"Climate change can be mitigated in several ways, but most strategies emphasize reducing greenhouse gas emissions by reducing energy use and switching to energy sources that are less carbon intensive than fossil fuels. This publication explores the scope,...
"Part I of the proceedings consists of two major sections, the Mini-course lectures and the presentations presented during the Core Conference (Mini-course). The lectures presented during the two-day Mini-course were grouped in two sections. The fu-st dealt...
Learning how to grow plants in the South Island need not be a frustrating experience any longer! The 18th edition of this long-running series features a month by month and week by week guide that's been adapted especially for conditions in the South Island by...
"Many of us think we know how universities function but, in An Unlikely Academic, a retired lecturer describes what really happens (or what happened to him). He explains recurring themes in the life of academic institutions and shows how these have evolved...
Published on the occasion of exhibition 'Spring in the Parapara', Brett McDowell Galler, 16 August-5 September 2024.
Not every tramping trip goes to plan. Not every Hunting expedition is a success. Not every work story has a happy ending. Join the author, Mark Way, as he relates his escapades through the 1980s in his laid back facetious style. Relatable life lessons are...
"Otago was New Zealand's most economically successful region in the late 1800s. The stories in this collection celebrate infrastructure and industrial initiatives built during those years and more recently - including lighthouses, dams, bridges, Queenstown's...
"The Barnabas Prayer: Becoming an Encourager in Your Community inspires and guides Christians to follow the sacrificial, selfless example of one of the greatest apostles of the early church, Barnabas. The book shares life lessons from the establishment of the...
Mentoring Minutes: Weekly Messages to Encourage Anyone Guiding Youth aims to encourage and equip people working with youth with the knowledge, strategies, ideas, and recent youth research to build meaningful and developmental relationships with these young...
7 Key Qualities of Effective Teachers: Encouragement for Christian Educators aims to encourage and inspire Christian teachers in their critically important role as transformative educators who motivate and encourage others to become the best people God created...
'We were to go through and take on targets of opportunity, to shoot up anything we could. Never at any stage can I remember any plan of us coming back, none of that was ever talked about . . . We felt it was a suicide mission.' July, 1942: the North African...
"The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations developed as a result of the 1930's economic depression and pioneer studies in nutrition. FAO became the international attack on world food and agricultural problems. The problems of shortages...
"Chub mackerel (Scomberjaponicus) is a pelagic species that inhabits warm and temperate coastal waters of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Chub mackerel undertakes considerable seasonal migrations between feeding and spawning areas. This species...
"This document provides guidelines for fish stock assessment and fishery management using the software tools and other outputs developed by the United Kingdom's Department for International Development's Fisheries Management Science Programme (FMSP) from 1992...
"This book is the result of [the author's] many years writing seasonal recipes for the Otago Daily Times newspaper."--Introduction.
In 1950 Anthony Smith and three friends spent a summer vacation in Persia, ostensibly in search of certain 'blind white fish' which some travel writer had mentioned and which interested Smith's tutor at Oxford. These four young men landed up in a village...
A cure for the blues: Satiric literary criticism of the pompous rhetoric and purple prose displayed in an all but forgotten piece of Southern fiction -- The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant is a Short Story written by Mark Twain. I begin this little work...
The Ara Tūhono – Pūhoi to Warkworth motorway is a result of people, perseverance and partnerships which have delivered a world-class motorway to Aotearoa New Zealand's roading network. " --Taken from the introduction.
"Auckland Tramping Club had an adventurous start it was founded at a meeting in the volcanic crater of Rangitoto Island. Early tramps reflected that adventurous spirit, exploring every corner of Aucklands rugged Waitakere and Hunua ranges. Within 5 years the...
"I've never been on a motorbike, I told a slightly stunned Irene Kotnik - founder of Petrolettes, Europe's first motorcycle festival for women - shortly after we met and minutes before I was to ride pillion to photograph several dozen women as they tore...
A composite chronicle of various loves-desired, lost, or never realised-and their corresponding joys and griefs against the backdrops of contemporary art and late capitalism. These poems radiate with Aoake's characteristic force, tenderness, intelligence, and...
"Kiribati comprises tiny islands scattered across a vast area of ocean. It has few natural resources and is located in a challenging environment. This report provides an analysis of the Kiribati economy with particular reference to how the 'I-Kiribati' have...
"Environmental pollution is a major global concern. When sources of water pollution are enumerated, agriculture is, with increasing frequency, listed as a major contributor. As nations make efforts to correct abuses to their water resources, there is a need to...
"Hirini Moko Mead explores the Māori knowledge system and explains what mātauranga Māori is. He looks at how the knowledge system operates, the branches of knowledge, and the way knowledge is recorded and given expression in te reo Māori and through daily...
"From 1985, when he first took the bench, to when he stepped down in 2023, Judge Caprio dispensed true compassion to a continuous flow of regular people in his municipal traffic court in Providence, Rhode Island. In Compassion in the Court, Judge Caprio shares...
"Michael Palin's diaries begin when he was newly married and struggling to make a name for himself in the world of television comedy. But Monty Python was just around the corner ... Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on, the Pythons then proceeded to tour...
"Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement. Writing as an artist, activist, and social...
"Stuff Matters by Mark Miodnownik is a unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity. Everything is made of something...From the everyday objects in our homes to the most extraordinary new materials that will shape our future, Stuff Matters reveals the...
"In this extensive and original account of the evolution of belief, Karen Armstrong examines Western society's unerring fidelity to the idea of One God and the many conflicting convictions it engenders"--Publisher's description.
"As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal discarded a century of management wisdom and pivoted from a pursuit of mechanical efficiency to organic adaptability. In this book, he shows how any organization can make the...
"Steven Pinker uses the latest scientific insights to bring us a style and usage guide for the 21st century. What do skilful writers know about the link between syntax and ideas? How can we overcome the curse of knowledge, the difficulty in imagining what it's...
"Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about the discoveries she has made in her lab, as well as her struggle to get there; about...
"Confidence. We want it. We need it. But it can be maddeningly enigmatic and out of reach. The authors of the New York Times bestseller Womenomics deconstruct this essential, elusive, and misunderstood quality and offer a blueprint for bringing more of it into...
"When it comes to buying a first home, you only ever do it once. Don't you want to do it right, the first time? For those thinking you'll never get a home, you more than anyone else need to read this. It will change your life and your family for the better....
"For 75 years, the Every Boy's and Every Girl's Rally movement has been one of the Christian community's most prolific youth outreaches. From a humble inception it grew to become an international phenomenon, as countless leaders worked to bring the Good News...
"An Unexpected Life is an inspiring, encouraging and transformative story about the power of love and finding faith in the most unexpected ways. Written with refreshing honesty, humour and page-turning interest, Graham Ashby tells how he - a confused and angry...
"Between the Joints & the Marrow is an imaginative guided tour of the Bible. Book by book, moments are projected onto the wall like scenes from Bunyan's House of the Interpreter. Figures are lifted from the pages of Scripture and set down again between the...
"This is the autobiography of Alan Deere, New Zealand's most famous RAF pilot who saw action from the Munich Crisis to the invasion of France in 1944. Al Deere experienced the drama of the early days of the Battle of Britain while serving with Spitfire...
"Private money, public good, and the original fight for control in America's energy industry. Private corporations administered electrical power in the United States until 1932. FDR's Rural Electrification Program changed that, using public money to extend the...
"In his late thirties, Jeff Chu left his job as a magazine writer and enrolled at Princeton Seminary's "Farminary," a 21-acre farm where students learn to work the earth while interrogating life's biggest questions. Now he unfolds what he learned about...
"Although the development of nuclear weapons by different countries was one of the reasons why extraterrestrial civilizations began visiting Earth in the World War II era, a more significant and far-reaching explanation exists. However, the truth was not...
"From New York Times bestselling author Casey Sherman, a gripping contemporary true crime narrative for everyone fascinated by the Murdaugh murders, about Nathan Carman, who was found floating on a raft in the North Atlantic and was later accused of murdering...
"What makes a hit a hit? From Brahm's 'Lullaby' to Game of Thrones, Derek Thompson explores the science of the phenomena that seemingly come out of nowhere, revealing the hidden rules that make things popular -- and what this says about the desires that make...
"Sue Quinn's felt bears and other animals have been popular with collectors and enthusiasts for many years, making their way to all corners of the globe. Now she shares some of her master secrets so you can make your own iconic woodland animals, complete with...
"A rollicking ranking of the greatest golfers of all time, past and present, brimming with the intimate stories and perspective only a longtime golf writer like Michael Arkush can muster. So, who's the best of 'em all? Tiger Woods? Jack Nicklaus? Bobby Jones?...
"We all live on nature's doorstep, but we often overlook it. From backyards to local parks, the natural places we see the most may well be the ones we know the least. In Close to Home, biologist Thor Hanson shows how retraining our eyes reveals hidden wonders...
"An examination of the ways in which Covid policies, and the scientific debate which surrounded it, were politicized. In response to the Covid pandemic, public and private resources were expended on a vast scale-truly the equivalent of wartime. 2020 saw the...
"Built by slave labour in the early years of the 18th century, Saint Petersburg was Peter the Great's so-called 'window on to Europe', a city that would outdo all of Europe in its splendour. But a window works both ways, and as bestselling historian Sinclair...
"Actionable and practical advice to help you fine-tune your vibe, attract what you want, and navigate obstacles with ease using Universal Laws-the universe's most potent secrets. The Divine Frequency is the frequency of God consciousness, the very essence of...
"A highlight-reel history of the dinosaurs, told like never before--bringing their world to vivid life in a paleontological detective story. The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs tells the 230-million-year epic of these staggeringly fascinating prehistoric...
"The first fully comprehensive gardening guide from the legendary Martha Stewart in more than 30 years, with everything you need to know to curate a beautiful, thriving garden. Master the art of gardening with Martha Stewart's Gardening Handbook: an in-depth...
"The catalogue of a creative life. I was quite young when in answer to my mothers query as to my ambition I announced I was going to be a writer. I clearly already knew I wouldnt fit the usual boxes expected of a female of my time. I imagined Id be a...
Still Second to None is the sequel to Edward Latter's book on the first 25 years of the 2nd/1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment. This volume seeks to cover the second 25 years, and includes a summary of the first book. The 2nd/1st...
"What can photographs say about the unimaginable? in some smothering dreams takes our gaze to the First World War, where official photographer Henry Armytage Sanders created the most extensive visual record of New Zealanders on the Western Front. But rather...
"Grace Yee’s follow-up to her triple award-winning poetry collection Chinese Fish. In the White Hills Cemetery in Bendigo the remains of more than a thousand ‘chinamen’ lie interred, many in unmarked graves. Most were sojourners, who hailed from the Canton...
"Travel writer, Daniella Blake, follows her lover to the south of France and discovers a turbulent world where music and protest come together. With the Anarchist Choir, she sings for unemployed coal miners in the Cvennes mountains. She marches with activists...
"Jenny Hunt grew up in Hawera, Taranaki, in the 1940s and '50s, with four siblings and parents from widely different social milieus. Her mother's family moved in the upper echelons of Auckland society until they lost their fortune in the Great Depression,...
"If a natural disaster or other emergency event happened right now, how prepared would you be? How would you fare? And for how long? Emergency events such as storms, earthquakes, floods and infrastructure failure can happen unexpectedly, putting lives at risk...
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