Third Millennium Thinking by Saul Perlmutter
$39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, a primer on how to think critically, make sound decisions, and solve problems--individually and collectively--using scientists' tricks of the trade. In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradic ...Show more
The Number Ones - Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music by Tom Breihan
$37.99 NZD
Category: Politics and Economics
Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of game-changing #1 singles from the Billboard Hot 100. When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"--a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in th ...Show more
The Outside Man: Jack Hides of Papua by James Sinclair
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Sinclair’s excellent book on Moresby born Jack Hides whose work took him deep into uncharted territory in Papua New Guinea. One of Australia’s greatest adventurers … certainly not given the recognition he desrves.
Sir William MacGregor by R. B. Joyce
$27.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Biography of Colonial administrator Sir William MacGregor who rose through the ranks to become governor of Fiji (acting), British New Guinea (1888-98), Lagos, (1899 -1904) Newfoundland (1904-09) and finally Queensland (1909-14).
My Childhood in New Guinea by Paulias Matane
$20.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The story of the growth and development from early childhood to maturity of a man who was later to become the eighth Governor-General of Papua New Guinea.
Olga's Promise - One Woman's Commitment to the Children of Nepal (Color) by Olga Murray; Mary Callender
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. Signed by the author. Find out how the gift of a piglet was able to rescue a little Nepali girl from slavery. At the age of 60, Olga Murray, an attorney with the California Supreme Court, made a promise to improve the lives of Nepali children. Over the past 30 years more than 45,000 childre ...Show more
Island Boy: An Autobiography by Thomas R. A. H. Davis
$47.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. With illustrations by the author. Brought up in the multiple worlds of the Rarotonga waterfront, Sir Tom Davis, Pa Tuterangi Ariki, KFE, has always had access to all cultures and classes. The first Cook Islander to quality in New Zealand, he returned as a "Doctor to the Islands" (the title ...Show more
The Aboriginal Arts and Crafts Industry: Report of the Review Committee, July 1989 by Australia. Aboriginal Arts and Crafts Industry Review Committee
$35.00 NZD
Category: Politics and Economics
Secondhand. Analysis of the current state of the Aboriginal arts and craft industry; policy issues; sale and distribution; marketing; Aboriginal art centres; training; cultural integrity and copyright; recommendations for an industry strategy.
Hef Ran Ta (The Morning Star): A biography of Wilson Inia, Rotuma's first senator by Alan Howard
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. History without biography is cold and impersonal; it lacks the immediacy needed to make history personally meaningful. Heroes - historical models who exemplify the virtues of particular cultural traditions - are a vital part of every group's sense of themselves. For Rotuma, history must inc ...Show more
Somebody Always Singing You by Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees
$27.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
As the child of African-American and Native American parents, Kaylynn TwoTrees grew up hearing herself called "half breed" and "mixed blood," terms which now, after many transforming experiences, have positive and powerful meanings for her. This book spanning the first fifty years of her life is the acc ...Show more
A Survey of New Guinea Languages by A. Capell
$32.50 NZD
Category: Learning Languages
Secondhand. Fine study of the many different languages of New Guinea. It has often been said that New Guinea is a linguistic Babel. A fresh language seems to be found every few miles and often to be totally unlike its neighbour. This fascinating book is to show how this babel may be de-babelized with t ...Show more
Across New Guinea: From the Fly to the Sepik by Ivan F.Champion
$75.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Rare exploration book. First published in 1931. This edition 1966. Map on the rear. C.H. Karius was an Assistant Resident Magistrate in the Public Service of the Territory of Papua. He led an expedition, with Ivan Champion, from sea to sea across PNG in its widest part and by way of the hea ...Show more