50 Cars That Changed the World by Design Museum

$12.00 NZD

Category: motoring | Series: Design Museum Fifty | Reading Level: very good

Everything around us is designed. Design has the ability to transform environments, bring about social change, improve our quality of life. It can be exciting or frivolous, bold or subtle, daring or loud. The car is no exception. For more than a century, the car has adapted and transformed, and has been a remarkably powerful catalyst for change. But how much do we actually know about it? Fifty Cars That Changed the World explores the top 50 cars that have made a substantial impact in the world of design today. These cars are icons, as sculptural objects, products of avant-garde industrialism, remarkable pieces of engineering, or as symbols of national prestige. The cars in this book demonstrate the playful, emotional, seductive and technical aspects of design. From the 1908 Ford Model T to the 1998 smart car, the Lamborghini Miura to the Toyota Prius, this book encapsulates a century of car design, and allows you to explore the special place cars hold in design history. With stunning photography selected by the Design Museum, Fifty Cars that Changed the World is the perfect gift for design lovers and motoring enthusiasts of all ages. ...Show more

Spitfire Girl: My Life in the Sky by Jackie Moggridge

$12.00 NZD

Category: Aviation | Reading Level: very good

'We had returned to a different world. We had taken off in peace at nine-thirty and landed in war at noon.' Jackie Moggridge was just nineteen when World War Two broke out. Determined to do her bit, she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary. Ferrying aircraft from factory to frontline was dangerous work, b ut there was also fun, friendship and even love in the air. At last the world was opening up to women...or at least it seemed to be. From her first flight at fifteen to smuggling Spitfires into Burma, Jackie describes the trials and tribulations, successes and frustrations of her life in the sky. ...Show more

Nga Waka O Nehera: The First Voyaging Canoes by Jeff Evans

$35.00 NZD

Category: Maori | Reading Level: very good

This book fills a major gap in New Zealand historical reference by bringing together the written tradition for each of the waka that voyaged to Aotearoa during the earliest periods of Polynesian exploration and migration.

The International Law of the Sea by Donald R. Rothwell; Tim Stephens

$35.00 NZD

Category: Law | Reading Level: near fine

The law of the sea provides for the regulation, management and governance of the ocean spaces that cover over two-thirds of the Earth's surface. This book provides a fresh explanation of the foundational principles of the law of the sea, a critical overview of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the L aw of the Sea, and an analysis of subsequent developments including the many bilateral, regional and global agreements that supplement the Convention.The book takes as its focus the rules and institutions established by the Convention on the Law of the Sea and places the achievements of the Convention in both historical and contemporary context. All of the main areas of the law of the sea are addressed including the foundations and sources of the law, the nature and extent of the maritime zones, the delimitation of overlapping maritime boundaries, the place of archipelagic and other special states in the law of the sea, navigational rights and freedoms, military activities at sea, and marine resource and conservation issues including fisheries, marine environmental protection, and dispute settlement. As the Convention is now over a quarter of a century old the book takes stock of contemporary oceans issues that are not adequately addressed by the convention. Overarching challenges facing the law of the sea are considered, including how new maritime security initiatives can be reconciled with traditional navigational rights and freedoms, how declines in the health of marine ecosystems can be halted through strengthened legal regimes, and how the law of the sea can regulate ocean space in the Polar regions as global warming opens up new possibilities for resource exploitation. ...Show more

Zimmerman's Account of the Third Voyage of Captain Cook 1776-1780 by U. Tewsley (translator)

$45.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Series: Alexander Turnbull Library Bulleton No. 2

Le Voyage de Laperouse 1785-1788 Recit et Documents Originaux by John Dunmore and Maurice de Brossard

$250.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good

Early Eyewitness Accounts of Maori Life Volumes 1, 2, 3 & 4 in three volumes. Extracts from Journals Relating to the Visit to NZ … Volume 1: … of the French Ship St Jean Baptiste in December 1769 under the Command of J. F. M. de Surville; Volume 2: … in M by Isabel Ollivier and Cheryl Hingley (eds)

$250.00 NZD

Category: Maori | Series: Early Eyewitness Accounts of Maori Life Ser. | Reading Level: near fine

Rocking the Boat: A History of Scales Corporation by Gavin McLean

$45.00 NZD

Category: Shipping | Reading Level: very good

Scales Corporation Limited is a major shipping agent, cool store operator, pet food processor and apple grower. But for most of its history, the core business, Geo. H. Scales Ltd., was a decidedly quirky venture. It began as a farmers

The Mint A day-book of the RAF Depot between August and December 1922 with later notes by 352087 A/c Ross by T. E. Lawrence

$25.00 NZD

Category: Military | Reading Level: good-verygood

Wake by Keith Shackleton

$20.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Reading Level: good

The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific as Told by Selections of his own Journals 1768-1779 by A. grenfell Price (ed.)

$40.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good

Night After Night: New Zealanders in Bomber Command by Max Lambert

$25.00 NZD

Category: Aviation | Reading Level: very good

While the fighter aces in their Hurricanes and Spitfires have had their WW2 exploits well celebrated, most of us know much less about the contribution made by thousands of New Zealanders who fought and died in what proved to be one of England’s most potent weapons - Bomber Command. In this detaile d history, full of facts, figures, names, anecdotes and both humorous and harrowing examples, Night After Night is a deeply moving account provided by survivors, family members, colleagues and fellow serviceman. "Lambert writes well, neatly blending a narrative of Bomber Command's actions with those of its New Zealand contingent. His facts are reliable, based on the meticulous researches of Errol Martyn and other good sources. Though he is rightly proud of our airmen, he does not pretend that they were all heroes or in any way superior to other airmen. Their collective achievement needs only an accurate, detailed record, and this Lambert has provided." - The Dominion Post ...Show more