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'A Bloody Difficult Subject': Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History

One historian's research and the transformation of te Tiriti in New Zealand life. Ruth Ross is hardly a household name, yet most New Zealanders today owe the way they understand the Treaty of Wai..

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'Other Stations Are Shit': Student Radio in Aotearoa New Zealand

From its beginnings in 1969 as a student capping stunt, student radio has gone on to become an influential source of music and culture across Aotearoa New Zealand. Fresh sounds, new talent and creativ..

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100 Best Native Plants for New Zealand Gardens (Revised Edition)

From trees to ground covers, ferns to hebes, an expert guide to the top 100 New Zealand native plants for gardens. From trees to ground covers, ferns to hebes, an expert guide to the top 100 New ..

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202 Great Walks: Best Day Walks in New Zealand

There is an extraordinary range of landscape and walking challenges in 202 Great Walks. You can saunter by a steaming Rotorua lake, through limestone archways in the King Country, or along an historic..

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30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders

30 Queer Lives explores the lives, struggles and successes of LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders. The author, Matt McEvoy, notes that as a young gay Kiwi kid growing up, books about All Blacks and Sir Edmund Hil..

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50 years, 50 stories: Marlborough the region that turned the wine world upside down

Who would have thought at the beginning of 1973 that the planting of a few grape vines in Marlborough would turn the wine world upside down? Who could have foreseen the international success that woul..

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A Biography of David Kirkwood

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A Bunk for the Night REVISED: A guide to New Zealand's best backcountry huts - revised

New Zealand has a huge range of backcountry huts, most of which are available for public use. Some can sleep 80 people, while others are tiny two-bunk affairs with not even room to stand up in. They a..

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A Canoe Before the Wind

An extraordinary memoir of an immigrant son's story of a better future In 1962, a Samoan family journeyed to New Zealand - a country immigrants once called 'the land of milk and honey' - in ..

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A Concise History of New Zealand

New Zealand was the last major landmass, other than Antarctica, to be settled by humans. The story of this rugged and dynamic land is beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana some 80 million..

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A Dame We Knew

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A Dictionary of the Maori Language

First ed. published Paihia, N.Z. : C.M. Society, 1844 as: A dictionary of the New Zealand language / William Williams. Reprint. Originally published: 7th ed. Wellington, N.Z.: Government Printer, 1971..

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A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa: First Photographs of Aotearoa

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A Feeling for Food

'A Feeling for Food' began as a letter to two sons leaving home, giving them the recipes of the food they'd grown up with so they could feed themselves, but Lis Cowey soon realised she was giving them..

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A Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of New Zealand

A go-to, illustrated field guide of edible native New Zealand plants, including a section on poisonous plants. A go-to, illustrated field guide of edible native New Zealand plants, including a se..

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A Fire in the Belly of Hineamaru: A Collection of Narratives about Te Tai Tokerau Tupuna *Ockham 2023 Short List*

Remarkable stories of twenty-four inspirational tupuna of Te Tai Tokerau...

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A Fire in Your Belly: Maori Leaders Speak

'If you were to ask me about the nature of leadership in terms of what I've learnt, you've got to have a fire in your belly for an outcome' - Sir Tipene O'ReganWhat makes a Maori leader? Are there co..

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A Guided Discovery of Gardening: Knowledge, Creativity and Joy Unearthed

For some, gardening is a mysterious activity involving muck, unfathomable know-how and physical labor. To others, it is a gateway to creativity, well-being and magic. Julia Atkinson-Dunn knows what it..

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A Harsh and Rugged Life: Stories and Memories of Rocklands Sheep Station est 1859

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A History of New Zealand in 100 Objects

New Zealand history through a new lens - 100 objects offer 100 entry points into the powerful, captivating stories of our shared past. Authored by award-winning historian Jock Phillips, The..

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A History of New Zealand Women

"A comprehensive history of New Zealand seen through a female lens. Brookes argues that while European men erected the political scaffolding to create a small nation, women created the infrastructure ..

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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: An anthology of new writing for a new world order

Sixty-eight writers and eight artists gather at a hui in a magnificent cave-like dwelling or meeting house. In the middle is a table, the tepu korero, from which the rangatira speak; they converse..

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A Long Time Coming: The story of Ngai Tahu's treaty settlement negotiations with the Crown

The Ngai Tahu settlement, like all other Treaty of Waitangi settlements in Aotearoa New Zealand, was more a product of political compromise and expediency than measured justice. The Ngai Tahu claim, T..

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A Maori Phrase a Day

A Maori Phrase a Day offers a simple, fun and practical entry into the Maori language. Through its 365 phrases, you will learn the following- - Everyday uses - English translations - Fact..

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A Memoir...but I Digress

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A Mingling of Hope and Fear

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A Mini Guide to the Identification of New Zealand Native Trees

A handy, pocket-sized guide to the identification of New Zealand native trees. A handy, pocket-sized guide to the identification of New Zealand native trees. Condensed from Andrew Crowe's ..

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A Mini Guide to the Identification of New Zealand's Land Birds

A handy, pocket-sized guide to the identification of New Zealand's land birds. A handy, pocket-sized guide to the identification of New Zealand's land birds. Condensed from Andrew Crowe's ..

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A month at the back of my brain: a third memoir

Unlike Kevin Ireland's earlier memoirs (one of which won a national book award), this is not so much a chronicle of lasting interests and memorable occurrences as a rummage through 30 episodes - one a..

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A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds Of New Zealand

A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of New Zealand is an introductory photographic identification guide to 250 bird species, including the most commonly seen, unique and endemic species. High-quality ph..

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A Naturalist's Guide to the Reptiles & Amphibians Of New Zealand

A Naturalist's Guide to the Reptiles & Amphibians of New Zealand is an introductory photographic identification guide to all 141 reptile and amphibian species of New Zealand. High-quality photogr..

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A New History: The University of Canterbury 1873-2023

A century and a half now separate us from the founding of Canterbury College, the institution from which the University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha evolved. In 'A New History: The Unive..

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A Photographic Guide to Fossils of New Zealand

A reprint under a new ISBN, this handy reference guide focuses on plant and animal fossils commonly found in New Zealand. Fossils are the preserved remains of past life and are very much part of the n..

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A Thousand Cycles of the Moon: A Memoir

Memoirs of a Kiwi who spent her 1940s and 50s childhood in semi-rural New Zealand, raised two sons, taught yoga & worked as UNICEF New Zealand National Director for 14 years before heading overseas fo..

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A Vintner's Tale

Of modest stature, from Central European stock and born in West Auckland, Peter Hubscher first trialled as a winemaker in Hawke's Bay in the 1960s. His apprenticeship completed, he returned to the W..

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A Walk A Day: 365 Short Walks in New Zealand

This fully revised and updated version of Peter Janssen's hugely popular book A Walk A Day has 365 short walks (and a bonus walk for the leap year) meaning locals and overseas visitors will always..

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About Face: An Artist's Guide to Forensic Facial Approximation

Enter the fascinating world of forensic facial approximation and journey with me through this how-to guide for the artist. Forensic facial approximation is the marriage of scientific observation and..

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Above the Treeline: A nature guide to alpine New Zealand

'Above the Treeline' is an essential publication for anyone interested in the natural world of alpine New Zealand, a guide not only to the plants, but also the ferns, mosses, lichen, invertebrates, bi..

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Accidental Teacher, The:  Joys, ambitions, ideals, stuff-ups and heartaches of a teaching life

With his sharp wit and poet's eye, Tim Heath writes of a forty-year career, mostly in New Zealand but also in Samoa. He's worked in small country schools, in big city schools, at the Correspondence Sc..

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Across the Pass: A collection of tramping writing

Tramping is a journey into mountainous country, across passes, along ridges, beside rivers or through forests. It is a journey also, perhaps, to discovering more about the native plants and animals ex..

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Activism Feminism Politics And Parliament

Margaret Wilson has always lived a political life. From her days as a child growing up in the Waikato in a Catholic family attuned to fairness, an unlikely law student in the 1960s in a class with a f..

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Adventures of Tupaia, The

Follow Tupaia as he grows up in Ra'iatea, becoming a high-ranking 'arioi and master navigator. Join him as he meets up with Cook in Tahiti and sails as part of the crew on the Endeavour across the Pac..

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Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138  life-changing days

A mother and daughter's wild journey to rediscover the wonder and restorative power of nature. "I'm here because I want to test the very limits of my own resilience and reassure myself that no m..

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Aesop's Kiwi Fables

In this collection, newly painted for this book, Ray Ching's drawing and painting skills, familiar to New Zealanders through his widely seen paintings of birds, are imaginatively engaged in an altoget..

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Afakasi Woman

A 2020 Storylines Notable Book! A collection of stories about the women of the Pacific, their struggles with family, love and the effects of climate change on their world...

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After Dark: Walking Into the Nights of Aotearoa

In After Dark Annette Lees walks us into the nights of Aotearoa. In the company of bats, owls, moths and seabirds, she guides us from dusk to dawn with fascinating night stories: tales of war stealth ..

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After Everest: A Sherpa's Dream to Conquer the Top of the World

On 29 May 1953 Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary conquered Everest, three days before the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Before their success, Everest had claimed the lives of dozens of climbers, incl..

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Aftermaths: Colonialism, Violence and Memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific

Aftermaths explores the life-changing intergenerational effects of colonial violence in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific. Written by leading scholars of colonial and Indigenous historie..

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Ahuahu: An island conservation journey in Aotearoa New Zealand

Aotearoa New Zealand is renowned among biologists worldwide for spectacular ecological restoration work over the last 50 years, through advances in pest eradication and native species translocation. T..

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Ahuwhenua Celebrating 90 Years of Maori Farming

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Albatross Neck: Landings by the Ancient Mariner and Romanticism in Aotearoa New Zealand 1770-2022
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