(Hardback)
By: Karen Selk
ISBN: 9780764364976
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
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Raising wild silk meets social and environmental challenges facing the textile industrythe second-largest global polluterhead-on by providing a sustainable occupation that maintains social bonds and a connection with the land.
(Hardback)
By: Roshen Dalal
ISBN: 9781804176177
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2024
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
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In the origins of Ancient India lie the seeds of gods and legends that populate the mythologies, philosophies and culture of the continent. From the migrations of the earliest people into the basin of the Indus and the city of Harappan, to the rise of the Ganges civilization, this new book gives an insight into the rich diversity of India today.
(Paperback)
By: Claudia Orange
ISBN: 9781991033246
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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(Hardback)
By: Pavel Turk
ISBN: 9781399066952
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Explores the story of one star of the Silver Screen's role in the Second World War.
(Hardback)
By: Jonathan Clements
ISBN: 9784805316474
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2022
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Piggy Tsujioka
ISBN: 9784805316931
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 22nd December 2022
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Jake Leigh-Howarth
ISBN: 9781804175750
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 27th June 2023
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
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A gorgeous Collector's Edition covering the history of Japan from prehistoric times to the end of the Heian period. Japan has gripped the imagination of readers of their spiritual and delicate myths and folktales for many generations but there is much more to draw our fascination, from the veneration of Mount Fuji to the heights of art and poetry.
(Hardback)
By: Manami Okazaki
ISBN: 9784805317310
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2024
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Richard Wolfe
ISBN: 9781990042645
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Oratia Media
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(Paperback)
By: Christopher Pugsley
ISBN: 9781776890248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: David Bateman Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Rachel Buchanan
ISBN: 9781988545288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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In this BWB Text, Rachel Buchanan tells her own, deeply personal story of Parihaka.
(Paperback)
By: Michael J. Seth
ISBN: 9780804854627
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Stella Xu
ISBN: 9781804177846
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2024
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
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The origins of Korea in history see the people of this beautiful land fight hard to maintain their independence from their powerful neighbours, particularly from China and Japan. The myths, folk and fairy tales so popular today have grown from this unique sense of individuality and determined identity found throughout the history of Korea.
(Paperback)
By: Christopher Pugsley
ISBN: 9780947506490
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Oratia Media
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*A thrilling account of daring and victory at the First World War's close *Superbly written, stunningly illustrated, easily read *Pugsley provides fitting coda to Great War publishing
(Paperback)
By: Tom Cooper
ISBN: 9781911628200
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2019
Publisher: Helion & Company
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Focusing on military-related developments Lebanese Civil War dissects military forces, their equipment, intention and capabilities, and their combat operations.
(Hardback)
By: J. Kempe
ISBN: 9781846345586
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2011
Publisher: Helen Exley Giftbooks
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(Hardback)
By: Anton Rippon
ISBN: 9781399064750
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Life in Post-War Britain: "Toils and Efforts Ahead" tells what it was like to live in Britain as the nation battled to recover while still facing many hardships, including food rationing that, ironically, was to become more severe than that in wartime.
(Paperback)
By: Paul Roland
ISBN: 9781785990199
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Richard M Jones
ISBN: 9781399046213
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th August 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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The first time many of these stories have been told outside of the world's press. The book is separated into sections - people, aircraft and several different types of shipwreck.
(Paperback, Revised edition)
By: Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
ISBN: 9781869536220
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Publisher: David Bateman Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Te Ara
ISBN: 9781869539900
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: David Bateman Ltd
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Explore the diversity of New Zealand through the stories and history of the Maori people.
(Paperback)
By: Jeff Evans
ISBN: 9780947506155
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Oratia Media
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From the well-known taiaha and mere to the more obscure wahaika and maripi, this is a comprehensive introduction to traditional weapons in use before Europeans reached New Zealand. Maori Weapons is a reliable reference work that is easily accessible to general readers while having particular appeal to students of mo rakau and kapa haka.
(Hardback)
By: Hirini Moko Mead
ISBN: 9781775502128
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Huia Publishers
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Mataatua wharenui is the most travelled Maori meeting house in the country. Built in 1875, it was taken to Australia, London and Otago before being returned to Whakatane after more than a century away. The story of Mataatua is part of the story of the desecration of Ngati Awa by the Crown and the fight of the people to regain their sovereignty.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: Rangi Matamua
ISBN: 9781775503262
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Huia Publishers
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In mid-winter, Matariki rises in the pre-dawn sky, and its observation is celebrated with incantations on hilltops at dawn, balls, exhibitions, dinners and a vast number of events.
