Until I saw the show in Wellington in 2009, I did not fully understand or appreciate the concept behind this extraordinary awards event, the World of Wearable Art (WOW).
We seem unable to agree on whether to accept or reject all the information and predictions on the twin issues of global warming and climate change.
Bright, bold books with an outdoor theme and lots of strong photographs seem to do well these days, no matter the competition from e-books.
A sordid and disturbingly recent part of New Zealand history is revealed in Surviving Centrepoint.
The subtitle to New Zealand journalist Mike White's book is certainly accurate, although readers hoping for an answer to the question posed by the main title may be disappointed.
Wow, what an effort!
Is there any place Craig Potton hasn't lugged a tripod?
There's a telling scene at the start of one of Tuhoe's chapters.
Illustrated histories of New Zealand go through their peaks and troughs.
This is one of those ''little'' books that seems to contain big-book (as in ''important'') ideas and information.
Destiny Church is the creation, vision if you like, of one man - Brian Tamaki. Bishop Tamaki had the vision of his church becoming a political movement.
The subtitle for this book, which builds on 10 episodes of the television programme First Crossings, is a fair summation.
You really don't hear much from Jonah Lomu these days.
This is a hefty and unusual book which might well be described as an Otago family saga.
''This is the story of a ship that has no peer,'' begins the first history of the pride of the United States Navy - USS Enterprise.
This is a detailed and well-referenced book by two local experienced academic and practising general practitioners.
There is little if anything left out in Susan Upton's thoroughly researched work of a piece of long-forgotten Kiwiana. Yet it is an intriguing piece of New Zealand history offering a reflective view on how New Zealand as a nation has evolved.
If ever there was an entry-level publication for young and not-so-young Kiwi warbird enthusiasts, Precious Metal is it.
New Zealand came perilously close to attack in World War 2 but an unsung group of men and women were watching our coastline. Author Sandra Coney tells Andrew Laxon, of The New Zealand Herald, how radar played its part.
This book suggests how we can change the fact that New Zealanders work harder and earn less than most other people in the developed world.