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9781856696586
How to Use Images order quantity
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NZ$ 65.00 each
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Author: Lindsey Marshall
Published by: Laurence King Publishing
Fundamental to the study of graphic design is the creative use of images in a design context. This book teaches you how to select and use images for a range of applications, including: magazines and newspapers, posters, booklets, books, leaflets, stationary, book and CD covers, advertising and promotional material, packaging, point of purchase, web pages and digital advertisements. It explores methodologies for choosing, placing, combining, manipulating and montaging imagery and the relationship of image to text. Using fully illustrated case studies from leading graphic designers and practical exercises, the book provides professional insights and tips into ways of using pictures.

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Perfect for Yr 12 and 13 Graphic students starting their boards for NCEA. Learn to get that professional edge.
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9780736081733
Rugby order quantity
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NZ$ 44.00 each
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Author: Tony Biscombe
Published by: Human Kinetics
This brand new four colour edition covers all of the skills, tactics and strategies the reader will need to improve their play and dominate on the pitch. With 13 progressive instructional steps, the reader will learn all aspects of the game. Detailed descriptions, illustrations and photo sequences demonstrate the essential skills, including footwork, ball handing, tackling and kicking. 90 drills are featured to improve practice drills, each featuring a personal scoring system to gauge and accelerate progress. After mastering the individual skills, the reader will learn to apply them in match play. From retaining possession to attacking the opposition's weaknesses, they will learn the strategies to dominate the pitch. The reader can become a complete player and help lead their team to victory. As part of the popular "Steps to Success" sports series, with more than 1.5 million copies sold worldwide, "Rugby: Steps to Success, 2nd Edition" ... more

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From the very popular and respected Human Kinetics Sports Series, this is a brand new and updated edition. Well illustrated and covering all skills ,drills, tactics and strategies, there is also a NETBALL version at $42.00.
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9780958299718
New Zealand Birth Certificates: 50 of New Zealand's Founding Documents order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Paul Moon
Published by: Auckland University of Technology
A nation is founded and develops just as people are born and grow. New Zealand has since the Treaty of Waitangi marked its development with its own kind of birth certificates - documents, treaties, pou whenua, maps, declarations of war and national anthems. New Zealand Birth Certificates plants 50 of the most prominent signposts to New Zealand history in a coherent, stimulating sequence. Each has a one-page summary, mirrored in quality reproductions of the actual documents, plus related paintings and photographs. Helping define who we are, telling the story of our nation in a vivid and memorable way, New Zealand Birth Certificates is a book to browse, study, consult and enjoy. Founding documents and landmarks reproduced include:
• Cook’s Map (1772)
• Maori (1867) and women (1893) gaining the vote
• New Zealand flag (1902)
• National Anthem (1977)
• South Pacific Nuclear Free Treaty (1985)
These documents and more ... more

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A very nice addition to the History resource. Well illustrated with examples of documents important to all New Zealanders.
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9780141040820
Death or Glory I: The Last Commando order quantity
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NZ$ 29.00 each
Paperback
Author: Michael Asher
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
In the heat of battle you have a choice: Death or Glory ...Libya, 1942 - Rommel's Africa Korps is sweeping across the desert. Ragged Allied forces are being torn apart in brutal fire-fights on the scorched sands. A desperate message to the Prime Minister is entrusted to First Officer Madeleine Rose, WRNS. Her codename: Runefish. When GHQ hears that Runefish's plane is lost behind enemy lines, they send for battle-hardened Sergeant Tom Caine. Caine is a first class soldier who nearly always does what he's told. He will lead a squad of specialist commandos into the heart of enemy territory and either rescue or execute Runefish. If he refuses to take this near-suicide mission he faces court martial. Now the outcome of the war depends on his following orders. Death or glory beckon...
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9781856696128
Fabric for Fashion order quantity
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NZ$ 84.00 each
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Author: Steve Hallett
Published by: Laurence King Publishing
Fashion is a three-dimensional design practice: clothes need to work with bodies that bend and stretch and move. A flat drawing on paper can replicate a body in two dimensions, but it doesn't take into account the way the fabric will behave on the body. In the fashion industry it is often the fabrics that come first and the design is determined by how the fabrics work, move, feel and look. The most successful fashion designers are those who understand their materials, who match design skill with technical knowledge. This book aims to bridge that gap. Providing a mix of practical information and the industry vocabulary, this easily navigable reference book will help students gain a clear understanding of how to work with fabrics as an integral component of the fashion design process. The book will visually examine generic fabric types, discuss their characteristics and show how to exploit materials to push the boundaries of design. With ... more
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9781906779726
Julius Caesar order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author: Philip Freeman
Published by: JR Books Ltd
Julius Caesar is highly regarded today as a military strategist and tactician, and as the ambitious conqueror who expanded Roman territory several times over. Less well known is Caesar the man his early years spent as a priest, his first marriage to General Cinna's Daughter, his refusal to divorce his wife under threat of death during a civil war, his decision to join the army and his devotion to his family. Julius Caesar is a comprehensive work that touches all the important aspects of his life without miring readers in unnecessary details. Indisputably one of the most fascinating leaders in history, he is immersed in contradictions: a virtual dictator who continued to act on behalf of the plebeians and an intellectual who was capable of cruel vengeance. Philip Freeman, a distinguished classicist and brilliantly insightful author, describes Caesar in all his complexity, creating a stunning and engaging work that is destined to be a ... more
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9780478352719
Official New Zealand Road Code 2010 Revised Edition May 2010 order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Land Transport New Zealand
Published by: Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd
This edition available from May 5, 2010.
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9780478352757
Official New Zealand Road Code for Motor Cyclists 2010 (revisd edition May 2010) order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
Paperback
Author: Land Transport New Zealand
Published by: Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd
This edition available from May 24th, 2010.
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9781869404611
Selected Poems of James K Baxter order quantity
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author: James K Baxter (edited by Paul Millar)
Published by: Auckland University Press
By 1972, when James K Baxter died aged just 46, his colourful life and distinctive poetry had captured the imagination of New Zealanders as no literary figure before him. Selected Poems of James K Baxter, is a new generous and authoritative selection of Baxter's verse for general readers and students by New Zealand's leading Baxter scholar. With a range of poems from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and the Jerusalem period, full texts of major sequences 'Pig Island Letters' and the 'Jerusalem Sonnets', and key new poems directly from manuscript, Millar's selection reveals the breadth of Baxter's achievement, not merely its peaks - from the comic and bawdy to the political and devotional. Selected Poems of James K Baxter also includes an insightful introduction by Baxter expert Paul Millar and short prefaces to the four parts, plus four Baxter photos, useful notes, a glossary of Maori words and index.

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9781869711924
Somebody Stole My Game order quantity
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author: Chris Laidlaw
Published by: Hodder Moa Beckett Publishers Ltd
This book has a central proposition: that rugby is not sustainable if it continues down the commercial path it is currently following. Control of the game is being steadily transferred from those who thought they owned it to commercial and media interests who see it purely as a commodity. Of all the great team sports rugby has been the most dependent on tradition, inclusiveness and the notion of the game being more important than the individual. After a century and a half of comfortable conservatism rugby suddenly found itself confronted by a professional revolution not of its own making and it has struggled ever since to come to terms with it. This book is controversial, thought provoking and has wide appeal - it addresses a series of issues which threaten New Zealand rugby.

First published May 2010.
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9781869404543
South West of Eden : A Memoir 1932-1956 order quantity
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author: C K Stead
Published by: Auckland University Press
'I said many times I would not write autobiography - partly because it might signal, either to my inner self, or to others, a "signing off" as a writer; and partly because I did not want to mark off areas that were fact in my life from those that might yet be invented. Fiction likes to move, disguised and without a passport, back and forth across that border, and prefers it should be unmarked and without check-points.' - C K Stead. Happily for the many readers of his novels, poems, criticism and essays, C K Stead has changed his mind. In South-West of Eden, a coming-of-age memoir by New Zealand's leading poet, novelist and critic writes of a life 'lived by history' -running wild in Cornwall Park, joining the Labour Party aged seven, discovering poetry in a third-form English class and enjoying a newly married annus mirabilis in a flat on Takapuna Beach down the road from Frank Sargeson and Janet Frame.
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9781444103090
Teach Yourself Understand Physics order quantity
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author: Jim Breithaupt
Published by: Hodder Arnold
Understand Physics gives you a solid understanding of the key skills and ideas that run through the subject. You will explore the important concepts of force and motion, electricity, light, molecules, matter and space and discover the frontiers of physics. With numerous questions, answers and worked examples throughout, you will feel confident in approaching the science and applying your knowledge. NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of physics. FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts. TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what ... more
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9780670073542
The Return of the Word Spy order quantity
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NZ$ 29.00 each
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Author: Ursula Dubosarsky
Published by: Penguin Books (AU) Ltd.
Our favourite word sleuth is back! Learn all about language families, how we learn to speak, grammar and other wordy wonders with the wonderfully entertaining, delightfully quirky and always enlightening Word Spy.
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9782888930082
What Is Fashion Design? order quantity
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NZ$ 58.00 each
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Author: Andrew Tucker
Published by: Rotovision
Fashion design is directional and commercial; it is at the cutting edge of design globally, while also being a talent-hungry, image-dominated, commercial industry that demands the very best of design professionals, and exposes their work to the world. Thousands try to break into this arena, but few make it to the top. "What is Fashion Design?" is the latest in the successful "Essential Design Handbooks" series. This is an industry roadmap, a creative reference book, and a showcase of stunning and innovative design, which together enables aspiring designers to navigate the fashion world with global insight and a renewed creative--and critical--perspective. """What is Fashion Design?" sets out the contextual and formative issues behind many aspects of the fashion industry and its relationship with the wider world; "the anatomy" of skills, disciplines, and design processes that underpin the industry; and showcases portfolios of work that ... more
 
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