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..
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..
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 ..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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 ..
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..
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..
'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..
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..
'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..
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..
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..
"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 ..
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..
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..
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..
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 ..
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 ..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
'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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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...
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 ..
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..
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..
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..