists including Beck’s Futures finalist Francis Upritchard, Michel Tuffery, Lisa Reihana, Rachel Rakena and Reuben Paterson. Showing contemporary artists working alongside the world's best collection of oceanic ar... read more

The words of the deaf are rarely recorded: Rachel McKee, bilingual in English and New Zealand sign language, has taken down the life stories of 15 deaf people. This is an account of life in two worlds.

Throughout the world, one breed of farm animal becomes extinct every month. This book outlines the history of the breeds of heritage livestock that were brought into, or developed in, New Zealand before 1950. Modern factory-farming methods rely on only a few breeds of livestock, and differentiated breeds are disappearing at an alarming rate; and it's up to dedicated conservators to save them. The call to conserve rare breeds, and therefore biodiversity, is now all the more important. Rare breeds: preserve living remnants of our dis... read more

If you're looking for help and encouragement on putting money aside for your later years, you will find it in Retire Right, by Joy Scandlyn. July 2007 will see the high-profile launch of KiwiSaver, the government's new package aimed at galvanising New Zealanders into the habit of saving for retirement (a time in life for which most Kiwis are woefully under-prepared). Retire Right sets out to help us plan a comfortable retirement so that we can achieve our life goals and enjoy today. Some of the issues covered in Retire Right includ... read more

Frank Sargeson (1903 - 1982) was mentor to many of our past and current writers, including Janet Frame, C.K. Stead, and Kevin Ireland. Commemorating him, the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship is awarded annually. The lectures range from his generosity, how the Great New Zealand novel developed, the influences on his writing, the place of literary house museums and the value of reading to our lives. It includes papers from Michael King, Lawrence Jones, Kevin Ireland, Peter Wells, Christine Cole Catley, Graeme Lay, Elizabeth Aitke... read more

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, a wave o state-sponsored ‘national ftness’ programmesswept Britain and its former colonies. Following revelations of the Nazi enthusiasm for government-backed sports and the organisation of mass leisure, the programmes quickly foundered. They probably laid, however, the foundations for the twentieth century’sobsession with ftness – a key facet of modern life.In this highly original account, Charlotte Macdonald shows how governments bec... read more

The publication of the Cartwright Report twenty years ago was a momentous event in New Zealand history. The Inquiry into Associate Professor Herbert Green's 'unfortunate experiment' at National Women's Hospital established that this research, conducted without the consent of the patients, was unethical. Much followed from the Inquiry, chaired by Dame Silvia Cartwright, and its report. Critical issues were at stake: matters of life and death; the life's work of leaders within the medical profession; professional reputations; and pub... read more

This updated edition renders the topography of the country in even more striking contrast and detail. The legibility of place names is greatly enhanced, and changes in geographical detail, such as retreating glaciers, are brought up to date. The Geographic Atlas of New Zealand sets a new benchmark in atlas publishing, both internationally and in New Zealand. Over recent years map-maker Roger Smith, from Wellington company GeographX, has created cutting-edge digital relief maps from Land Information New Zealand's map data. The resul... read more

Frank Sargeson wrote novels, memoirs and plays and was New Zealand's most important writer of short fiction following the death of Katherine Mansfield. He also encouraged numerous other writers, playing an invaluable role in the rise of our national literature, which he championed both at home and abroad. He was also a prolific letter writer, and this selection of the 500 most fascinating range over numerous topics, capturing his times, his milieu, his preoccupations and life. He loved gossip, could be bitchy and sharp, affec... read more