Nonfiction - General > technical books

DoP March 2009, NZ 196pp plus CD The New Zealand Curriculum identifies the Key Competency of thinking in terms of creative, critical, and meta-cognitive processes. These types of thinking are used to make sense of information, experiences, and ideas, to create knowledge, to make decisions, to question and to solve problems. Top Tools for Literacy and Thinking provides teachers with the tools to encourage these types of thinking in their students and so stimulate intellectual curiosity, which is at the heart of this competency. ... read more

DoP 2008, New Zealand For those dedicated teachers who want to go that extra mile to help their students improve their skills. Ideally the tools described should be used as a systematic and integrated part of the teaching programme. They can be used by any teacher, can be applied in most curriculum areas and are practical strategic devices that will help students of any age or level of ability.

How to stay alive in every dangerous situation - with over 1000 colour illustrations showing techniques, tactics and tricks of the trade and 50 step-by-step training projects for extreme life skills to use in emergencies.

The FJ Holden. It's an unmistakable, much loved and unique symbol of Australia - right up there with the pavlova, Don Bradman's baggy green, or Christmas on the beach. But how did it get this way? Exactly how did an American car company so accurately grasp Australia's automotive pulse to create a car that is now an Australian motoring icon? Right from the beginning, Holden understood the importance of brand, the need to create 'a car for every purse and purpose'. The advent of the FJ Holden, seen as 'Australia's Own Car', revolutio... read more

Following the success of Fantasy Workshop and Fantasy Creatures, the ImagineFX team have turned their expertise to Manga Art for fantasy artists who want to progress to the next level. With reference to creative painting programs (including Photoshop, Illustrator and Corel Painter), the book explains, with the help of step-by-step instructions and screen grabs, how to progress from basic 'pencil' roughs to first stage line art and ultimately finished colour art. Creating all sorts of amazing Manga characters, scenes and close-ups u... read more