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How To Listen To Pop Music (The Ginger Series 03) by Nick Bollinger
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Ginger Series 03 | Reading Level: very good
Nick Bollinger traces his personal voyage through pop music. An illuminating guide to pop music for the curious uninitiated, this book will also provoke and stimulate fans and fanatics. Nick Bollinger, one of New Zealand's leading rock journalists, is also a musician who has played in bands from Rough J ...Show more
How to Catch a Fish by Kevin Ireland
$26.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: The Ginger Series | Reading Level: very good
This fine, funny, beautiful book should be on the shelf of every fisherman - and woman - and their long-suffering friends and family. If you think fishing is a simple matter of casting off from a river bank with rod and reel, or dropping a hook and line over the isde of a dinghy, you're in for a shock. ...Show more
How to Drink a Glass of Wine by John Saker
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Beer and Wine | Series: Ginger Series
A glass of wine is the simplest of pleasures - elixir of love, soothing balm, forger of friendships and, according to novelist Ernest Hemingway, the greatest sensory enjoyment you can buy. Yet wine is also an enigma - the product of good fruit gone bad, an edgy mosaic of smells, tastes and even textures ...Show more
How to Hear Classical Music by Davinia Caddy
$26.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: The Ginger Series #11 | Reading Level: very good
Have you ever wondered why most classical music concerts are such stuffy affairs? Had to bluff your way through conversations about classical music? Want to get a handle on music by the modern composers? Or just want a great read on music you love? How to Hear Classical Music is all this and more.
How to Look at a Painting by Justin Paton
$25.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: The Ginger Series | Reading Level: very good
In this hugely engaging book, acclaimed art writer Justin Paton takes us on a journey of exploration through the centuries and across the painted world - from the luscious fruit of Italy's Caravaggio to the lonely landscapes of New Zealand's Rita Angus, the dazzling panoramas of America's Lari Pittman a ...Show more
How to Pick a Winner by Mary Mountier
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Ginger Series
An astute, irreverent, insider's view of the so-called sport of kings - the betting systems, personalities, scandals, oddities, joys of ownership, social divisions, how it all began (blame King Charles II!) and advice to newcomers.Despite a growing plethora of ways to gamble, betting on horse races con ...Show more
How to Play a Video Game by Pippin Barr
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Ginger Series
Every day around the world millions of people enter virtual worlds through video games. These games are now the fastest-growing form of entertainment – and being played by people of all ages. International communities are coming together to play, have fun and share ideas – without ever meeting. How To P ...Show more
How to Read a Book by Kelly Ana Morey
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Ginger Series
In this non-fiction In this non-fiction love story about the transforming power of the imagination and the written word, award-winning novelist Kelly Ana Morey writes on the captivation of books and reading, of the influence particular books have had on her life and on the lives of others. The latest ...Show more
How to Sail a Boat by Matt Vance
$26.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Ginger Series #13
To be on the sea is something magical. It is to be under fleeting illusion of being free and beyond the reach of the land with its attendant frustrations and pettiness. Under sail you are immediately confronted with a simple set of rules that require you to observe intently and engage your entire being ...Show more
How to Watch a Bird by Steve Braunias
$26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Ginger Series
As prize-winning journalist Steve Braunias stands on an apartment balcony on a sultry summer evening, a black-backed gull flies so close he is instantaneously bowled over with happiness: 'I thought: Birds, everywhere. I wanted to know more about them.' This book is the result - a wondrous personal journ ...Show more
How to Watch a Bird by Steve Braunias
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Ginger Series 10 | Reading Level: very good
As prize-winning journalist Steve Braunias stands on an apartment balcony on a sultry summer evening, a black-backed gull flies so close he is instantaneously bowled over with happiness.'I thought: Birds, everywhere. I wanted to know more about them.' This book is the result - a wondrous personal journe ...Show more
How to Watch a Game of Rugby by Spiro Zavos
$26.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Ginger Series | Reading Level: very good
In How to Watch a Game of Rugby, Zavos shares his love and knowledge of the sport with wit and warmth, and passes on some illuminating pointers. Anyone who has ever wondered what the difference is between a ruck and a maul, or a fly half and a fullback, will find this book illuminating. But if you alrea ...Show more
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