Psychology for a Better World : Working with People to Save the Planet by Niki Harre

$15.00 NZD

Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good

Can you save the planet and have some fun along the way? Aimed at the teacher who updates students on the latest climate change negotiations, the conservationist who works to protect endangered species, the office manager who buys fair-trade coffee, or the city counselor who lobbies for cycle lanes, th is book is a guide for everyone who is trying to create a more sustainable planet. Based on the latest psychological research, Niki Harré shows which strategies work (drawing on positive emotions, role modeling, and social identity), which don't, and why. The book ends with a self-help guide for sustainability advocates that outlines how we can work for change at the personal, group, and civic level. This edition is fully revised and updated with new material on hope, sadness, worldview and climate change, behavioral contagion, moral foundations, and more. The book is now accompanied by a free online manual with exercises to illustrate the key concepts and apply them to real world sustainability issues. ...Show more

We Will Not Cease by Archibald Baxter

$15.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

Against the backdrop of troops being mindlessly slaughtered at the whim of upper-echelon officers, WE WILL NOT CEASE is a story of extreme bravery and resolve. WE WILL NOT CEASE is the epic record of New Zealander Archibald Baxter's brutal treatment as a conscientious objector. In 1915, when he was 33, Baxter was arrested, sent to prison, then shipped under guard to Europe where he was forced to the front line against his will. Punished to the limits of his physical and mental endurance, Baxter was stripped of all dignity, beaten, starved and left for dead. In the final attempt to discredit him authorities consigned him to a mental institution, an experience that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Archibald Baxter's lonely fight against 'the war to end all wars' is a nightmare that Kafka could have penned except that the story is true. Long regarded as a classic, his book is as relevant now as when it was first published in 1939. ...Show more

At My Wit’s End. Columns and Stories by John Lapsley

$10.00 NZD

Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good

At My Wit's End is a collection of John Lapsley's best columns from the ODT, plus several from other magazines and newspapers in New Zealand and Australia. It includes a humorous short story written for this book - The Millbrook Golf Murder. John Lapsley's popular Wit's End column takes a prime posit ion on the Opinion Page of the Otago Daily Times, He has a large following in the South. The ODT's daily readership is 98,000.Over the years John has written five newspaper columns, and rates Wit's End his favourite. He's enjoyed total freedom to do what he does best - amusing his readers, while also giving them pause for thought.In 2013 Wit's End was one of the three finalists chosen in the strongly contested Columnist category of the Cannon Media Awards. ...Show more

Life Inside the Cordon by Kim O'Brien-Williams

$12.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

Trust: A True Story of Women and Gangs by Pip Desmond

$20.00 NZD

Category: Crime | Reading Level: very good

2010 NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction. Imagine being a middle-class, university-educated young Pakeha woman from Wellington'™s leafy suburbs and turning your back on all that to live in a house with Black Power gang connections in the rundown inner-city. Imagine organising the y oung women who come to live in that house, most of whom are from a background of dysfunction, alienation, abuse and poverty, and trying to weld them into an effective workforce. Imagine being trapped in your bedroom while a would-be rapist is trying to break down the door. Imagine fronting up to the national president of Black Power demanding that the gang rape of women or blocking comes to an end. Imagine fleeing the house in panic one day, knowing that a group of Nomads gang members is on its way to rip it to pieces. Pip Desmond can not only imagine it, she also did all this. Trust is a remarkable memoir, the story of the years she spent with the Aroha Trust in the late 1970s, the back stories of the women she came to stand alongside and count as friends, and the stories of the lives of a key group of those women up to the present day. Back in the late 1970s their futures looked at the very least uncertain, at the very worst bleak. Thirty years on, the path for some has been redemptive and they have moved on to better things. Others have been trapped by their pasts. Told with passion, anger, tenderness, humour and force, this remarkable book reflects on a period of social experimentation and lifts the lid on the lives of women who love gang members, and the price they pay. ...Show more

The Southern Ark - Zoological Discovery in New Zealand, 1769-1900 by J.R. H.. Andrews

$85.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas by Anne Salmond

$25.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good

This text provides an account of Cook's South Sea voyages, in which Cook plunged south to discover Antarctica and then veered north to discover Hawaii. In Anne Salmond's narrative, Cook's ships, far from remaining little wooden islands of Englishness in a Polynesian sea, become ever more tangled in the worlds they encounter, leaving Cook's tattooed, dazzled sailors just as altered as the Polynesians themselves. ...Show more

Deadline: The Gripping Memoirs of a Pioneering Newsman by Alan Sayers

$16.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

If all the world's a stage then Alan Sayers has met most of the cast - from miscreants and murderers to hobos and heroes. His career as a ground-breaking photo journalist has led him to dive the depths for gold and scale the heights for survivors...

Uncommon Heart by Anne Audain and Jon L. Parker

$16.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

A woman born with deformed feet, put up for adoption as an infant, grows up to become a runner who thrives despite an abusive, maniacal coach. After setting a world record and becoming a highly successful professional runner on the US road racing circuit, she eventually located her birth parents in her native country, New Zealand. ...Show more

Spy: A former SIS officer unmasks New Zealand's sensational Cold War spy affair by Kit Bennetts

$14.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

In 1975 the author was the youngest ever officer to serve in the SIS. Not long after he finished his training, he was on surveillance duty one night, followed a big Russian Mercedes from the Soviet embassy, and witnessed a meeting between a (then) unknown elderly man and another man known to be a KGB ag ent. That man turned out to be Dr William Sutch, one of New Zealand's most eminent economists. Four months later, after more surveillance and a major sting in the Aro Valley, Sutch was arrested and charged with passing information to the Russians. A spectacular trial ensued at which Sutch was acquitted. He died a year later. Thirty years on, fascination with the case and speculation about whether Sutch was a KGB mole endures. This book marks the first time an SIS officer has ever gone public. It's written in a fast-paced, humorous style, and is full of spycraft secrets. The author, after whom Operation Kitbag, the operation to track Sutch, was named, has had a colourful career and is now a policeman in Queensland. He details how he and his fellow surveillance officer came upon Sutch that night, how the SIS followed Sutch and the KGB over a period of months and how they got their man, only to lose the case against him in court. Wellington is the star of this book: a city of dark alleys, winding streets, shadowy rendezvous points, through which the Russians raced in their big European cars, followed by the SIS in hot pursuit. First published October 2006. ...Show more

Beyond the RMA: An In-Depth Exploration of the Resource Management ACT, 1991conference Proceedings

$20.00 NZD

Category: Law | Reading Level: near fine

When the Resource Management Act 1991 came into force it was generally recognised as a world-leading piece of legislation. But is the Act able to address the significant environmental issues facing New Zealand sixteen years later? In May 2007, the Environmental Defence Society hosted a conference which focused on answering this question. These proceedings of the conference bring together a considered body of thought on the performance of the Resource Management Act. They include a wide range of high quality papers from both international and local commentators. The proceedings should be of considerable interest to everyone concerned with the effective design and implementation of environmental legislation in New Zealand. ...Show more

The Supreme Court of New Zealand, 2004-2013 by Mary-Rose Russell; Matthew Barber

$20.00 NZD

Category: Law | Reading Level: near fine