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Intelligence: Multiple Perspectives

Howard Gardner and Mindy L. Kornhaber and Warren K. Wake · 1996

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

Harcourt Brace College Publishers 1996 Paperback, 376pp. No psychological topic is of greater interest to the general public, and to the discipline of psychology as a whole, than intelligence. Laypeople argue at length about who is intelligent, how to become smarter, and what ...

The Silence Beyond: Selected Writings

Michael King · 2011

NZ$22.50 (€11.28 | $12.43 | £9.41 | ¥1,985)

Penguin 2011 Paperback, 208pp. The late Michael King was one of New Zealand\'s most respected and popular historians. The author of the bestselling the Penguin History of New Zealand and many other significant works, he was a writer of remarkable skill, sensitivity and importa...

The Faerie Queene. Book VI ... Edited By Tatiana A. Wolff

Edmund Spenser and Tatiana Wolff · 1959

NZ$43.50 (€21.81 | $24.04 | £18.19 | ¥3,837)

MacMillan & Co 1959 Hardback, 248pp. No DJ; Owner\'s Name inside. Stamped \'Speciman copy\'. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Good.

The War of Don Emmanuel\'s Nether Parts

Louis de Bernières · 1990

NZ$12.50 (€6.27 | $6.91 | £5.23 | ¥1,103)

Vintage 1990 Paperback, 376pp. When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so severe that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal a...

The War of Don Emmanuel\'s Nether Parts

Louis de Bernières · 1990

NZ$10.50 (€5.26 | $5.80 | £4.39 | ¥926)

Vintage 1990 Paperback, 376pp. When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so severe that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal a...

Banjo Paterson & Henry Lawson: a Literary Heritage (Two Volume Set in Slipcase)

Henry Lawson · 1988

NZ$32.50 (€16.29 | $17.96 | £13.59 | ¥2,867)

Octopus 1988 Boxed Hardback, 304pp. DJ; Heavy. Slipcase and spines sunned. Very heavy - extra postage may apply. (ISBN: 9780855612436). Very Good.

City of God

E. L. Doctorow · 2000

NZ$12.50 (€6.27 | $6.91 | £5.23 | ¥1,103)

Little, Brown Book Group Limited 2000 Paperback, 272pp. Bottom corner of half-title page cut off. (ISBN: 9780316854696). Very Good.

The War of Don Emmanuel\'s Nether Parts

Louis de Bernières · 1990

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

Vintage 1990 Paperback, 376pp. When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so severe that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal a...

100 Science Lessons - Year 6

2001

NZ$10.50 (€5.26 | $5.80 | £4.39 | ¥926)

Scholastic 2001 Paperback, 208pp. Large. (ISBN: 9780439018074). Very Good.

100 Science Lessons - Year 5

2001

NZ$10.50 (€5.26 | $5.80 | £4.39 | ¥926)

Scholastic 2001 Paperback, 208pp. Large; Owner\'s Name inside. (ISBN: 9780439018067). Very Good.

Jim Henderson\'s New Zealand

Jim Henderson and Sara MacReady and Anna Rogers · 1989

NZ$11.50 (€5.77 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Grantham House 1989 Paperback, 148pp. (ISBN: 9781869340209). Very Good.

The March

E. L. Doctorow · 2006

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

Abacus 2006 Paperback, 384pp. Doctorow\'s new novel is set towards the end of the American Civil War and follows General Sherman\'s epic march with sixty thousand Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, one of the major manoeuvres to bring the war to its conclusion. Th...

Strangers On A Pier - Portrait Of A Family

Tash Aw · 2021

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

4th Estate 2021 Hardback, 96pp. Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated family story of migration and adaptation, which is reflected in his own face. From a taxi ride in present-day Bangkok, to eating Kentucky Fried Chicken i...

The Penguin Leunig: Cartoons

Michael Leunig · 1974

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

Penguin Books 1974 Softcover, 128pp. Leunig addresses real life and the media, with all their complexities, ironies and absurdities, and the pathos as well, in the simple and sublime form of a poetic joke. Book slightly warped towards spine as if has been rolled. (ISBN: 978014...

Digging to America

Anne Tyler · 2006

NZ$11.50 (€5.77 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Chatto & Windus 2006 Paperback, 288pp. Friday August 15th, 1997. The night the girls arrived. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. First there are the Donaldsons, decent Brad and homespun, tenacious Bitsy (with...

The Dawnhounds

Sascha Stronach · 2022

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

Simon and Schuster 2022 Paperback, 352pp. Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this queer, Māori-inspired debut fantasy about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with protecting her city from an insidious evil threateni...

The Exploration of the Pacific - Third Edition

J. C. Beaglehole · 1966

NZ$33.50 (€16.79 | $18.51 | £14.01 | ¥2,955)

Adam and Charles Black 1966 Hardback. DJ; Owner\'s Name inside. DJ worn with tears especially top and bottom of spine; age-related tanning. Good.

Brown Or White?: A History Of The Fiji Sugar Industry, 1873-1973

Michael Moynagh · 1981

NZ$50.00 (€25.07 | $27.63 | £20.91 | ¥4,410)

Australian National University 1981 Paperback, 336pp. ""In this book, [the author] provides the first comprehensive history of Fiji\'s sugar industry, which has been the mainstay of the country\'s economy for the past hundred years. He examines the circumstances in which the i...

Midget Mouse Finds A House

Hilarie Lindsay · 1978

NZ$8.50 (€4.26 | $4.70 | £3.56 | ¥750)

Ansay 1978 Hardback, 44pp. (ISBN: 9780909245146). Good.

Nonu

Epi Swan · 1995

NZ$8.50 (€4.26 | $4.70 | £3.56 | ¥750)

Learning Media 1995 Paperback, 32pp. A group of Tokelauans living in New Zealand go out on Wellington harbour in a fishing canoe (paopao) which they built themselves, and catch fish using traditional methods. Includes discussion of the canoe\'s construction and sailing techniq...