Adult imprint: 1806 books
Hawke's Green Beret Survival Manual
Essential Strategies For: Shelter and Water, Food and Fire, Tools and Medicine, Navigation and Signa
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The perfect home-reference book for both seasoned outdoorsmen and average citizens to learn comprehensive outdoor survival techniques.
This practical survival guide from U.S. Special Forces Captain and outdoor survival expert Mykel Hawke includes illustrated instruction on:
shelter and...
Fighting Talk
Boxing and the Modern Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
**From 'A Low Blow' to 'Went the Distance', a fascinating and lively examination of the regular use of terms from the boxing ring in our everyday language.**Have you ever stopped to notice how often your local newspaper or favourite magazine uses the terms 'On the Ropes', 'The Gloves Are Off' and...
Q & Eh
Questions and Answers On Language With a Kiwi Twist
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Fascinating answers to quirky questions about languageWhy is it not wrong to be doubly negative? Where do you place the stress in such words as 'dissect'? Where do 'wowser', 'craw thumper' and the 'f-word' come from? Do New Zealanders mangle the English language? Should we say different 'from' or...
Shark Man
One Kiwi Man's Mission to Save Our Most Feared and Misunderstood Predator
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
The adventures of a shark scientist and his mission to change our perception of New Zealand's most feared and misunderstood predator. Riley Elliott is a surfer, spear-fisherman and shark scientist from the Waikato, currently writing a PhD at Auckland University. He's also on a mission to share his...
by Philip Temple
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
**Based on real events in Germany, this vividly told and deeply moving novel tells of one woman's love for a fellow artist, her struggle to survive the war and her desperation to keep alive the spirit of creativity.**Most novels about the Nazi period portray Germans as the perpetrators of war and...
A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion
The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
With commentary by the greatest physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, this anthology has garnered impressive reviews. PW has called it "a gem of a collection" while New Scientist magazine notes the "thrill of reading Einstein's own words." From the writings that revealed the...
Snow On the Lindis
My Life At Morven Hills Station
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
A station matriarch recounts a life lived on the famous Morven Hills Station. Snow on the Lindis is Madge Snow's story of living at Morven Hills Station on the Lindis Pass. Morven Hills is one of New Zealand's most well-known high-country stations - once an enormous 400,000 acres. The great stone...
Radiant Bride
The Beauty, Diet, Fitness, and Fashion Plan for Your Big Day
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Want to look and feel better than ever on your wedding day? Look no further.
Radiant Bride is a holistic guide to beauty, diet, fitness, and fashion designed to take you from Yes” to I do” (and even through to the honeymoon!) gorgeously-and sanely. You'll stop counting calories, obsessing...
The Atlas of Happiness
The Global Secrets of How to Be Happy
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
A fun, illustrated guide that takes us around the world, discovering the secrets to happiness. A****uthor Helen Russell (The Year of Living Danishly) uncovers the fascinating ways that different nations search for happiness in their lives, and what they can teach us about our own quest for meaning.
This...
Te Araroa The New Zealand Trail
One Man Walks His Dream
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
A travel book of vivid encounters with the New Zealand's people and landscape along its famous long trail. When journalist Geoff Chapple wrote a newspaper article that set out a vision for a 2600-km hiking trail the length of New Zealand, he never imagined that he would become the trail blazer. Over...
by Off Track Planet
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
In this completely updated edition of Off Track Planet's comprehensive, uncensored travel guide, you have all the tools at your fingertips to reignite your sense of adventure and travel the world to over 100 destinations.
The editors of Off Track Planet specialize in inspiring the young, sexy...
Donut Nation
A Cross-Country Guide to America's Best Artisan Donut Shops
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Donuts are America's favorite treat and, in Donut Nation, Ellen Brown travels the United States in search of the best donut shops. From beloved mom-and-pop establishments and roadside cafes to innovative boutiques and artisanal restaurants, there are more than seventy hand-crafted donut shops to take...
Sisu
The Finnish Art of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
After you've cultivated the coziness of the Danes (hygge) and achieved the Swedish way of moderation (lagom), then what's next? How about developing your Sisu--an "untranslatable" Finnish term referring to a mixture of courage, resilience, grit, tenacity, and perseverance. It's a trait that...
High Country Lark
An Invitation To Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
**An award-wining writer travels through the New Zealand high country.**An unusual summons from an old, itinerant acquaintance - known as the Lark - piques author Neville Peat's curiosity. The invitation to meet in the mountains around Glenorchy is timely: he's keen to head into the high country to...