February 2010

ONE STOP SHOP for undergraduate textbooks & notes

Location: Memorial Theatre Foyer, First Floor, Student Union Building. Disabled access available from the Atrium, otherwise please enter from the hill path between the Student Union Building and the graveyard.

Open: 8th February - 12th March. Hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm in February; 8am - 6pm in March. Closed: 12pm 12th March. Busy times are generally 10am to 3pm, queues are shorter outside these times.

The One Stop Shop will sell all undergraduate textbooks & notes, stationery and reference & study guides. Kelburn vicbooks will sell postgraduate texts and notes, and our usual range of books, services and other products. Pipitea will sell textbooks and notes for courses taught at Pipitea, and our usual range of stock. While the One Stop Shop is open, the Student Notes shop will be open for web-order pick-up only. We encourage you to order online from our secure website, www.vicbooks.co.nz. You can pay by credit card or direct credit from your bank account. You can choose to have your books delivered to you, or to pick them up from the various campuses: Kelburn (at the Student Notes shop), Pipitea (at vicbooks), Karori (at the Fuji centre) or Te Aro (at the Technical Resources Centre). Direct delivery takes an average of 2-3 working days nationally, we will let you know if it is likely to be longer. If you are picking up your order, we will contact you when your books are ready.

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Te Mata: The Ethnological Portrait by Roger Blackley RRP$25.00 vicbooks price $23.00 VUP

Between 26th July and 5th October 2008, the Adam Art Gallery and curator Roger Blackley brought together a collection of paintings, photography and sculpture representative of Maori portraiture from the turn of the twentieth century. This is the resulting book. Picture is from the exhibition, not the bookcover. Buy now

 Lost in Translation edited by Marco Sonzogni $34.99 Vintage

Ambiguity, misapprehension, opposing perspectives and translation problems mean different people can interpret the same document in radically different ways. In this short story collection, New Zealand writers including Sue Orr, Charlotte Grimshaw, Tze Ming Mok, Ellie Catton, Vincent O'Sullivan, Alice Tawhai, Apirana Taylor , Fiona Kidman, Tim Jones, Dave Eggleton, Paula Morris, Ben Brown, Briar Grace-Smith and others use this idea as the starting point for their fictions. Buy now

 Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde $38.99 Hodder

 Imagine a world where your status, career and path in life are determined by what colours you can see and thus your position on the Chromatic Ladder. As an average Red, Eddie Russett is fairly happy with life, until he meets Jane, a Grey, whose influence starts him questioning the Rulebook. What happens in the Emerald City? And why is making new spoons illegal? Buy now

Consolation by Anna Gavalda $38.99 Chatto & Windus

The lives of two women, one man and a transvestite overlap and continue to exert an influence on one another, even when they are not together, in one case even after death. Named for the boules play-off between two losers, this is a novel about love and second chances. Buy now

The Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Flaming $37.00 Viking

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Peter finds a job digging the first tunnels for the New York subway. He also meets Cherie-Anne, a brilliant mathematician whose memories are of the Kingdom of Ohio - another time and place. Pursued by people who want the secret of time-travel for themselves, they flee into the subterranean maze... Buy now

 Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova $38.99 Little, Brown

Psychiatrist and hobby painter Andrew Marlowe's peaceful life is disrupted when prominent artist Robert Oliver attacks a work in the National Gallery of art - and subsequently becomes his patient. He becomes obsessed with understanding the man's motivation, and is drawn into a tragedy spanning the centuries. Buy now 

Blasphemer by Nigel Farndale $38.99 Doubleday

When their aircraft crashes short of the Galapagos Islands, zoologist Daniel is faced with the choice of saving himself or his beloved Nancy. As he swims for his life, an apparition guides him to safety. Back in London, he struggles to cope with the reality of his betrayal and to identify the figure which saved him. Buy now

Long Song by Andrea Levy $38.99 Headline

For years Kitty and many others had worked on Caroline Mortimer's sugar plantation, Amity, in Jamaica. After surviving the Baptist war of 1831, her daughter July finally sees an end to slavery declared. Buy now

 The United States of McSweeney's: Ten Years of Accidental Classics edited by Nick Hornby & Eli Horowitz $55.00 HB McSweeney's

McSweeney's "Quarterly Concern" has emerged three to four times a year since 1998, from various ramshackle lodgings, offices and semi-public spaces. From the one hundred thousand or so stories submitted by writers known and previously unknown during this time, four hundred made the cut. Eighteen of the best are reprinted here. Buy now

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 Message From An Unknown Chinese Mother by Xinran $37.99 Chatto & Windus

Ten women, including Xinran herself, tell the stories of daughters they have lost: given up or abandoned because of harsh economic conditions or boy-favouring traditions, or seized by the state as a result of China's one-child policy. The adoptive mothers of some of these children in other countries also contribute their experiences. The book is Xinran's message to Little Snow - an orphaned baby she adopted whom she was later forced to give up - and to others like her: that their mothers did love them and will never forget them. Buy now

 They've Got Your Number by Stephen Baker $29.99 Random House

Capitalising on the increasingly accessible information about our daily lives, specialists in data analysis use applied mathematics to try to understand human behaviour. Baker looks as this trend and looks at the ways in which the collected results are put to use in fields as varied as commercial real-estate design, marketing, communications and institutional psychology. Buy now