100 Essential New Zealand Golf Holes
| By Tom Hyde
New Zealand is a golf-lover's paradise and this is the definitive guide to the country's most interesting, beautiful, challenging and exhilarating golf holes - the ones that will linger in your memory long after the games are over and the scores forgotten.
This striking book, with full colour photographs and contact details for every featured course, is the perfect golfer's gift. It includes fabulous holes at Cape Kidnappers, declared by the UK Telegraph in 2008 to be No 1 of the 'World's Top Ten Golf Courses'.
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Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge Guide
| By Amy Taylor
A bike ride that began with 26 friends in 1977 is today New Zealand's premier cycling event. Covering a scenic course on 160 kilometres of sealed road around beautiful Lake Taupo, it caters for riders of all abilities, and attracts around 12,000 entrants, with numbers increasing every year. In 2007 it was named one of the best rides in the world by the International Cycling Union.
Whether you're riding for fun or competitively, this book contains all the information you'll need to prepare for the event and have a great ride on the day.
"An excellent publication, perfectly written for novices and experts alike. This guide will be useful not just for the Taupo ride, but for any medium- to long-distance road race." JONATHAN KENNETT, author of RIDE: The Story of Cycling in New Zealand
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The Amazing World of James Hector
| By Simon Nathan and Mary Varnham (eds.)
At the age of 23, Edinburgh-born James Hector struck out for the wilds of southwest Canada on the daring Palliser expedition, was nearly buried alive at Kicking Horse Pass, and returned to Britain a hero. In 1862, at the age of 28, he sailed to New Zealand to take up a job as Otago provincial geologist. In less than eight years he founded all New Zealand's major scientific institutions, which survive to this day - the Colonial Museum (now Te Papa), the NZ Institute (now the Royal Society) and the NZ Geological Survey (now GNS Science).
In this superb collection of essays, scientists, historians and Hector's descendants tell the remarkable story of James Hector's life and work.
"Enthralling story of an unsung hero" - TV3 News
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How To Look at a Painting: Hardback Edition
| By Justin Paton
WINNER, MONTANA NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARD FOR CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
A special new hardback collector's edition of this enduring book.
o Beautiful new design by Sarah Maxey
o Striking jacket and case binding
o French folds
o 24-page colour section
BEST ART BOOK OF THE YEAR - New Zealand Listener and The Press
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - The Dominion Post
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Fish of the Week: Selected Columns
| By Steve Braunias
For a decade Steve Braunias's articles and columns have captivated, amused and enraged readers of first the Listener and then The Sunday Star-Times. His blend of opinion, wit and personal revelation has made him one of New Zealand's most talked-about writers, and he has won more awards than almost any other journalist. This book is his personal selection of columns from the past two years.
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Richard Dawkins announces Science Book of the Year Prize-winner Congratulations to Rebecca Priestley, winner of the Royal Society's 2009 Science Book of the Year Prize for her acclaimed anthology The Awa Book of New Zealand Science. The judges described the book as 'scientific enchantment: a time machine that takes us into the times, the words, the minds, the passions and the discoveries of New Zealand scientists, and produces thrill after thrill of recognition, surprise and inspiration'. Richard Dawkins announced the winner in a video link to Auckland Writers & Readers Festival. Click here to buy this book.
Travels in Japan a winner Hamish Beaton has won the Travcom Travel Book of the Year Readers' Choice. Award for Under the Osakan Sun, his superbly written, warm and humorous story of three years he spent teaching English in Japan. The book also won the Highly Commended Award. Order this great read now by clicking on our Travel section! Click here to buy this book.
Congratulations Steve Braunias Awa Press congratulates Steve Braunias on winning the prestigious 2009 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. The award acknowledges Braunias's position as one of New Zealand's leading writers. He is the author of How to Watch a Bird, Roosters I Have Known and Fish of the Week: Selected Columns, all published by Awa Press.
Golf in December If golf's your thing, don't miss Tom Hyde's fabulous new book 100 Essential New Zealand Golf Holes, which has just arrived in bookstores. It's shaping up to be THE present for golfers this Christmas.
Record sales of new Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge Guide Author Amy Taylor and publisher Mary Varnham helped Taupo Paper Plus bookstore achieve record sales of Taylor's new Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge Guide at the Expo the day before the November 29 event. This bike ride is officially recognised as one of the world's best, and attracts over 12,000 entrants each year.
"The Amazing World of James Hector" launched The Amazing World of James Hector was launched with fanfare at Te Papa on November 24. Alex Malahoff, director of GNS Science, who did the honours, described the book as a wonderful read. "Don't buy potboilers for Christmas presents. Give this to your family and friends - a really great book!" he enthused.
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